We live in a political culture in thrall to identity politics. Because the left rejects the individual in favor of group identity within an organic, collective state, it’s inconceivable that an individual’s thinking can transcend his or her classification. Under this view, our interests must lie with our “group” – even though we didn’t choose the group for ourselves. Worse, leftists commonly hold that members of an identity group are positively obliged to favor political and cultural policies that advance the presumed interests of the group. It’s reductionism at its worst.
The old media is particularly wed to this degrading groupthink. Nathanial Stuart of Breitbart canvassed the crowd during the April 15 tea party rally at the Washington Monument in DC, asking several black participants what they thought about insinuations of racism by the likes of Frank Rich, MSNBC and The Huffington Post. The answers he got were what we would expect from any informed, patriotic American whose head is screwed on straight.
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Good stuff. I wrote an entry on Those Racist Tea Parties a couple of days ago. Added this video to the entry.