Identity Politics and Dehumanization
7th January 2017
Mark Steyn observes.
I spent much of Friday behind the Golden EIB Microphone, guest-hosting for Rush on America’s Number One radio show. An hour into the broadcast, a gunman shot up the baggage claim area of Terminal 2 at Fort Lauderdale Airport, and the death toll rose throughout the remainder of the show. Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, announced that the shooter was a man called Esteban Santiago – which necessitated the deployment of the phrase “white hispanic”, last heard of from The New York Times as a convenient way to corral George Zimmerman into the “white supremacist” camp. He doesn’t look that “white” in the photograph at right, but maybe that’s just the lighting.