Edsall Plays the Race Card

January 21, 2010

(Guest post by Greg Forster)

Well, that didn’t take long.

Just one day after the election, Thomas Edsall argues that Scott Brown won – and Americans generally are rejecting health care socializiation – because white people are just so darn racist.

No! It’s true! Because he read a book that says ethnically diverse neighborhoods have more social tension than ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods! The book had numbers in it and everything! That proves it!

Update: Edsall’s not alone. Howard Fineman, editor of Newsweek, thinks pickup trucks are racist.

Apparently not everyone’s ideological blinders have been loosened by this experience.

What do you suppose it will take to get through to these people?