..."discriminated against for their comments"?
That may well be true, but that wasn't the focus of her article. She was referring not simply to making controversial comments, but she's saying:
"... any white person 30 years old or younger has lived, since the day he was born, in an America where it is legal to discriminate against white people. In many cases it's not just legal, but mandatory, for example, in education, in hiring and in Academy Award nominations."
Why is it that she is only concerned with what she perceives as anti-white discrimination, but she and others like her always seem to have an excuse for anti-black and brown discrimination?
Conservative commentators want to crucify Barack & Wright for these recent comments (which I'm ok with, because the comments were outrageous) but they many of these people made excuses for Trent Lott's racist remarks, said nothing when Bush showed up at Bob Jones University (which has policy prohibiting interracial relationships among its students), and Sean Hannity himself was blatantly sympathetic to Duane "Dog" Chapman, the bounty hunter who was caught using the N-word repeatedly against his son's black girlfriend.
I could provide you with many more examples, but I don't even think I need to. If you dont see the racial double standard in a lot of these conservative talk radio hosts and commentators, you probably haven't really been paying close attention. There is clearly a racist element in much of today's conservative movement-- certainly, at least, in the way it tolerates and makes excuses for racist behavior
against people of color, while getting indignant at perceived racial unfairness against whites.
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