Yesterday, Ann Althouse contended that any liberal criticism of Bobby Jindal needed to be examined for potential latent racism.

Today, when faced with evidence of Ace of Spades picking out random Indian guys from movies to compare Jindal to, Althouse says the following about liberals comparing Jindal to a white guy:

Comparing Jindal to Kenneth of “30 Rock” is not a nice indicator of Americans’ ability to see beyond skin color. Quite the opposite! Instinctively repainting him white is — I would say — presumptively racial. To strip away his racial identity — to stereotype him as an especially white white man — is a powerful racial move. This is not nice at all. I would really like to know what makes white people so sure they are being nice about racial things. This confidence in niceness is misplaced, yet very very common….

.... in liberals. Liberals believe they are the good people with the good beliefs, the good hearts. Especially about race. How could it be otherwise? They are so nice and so good-hearted. And Bobby Jindal is not a liberal. He’s a conservative. That’s not good. That’s bad. Bad, bad Bobby Jindal. Quick! Help me think of all the ways Bobby Jindal is just terrible. Ack! Don’t look at him! He’s horrible! I can barely stand to look at him. When he first emerges from behind a curtain, I moan “Oh, God.” This is terrible. This is automatically horrible. A man of color, who is not supporting our side. One look and I am disgusted. How loathsome!

So, if we’d just called him Kumar or, following Michael Steele’s lead and offering him “slum love” (I shit you not), there would be presumably no problem.  But comparing him to a white television character with whom he shares any number of expressive characteristics is evidence of deep-seated and misguided “niceness”, which is actually totally racist.  In fact, any dislike of Jindal is apparently racist, no matter how much he lies or says weird shit or exorcises people. 

And apparently, all us liberals are white.  Which isn’t racist at all.