Useful Information from the New York Times

It should be obvious that racism or  racial bigotry is wrong in itself, irrespective of whether the bigot has any way to act on it.  Powerlessness does not absolve anything. The racial  ideas expressed in Mein Kampf would have would have been no less wrong if the author had never found a publisher for it and had died an unknown alcoholic paper hanger.  It should also be  trivially obvious that there are politically powerless white people and people of other races in politically powerful positions.

It should be obvious but it isn’t to everyone. Many leftists disagree. So the best thing about the case of  Sarah Jeong, her racially bigoted writings about white people, and the New York Times  is that it  has drawn attention  to the leftists’ dangerous doctrine that anti-white bigotry is not really bigotry because its  target is fair game, and that only white people can be bigoted because only they have power in society. It is good for people, especially for those in the targeted group,  to come to understand that a good many American leftists believe that it is okay or even necessary to hate and disparage some people because of the color of their skin.  People  should not laugh this off as the rantings of a few insignificant losers. It is more than that. The Times seems to  accept it. (The paper almost certainly would not have hired someone who had written that stuff about any non-white racial or ethnic group.) It is implicit in the set of double standards of political correctness and in the notion of racial identity politics.  It shows up ever more frequently in the Democratic Party, the entertainment industry, and the traditional media.

This is not good news, but it is news Americans, white or otherwise, should pay attention to.  I am glad the people at the Times dropped the mask and showed how things really stand.  One lesson for all from the 20^th Century is that when people say they hate you and want you destroyed, it is prudent to take them at their word.

As an aside, the Times's  claim that Jeong’s writings  were excusable as overwrought  responses to rude posts directed at her is nonsense.  Her attacks were on white people as such not rejoinders aimed at particular people who may have offended her.