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Rosa Parks and the End of "Discrimination" as a meaningful word

Tue Oct 25, 2005 at 02:33:06 PM PDT

On the day of Rosa Parks' death, I stumbled across this incisive reflection on what's left of her legacy, so I thought I'd share.  I can't say it better than Jack Roy did, so I won't:

"Discrimination" is a word that had meaning not long ago.  That definition has been much abused of late---admittedly, my own political allies bear a lot of responsibility for this. . . .

[But w]hy do conservative Christians believe they're the victims of discrimination?  I don't have a global understanding of how that could be possible, but something Ira Glass played on the radio a few months ago struck me as a bizarre, if plausible, explanation. . . .

Read the rest at his blog so he gets the hits.  (It's not long.)

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