Are you brown? Better yet, are you black? Are you female? Better yet, are you a brown or black female? Are you homosexual? Better yet, are you a black, brown, female homosexual? are you poor? Are you illiterate, uneducated, infected with AIDS? Even if you are not a black or brown homosexual female, the New York Times editorial board will accord you certain rights if you can qualify as one of these subgroups.
Are you white, male, heterosexual, law-abiding, employed, taxpaying, patriotic American? Then, Regrettably but unavoidably, you are a member of a group which has few and limited rights because your group, by definition, oppresses those in the previously described groups. In the New York Times board room, rights are not established by law, or even by deed, but by group identity.
So, what does it matter if a bill would grant amnesty to millions of felons in a single stroke? To The New York Times editorial board it matters not at all because crimes are not defined in the statute books. In the netherworld of the New York Times editorial board room, this bill does not give amnesty to felons who committed past crimes, but rectifies an ongoing crime committed against an oppressed class.
