On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 04:02 PM, Nathan Newman wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> To the extent that you say that they won because of Hollywood guilt,
> there
> is the implication that they didn't win on their talent-- even if the
> fact
> remains that they probably needed to exhibit a higher level of talent
> than
> their white compatriots to overcome the usual racial blinders of the
> academy. Many you were arguing that Hollywood guilt had lowered those
> blinders a bit, but the phrasing implies an affirmative action award,
> which
> while you may not mean the same thing as the folks railing at the
> "politically correct" Oscars over at FreeRepublic meant, it does
> sounds a
> lot the same.
>
> There is the place where left cynicism on the left meets right anti-PC
> outrage.
>
or where liberal optimism (which apparently insists on seeing the oscars as a meritocracy rather than a popularity contest) meets political correctness . . .
jeff