For his troubles, he gets accused of good old bigotry by the usual crowd.
“[N]arrative thinking” has taken over the left. This is the underlying reason we can’t have a conversation about poverty and the welfare state. There seems to be no point in citing facts, data, or arguments about poverty and its causes. It’s a language the left can’t bring themselves to understand. Instead, they prefer to think in terms of images and metaphors, like “the bridge at Selma.” Needless to say, these are self-flattering metaphors, in which they’re all Martin Luther King, Jr., and their opponents are all Bull Connor.
I run into this a fair amount in Facebook snits. A thread often devolves into unproductive barbs like, "Oh, yeah, poor minorities are just lazy, aren't they?" Even if you said nothing about demographics.
The perpetuation of what Larry Elder calls victicrat mentality is one of the thorniest obstacles we face in getting across our message of what makes sense and leads to actual societal well-being.
You don't see the other ethnic groups who make it in this country living like the blacks. Dads stay with the family, everybody works their ass off academically and they are even beating us at our own game. When I turn on the Florida A & M TV station here in Tallahassee it seems that they are always rerunning one documentary or another on the past. Sure it makes you angry but that was then, this is now. They should have gotten Bill Cosby to appear with Ryan. What do you call a debate when both sides agree?
ReplyDelete"These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around." -Bill Cosby
That said, your beloved free market mentality led to 2 1/2 centuries of enslavement for their people in the New World & the most deadly and bloody war in our rather bellicose past (remember the Red Man?) I can understand a certain level of mistrust. But this is now, so go forth in love for your fellow man, treat him as you would yourself & yours' right?
ReplyDeleteUnless you define him/her as a savage or maybe even a subhuman dog, Has Ted left the building for good yet?
ReplyDeleteExplain to me what the free market had to do with slavery. Or the relations between European settlers and the aboriginal peoples they encountered.
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ReplyDeleteWell for everybody but the slaves it was a free market. Government did not intervene until 1861 did it? Most of the slaughter of the aboriginal peoples occurred after the establishment of our country under the auspices of the real USA then, not post-America, but perhaps pre-America. Pre-America lasted until the end of the Civil War at best and until the passage of the Civil Rights Act (what an affront to freedom lovers everywhere, right?) in 1964. All men being created equal was not code, it was a lie.
ReplyDeleteWhat champion of the free market have you ever heard defend slavery? By definition, people have to be free to freely engage in the exchange of goods and services.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you're aware of this or not, but there was a fierce debate at the Constitutional convention over how to deal with slavery. The Northwest Ordinance, which was passed at about the same time, put us on the path to eradicating it.
If you think Jefferson was lying with his famous phrase in the Declaration of Independence, on what do you base your love for America, such as it may be?
And what do you make of black Americans who regard the Declaration as a precious document?
What did "all men" mean to Jefferson? All Men. All? At the very instant he wrote those words black and aboriginal babies were being born without certain inalienable rights. No doubt whatsoever that Jefferson was a great specimen of humanity who still stands tall in the anals (intentional misspelling, lol) of world history, but many were sadly excluded from the freedoms he wrote about and fought for (though not nearly as fiercely as crazy warriors like Washington). Was he welcomed with a "well done, my good and faithful servant" when he had to leave this world as we all still must?
ReplyDeleteWhile I do not often ponder the depth and breadth of my personal love for America, she is like my mother, I was born unto her. And right or wrong, alive or dead, I love and will protect them both! She's never really done me all that much wrong. I try to be a team player. Go team!
You are aware, are you not, that slavery is a pretty universal phenomenon throughout human history? In fact, England and the United States were the first places where serious discussion of its reprehensible nature got going.
ReplyDeleteLet's not try to suggest that its presence in human affairs has any bearing on the efficacy of the principles of economic freedom, which work marvelously whenever and wherever they are applied.