Baby Steps Toward Race Realism - Taki's Magazine
by John Derbyshire February 13, 2014
Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I took heart from the micro-fuss over Jerry Seinfeld’s push-back against PC bullying the other day. In case you missed it, Seinfeld was being interviewed on TV about his recent comedy series. “I have noticed that most of the guests [i.e., on Seinfeld’s series] are mostly white males,” murmured the hipster interviewer, deftly unsheathing his stiletto.
Seinfeld kicked it out of his hand. Pointing out at the studio audience, he scoffed: “Take a look over here, Peter. Whaddya see? A lotta Whitey!” The hipster guy didn’t know whether to sneeze or wind his watch.
It wasn’t precisely my dream scenario, which is of some white celebrity being asked, “Are you racist?” and replying: “Yes. What’s it to ya?” As a break from the bland orthodoxy of talk TV, though, it sure was refreshing and heartening. Incidents such as this are steps, if only baby steps, away from the silly counterfactual cant that we call political correctness (PC) and toward realism about human nature.
“With the swelling flow of news from the sciences and rising cynicism among the young, the citadel of PC may yet crumble and be washed away.”
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