It is a grave sign of a lack of moral sense to equate immoral actions with morally neutral ones.
And thus The Washington Post's moral sense can be measured from its equation of the disenfranchisement of African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s (largely by Democrats, as they note) to Republicans' refusal to unconstitutionally grant voting "rights" to D.C. residents.
The Post's editorial board is not the only one confused. Senator Hatch, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and others also recently equated lack of support for the current unconstitutional Senate bill, which I expect will fail on a cloture vote today, with the morally imperative bills of the 1960s ending clear, purposeful racial discrimination. Even worse, their op-ed implies that the same forces of racial discrimination are at work from today's Republicans as was at work with Democrats in the 1960s filibusters.
My own thoughts on the D.C. voting bill appear the September 18 D.C. Examiner: "No taxation without representation? How 'bout no taxation!"
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