The Washington Post, May 2nd, 1995
It has been the fashion since the 1994 elections to speak of "angry white men" as the defining group of the next political era. The fashion has become a small industry since the Oklahoma City tragedy, transforming bombers and killers into particularly egregious symbols of a whole class. To say the least, it's bizarre to see terrorists as stand-ins for large numbers of white men. It is no better than claiming that Black Panthers who shot cops in the 1960s were representative of all African American males. Both are forms of racism and paranoia. But cultural and journalistic inventions such as "a...
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