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TOM MAGUIRE: Hmm ? are all racists violent? Sure, because all racists engage in sweeping, unjustif?

By Glenn Reynolds

TOM MAGUIRE: Hmm – are all racists violent? Sure, because all racists engage in sweeping, unjustified stereotypes — every one of them — and that’s the very essence of violence. Plus, David Halberstam corrects Matthew Yglesias. Given Yglesias’ tendency to call mild-mannered bloggers Nazis without reason, I think I’m siding with Halberstam.

Of course, now that everybody who’s ever disagreed with Obama has been called racist, the accusation doesn’t mean much. Just another currency inflated to worthlessness by our political class. . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).