John Derbyshire may have had a few before deciding to comment on the riots in Britain:

Why does the British government not do its duty? Because it is the government of a modern Western nation, sunk like the rest of us in trembling, whimpering guilt over class and race.

Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of “human rights” and “sensitivity,” of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism — the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity.

Totally with him on the “deracinated moral universalism” of “sentimentalized Christianity.” We should get rid of that. The problem is, won’t some of Derbyshire’s comrades be a little squeamish about worshiping a black guy?

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News. Follow @adamserwer