oh look at that, National Review publishes racist nut

[Enrique]

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/19/oh_look_at_that_national_review_publishes_racist_nut/

Remember how we were all so proud of the National Review for eventually firing or cutting ties with most of the outright white supremacists who occasionally or regularly wrote for that fine publication? Well, there is maybe still some work to be done, as it seems that there’s still room at the Corner for David Yerushalmi.

It seems like a simple rule of thumb, that if someone has once defended American slavery, that you should probably not publish things they write, because people will think you believe that sort of thing to be a perfectly acceptable point of view. So, in case the editors of the National Review Online were simply unaware, let’s point out that Yerushalmi has written that one cannot, these days, describe “blacks as the most murderous of peoples” without someone for some reason calling you a “racist.” And then he wrote: “There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote.”

Of course, Yerushalmi is not writing about black people for the Corner. He is, instead, writing about Muslims, because he is a professional Islamophobe. A few NR contributors have lately begun writing sensible things pushing back against the hysterical claims of the “creeping Shariah” lunatics, who claim that the tiny and largely politically powerless American Muslim Community is attempting, with terrifying success, to supplant the Constitution with conservative Koranic Law. The people who make this argument and believe it are generally insane. Most of the rest are simply scumbags who make a living scare-mongering and exploiting distrust of Muslims.

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