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CYNTHIA TUCKER, VOICE OF REASON: ?What Wilson did was boorish and offensive, but it wasn?t racist?

By Glenn Reynolds

CYNTHIA TUCKER, VOICE OF REASON: “What Wilson did was boorish and offensive, but it wasn?t racist. You don?t do anything to highlight genuine bigotry, which is still aloose in the land, when you accuse everyone who offends you of racist sentiment.”

Related: An Allergic Reaction To The Race Card. “While the false accusation of racism is not a new tactic, it has been refined by Obama supporters into a toxic powder which is causing damage to the social fabric of the country by artificially injecting race into every political issue. . . . The effect of these accusations is poisonous. Race is the most sensitive and inflammatory subject in this country. By turning every issue, even a discussion of a health care policy, into an argument about race, liberals have created a politically explosive mixture in which the harder they seek to suppress opposing voices, the harder those voices seek to be heard.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).