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1. Paul
   September 9th, 2008 @ 11:35 am

   …Just listened to the show. Hats off to you Dr. Brown, for picking up a really hot potato…

   The lady who called in to the show hit the nail on the head. It’s the perennial problem of identity politics — found on the Right, yes, but most notoriously associated with the Left. Witness the internecine attempts of Clinton & Obama to trump each other’s minority-group credentials in the primaries: watching it was toe-curling…

   Thankfully, there are a few bracing counterblasts to the identity-politics bandwagon: the Jewish World Review‘s superb duo, the black academics Walter Williams & Thomas Sowell (both old men now), have catalogued how, over the past few decades, black opinion has been captured by demagogues whose radicalism has caused havoc for precisely those whom they claim to help, especially in poorer areas. And both Williams and Sowell have suffered the most outrageous slurs from fellow blacks for daring to say the unsayable: simple disagreement seems impossible — dissenters are accused of the wholesale betrayal of their race, frequently in the crudest terms. …Just as so many women who criticise modern feminism have effectively been excommunicated from their gender for daring to point out how women are being deceived by the radicals. Sadly, radicalism is often unnoticed nowadays: it has become so commonplace as to be unremarkable (the fact that bland corporate behemoths like Starbucks are backing homosexual activism says it all, really).

   Thomas Sowell has expressed his concerns about Obama a number of times: here after the Jeremiah Wright business, and here when he’d won the nomination (Sowell laments the poor quality of both candidates, but for him a nuclear Iran — rather than abortion — is the killer issue, and so he reluctantly opts for McCain).

   For those who haven’t come across Walter Williams, samples of his work can be found here, here, here and here.

   Finally, I probably shouldn’t have, but I laughed on hearing about the gay activists’ doctored photo of you in Islamoterrorist garb with a machine-gun. Are these people for real?! How can anyone take them seriously, when they engage in such risible hyperbole?! Perhaps these defamatory images could form the cover of your next book: I’m sure they do more harm than good to the homosexual agenda.

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