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  • Jonah Goldberg: Black-Hole Speech - The will-to-power masquerades as tolerance.

    07/12/2008 9:46:46 AM PDT · by neverdem · 47 replies · 203+ views
    National Review Online ^ | July 11, 2008 | Jonah Goldberg
    July 11, 2008, 0:00 a.m. Black-Hole SpeechThe will-to-power masquerades as tolerance. By Jonah Goldberg At a recent meeting of city officials in Dallas County, Texas, a small racial brouhaha broke out. County commissioners were hashing out difficulties with the way the central collections office handles traffic tickets. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield found himself guilty of talking while white. He observed that the bureaucracy “has become a black hole” for lost paperwork. Fellow Commissioner John Wiley Price took great offense, shouting, “Excuse me!” That office, the black commissioner explained, has become a “white hole.” Seizing on the outrage, Judge Thomas Jones...