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DAVE PRICE WATCHES THE ENTIRE SHERROD VIDEO AND IS UNIMPRESSED: ?Contrary to lefty spin, this conte?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAVE PRICE WATCHES THE ENTIRE SHERROD VIDEO AND IS UNIMPRESSED: “Contrary to lefty spin, this context adds little and excuses less; no one ever thought she just got up there to talk about how she doesn?t like white people, so that it turns out to be part of a triumphant story of realizing class warfare is more important than racism (hooray!) isn?t a big surprise. Sherrod admits to racial discrimination in the course of her work . . . This is perfectly emblematic of the double standard Breitbart?s video was intended to demonstrate. If this was a white Republican man who admitted to having discriminated against blacks no one would be reconsidering anything, except whether to also file criminal charges.”

Ann Althouse has a similar reaction: “Sherrod does admit that she practiced racial discrimination against the white farmer. Later, she helps him, after it is ‘revealed to’ her that what really matters isn’t the difference between black and white but the difference between rich and poor. The fact that she later came around to helping the man doesn’t change the fact that she previously discriminated against him.”

If a white Republican had made a similarly charged racial statement, we wouldn’t be hearing about “context” or the evils of digging up video.

Plus some further thoughts from Althouse:

Make a note for later use: When someone discriminates based on race, if they subsequently assert that it’s important not to do that, it’s wrong to hold her or him accountable. . . .

Everybody got whipsawed by race. Wanna all just fold our cards in the long-running race game? Ah, no… I didn’t think so. You still think you can win, don’t you? And the play is so exciting….

Read the whole thing.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).