Terry Michael:
A half century ago, right-wing zealots could see a communist behind every bush.
Today, self-congratulatory liberals envision a racist at the wheel of every pick-up truck.
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina unleashed a torrent of neo-McCarthy-ist racialism that has welled up in the liberal imagination for decades, since the morally authoritative civil rights movement of the mid-20th century ended government institutionalized racism.
Nowhere is that more evident than in the news rooms of America, where a couple of generations of journalists have been indoctrinated with a received wisdom that has led them to embrace racial or other identity group status as a paradigm for revealing most political, economic, social and even personal health experience.
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