Dinesh D'Souza and "The End of Racism"

[nola]

Please discuss.


Know Your Right-Wing Speakers:
Dinesh D'Souza
One of the cornerstone strategies of right-wing groups attempting to influence college campuses is their backing of right-wing writers and pundits to hold speaking events at colleges around the country. In an effort to let students know just what they’re getting for their money, Campus Progress continues its series of biographies of the best spokespeople the right-wing has to offer.

Dinesh D’Souza, known to conscientious commentators everywhere as “Distort D’Newsa,” has been – for far too long – one of the Right’s rising stars. Known for his bigoted-sounding theories on race, gender, and sexuality, D’Souza has been flown around to college campus after college campus by his benefactors at Young America’s Foundation and The Heritage Foundation, spewing his shock-value material to budding college conservatives.

D’Souza’s rise is the perfect illustration of the success that right-wing foundations have had in cultivating a generation of conservative thinkers and leaders by throwing money at them, supporting their academic work, and hooking them up with internships, government jobs, and the right conservative network.

A darling of the right-wing-campus-newspaper-backing Collegiate Network, D’Souza helped found the infamous ultra-conservative Dartmouth Review as an undergrad. Under D’Souza’s “leadership,” The Review ran notoriously tasteless, bigoted, and just downright offensive articles of all stripes. Among his signature pieces: a parody of African American students at Dartmouth entitled “This Sho Ain’t No Jive Bro”; an interview with a Ku Klux Klan member featuring a graphic of a hanged black man; and selected words of wisdom from Adolf Hitler. The Review consistently referred to gay men as sodomites, and D’Souza himself publicly outed one gay student in an article based on stolen correspondence between members of the Dartmouth Gay Student Alliance.

With his journalistic career on the upswing (if not the up and up), D’Souza was hired as the editor of Prospect, a magazine started by a conservative Princeton alum. D’Souza’s stint as editor helped him expand his already outrageous repertoire to include a sexist attack on the field of women’s studies. Also while he was editor, the magazine published an expose of a female undergrad’s sex life without her permission.

In 1987 his free-flowing conservative prose, which by now included a glowing biography of Moral Majority Leader, Jerry Falwell ironically titled “Jerry Falwell: A Critical Biography,” got him a job inside the Beltway as a domestic policy analyst for Reagan. He served in the administration for only about a year, which was long enough for him to collect enough material to write his second celebrity bio ten years later, this time a fawning portrait of his former boss, titled Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader.

By 1989, he began receiving annual grants from the Olin Foundation, which funds the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research amongst other conservative intellectual beacons. He now seems to be on Olin’s permanent payroll, receiving annual payouts, often of upwards of $100,000.

The piece de resistance – so far (feel free to cross your fingers, hold your breath) – of D’Souza’s career, “The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society,” was published in 1995. The book was received with a collective gasp by people who have any appreciation at all for civil rights and the struggles of Americans to overcome discrimination. Ostensibly an attack on affirmative action and multiculturalism, The End of Racism is a nasty attack on African-Americans and all aspects of African-American culture. D’Souza blames "black cultural defects" for what he predicts will be the ultimate failure of affirmative action. He creates a laundry list of the "dysfunctional" aspects of African-American culture: "high rates of criminal activity…the normalization of illegitimacy…the predominance of single-parent families…high levels of addiction to alcohol and drugs…a parasitic reliance on government provision…a hostility to academic achievement…and…a scarcity of independent enterprises." He attacks rap music for allegedly fostering a tendency toward violence through the worship of the "cult of the bad nigger," a symbol of rebellion nurtured in the days of slavery. In addition, he cites "racial paranoia-a reflexive tendency to blame racism for every failure," "rage that threatens to erupt in an orgy of destruction or self-destruction," "a heavy dependence on government," "repudiation of standard English and academic achievement," "violence," and the "bastardization of black America." In sum, D’Souza’s book offers a remarkably offensive portrait of African American culture and a reckless discussion of race and racism in America.

In the book, D’Souza also calls for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed racial discrimination in employment and in access to public places like restaurants and hotels. He argues for "rational discrimination" in the areas of housing, crime control, banking, and education. "A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials," he explains. In addition to arguing that slavery was not a racist institution, he concludes that white racism isn’t actually racism at all, but a logical response to alleged deficiencies among minorities and that “the American obsession with race is fueled by a civil rights establishment that has a vested interest in perpetuating black dependency.”

The book was so extreme that two prominent African American conservatives, Robert Woodson Sr. and Glenn Loury, ended their affiliation with the American Enterprise Institute, where D’Souza was a fellow, in protest of the book. In reviewing the book, Loury called D’Souza "the Mark Fuhrman of public policy," and went on to note that AEI had extensively marketed the book to the business community and that "Republican staffers on Capitol Hill are said to have eagerly anticipated how the book might move the affirmative action debate in the ‘right direction.’”

D’Souza is currently a CNN analyst and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, as well as at another conservative think tank, the Hoover Institute.

A few of our favorite Dinesh D’Souza Quotes:

“The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well.” (from D’Souza’s book, The End of Racism)

“If America as a nation owes blacks as a group reparations for slavery, what do blacks as a group owe America for the abolition of slavery?” (from The End of Racism)

"Am I calling for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Actually, yes." (from The End of Racism)

“...within the United States, black males have (you may be surprised to discover) the highest self-esteem of any group. Yet on academic measures black males score the lowest. The reason is that self-esteem in these cases is generated by factors unrelated to studies, such as the ability to beat up other students or a high estimation of one’s sexual prowess.” (from D’Souza’s book Letters to a Young Conservative)

"[f]or many whites the criminal and irresponsible black underclass represents a revival of barbarism in the midst of Western civilization." (from D’Souza’s book The End of Racism)

[yoMAMA]

from this article, he seems to be be a pretty bad human being.

[hooligan]

The piece de resistance – so far (feel free to cross your fingers, hold your breath) – of D’Souza’s career, “The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society,” was published in 1995. The book was received with a collective gasp by people who have any appreciation at all for civil rights and the struggles of Americans to overcome discrimination. Ostensibly an attack on affirmative action and multiculturalism, The End of Racism is a nasty attack on African-Americans and all aspects of African-American culture. D’Souza blames "black cultural defects" for what he predicts will be the ultimate failure of affirmative action. He creates a laundry list of the "dysfunctional" aspects of African-American culture: "high rates of criminal activity…the normalization of illegitimacy…the predominance of single-parent families…high levels of addiction to alcohol and drugs…a parasitic reliance on government provision…a hostility to academic achievement…and…a scarcity of independent enterprises." He attacks rap music for allegedly fostering a tendency toward violence through the worship of the "cult of the bad nigger," a symbol of rebellion nurtured in the days of slavery. In addition, he cites "racial paranoia-a reflexive tendency to blame racism for every failure," "rage that threatens to erupt in an orgy of destruction or self-destruction," "a heavy dependence on government," "repudiation of standard English and academic achievement," "violence," and the "bastardization of black America." In sum, D’Souza’s book offers a remarkably offensive portrait of African American culture and a reckless discussion of race and racism in America.

ROFL. When you don't understand people, it's best not to call their practices defects. It's not that he's a bad cultural being but obviously misunderstood.

[nola]

He was as well-known as Michelle Malkin in the 90s. Both are used by whites. In the 90s, race (aka blacks) was the hot subject and they needed a person of color to demonize blacks. In the '00s whites needed a POC to demonize Muslims after 9-11 and her horrible writing praising internment camps is to support racial profiling of Muslims.

[Banana]

I can just picture this guy getting kidnapped and lynched by the KKK all the while proclaiming that he's on their side.

[yoMAMA]

I can just picture this guy getting kidnapped and lynched by the KKK all the while proclaiming that he's on their side.

haha.......

[TB4000]

At least Condoleeza gets out of the line of fire once in a while.

[yoMAMA]

lord have mercy!

;)

[TB4000]

http://www.rso.wmich.edu/gop/dinesh/Letters-medSmall.jpg

I just want to punch him in the face. You and your glasses and your coiffed hair.

[yoMAMA]

he looks really boyish.

[Banana]

I can just picture him saying "Where the white women at?"

[hooligan]

I think we ought to be looking at his arguments rather than making fun of how he looks.

[yoMAMA]

I can just picture him saying "Where the white women at?"

he used to date ann coulter, according to wikipedia.

:biggrin:

[Paradox]

he used to date ann coulter, according to wikipedia.

:biggrin:
I bet the pure bigotry and hatred spawned by those two getting together caused some extradimensional rifts to open up resurrecting hitler and stalin.

[yoMAMA]

I bet the pure bigotry and hatred spawned by those two getting together caused some extradimensional rifts to open up resurrecting hitler and stalin.

LOL....

or they will have a kid, and usually when there's two ultra rightist parents, the kid will be a communist.

[Paradox]

LOL....

or they will have a kid, and usually when there's two ultra rightist parents, the kid will be a communist.
or a homosexual although I suspect coulture to be a lesbian..

[etcj]

It's the new frontier: intellectual bigotry. I guess folks, such as D'Souza, use words to perpetrate their bias and prejudices as opposed to blatant aggression and violence. Of course, this is how discrimination and inequality reigns in this country. Look at FOX News and talk radio.

As for Michelle Malkin, I just recently saw her on the news again. When will conservative non-white people realize that they're not respected by their white allies?

[yoMAMA]

It's the new frontier: intellectual bigotry. I guess folks, such as D'Souza, use words to perpetrate their bias and prejudices as opposed to blatant aggression and violence. Of course, this is how discrimination and inequality reigns in this country. Look at FOX News and talk radio.

As for Michelle Malkin, I just recently saw her on the news again. When will conservative non-white people realize that they're not respected by their white allies?

I think there's a difference between been conservative, and being a bigot.

DD and MM clearly falls under the bigot category, since most their stuff are just angry and hateful rants at the minority, feminist, gays...etc.

[deez nuts]

what is he indian?

if so, it's pretty on par to what a caucasian conservative would say if one considers indians to be caucasian and not asian. i know some indians that don't consider themselves asian but caucasian and there are other indians that don't consider themselves caucasian or asian.

at least with malkin, it's clear that she's asian hence making her rhetoric more shocking.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

This guy is hilarious. The stuff he writes could almost pass for the latest Dave Barry book. Oh wait he's serious.

[hooligan]

what is he indian?

if so, it's pretty on par to what a caucasian conservative would say if one considers indians to be caucasian and not asian. i know some indians that don't consider themselves asian but caucasian and there are other indians that don't consider themselves caucasian or asian.

at least with malkin, it's clear that she's asian hence making her rhetoric more shocking.
On the other hand, I know a group of South Asian American activists who identify with both the Asian American experience and the South Asian American experiences.

[yoMAMA]

what is he indian?

if so, it's pretty on par to what a caucasian conservative would say if one considers indians to be caucasian and not asian. i know some indians that don't consider themselves asian but caucasian and there are other indians that don't consider themselves caucasian or asian.

at least with malkin, it's clear that she's asian hence making her rhetoric more shocking.

he may be caucasian, but you think a regular bigot on the street won't mistaken him for an arab?

[deez nuts]

he may be caucasian, but you think a regular bigot on the street won't mistaken him for an arab?

would you lose any sleep knowing that he got an ass beating and caught a glimpse of his own reflection in a puddle of his own blood and it finally dawned on him that he's not one of them?

On the other hand, I know a group of South Asian American activists who identify with both the Asian American experience and the South Asian American experiences.

well yeah, that's typically the norm from my experience.

[Arex]

http://www.rso.wmich.edu/gop/dinesh/Letters-medSmall.jpg

This guy looks a little bit like M. Night Shyamalan, but the stories he (DD) tells aren't nearly as entertaining.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Mnightshy.JPG

[Napoleon Chynamite]

he may be caucasian, but you think a regular bigot on the street won't mistaken him for an arab?

Arabs are classified as Caucasian too...at least...in general?

[nola]

he used to date ann coulter, according to wikipedia.

:biggrin:And he was engaged to MSNBC's Laura Ingraham but didn't marry her. He's married to a white woman and they have a daughter.

"I am married to a Protestant woman named Dixie, who was born in Louisiana and raised in California and whose ancestry is English, Scotch Irish, German, and American Indian," reports Dinesh D'Souza.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:pLUshIPXWUoJ:www.vdare.com/pb/dsouza.htm+dixie+d%27souza&hl=en

D'Souza is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served previously as senior domestic policy analyst in the White House from 1987 to 1988 and, previously, as a member of the editorial staff of Policy Review magazine.

D'Souza is the author of numerous New York Times bestseller list books, including:

Illiberal Education (1991).
The End of Racism (1995).
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (1997).
The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence (2000).
Letters to a Young Conservative (2002).
What's So Great about America (2002).

A millionaire
One of the country's most successful conservative authors and speakers, D'Souza routinely is paid $10,000 or more for his lectures and has made millions from his books and conservative commentary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza

[yoMAMA]

Arabs are classified as Caucasian too...at least...in general?

yes, they are.

[mr. x]

he used to date ann coulter, according to wikipedia.

:biggrin:
hahahaha, didn't she write books about keeping people like him...out?

[hooligan]

hahahaha, didn't she write books about keeping people like him...out?

You missed the memo? Thrown into internment aka concentration camps!

[nola]

His two former girlfriends are so clever:


A few of our favorite Ann Coulter quotes:

On academics: “In addition to racist and Nazi, how about adding traitor to the list of things that professors can’t be? And yes, I realize I just proposed firing the entire Harvard faculty.” (Speech at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), 2/18/2005)

On McCarthyism: “Liberals like to scream and howl about McCarthyism, I say let’s give them some….it’s time for a new McCarthyism.” (Speech at CPAC, 2/18/2005)

On President Clinton: "Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten." (New York Observer, 1/10/05)

On Voting: “It would be a much better country if women did not vote.” (The Guardian, 5/17/2003)

On the Press: “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.” (New York Observer, 8/26/2002)

On the Environment: “God says, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.“ (Fox News, 12/22/2001)

On Campus Progressives: “When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.” (remarks from Conservative Political Action Conference, 2/26/2002)

On Swing Voters: "The swing voters—-I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don’t have set philosophical principles. You’re either a liberal or you’re a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster." (Beyond the News, Fox News Channel, 6/4/00)

On Herself: "You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard." (Washington Post, 10/16/98)

http://www.campusprogress.com/tools/110/know-your-right-wing-speakers-ann-coulter


A few of our favorite quotes from Laura Ingraham:

Quotes:

On True Americans: "True Americans believe in God, own guns, and want limited government. True Americans want to place God in public schools and in public life.” (Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America (2003), p. 13)

More on True Americans: “True Americans are white, southern, Christian, and Republican.” (Shut Up and Sing, p. 32, 63)

On Our Place in the World: “Like ancient Rome, America must not care if the foreigners hate us.” (Shut Up and Sing, p. 73)

On Elites: “Elites would like to ‘murder’ America and make the world safe for terrorism.” (Shut Up and Sing, p. 74)

More on Elites: They "live in palaces invisible from the road outside, and fly in private jets, while their managers and assistants tell them only what they want to hear." (Shut Up and Sing, p. 17)

On the Media: “I don’t mind if we’re all twisted up about how the cable news is so awful, or it’s for the stupid people. I’m happy for that debate to go on, because Republicans will continue to win, as long as that’s the focus.” (Remarks, Feb. 12, 2005

http://www.campusprogress.com/tools/182/know-your-right-wing-speakers-laura-ingraham

[yoMAMA]

to be honest, i really don't feel that laura ingraham or ann coulter of the world is of any threat to progressive causes.

they are more comical if anything and wants the 15 minute of fame.

[nola]

yeah actually michelle malkin is less of a threat too than dinesh d'souza who's alot more entrenched in the republican machine. he's had six nyt bestsellers, is funded by the heritage foundation, the american enterprise institute to spew hit hate on campuses and was a policy advisor for reagan. if you compare their wikis, dinesh's record is much longer and more entrenched.

[yoMAMA]

yeah actually michelle malkin is less of a threat too than dinesh d'souza who's alot more entrenched in the republican machine. he's had six nyt bestsellers, is funded by the heritage foundation, the american enterprise institute to spew hit hate on campuses and was a policy advisor for reagan. if you compare their wikis, dinesh's record is much longer and more entrenched.

good points.

[haplesshobo]

By dating Ingraham and Coulter, Dinesh is a winner in life. You take a look at the guy, and who would have thought he would have had a chance with those two leggy blondes. Ingraham and Coulter aren't model hot, but they're pretty hot for political commentators.

[tripostrophe]

^Not really. <<Ingraham is kind of pretty yeah, but I mean really...>>the kind of stuff that some of these people say, the levels to which they're willing to stoop just to get a little more attention, it's disgraceful. <<*And negates most any other type of beauty that they may possess.>> Have you seen that video of Coulter talking with Mrs. Edwards (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xYcUQiJ3sk)? And unless I'm mistaken, I do believe that there are several previous occasions in which Ms. Coulter has been pwned.

I really don't like any of these people. And interesting topic -- why's the next "I" in APIA still missing? Coalitions, yeah?

[Golden Monkey]

I have D'Souza's "The End of Racism" and it's an excellent book.

It's almost a mini encyclopedia of information and it was actually written by a team of people with D'Souza getting all the credit.

Leftist race hustlers fear the book and willfully misrepresent it's content.

The book is so packed with information and ideas that it can't properly be reduced to out of context quotes.

The book actually ends by claiming blacks are the most American of Americans and that they are the ones who will redeem America of the Original Sin of White people.

His criticism of blacks was of a subculture not the whole race yet he went on to praise black culture and moral leadership in ways that almost makes him sound like a black supremacist or Afrocentric.

There is so much to the book that I remember agreeing and disagreeing with it on almost every page.

[mzhsacramento]

I have D'Souza's "The End of Racism" and it's an excellent book.

It's almost a mini encyclopedia of information and it was actually written by a team of people with D'Souza getting all the credit.

Leftist race hustlers fear the book and willfully misrepresent it's content.

The book is so packed with information and ideas that it can't properly be reduced to out of context quotes.

The book actually ends by claiming blacks are the most American of Americans and that they are the ones who will redeem America of the Original Sin of White people.

His criticism of blacks was of a subculture not the whole race yet he went on to praise black culture and moral leadership in ways that almost makes him sound like a black supremacist or Afrocentric.

There is so much to the book that I remember agreeing and disagreeing with it on almost every page.


I wanna throat-sock you.

[huangalex]

You're saying that D'Souza's purpose is to motivate the black community to whip themselves back into shape because the present condition of African-Americans brings shame to their rich cultural background?

...

Sounds more like this guy's an asshole

[Geese]

I intend to pick-up The End of Racism and read it. I'll stop by later when I'm done.

[Golden Monkey]

You're saying that D'Souza's purpose is to motivate the black community to whip themselves back into shape because the present condition of African-Americans brings shame to their rich cultural background?

Partly. But the book is filled with so much content that it's more than that.

In a complex way it's almost like the Chris Rock routine on black folks versus "niggers". Even though it's about race in America and human history I don't remember much Asian content. Surprise, surprise.


Sounds more like this guy's an asshole

I think that's mainly just the way he looks with the glasses. :biggrin:

[n3bulous]

i read this book like 8 years ago after seeing him on that book channel on cable. i had no idea who he was or what political affiliations he had, i just thought the subject matter (and the title) was interesting, so i picked it up.

reading the book (looooong time ago), i dont remember really being offended. i saw it more akin to an anthropology book describing evolution, where he makes observations that, though they might be taboo, seem to make sense.

stylistically, i found it very easy to read. the dude can write.

the overall message i got from the book was that blacks need to change, from within, the culture of violence, crime, delinquency, poor parenting (hit it and quit it, wilt chamberlain type shit), etc. that plagues their communities. i see nothing wrong with that assertion, in and of itself. hell, if it was written by a (trusted) black leader, i don't think there would be a problem.

however, thinking about it now after finding out more about him, looking at the context of who's making that assertion, as well as realizing his political affiliation and their characteristic agendas, yeah, i can see how the book could be considered offensive.

basically, the things he attacks about black culture are pretty much true, but i guess he has no right to do so, especially with whatever ulterior agendas he might have from his associations with his party.

sort of like if your kid does something wrong, you have the right to spank his ass, but if some stranger on the street were to hastily take matters into their own hands to spank him, you might be infuriated. it's probably not his place to indict black culture like he did. even though the charges may have some truth, they don't need to hear it from him. i.e. who gave him the right...?


on another note, i also read another of his books, "the virtue of prosperity." i thought that was a great read. great toilet reading. anybody else read that? was i duped on that one, too? :)

[tripostrophe]

i read this book like 8 years ago after seeing him on that book channel on cable. i had no idea who he was or what political affiliations he had, i just thought the subject matter (and the title) was interesting, so i picked it up.

reading the book (looooong time ago), i dont remember really being offended. i saw it more akin to an anthropology book describing evolution, where he makes observations that, though they might be taboo, seem to make sense.

stylistically, i found it very easy to read. the dude can write.

the overall message i got from the book was that blacks need to change, from within, the culture of violence, crime, delinquency, poor parenting (hit it and quit it, wilt chamberlain type shit), etc. that plagues their communities. i see nothing wrong with that assertion, in and of itself. hell, if it was written by a (trusted) black leader, i don't think there would be a problem.

however, thinking about it now after finding out more about him, looking at the context of who's making that assertion, as well as realizing his political affiliation and their characteristic agendas, yeah, i can see how the book could be considered offensive.

basically, the things he attacks about black culture are pretty much true, but i guess he has no right to do so, especially with whatever ulterior agendas he might have from his associations with his party.

sort of like if your kid does something wrong, you have the right to spank his ass, but if some stranger on the street were to hastily take matters into their own hands to spank him, you might be infuriated. it's probably not his place to indict black culture like he did. even though the charges may have some truth, they don't need to hear it from him. i.e. who gave him the right...?


on another note, i also read another of his books, "the virtue of prosperity." i thought that was a great read. great toilet reading. anybody else read that? was i duped on that one, too? :)

Interesting, regarding the message. But actually, I don't think you're right about how it'd be better accepted coming from a black person -- Bill Cosby (who I assume commanded some level of respect prior to his statements, maybe even now) made similar statements some years back, if you remember. I think it's referred to as the poundcake speech, and Michael Eric Dyson did a great job of analyzing it in "Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4628960

[huangalex]

"He argues that the American obsession with race is fueled by a civil rights establishment that has a vested interest in perpetuating black dependency, and he concludes that the generation that marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. may be too committed to the paradigm of racial struggle to see the possibility of progress.

Perhaps, D'Souza suggests, like the Hebrews who were forced to wander in the desert for 40 years, that generation may have to pass away before their descendants can enter the promised land of freedom and equality."

From his website's description

I think what he's saying is that the obsession with racism is fueled by the black community's inability to let it go and recognize that it's not pertinent anymore.

With that said, his pasty paternalistic assumptions are wrong on so many levels.

[smorgasbord]

se·poy (aka Dinesh D'Souza): (formerly, in India) a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, esp. of the British.

[Golden Monkey]

se·poy (aka Dinesh D'Souza): (formerly, in India) a native soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, esp. of the British.

That's pretty much the intellectual level of the criticism he received for the book. He was just basically called "racist" or a servant of The White Man.

I think the book was too extensive and rich with arguments and evidence for some people. And of course the truth of it stung quite a bit.

So they just called him names.

[smorgasbord]

That's pretty much the intellectual level of the criticism he received for the book. He was just basically called "racist" or a servant of The White Man.

I think the book was too extensive and rich with arguments and evidence for some people. And of course the truth of it stung quite a bit.

So they just called him names.
yah, and he used too many big words. no understandable. lulz

[Golden Monkey]

yah, and he used too many big words. no understandable. lulz

No the problem was that he used words people could understand.

That's what got people upset. At least the ones who actually read the book. The rest, who were probably the majority, never read it. They just knew it was PC to be morally indignant.

Typical leftist mentality. Moral indignation passing for argument.

[haplesshobo]

I haven't read D'Souza's book, but I did read a pro-affirmative action book that was written partly in response to D'Souza's book where that pro-affirmative action book tried to make the argument that a rich, priviledged beverly hills black student, whose father is a neurosurgeon, was more deserving of affirmative action than a poor, white appalacian kid whose father was a miner.

Did D'Souza come up with that comparison first, or had that already been floating in the air? Cause if he did, then well played, D'Souza. Well played.

[smorgasbord]

No the problem was that he used words people could understand.

That's what got people upset. At least the ones who actually read the book. The rest, who were probably the majority, never read it. They just knew it was PC to be morally indignant.

Typical leftist mentality. Moral indignation passing for argument.
the Flat Earth Society publishes books too. that doesn't mean they're worth engaging. especially when their audience is other flat-earthers. oh, and leftists don't have morals, son. we just want to hate whitey and eat babies. typical, so typical. lulz

[Golden Monkey]

the Flat Earth Society publishes books too. that doesn't mean they're worth engaging. especially when their audience is other flat-earthers.

Again, that's not an argument against the book, that's just a way of avoiding the content by demeaning the author.

oh, and leftists don't have morals, son. we just want to hate whitey and eat babies. typical, so typical. lulz

Morals and displays of politically correct moral indignation are two different things.

And the leftists I was referring to were mostly White. I suppose they do have a kind of "Hate Whitey" mentality in a racially masochistic way.

[huangalex]

White moral indignation is like being mad at the Iraq war because too many of our white guys are getting killed, or being angry that black people are being mistreated by every white man except himself.