BIAS

Steve Lopez is certainly a prodigious writer; he seems to have a least one column a day in the Los Angeles Times. I mentioned him in the Diner last week here. Maybe he writes too much, because he sure didn’t self-edit a column yesterday. It was all about, surprise, surprise, Arnold, who he calls Big Boy. Well, he doesn’t call him Big Boy all of the time, in this last one he called him:

“Der Gropenfuhrer”

Ah, isn’t that cute? I’m sure he finds that really funny and an intelligent play on the groping accusations. But it could also be construed as a Hitler reference, in fact, I wouldn’t put it past Lopez to have meant that. Ha Ha, let’s pick on the Republicans.

But what if Arnold turned the tables? What if he called Steve LOPEZ Wetbackus excitus? Or maybe Speedy Gonzalez? Or El Taco? Then you would see Steve crying to everyone, from the ACLU to Dear Abby about how racially insensitive the Governor-elect is. This is the kind of bias we conservatives talk about all the time. Either Lopez is consciously trying to be “racially insensitive” or he honestly has no idea that’s exactly what he’s doing. One way or the other, it’s a bias.