{"id":14526,"date":"2012-04-10T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14526"},"modified":"2012-04-10T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:46:43","slug":"mark-steyn-derbyshire-should-not-have-been-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/mark-steyn-derbyshire-should-not-have-been-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn: Derbyshire should not have been fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <em>National Review Online<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;The Corner&#8221; blog, Mark Steyn expresses the unpopular-even-among-Republians thought that John Derbyshire&#8217;s sins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/295591\/re-derb-mark-steyn\" target=\"_blank\">did not amount to a firing offence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; for what it\u2019s worth, I regret the loss of John Derbyshire to National Review. Short version: Didn\u2019t like the piece, but don\u2019t think NR should have hustled him into the drive-thru guillotine on the basis of 24 hours of hysteria from the Internet\u2019s sans-culottes.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>On the career-detonating column, I don\u2019t have anything terribly useful to add. But Derb\u2019s wife is Chinese and his children are biracial. And I can see why, in a world in which a four-time mayor of America\u2019s capital city can disparage your own family\u2019s race (\u201cthese Asians coming in . . . those dirty shops . . . they ought to go\u201d) and pay no price, a chap might come to resent the way polite society\u2019s indulgence of racism is so highly selective.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The net result of Derb\u2019s summary execution by <em>NR<\/em> will be further to shrivel the parameters, and confine debate in this area to ever more unreal fatuities. He knew that mentioning the Great Unmentionables would sooner or later do him in, and, in an age when shrieking \u201cThat\u2019s totally racist!\u201d is totally gay, he at least has the rare satisfaction of having earned his colors. Yet what are we to make of wee, inoffensive Dave Weigel over at <em>Slate<\/em>? The water still churning with blood, the sharks are circling poor old Dave for the sin of insufficiently denouncing the racist Derbyshire. Weigel must go for not enthusiastically bellowing, \u201cDerbyshire must go!\u201d Come to think of it, I should probably go for querying whether Weigel should go.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the National Review Online&#8216;s &#8220;The Corner&#8221; blog, Mark Steyn expresses the unpopular-even-among-Republians thought that John Derbyshire&#8217;s sins did not amount to a firing offence: &#8230; for what it\u2019s worth, I regret the loss of John Derbyshire to National Review. Short version: Didn\u2019t like the piece, but don\u2019t think NR should have hustled him into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,53],"tags":[477,99],"class_list":["post-14526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-magazines","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14527,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions\/14527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}