Anna Quindlen: The Caucasian Card (Ultra Barf Alert)

Newsweek ^ | August 9, 2008 | Anna Quindlen

[2ndDivisionVet]

A finer display of liberal white guilt and psychobabble than you're likely to see in many a year.

[BenLurkin]

"Much of America's political conversation is couched in code."

Only in the fevered minds of demented lefties.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Using the term "race card" as a pejorative is almost always meant to promulgate the big lie that takes hold everywhere from the workplace to the classroom: that black men and women commonly use race as a bludgeon and an excuse, and that they will always blame failures or disagreements on racism."

It ain't no lie, lady. Perhaps you missed Rev Wrights rants, those of Al Sharpton and that Jackson feller. Perhaps a look at a few "black power" web sites will open your eyes as well, or what the heck, just read Obama's books.

[RexBeach]

Ms. Quindlen reminds me of this old acorn: A reporter spots Christ walking on the water. The next day, the headline in his paper reads, “Christ Can’t Swim!”

Pinhead.

[San Jacinto]

that black men and women commonly use race as a bludgeon and an excuse, and that they will always blame failures or disagreements on racism.

Aw come on, that never happens.

[Wonder Warthog]

"When someone like Senator McCain says he's opposed to quotas, it sounds like country-club code for "We liked the pie the old way.""

Quindlen obviously is unfamiliar with the civil rights legislation as originally passed. It FORBIDS quotas flatly. That the Justice Department under many presidents has used it as the basis for quotas is the source of the problem. McCain is saying "observe the law as it was written".

[TexasCajun]

Here's a beauty.

Of course there is also affirmative action for well-to-do whites, from legacy college admissions to the old boys' club of hiring and connections. Somehow this is never thought to be the same.

[Inwoodian]

Plainly this woman needs to get out more.

[Signalman]

Much has been made by Senator McCain's supporters of his history as a survivor of a Viet Cong prison camp

Quindlen shows her ignorance about the political history of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong was purely a South Vietnamese entity, both politically and militarily. McCain was in a prison controlled and operated by the North Vietnamese.

[livius]

Gads. This woman’s tiny mind (or what passes for one) is a fever-pit of paranoia. It’s hard to imagine how she gets through the day.

[Maverick68]

Man, she’s a real hottie....ahem...

[Mr. K]

"To hear tell, you would believe that the world is chockablock with minority lawyers, teachers, construction workers and police officers who spend all their time complaining about institutional racism, calling others out on offensive jokes and assumed stereotypes..."

Um... it IS Anna- don't you watch TV?

[facedown]

Just part of the agitprop campaign.

[mojito]

Quindlen is the queen of hand-wringing liberal white guilt, floating in her NPR bubble of a world.

Who reads Time or Newsweek anymore? It's like reading a dumbed-down week-old New York Times. In other words, stale leftist trash.

[freespirited]

That's another weight that successful black Americans carry, the suspicion that they got to wherever they've gone because of special pleadings. Of course there is also affirmative action for well-to-do whites, from legacy college admissions to the old boys' club of hiring and connections. Somehow this is never thought to be the same

That's because it's not the same. If you look at the difference in SAT scores between legacy and non-legacy admits at a selective school, it's on the order of 30-50 points. The difference between non-affirmative action admits and affirmative action black admits is about 200 points.

I am not a big defender of legacy admission, and I don't think public universities should have it at all, but a private school has the right to do them as a trade-off for alumni support.

[kcvl]

Anna Marie Quindlen (b. July 8, 1952) is a liberal American author, journalist and opinion columnist

Married to Gerald Krovatin, an attorney

[EveningStar]

A racist is a white person who is not a self-hating white.

[Doc Savage]

Let’s see. Ugly. Communist. Ok, that’s sufficient.

[Vigilanteman]

Who reads Time or Newsweek anymore? It's like reading a dumbed-down week-old New York Times.

As much as I like your definition, the competition for that decription is severe.

MacPaper (USA Today) is dumber still, but at least it is printed on an absorbent paper which makes great guinea pig cage liner.

[onlylewis]

This article only deserves one word “gag” or “puke”
You get the drift.