DAVID THOMPSON: Unto Others.
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading of course, this strikes me as broadly accurate:
It comes up over and over again that liberals think conservative types are creating special exceptions for their enemies whenever the conservative has blindly applied their conception of justice.
That’s how you get liberals saying stuff like, “oh I’m sure you’d be jumping straight to execution if this were a white guy“ and then every single time a white guy commits a heinous crime the entire right in unison chants, “execute him.”
Or, to take another example, consider the way in which liberals always think that conservatives want and expect immigrants to behave in a certain way just simply because they hate immigrants, when the conservative is merely applying the same standard to which they would hold themselves in a foreign country.
In these cases and many others, liberals are confused by a straightforward and universal conception of justice.
QED: WaPo Columnist Makes the Case Against Muslim Assimilation.
Hello Mr. Hasim,
You've already reached levels of institutional validation that remain inaccessible to nearly all Americans: a professorship at Georgetown, a position on the Washington Post's editorial board.
At that point, saying you still need to prove yourself is like Taylor…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 8, 2026
Tweet continues:
At that point, saying you still need to prove yourself is like Taylor Swift insisting no one listens to her music.
If assimilation feels out of reach, it isn’t because the system has excluded you. By any reasonable measure, it has already brought you into its highest ranks. What remains is a decision about whether you’re willing to fully embrace where you already stand.
And all signs point to “no.”
This is a you problem.
Exit question: “I’m not sure if Hamid was born in the United States or if he’s an immigrant, but a lot of people asked the same question I ask: There are 57 Muslim countries in the world … why do you choose to move to a Christian country and then complain about being expected to assimilate?”