Racism, the stupidity of judging a man by the color of his skin, seems one of the great absurditities of human history. In our current craze to eliminate it (which really amounts only to eliminating its most blatant manifestations and doing nothing to remove its more subtle and covert forms), we are losing the ability to think critically about cultures. It is a particularly a shame that “minorities” — that nebulous and perpetually redefined term — are encouraging this outlawing of thought, given how deeply some “minority” cultures — for example, Jewish culture, Indian culture and Japanese culture — make the habits and mores of the average American descendant of (at least nominally) Christian Europeans seem fit only for a beast of burden.