Next time you’re about to call me a ‘fringe’ ‘racist’ ‘extremist’ (again)…

Remember:

This book has spent the last eight weeks on the NY Times bestseller list…

“All things being equal, every bit of history aside, people are going to root for the person who looks most like them. I don’t think I’m different from anyone else who’s being honest. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, I’m just saying it’s built into all of us and we should just accept it. (…)

“People need to understand the difference between passively racist people and actively racist people. Every guy I know loves a race joke, will use derogatory terms to get a laugh, and probably has thoughts that range everywhere from ‘I hope there’s not a bunch of Middle Eastern guys on my flight’ to ‘I’d rather a Japanese family bought the house next door than an Israeli family.’ Our society would love to label them bigots and racists. But my point is, unless they’ve ever acted on any of these thoughts, who gives a sh*t? (…)

“I’m sure many people reading this book, at some point in their life, wished that someone was dead. But that doesn’t make you a murderer. Killing somebody makes you a murderer. Making a Polack joke doesn’t make you a racist. Not hiring a Polack makes you a racist. And writing a book where you say Polack doesn’t make you a racist either. (…)

“If the Superdome had been filled with white people, your question wouldn’t be ‘Why isn’t Bush doing anything?’ — it’d be ‘What the ***k is wrong with those people?”

Wow, what a great retirement present this book would be for Bernie Farber, huh?