Through The Looking Glass's Looking Glass

Oh, for the sweet, sane days of last week when all we had to worry about was the Betsy Ross flag and how crazy racist it was. That was the height of intelligent discourse!

Well, it seems that way now. Dig this.

Mitch McConnell’s ancestors owned slaves, according to a new report. He opposes reparations. https://t.co/N4btQN789E

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 9, 2019

To recap, we now have one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country publishing breaking news from, what, 160 years ago?

Remember when we went through the looking glass with Nike last week? We all sighed and shook our heads and said, well, Kaepernick is gonna Kaepernick and Nike is just another woke corporation with an incompetent marketing department. Whatever. Well, the madhouse we entered had yet another looking glass and the WaPo is now guiding us through that one.

You are here.

Each level is more insane than the last. We're now fingering people, not for things they said as teens, but for things their great-great-grandparents did. Soon, we'll be howling about things their great-great-grandparents said as teens.

Meanwhile, real, live children from single-parent homes are suffering. Ooh, sorry about that. Did I say something triggering and judgmental, something that distracted from our long-overdue "conversation" about race? I promise not to do that again. For at least ten minutes.

Bonus Tidbit: Just about all of the slaves in the US originated in Africa as slaves already. Slaves were a major trading good for sub-Saharan Africans and they sold them to anyone who'd offer a decent price. I'm thinking that it's a good bet that almost every single African-America has at least one slave owner in their family tree.

Hey, if we're going to go there, then by all means, let's go there for real.

Special Godwin Tidbit: Obsessing on race is how you get Hitler. Yes, I said it again and I'm fine with that.

Super-Special Bonus Nazi Tidbit: Even the Nuremberg Race Laws chart doesn't go as far back as the WaPo's newsflash about Senator McConnell's family. Dude, when you can out-genealogy the Nazis, you're a serious contender for Loon of the Year.

Amateurs. Let the WaPo show you how it's done.