Know Your Bigots
John Derbyshire of the National Review Online
“John Derbyshire is a writer who never crosses the line into becoming a polemicist. His words are stated in a genial voice of reason. The one quality that sets him apart from his peers is his overwhelming sincerity. It comes through in just about everything that he publishes. Regardless of the topic and whether one agrees or disagrees with him, the reader becomes uniquely aware that this is a man expressing a genuinely honest opinion. There’s no spin in the output of John Derbyshire. “
And here’s how he actually is:
“Two data points.
(1) In between our last two posts I went to Drudge to see what was happening in the world. The lead story was about a ship disaster in the Red Sea. From the headline picture, it looked like a cruise ship. I therefore assumed that some people very much like the Americans I went cruising with last year were the victims. I went to the news story. A couple of sentences in, I learned that the ship was in fact a ferry, the victims all Egyptians. I lost interest at once, and stopped reading.
I don’t care about Egyptians. “
I don’t suppose they care much about you either, Derb, buddy.
