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Wednesday, December 11, 2002
There is no moral equivalence between race-baiting and racism. Despite the point that Charles Murtaugh wants to make(and to which Instapundit apparently agrees), the crevasse between pandering to minorities' sense of victimhood and declaring segregation desirable is extremely vast. Murtaugh declares: I think the most egregious example of campaign race-baiting in recent memory was the NAACP's James Byrd ad of 2000, which tried valiantly to link George W. Bush to Byrd's racist dragging murder. And today, Al Sharpton remains a viable political figure. None of this is to make any excuse for Trent Lott, who ought to be dusting off a comfy seat on the back bench ASAP. I'm just pointing out that there are still more fingers yet to be pointed. I don't know about the examples he uses, but race-baiting certainly is a problem in at least a few specifiable circumstances. Is it a problem on the scale of appealing to segregationist ideology? Nowhere near.
Steven I. Weiss 5:27:00 PM
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