re: #79 Dark_Falcon

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.

Nobody is ‘entitled’ to any interpretation other than what any reasonable person sees when they read. Especially a writer. they are professionals who are supposed to be able to communicate their thoughts without need for ‘interpretation’. And I don’t expect to need to have read a whole bunch of Brooks’s stuff to know what he meant by ‘mutts’. It shows his ignorance about race if he thinks Euro-Americans are any less ‘mutts’ than the mixtures he anticipates in the future.