I wish I could reassure my Leftist and progressive readers: there is very little explicit bigotry at work on the moderate right these days. I am in no coherent sense a racist or a xenophobe or a transphobe. I also have enough verbal acuity and nose for subtlety that I think I could detect such sentiments if they were there. YET THEY REMAIN CONVINCED SUCH BIGOTRY IS NOT JUST EXTANT, BUT ENDEMIC. When I ask for examples I get a few half-hearted misquotations or blanket policies (in which the intent is PRESUMED to be malign... which really doesn't count). They don't believe me and they can't find any evidence of it for themselves... but they're sure it's out there. Of course they are: their worldview largely depends upon it. The media has been telling them it's a problem for years. What... are they just going to trust their own lying eyes?
I wish I could reassure my Leftist and progressive readers: there is very little explicit bigotry at work on the moderate right these days. I am in no coherent sense a racist or a xenophobe or a transphobe. I also have enough verbal acuity and nose for subtlety that I think I could detect such sentiments if they were there. YET THEY REMAIN CONVINCED SUCH BIGOTRY IS NOT JUST EXTANT, BUT ENDEMIC. When I ask for examples I get a few half-hearted misquotations or blanket policies (in which the intent is PRESUMED to be malign... which really doesn't count). They don't believe me and they can't find any evidence of it for themselves... but they're sure it's out there. Of course they are: their worldview largely depends upon it. The media has been telling them it's a problem for years. What... are they just going to trust their own lying eyes?