In a comment on one of the Oregonian‘s Community Writers columns (“An alternative patriotism” by Lillian Mongeau) the commenter suggests a book and makes an oft-heard charge:
I want to suggest you dig deeper. A new book may provide what is needed, a sound reason for prejudice, and I do not mean racism.
The book is, ‘In Praise of Prejudice” the necessity of preconceived ideas’ by Theodore Dalrymple. 126 pp.
The main bookstores will not carry conservative books. The bookstore owners were also taught by teaches with the same agenda as yours.
Now, despite what the “teaches” taught, and the fact that I don’t spend much time these days at my long-ago employer Powell’s Books — which is about as much of a “main bookstore” as it gets — I know when someone’s talking out of their ass. 50 copies of Dalyrmple’s In Praise of Prejudice alone.
