Seeing things?
Apr 28, 2008 Americana
This New York Times article about critics of moderate and “in the middle” Muslims in the US is hardly balanced. But at the same time, I can’t help seeing a bit of racism at work here … and an attempt to stoke the same passions behind the Red Scare nearly a century ago.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Ok, let’s say someone doesn’t have time to read the whole article. What group is the putative target of this race-baiting here, pennywit?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Sorry. I was in the middle of about three things when I wrote last night. Here’s the NYT’s nut graph:
It’s less ethnic and more religious, I supppose, with groups specifically targeting Muslims. On the flip side, I think the NYT may have gone out of its way to find the most egregious examples of these groups.
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