I appreciate your comments, djf, and agree.
cyborg, there is a difference between bigotry (extreme ethnocentrism) and ideological racism.
While the latter dehumanizes other races/ethnicities and espouses the legal differentiation of groups based on race, the latter is simply behaving in a natural, though ignorant, way.
Archy Bunker, though a plain bigot, was not nearly so much a racist as are those who promote multi-culturalism and want to balkanize our nation on the basis of ethnicity and race. And yet the former are shunned and the latter not only tolerated but allowed to dominate the vaqst majority of our universities.
Why is that do you think?
The liberals like their own people. Criticizing the 'our strengeth is our differences' crowd means a lot of mirror gazing. Archie Bunker is an easy target because he's different from them. I like the Bunker analogy because my father was just like him, and I think a lot of libs would call him a racist but nothing compared to what I've heard from liberals. I think 'low expectations' is actually worse than outright racism IMHO.