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John Derbyshire: A Whining Pretension to Goodness

October 17, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

John Derbyshire on “cant”:

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

The most punctilious anti-racists flee like rats from black neighborhoods; the dearth of female mathematicians, in an age when women form an actual majority of college students, is widely understood to be a matter of female preferences, not discrimination; and sensible parents do not leave their kids alone with sexually eccentric adults.

Yet the cant goes on.

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