Contempt for "colonialism" springs from Anti-Racism just as surely as contempt for, say, blacks, springs from misanthropy.
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It has been quite some time since "conversation" has been a proper metaphor for American politics. [...] That Jesus is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," is a proposition with which I wholeheartedly agree; but that faith in Christ should somehow preclude the need or desire for reflective thought is patently absurd on its face. [...] While its name has undeniably been conscripted in the service of a movement and orientation bearing few if any similarities to the original article, can the conservative intellectual tradition be said to have been irreparably impaired, destroyed, essentially, so that the term "conservatism" can now be said to be "meaningless?" [...] The phenomenon of Republican men championing the "public crying" of other men, including and especially men in visible positions of authority and power like Boehner, while leftist Democratic women condemn and ridicule the same can be explained in one word: politics. [...] The deployment of power isn't always necessarily illegitimate, of course, but when that power is used, as the left unfailingly uses it, to compel autonomous individuals to pursue ends that are not of their own choosing, then violence has been done. Can we not, with good cause, claim that the left's governance has promoted a [...] Members of the Mencken Club constitute what some of them have dubbed "the alternative," "independent," or "unauthorized" right. [...] By criminalizing those activities that we have traditionally regarded as "vices" we upset our system of liberties by allocating great power to the criminal and even greater power to the government. [...] The road to viciousness is paved by the urge to legislate for Virtue. [...] Lisa Fabrizio typifies the right-leaning cultural critic who, in spite of recognizing both the Left's revulsion of the model of masculinity emblematized by John Wayne as well as its preoccupations with race and gender, refuses to make the connection between these two insights. [...] That the "Politically Correct" strain out the gnat while swallowing the camel, so to speak, is a feature that compels a quest into their collective psyche. [...] The schizophrenic manner in which Republicans at once bemoan their betrayal of "conservative principles" while bemoaning President Obama's alleged "turn to socialism" indicates on their part either cognitive or moral failure, either confusion or dishonesty. [...] Golden Ages exist in Heaven, Dark Ages in Hell, but in this world, neither the unadulterated optimism attending to the former nor the dreary pessimism belonging to the latter have any place, for it is a mode of existence to which both tears and laughter are intrinsic. [...] Steven Hayes and Joshua Komiserjevsky must be put to death. [...] Christine O'Donnell has restored to Republican voters generally a semblance of the credibility that her GOP critics had squandered away during the Bush years. [...] Barack Obama needs the support of whites if he is to serve a second term, yet this need is outflanked by his need to perceive himself, and to be perceived by others, as "authentically black," and so he is hypersensitive to giving the impression that he needs whites. [...] The problem with an immoderate focus on the past is that it unavoidably spawns a pessimistic attitude toward the present and the future. [...] With a single threat to burn the Islamic holy book, Terry Jones managed to illuminate simultaneously both the nature of the enemy on which America has set its sights since 2001 as well as the invincible self-deceit and hypocrisy of which the contemporary Left and Right are ridden. [...] While the "mega-mosque" may signify for the Muslim the triumph of Islam over the Infidel, for the leftist it marks a decisive victory in the storied campaign to "fundamentally transform" our civilization into the post-Christian, post-"capitalist," "multicultural" utopia that he longs for it to be. [...] The Imam's decision to build on "Ground Zero" has succeeded in achieving exactly the opposite effect of that which he ostensibly desired. [...] From her perspective (as well as mine), Dr. Laura had absolutely nothing for which to be sorry, and yet she apologized. [...] A modest degree of reflection upon the incessant invocations of "history" to substantiate present policies — a habit of which partisans on both the Right and Left are equally guilty — readily discloses that the corrupted account of "history" bequeathed to us by nineteenth century (mostly) German philosophers remains as intractable today as ever. [...] Justice, he has long convinced himself, requires that "people of color" be compensated for the abuses to which whites have historically subjected them, and whether such people are here or abroad matters not. [...] Allusions to the fashionable buzzwords of "Tolerance," "Diversity," and even "Freedom of Religion" made on behalf of the construction of the mosque, though rhetorically effective, are, ultimately, woefully confused and, thus, entirely misplaced. [...] Like a disease that requires for its being the host that it destroys, "the Anti-Racist" needs, not "racism," but the perception of "racism," lest he die. [...] |
 
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