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Jack
finds himself, American Thinker and Conservatives in general branded
with a "scarlet letter" of blame for the Charleston Church Massacre!
I had no intention of commenting on the recent shooting at a
Charleston, South Carolina church. There were two good reasons
why.
One was that I have always found it unseemly to exploit a genuine
tragedy, especially before the bodies are buried and the event gains
some historical perspective.
The second was that the act was so anomalous. In
the highly racialized Obama era, there have been several black shooters
who turned their wrath on multiple non-black victims – California’s
Christopher Dorner, the Navy Yard’s Aaron Alexis, Omar Thornton in
Hartford – but I could recall no instance in my lifetime in which a
white shooter had done the same to black victims. I was
not sure what useful generalization I could pull from so rare a
phenomenon.
Alas, the Huffington Post, in the person of veteran propagandist Terry
Krepel, forced my hand. [...]
Excerpts:
If the adultery charge
against
The Scarlet Letter’s Hester Prynne was valid, the charges against
sinners today rarely ever are. “Even when you have no idea you’re
committing a hate crime, chances are you still are,” Mark Steyn opined
after Canadian neo-puritans dragged him before that nation’s official
inquisitors.
Neo-puritans exaggerate
the
sins of the targeted or concoct them out of whole cloth. In
either
case, like Hawthorne’s Puritans, they publicly brand the sinner to
render him or her, in Hawthorne’s words, “the general symbol at which
the preacher and moralist might point.”
Indeed, if there is one
shared
ritual among the progressive subcults, it is the imputation of “hate”
to the less enlightened. And as those of us on the right know,
there
is no surer way of being branded hateful than by telling the truth. [FULL]
Stu Tarlowe and
Skoonj circus
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A
treasured family friend—extremely
affable and giving—and
who we know to have exceptional raw intelligence, cited that "Anti-intellectualism
is Killing America" story on my wife's FB page recently.
America
is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance, and
the evidence is all around us. Dylann Roof, the Charleston shooter who
used race as
a basis for hate and mass murder, is just the latest horrific example.
Many will correctly blame Roof's actions on America's culture
of racism
and gun violence, but it's time to realize that such phenomena are
directly tied to the nation's culture of ignorance.
This is what we're up against. The left
are so
invested in their own convoluted beliefs and values that I see NO hope
for any meaningful dialog, nor rapprochement.
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