Maggie's Farm

At the link "Defending Derb":

"Derbyshire really ought to have been awarded special clemency, on the basis of the Americans With Disabilities Act, since in his capacity as a heterosexual Briton he cannot possibly be expected to understand, or enter into, our domestic American racial hypocrisies and neuroses."

What makes this so amusing is what Derb wrote in a long ago email interview that has led some racialist Liberals to claim that Derb is a self-confessed racist:

"I am not very careful about what I say, having grown up in the era before Political Correctness, and never having internalized the necessary restraints. I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going. Of course, people will still be that way in their hearts, but they will be afraid to admit it, and will be punished if they do admit it."

What Derb is saying here is that lots of people, himself included, are a bit racist at heart even if they refuse to admit it openly ....which is of course the same accusation that's constantly leveled by professional race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and which receives so much sympathy from Liberals. So, here Derb takes the Liberal line and gets smacked down for doing it, not only by Liberals who were bound to misunderstand him or twist his words, but also by Conservatives who were too freaked out to appreciate the nuance in what he was writing and saying about himself.