CHARLES PIERCE: Things I Choose Not to Care About: Rachel Dolezal Edition [View all]

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In which we discover that liberals waste a lot of time.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE


Sherlock Holmes once pointed out that he only had so much room in the attic of his intellect and, therefore, he had to be careful about storing there only what he really needed. So it is in that spirit that I would like to say that I don't care very much what happens to Rachel Dolezal up there in Spokane. (A while back, I spent a week in Spokane, looking into the attempted bombing of the Martin Luther King Day parade there. I talked to dozens of people. I somehow missed Ms. Dolezal.) I don't care to involve myself in thought-experiments about her. I don't care to examine the role of "white privilege" in this situation. I don't want to help turn this thing into another exhausting exercise in sociological pilates. I do not choose to be involved in making what is little more than a very weird local news story into yet another totem representing Where We Are As A People. Let this woman fade away and spend your energy where it can do the most good. In the staggering welter of problems we have in this country regarding race, Rachel Dolezal's masquerade ought to be way down the list. I don't find it fascinating. I find it freaky in a carnival midway sort of way. The topic completely hijacked Thom Hartmann's radio show today. This stuff is catnip to liberals. I may never figure out why.

This, I might add, goes double for Caitlyn Jenner.

Go with god, Caitlin but, for the love of heaven, don't vote for Lindsey Graham.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35720/rachel-dolezal-story/