Offensive post-election commentary continued...

Who writes something like this? Melissa Ruley in this week's edition of Durham's own Independent Weekly (via Best of the Web):

I find it easier to explain the psychology of a suicide bomber than how it is that most Americans like Bush, think he's taking the right course.

I don't know what's worse -- the obscene moral relativism of the comparison or the utter condescension toward Bush voters.

Comments

[Dean Eckles]

I don't see how this has much to do with moral relativism as there isn't some necessary connection--established by her or otherwise obvious to me--between being able to psychologically account for the actions of one person more easily than another and one's attribution of moral worth to either.

Now, the condescension--that I do see.

Dean