Hypocrisy Means Admitting You Were

Hypocrisy Means Admitting You Were Wrong?
There are some very strange definitions of hypocrisy going around.
One of the more ridiculous assertions (see also this story) I’ve seen in the blogosphere is the notion that because Clarence Thomas might have benefited from affirmative action, he is somehow prohibited from ever being against it. The reason given is that he is a “hypocrite” if he benefited from affirmative action and now dares to oppose it.
This is logic?
Remember Jim Crow? I am glad the white folks who eventually came to see the error of their ways were not condemned as hypocrites, or else change would have been impossible.
How about George Wallace?

In 1982, he ran for governor a fourth time. In a watershed moment, he admitted that he had been wrong about “race” all along. He was elected by a coalition represented by blacks, organized labor and forces seeking to advance public education.

Under the logic being used against Clarence Thomas, George Wallace was a hypocrite to change his mind.
Once a bigot, always a bigot?


UPDATE: Be sure to read Don Watkins on the supremely hypocritical Maureen Dowd! A good fisking. Go Don!


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