May 23, 2005

Keith Thompson Jumps the Leftship Lollipop

In yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle, Keith Thompson writes a profound, and sometimes scathing, commentary on why he is leaving the party of the left. A sampling:

These days the postmodern left demands that government and private institutions guarantee equality of outcomes. Any racial or gender "disparities" are to be considered evidence of culpable bias, regardless of factors such as personal motivation, training, and skill. This goal is neither liberal nor progressive; but it is what the left has chosen. In a very real sense it may be the last card held by a movement increasingly ensnared in resentful questing for group-specific rights and the subordination of citizenship to group identity. There's a word for this: pathetic.

Read, read, read...here.

Hat tip: Dodo David at Lifelike Pundits.

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