Here is Michelle Malkin’s latest column. In my immediately preceding post, I said that one form is racism is holding individuals of different races to different standards. If the mainstream media are going easy on Barack Obama because of his race, they are racist. Affirmative-action programs are racist. For every person who gets an undeserved advantage on account of race, someone gets an undeserved disadvantage on account of race. (It’s a zero-sum game.) We tend to focus on the beneficiaries of affirmative-action programs, but there are always losers as well as winners. The mainstream media ought to apply the same standard to all candidates, regardless of race, sex, and political party. If Republicans are made fun of for making gaffes, then so should Democrats be made fun of. If whites are made fun of, then so should nonwhites be made fun of. If men are made fun of, then so should women be made fun of.