who else don’t we like?

Ezra Klein says that Andrew Sullivan has transformed into “something akin to a lefty.”
I wouldn’t know (and don’t care) about whether Sullivan is on the left or the right. I’m much more concerned about his having become a proponent of the notion of perpetual white guilt and moral relativism [e.a.]:

I think it’s legitimate to criticize both Imus and hip-hop, while recognizing that the color of the speaker does make an obvious difference in impact and intent, with respect to hate speech. When black culture deploys its own n-words about itself, it’s a form of self-abasement as well as self-defense. It’s sad and ugly, but it’s different than perpetuating contempt for minorities from a position of majority power and privilege. Neither is defensible, but one is less defensible than the other. …

[S]ince whites still enjoy vastly more cultural power than blacks, Sharpton’s bigotry is more defensible than Imus’s.

What a load of pandering PC bullshit.

Then Sullivan, having claimed that Sharpton has the moral high ground, has the nerve to insinuate, in a post titled “Who’s Next?“, that he disapproves of Media Matters’s newfound witch-hunting fervor:

CEO Leslie Moonves announced that CBS — which owns both the radio station that broadcast Imus’ program and Westwood One, which syndicated the program — has fired Imus and would cease broadcasting his radio show. But as Media Matters for America has extensively documented, bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity continue to permeate the airwaves through personalities such as Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Michael Smerconish, and John Gibson.

What a fucking nightmare.