The liberal mob’s latest victim

I see that the rightish writer John Derbyshire has been sacked by the US conservative magazine for which he wrote, National Review. This is because of a piece he wrote for a different conduit, Taki’s Mag — an online publication run by The Spectator’s own Taki Theodoracopulos.

Mr Derbyshire’s article was a response to ‘The Talk’ which, apparently, is something black parents give to their children to help them cope with growing up in a bitterly racist country — such as be humble and polite to police officers or you might get shot, that sorta thing. Mr Derbyshire wrote ‘The Talk: Nonblack Version’, which he said was a distillation of the advice he had given to his own white children growing up in the USA. It included such points as don’t go any place where there might be lots of blacks, don’t live any place there might be lots of blacks, if you’re out somewhere and lots of blacks arrive, then leave, and so on.

There was of course a howling furore and the liberals demanded that the National Review distance itself from Mr Derbyshire. They got their way, the mob — for the magazine sacked one of its writers for having written something which other people took exception to in a publication which had no connection with their own. This is the way the liberals work: they are the apogee of intolerance. It was also, I think, craven of the National Review.

Derbyshire’s piece contained one or two points with which I do not agree, but I suspect that for the most part its advice was precisely the sort of thing which readers of the National Review have probably passed on to their children, anyway.