Racism

Racism. There is no other name for it. Jonathon Valania, in an editorial published (shamefully) by the Philledelphia Inquirer, shows a level of self loathing that is rare even among liberals.

White people shouldn't be allowed to vote
As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just don't think we can be trusted to exercise it responsibly anymore.

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These people are ruining things for the rest of us white people who are ready to move on. Sure, they have their reasons, chimerical though they may be: He's a Muslim. He's a terrorist. He's a Muslim terrorist. He's going to fire all the white people and give their jobs to blacks.

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That's why this ban on white people voting I'm proposing has got to be statewide. And I'm sorry to say, it's going to have to include all white people, even those who would vote for Obama, because you can't just let some white people vote. That would be unfair.

I guess when you vote for someone because of the color of their skin, you imagine that people voting against them are voting against the color of their skin—in the same way that I tend to assume, perhaps erroneously, that most people vote based on the issues. From inside Valania's cloud of self-hate it must be nearly impossible to see that there are idological differences between Barrak Obama and John McCain that are the real reason half of the nation prefers the candidate who is not balanced precariously on the leftmost edge of the political spectrum.

Regardless of the reasons for Valania's hate-filled harangue, he should be ashamed of it. I do not, like so many on the left, call for this kind of disgraceful commentary to be censored.  On the contrary, it should be widely disseminated. To shed light on the twisted musings of radical so-called-thinkers is a valuable service. I doubt however that that was the intention of the Inquirer when they chose to publish Mr. Valania's racist essay.