Has got to be satire.
Has got to be satire.
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I don’t know... This is Slate that we’re talking about here.
Dumber than a box of rocks.
Sort of. It's doubtful he was entirely serious about this. It's sensationalism, sort of the higher trolling: put something out there that's off the wall, but that you can say with a straight face and readers will read it both ways -- as crazy, but somehow brilliant. At least, if you judge your audience right they won't hold it against you.
It's pretty clear Rosenbaum couldn't have meant it wholly in earnest. Right at the beginning of his article, he notes the decline of white bread, something that "racism" didn't prevent. So if a whole generation gives up on white bread but doesn't lose its taste for white turkey meat how can they be racist? And are sophisticates who go in for (white) French or Italian bread more racist than the rest of us?
There's a long tradition of tongue in cheek holiday articles in the press, but if somebody out there is crazy enough to think Rosenbaum a genius for coming up with this, it doesn't hurt his career a bit.