I’m not going to link to a recent op-ed by Richard Cohen that reeks with racism. I don’t want him to get any more clicks for it.<\/p>\n
Twenty five years ago, Richard Cohen was a powerful liberal voice. Now, to quote a phrase, I often have to repress a gag reflex when I read him. It’s sad. One could argue that this snafu is just a poor choice of words. I suspect he meant “old-fashioned” or “traditional” views and that he wasn’t identifying his own views with those who hold “conventional” views. But the deeper issue is his denial that those who hold those views are, in fact racists. The conventional view in this country on most matters until very recently, and certainly the “old-fashioned” or “traditional” view on most matters, reflected a deep-seated racism. Racism is as central to American thinking as our belief in liberty and equality. The tragic flaw of America is the failure to recognize the incompatibility of racism and our belief in liberty and equality. The promise of America is our belated attempt to recognize that tension and to overcome it. The glory of America will be when we finally do overcome it and we can look at all of us, in our amazing diversity, and see one people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m not going to link to a recent op-ed by Richard Cohen that reeks with racism. I don’t want him to get any more clicks for it. Twenty five years ago, Richard Cohen was a powerful liberal voice. Now, to quote a phrase, I often have to repress a gag reflex when I read him. It’s sad. One could argue that this snafu is just a poor choice of words. I suspect he meant “old-fashioned” or “traditional” views and that he wasn’t identifying his own views with those who hold “conventional” views. But the deeper issue is his denial that those who hold those views are, in fact racists. The conventional view in this country on most matters until very recently, and certainly the “old-fashioned” or “traditional” view on most matters, reflected a deep-seated racism. Racism is as central to American thinking as our belief in liberty and equality. The\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2jX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}