It is amazing what you can get away with when you trot out muzzy liberal slogans like "Coexist."
Post by StandWithUs.
This Blog covers my interests in history, law, science and literature. I also record events today so that I will have a record tomorrow of events. In this way, I fight the Orwellian editing of history that is all-too apparent in the information age. If you are not a libertarian conservative, you might ask, why isn’t this blog more positive to your point of view. You might as well ask why George Orwell's 1984 wasn't more positive to your point of view.
As Ace accurately observed Friday, Sacco is a liberal, and her joke was actually a self-deprecating reference to white privilege. No one can deny that it was tasteless and, as she says, “insensitive,” but it scarcely justified her public crucifixion. Her apology, while no doubt sincere, is also a signifier: “I get it! I’m a liberal, too!”
But her liberalism (like all liberalism) is misguided, assuming as it does that the problem of AIDS in Africa (or any similar social problem) results from a shortage of caring. This is a species of Magic Thinking: “We could solve this problem, if only we cared enough.” And from this delusion, we get a lot of empty gestures that do nothing to solve problems, but make people feel good about themselves.
Thomas Sowell wrote an entire book about this, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy – a book that no liberal has ever bothered to read, because if they bothered to read it, they wouldn’t be liberals anymore.//