The Future of Elite Attitudes on Race
10th February 2012
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, extrapolates, as mathematicians like to do.
I am going to put to you what I think you will find a rather startling, perhaps absurd, proposition: that the elite classes of the U.S.A. may turn racist.
As startling as it may be, this is not an original idea.
Our elites are snobs, but not fools. The dissonance between what all good folk are supposed to believe, and the evidence of our lying eyes, must sooner or later be resolved, when enough little boys have called out that the Emperor has no clothes.
If you want to say that such dramatic turnarounds simply don’t happen, I need only remind you that our elites well within living memory expressed opinions about race that would disqualify them from public office nowadays. About other things, too. Quote: “To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.” That was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court — a person I think can fairly be taken to belong to the elite. The date was 1986, Bowers v. Hardwick.
February 13th, 2012 at 13:03
I think the elites are going to have a hard time surrendering their standard model. As long as they can hold up the standard model as “the way things are” then they have a Clever Plastic Disguise for all their government and social programs to take money from workers and give it to slackers in the name of “social justice.”
February 14th, 2012 at 10:22
I think the elites are going to have a hard time surrendering their standard model. As long as they can hold up the standard model as “the way things were” then they have a Clever Plastic Disguise for all their business-friendly programs to take money from workers and give it to fat cat CEOs in the name of “personal freedom”.