Steve H. on the Los Angeles ban on new fast food restaurants:

This ban is blatantly racist. Once again, leftists are showing us they think minority members are too stupid to take care of themselves, and because leftists lack the ability to perceive their own faults, they don’t even realize they’re doing it. If a leftist does a thing, it can’t be racist. You have to wonder how far that principle can be pushed. Maybe in a few years, black people and Mexicans in Los Angeles will be required to turn in their driver’s licenses, so they can lose weight by walking. Hey, it would be healthy. And think of the lives that would be saved, because fewer drivers will be on the road, having accidents.

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Liberals think “the soft racism of lowered expectations” is a canard. They think it’s something conservatives say in order to avoid helping minorities. And regrettably, a small faction of true racist idiots infests the political right, and sometimes their set of hateful, stupid ideas intersects with the well-intended set of ideas of the conservative mainstream. But overall, conservatives are sincere and right when they say the left treats minorities like children or as if they’re slightly retarded.

Quick aside: Steve goes on to point out that fast food restaurants are the ones that serve food that lower income individuals can afford, but there’s another problem — this ban will keep jobs out of the area, too. Maybe they’re not the best jobs, but it’s not like keeping out fast food restaurants will suddenly make a bunch of other jobs spring to life in these areas.

Back on topic, this sort of racism is, in my opinion, more dangerous than the more “traditional” form of racism, because the people engaging in it are, for the most part, honestly trying to help. They just don’t see that their attempts to help are extremely condescending and pretty counterproductive, besides. This form of racism is extraordinarily insidious, and that’s something we need to be extremely careful about.