Racialisisisisism

Jonah Goldberg is "willing to concede, happily, that liberals aren't cartoonish villains" for their views on race. On the other hand

From which we can conclude that he's only willing to treat them as cartoonish villains for everything else. A position with which, to be fair, I have some sympathy.

In any case, the idea that every time some melanin-American is raised out of obscurity, we must engage in some sort of great national colloquium on "race in America" is perfectly absurd. As for Ms. Sotomayor, her allegedly "racialist" comments about "wise Latina women" are the sort of thing you hear grandmothers making every day down at the Sons of Italy lodge, and that, at root, is the problem with using them as a cudgel--to everyone other than the Daughters of the American Revolution, her words are so plainly innocuous.

As for the other bruited evidence of her preference for browns over whites, racial solidarity certainly makes strange bedfellows. The New Haven firefighters sound to me like a gang of self-entitled union droogs. "Oooo . . . we passed a test. We're entitled to a promotion." Apparently Frank Ricci is also a dyslexic midget born with a club foot, webbed fingers, and a set of nipples like a breed-birthing mammal. Why does he want special treatment, huh?