An excellent term -- I think I'm going to start using it. Thanks, Neo.For the sake of convenience, I’ve decided to call people like Maureen Dowd, who see hidden racism in every complaint about Obama, “racers.”
If I could sum up the underpinnings of their position, it would be a riff on Descartes’s proof of existence: “I think, therefore I am.” For racers, it goes something like this: “I think it, therefore it is.”
Such thoughts don’t require logic or evidence—just a gut feeling, a hunch, and to racers that makes them real.
Read her whole post here.