Via Andrew, a great Conor Friedersdorf piece noting, simply, that there’s something absurd about white media overclass figures bemoaning the slings and arrows endured by Sarah Palin that other elites fired. What is it about white conservatives that they have to see themselves as victims?
If White America Told The Truth For One Day Its World Would Fall ApartBy: Spencer Ackerman Wednesday July 8, 2009 5:30 pm |
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That’s all they’ve ever had. Ever since Tricky Dick.
Doesn’t this tactic go back to Nixon’s whole silent majority victimized by overly vociferous hippies thing? Given that point of origin, it may have something to do with the social issues at play back then, a way of validating racism or sexism or what have you with one’s majority status.