Melting pot

We are the capitalists. They are the socialists. We are the racists. They are the equal opportunity egalitarians. Here at home, liberals have, for decades, cast themselves as the defenders of oppressed minorities. Their enemies in this war, we are told, are greedy conservatives, white businessmen (i.e., capitalists), and their political henchmen, the Republicans. Conservatism is the redoubt of racist oppressors, socialism the liberator of oppressed minorities. Perhaps the greatest article of liberal faith is that American racism is the most virulent strain to ever afflict the world. Racism, we are constantly scolded, is "everywhere" in America.

The Frenchy/Lefty dogma in a nutshell. On a par with the flat-earthers.

But are these presumptions warranted by logic, reason, or human experience? How is it that France has race riots in 2006, while the U.S. is the volitional home to more ethnicities and cultures than can be found in any other consensual political union on the planet? How is it that Azerbaijanis and Armenians, Hutus and Tutsis, Serbs and Croats, Hindus and Sikhs, and all manner of other people who used to butcher each back home, can all come to America and live in relative peace?

Ah, but Cartesian logic is too complicated to follow.