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The Kiss of Nuance

Liberals like nuance (?a refined or subtle distinction in ideas?), in part, I suspect, because they think they are smart enough, and conservatives too dumb, to appreciate it. Sally Quinn likes nuance; she swoons over Obama because she thinks he is ?nuanced.?

She suggests that Obama provides ?nuance? that is adult, ?unclear,? ?complicated,? while McCain offers clear but childish certainties.

By the time McCain finished his interview with pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, Saturday night, part of a forum that also featured Barack Obama, I was curled up in a fetal position in my chair, wrapped in a mohair throw, practically sucking my thumb.

Actually, this column reads as though she were still sucking her thumb when she wrote it.

But I hope she?s right about Obama, since most people prefer clear, straight talk to ?nuance? like his that is often ?unclear, complicated.? Quinn, however, puts all pretense of ?nuance? aside when she bluntly plays the race card by asserting that those of us who fail to appreciate what Obama offers do so at least in part because ?Obama?s world can be scarier. It?s multicultural.?

Clarity and uncomplicated values, apparently, are white.

Full post as published by Discriminations on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).