everybody is a hypocrite about something
most people are hypocrites about most things
denouncing hypocrisy is the cheapest and easiest way to “both sides” everything, since we see it everywhere we look
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I think some clarification is needed on racism in practice.
You see, it’s not a matter of “balancing the scales”, like this man did enough non-racist things to cancel out the racist things.
In reality, it’s more like “toe-ing the line”, where one is seen to have either crossed that line or not. Once you go there, it’s mighty, mighty hard to scrabble your way back into innocence.
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You’d think that PJ – with his razor-sharp wit, control of the English language, and apparent wish to change the world – would have picked up on how it was the conservatives (emboldened) who embraced him. Of course, he knew… and, given that, the kindest thing one could say about it? He simply went with the kind of satire that paid off for him, and perhaps without much if any effect on his conscience.
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P.J. O’Rourke’s stuff was among the funniest stuff in the National Lampoon. And if you disagree I’ll shot this dog.
Oh… oh dear
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FWIW, the book was better than the movie.
As for O’Rourke, an interesting factoid is that Katrina vanden Heuvel was his intern.
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