Jonah Goldberg: “Maybe it’s just me, but…”

“…aren’t most of the people begging for a ‘new conversation’ on race the same folks who shouted ‘racist!’ at anyone who disagreed with them during all the previous conversations?

“This disconnect between rhetoric and reality is the kind of thing one finds in novels by Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Milan Kundera.

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“Why do voluptuaries of racial argy-bargy want yet another such dialogue? For some, it’s to avoid actually dealing with unpleasant facts. But for others — like La Raza or the college professors scrambling to follow Obama’s lead — when they say we need more conversation, they really mean their version of reality should win the day…”