Rightly skeptical

Matthew Yglesias has a great article about terrorism-related racial profiling. Here's a brief excerpt:

...But Krauthammer's [racial profiling] idea was hardly meant seriously. It doesn't withstand even cursory scrutiny. This was just a little twitting of liberal sensibilities, the old right-wing game of épater les intellectuels designed to position conservatism on the side of common sense and basic decency, not a real effort to debate anyone or change minds. Seen in that light, David Gelertner's Los Angeles Times effort on the same day on the same topic was by far the greater success for including the outlandish contention that "you might argue that dark-skinned people are a special case, given the way the United States has treated them. I agree -- we have treated them so solicitously, and worked so hard to suppress racial prejudice, that dark-skinned people owe their country the benefit of the doubt." I'm shocked -- shocked -- that Republicans have a hard time getting black people to vote for them...