Bret Stephens Quotes

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

I must confess that when I see anyone with an Obama bumper sticker I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

The Republicans love alpha-males, and they're sick of the corruption, too. Not that Trump will do anything about it. But at least he's not bought. And he throws in just the right amount of racism to appeal to the Republican base.

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'

For decades now, Republicans and Democrats have shared the same mythology around the great American meritocracy. The only real difference was that republicans thought the American meritocracy was already perfect and Democrats believed it could be perfected if we just dealt with racism and sexism and other forms of bigotry.

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

The opinion that Trump equals hate is not a fact. It is a view.

Conservatives are either stupid or brilliant. Pick a narrative, leftist MSM. You can't have it both ways.

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

In this post-post-racial, post-Obama era of resurgent populism and Balkanized identity politics, it really does feel as though it matters - and matters more than anything else - whether you're black or white.

One of the left's favorite refrains is falsely caricaturing Republican candidates as 'racist' and 'xenophobic,' throwing out 'dog whistles' to fuel racial sentiments.

Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

So many people, you know, they're just worried about, you can't say something bad about Obama, not because you actually have a strong stance against his platform, but because that makes you a racist.

Nobody calls me a racist when I do redneck jokes. Jeff Foxworthy can do as many 'You might be a redneck jokes' as he wants, but I'm telling you as soon as a guy like that does a black joke or something - 'How dare you!' I totally think it's unfair.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. I'm talking about these people that as soon as Trump won, they're like, we don't have to pretend like we're not racist anymore. We don't have to pretend anymore. We can be racist again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. If you're one of these people, please go back to pretending.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.