Last week an idiot columnist named David Sirota wrote a piece on Salon hoping and praying (okay, no one prays on Salon) that the Boston Marathon bombers would turn out to be white men. It was a scurrilous bit of leftist racist claptrap. Imagine writing about this horrific act and hoping for the ethnic/racial background of the perpetrators. The bombers, of course, turned out to be the Tsarnaev brother, Moslem immigrants with roots in Chechnya.
Today, Salon is back with an even worse article about the background of the bombers. This time the article is written by the grand poohbah of Salon, herself, the ever leftist Joan Walsh. The headline of Walsh's article on Salon actually reads: "Are the Tsarnaev brothers white?" Walsh spends half her article explaining that Sirota got his wish because the bombers turned out to be white men. She parses in detail whether Moslem ethnic Chechens are white. I have no intention of repeating her racist rant, but will only say that her column reminded me of the South of a century ago when issues were considered like whether or not a person who had one black great grandparent was to be considered white or black. Similar discussions took place in Nazi Europe during World War II when the Germans murdered all those who had one Jewish grandparent. I had thought that at least in America we had gotten away from the fine parsing of racial identity. It took Joan Walsh and Salon to bring it back to the fore.
In the second half of her article, Walsh moves on the next big point among the left today, namely that the Tsarnaev brother really are not terrorists, just angry white guys. Here is her topic sentence:
We still know comparatively little about the Tsarnaev brothers, but they seem to have more in common with other American mass murderers than with al-Qaida terrorists of any race and ethnicity.
Again, amazing! Within hours of Walsh's article appearing on Salon, word comes that Tamarlan Tsarnaev, the dead older brother and bomber is linked to Abu Dujana, an Islamic Chechen terrorist killed by the Russians three months ago. It seems that Walsh could not even spread her ideological lies for a whole day without being proven wrong.
There is no place on in America for discourse like that put forth by Walsh. We spend so much time worrying about political correctness, but when a columnist like Walsh puts forth racist garbage and phony "analysis", hardly a peep is heard in protest. It should not be that way. Instead of worrying about the race of the bombers, we ought be concerned with who the individuals are, how they pulled off the attack, why they did it, and whether or not they have an confederates who will carry out further attacks. Racist digressions like Walsh's should be shunned.
Today, Salon is back with an even worse article about the background of the bombers. This time the article is written by the grand poohbah of Salon, herself, the ever leftist Joan Walsh. The headline of Walsh's article on Salon actually reads: "Are the Tsarnaev brothers white?" Walsh spends half her article explaining that Sirota got his wish because the bombers turned out to be white men. She parses in detail whether Moslem ethnic Chechens are white. I have no intention of repeating her racist rant, but will only say that her column reminded me of the South of a century ago when issues were considered like whether or not a person who had one black great grandparent was to be considered white or black. Similar discussions took place in Nazi Europe during World War II when the Germans murdered all those who had one Jewish grandparent. I had thought that at least in America we had gotten away from the fine parsing of racial identity. It took Joan Walsh and Salon to bring it back to the fore.
In the second half of her article, Walsh moves on the next big point among the left today, namely that the Tsarnaev brother really are not terrorists, just angry white guys. Here is her topic sentence:
We still know comparatively little about the Tsarnaev brothers, but they seem to have more in common with other American mass murderers than with al-Qaida terrorists of any race and ethnicity.
Again, amazing! Within hours of Walsh's article appearing on Salon, word comes that Tamarlan Tsarnaev, the dead older brother and bomber is linked to Abu Dujana, an Islamic Chechen terrorist killed by the Russians three months ago. It seems that Walsh could not even spread her ideological lies for a whole day without being proven wrong.
There is no place on in America for discourse like that put forth by Walsh. We spend so much time worrying about political correctness, but when a columnist like Walsh puts forth racist garbage and phony "analysis", hardly a peep is heard in protest. It should not be that way. Instead of worrying about the race of the bombers, we ought be concerned with who the individuals are, how they pulled off the attack, why they did it, and whether or not they have an confederates who will carry out further attacks. Racist digressions like Walsh's should be shunned.
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