[YHAOS]

Townhall has to go back 100 years to find an example supporting its thesis?

[Texas Eagle]

A little over a century ago, many Whites thought it unthinkable that anyone would consider Blacks human beings.

These people would be known as Evolutionists, Darwinists and Southern DemocRATS.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art., quoting Mark Twain dialogue] “Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.” Notice it’s simply assumed the Black man is not one of us.

Foul ball. The author is quoting without explanation one of Mark Twain's more incisive criticisms of American attitudes of those times, cast in raised relief. The quoted character is a foil.

It would be fair use of Twain had the author squared up with us first; but not squaring with people is a hallmark of 21st-century political discourse, isn't it?