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"Upon hearing that an "Asian male" had shot students at Virginia Tech, I wondered if I had ever heard a breaking news story where the racial identification of a white male had been maybe the second word of the report. No, don't think so."
Right. It was weeks before we knew the race of the members of the Duke lacrosse team.....
There's nothing racist about reporting the two words used by the victims who survived the shooting to describe their attacker. "Asian" "male." The real mystery is why bloggers aren't attacking the perverse cult of English majors, or "creative" writing. Why are these people even allowed on campus? Eh?
