Letters to the Editor
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Hieroglyphics on the Cave Wall?
Quote: "It's only a matter of time before even the most seemingly well-intentioned black people get exposed as the white-hating extremists that they are."
This is it exactly. This is exactly why these conservatives find it perfectly acceptable to extrapolate from one African American or group of African Americans whose behavior they don't approve of, to all African Americans -- and why it's not acceptable to do that with whites.
Or actually, as I think about it, perhaps they do extrapolate for both blacks and whites, but it's about attitudes, not behavior. And that extrapolation goes something like this: All blacks are white-hating extremists (as noted in the above quote), and all whites are beset upon by minorities and resentful for "good reason." And any white who doesn't see that is a lib succumbing to white guilt.
What to do with people who think like that? Can they ever be part of a constructive discussion? Alternatively, can we regard Instapunk's rant as the death rattle of a "threatened tribe member" who is seeing the hieroglyphics on the cave wall?