re: #73 wrenchwench

The tweet about it was clearly wrong. However, if one wishes to accuse Brooks of racism, he supplied plenty of fodder a few columns back.

It’s not unalloyed racism, he finishes on an up note

but I sure see more tell-tale signs there than in his most recent column.

Those excerpts don’t seem racist to me, not in and of themselves anyway. If John Derbyshire had said that, then yes, I’d say it was evidence of racism. But given his body of work to date, David Brooks is entitled to a more favorable interpretation of his words.