Rush Limbaugh, Meet Jayson Blair
The NY Post's Robert George has an interesting piece in Salon (enduring a stupid ad for free entry required) about Rush Limbaugh, blacks, and conservatives. A snippet:
Rush's fall may provide another lesson. It actually underscores the similarities in the way that blacks and conservatives have, as subcultures, often been misrepresented in the dominant culture: Blacks are stereotypically portrayed as less intelligent, buffoonish and often criminal. Conservatives are stereotypically portrayed as selfish, mean and venal.
The black person and the conservative person feel like outsiders, both distrusting and envying the mainstream.
Each group needs to see its reality reflected in the dominant culture.
Each group creates its own media and ancillary organizations to support and amplify its unique experience and point of view.
Each group cheers when one of its own appears to become accepted by the mainstream and excels. It's never enough to be successful just within the context of one's own community.
Then, as the individual representative appears to fail in the mainstream culture, a sense of shame and disgrace envelops the entire group.
Rush Limbaugh, meet Jayson Blair.
Whole thing here.
George wrote about this year's Supreme Court's decisions on affirmative action for Reason here.
