A couple of things I ran across this morning made me think of this post.
Today conservatism is stigmatized in our culture as an antiminority political philosophy. In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of water.
Yet there is now the feeling that without an appeal to minorities, conservatism is at risk of marginalization.
I have to wonder if the Republican Party isn’t growing more appealing to these folks?
H/T Maggie’s Farm
Comment by sdferr on 5/7 @ 4:01 pm #
Why will people shift from thinking and talking about the empty things (race consciousness) to thinking and talking about substantial things (what exactly is this race thing we’re thinking about)? Self-interest? Hardly, when the empty pays back so well, both materially on the one hand, and on the other in the more important respect, in the immaterial 1) avoidance of the pain of hard, though not impossible work of thinking again and 2) the seemingly cost-free good feelings of the self congratulatory pats on the back of the victim of oppression.
Comment by Rusty on 5/9 @ 5:35 pm #
Choice = Opportunity
I think he answered the essay question.