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Liberal racial hypocrisy – Salon.com

Posted by melissaicd on February 23, 2013
Posted in: advocacy, culture, social justice. Tagged: foreign policy, freedom, international relations, nationality, politics, race.
Burden not Columbia with your chaff. Bioshock Infinite. Image from Terminal Gamer.

“Tell a baby to talk to the hand.” Bioshock Infinite. Scheduled release: March 26, 2013. Image from Terminal Gamer. Quotation from Tobuscus, Literal Bioshock Infinite video (on YouTube).

“Racism is unacceptable for American liberals. But many critics of racism are surprisingly comfortable with a jingoist foreign policy, even when it includes the deaths of Pakistani and Yemeni toddlers. Jingoism is just another word for extra-national racism, made acceptable by the constant references to American safety and freedom.”

via Liberal racial hypocrisy – Salon.com.

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