I may be confused. Is Andrew Sullivan the gay British expat who lives in Massachusetts now?
More to the point: Am I remembering wrong, or is he one of those guys who thinks multiculturalism is “Cultural Marxism” because it challenges the supremacy of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, like Marxism, and two things that he fears are the same to him? I’m probably remembering wrong.
Anyway, racism provokes response. Turkish bigotry led to violent Greek and Armenian nationalism. Anglo-Saxon racism led to Louis Farrakhan and black separatism on this side of the Atlantic, and also to a certain angry kind of Irish identity various places. Apparently smug white people led to this woman making smart-ass remarks on Twitter. Which, meh.
But then, I think the world would be a better place if we were allowed to say that American Blacks, Jews, the Irish, and Anglo-Saxons are all bullshit. People are jerks. They–we–are still people.