Wearing the Victim Hat is Becoming Trendy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 23rd, 2008 4:28 am by HL
Wearing the Victim Hat is Becoming Trendy
Someone is going to think this column is racist. That person — he or she will be white — will be unable to point to so much as a semicolon that suggests I believe in the native superiority of my, or any other, race. Rather, the accusation will be based in the fact that the column discusses race, period. It’s a phenomenon I’ve seen many times, most recently when a friend of mine told me that a friend of hers regards me as racist because I write about race. To which I gave my standard answer: if that’s how it works, I’ll start writing about money. Then I’ll be a billionaire.
