‘That’s Racist’ - The accusation becomes a punch line.

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | July 6, 2011 | Jonah Goldberg

[lonevoice]

But what’s the joke? We don’t find out until a 14-year-old-boy says it plainly: “I think I or other people just sort of do it as a way of mocking people who are overly sensitive about race issues.”

Homeschooled child of a conservative two-parent family, I'd guess...except that would be racist.

[Rebelbase]

"aging Gen X and baby-boomer parents." That makes me feel OLD!

[junta]

Must be good to be Jonah a hard working respectable conservative paid to forget every stinking failure of the Left.

[GuySwell]

I work in a place that has a wide variety of people including many who have moved to the US from other countries. I recently had a very long discussion with a young man from Africa. He is happily married and raising several young children. He moved here with the financial backing of his father who spent the entire family savings so his son could have a better life. The more we talked, the more I realized that in his home country, traditional family values of the kind that were so common here 60-100 years ago are still very much alive in other places we consider less economically developed. This young man really impressed me with his conservative views about saving and investing for the future, avoiding debt, supporting one’s extended family, raising the children with strong ties to the church etc. We even discussed his bewilderment with the pathologies present in the “african-american” community here in the U.S. He noted the huge differences between that culture and the one formed by groups of recent immigrants from Africa. We decided that some of the problems could be traced to the lasting legacies of slavery and segregation, but most could probably be explained by the breakdown of the traditional family, the abscence of fathers, the rejection of traditional morality and the permissiveness of the 1960s (yes, it affected all segments of our society), and a welfare system that rewards and enables the wrong behaviors. I think our country would do well to welcome more immigrants like this young man and his family. Perhaps they will bring with them some of what we seemed to have lost here.

[AppyPappy]

The two big ones with kids is “that’s racist” and “that’s gay/no homo”

[MrB]

What we’re seeing is the beginning of the end of the race card.

It, and those who use it, are being MOCKED.

I really hope the NPRites are realizing this and begin wailing and gnashing their teeth.

[Mr.Unique]

You're both racist.

Anyone who disagrees with me on that point is racist.

[lonevoice]

I hope so too. They’re always at their funniest when they do that.

[rdb3]

I worked in a place where we employed people of all different ethnic backgrounds. I found that the Africans were just the sweetest people. They all had a great attitude, were hardworking and were genuinely nice. Most, not all, but most of the African Americans had an entitlement attitude. Many were lazy and had a severe chip on their shoulders. And if we dared fire any of them for doing a poor job they yelled “racism”. It really is the culture that is the problem.

And I, as an American black man, agree with you!

Truth is the truth, period.

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