Jonah Goldberg has too much fun poking holes in the modern racism of race obsession<\/a>. \u00a0I know it\u2019s tough to avoid, since racism is real, a fact of history, and something that still hurts\u00a0people today. \u00a0Most dangerous ideas usually have some basis in fact. \u00a0After all, some off the wall loony idea with no basis in anything real will likely get a few people, but not many, to listen. \u00a0But since racism is real, is sin, is evil, it\u2019s easy to get swept along until you realize that you\u2019re not standing your ground\u00a0along with Col. Nicholson against the ravages of evil, but like the good colonel, you\u2019ve lost all perspective and are advocating a twisted version of the very sin you began by opposing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonah Goldberg has too much fun poking holes in the modern racism of race obsession. \u00a0I know it\u2019s tough to avoid, since racism is real, a fact of history, and something that still hurts\u00a0people today. \u00a0Most dangerous ideas usually have some basis in fact. \u00a0After all, some off the wall loony idea with no basis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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