{"id":42814,"date":"2012-08-17T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=42814"},"modified":"2012-08-17T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T22:27:28","slug":"paul-rahe-engages-in-the-niggerization-of-left-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=42814","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rahe engages in the niggerization of left liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

“How Hatred Became a Liberal Value”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0remember when left-liberals insisted on civility. I remember when they condemned the tactics of intimidation championed by the New Left. I remember when progressives insisted on impartiality on the part of judges, civil servants, policemen, and those who purported to be reporting the news (as opposed to espousing opinion). There were always exceptions to the rule. Dan Rather was playing tricks as early as 1963. But, when caught and exposed, these exceptions took it on the chin. Today they rarely even apologize.<\/p>\n

I remember when liberals sported on their automobiles bumper stickers reading, \u201cHatred is not a Family Value.\u201d Then, back in 2003, in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait wrote an essay<\/a> explaining why it was legitimate to hate George W. Bush, and the dam burst. Civility is no longer a liberal ideal. And now \u2013 as yesterday\u2019s armed attack on the Family Research Council in Washington, the five-hour delay in President Obama\u2019s condemnation of the act as he calculated whether it was in his interest to comment or not, and the mainstream media\u2019s initial reluctance to report on the event<\/a>, much less highlight the activist LGBT connections of the shooter suggest \u2013 left liberals are willing to wink at violence. It may be regrettable, they think, but, like stealing elections, it is all in a good cause \u2013 and before figuring out how to respond to an outbreak of violence on the part of their allies, they pause to calculate the political consequences. You will not hear liberals arguing for a crackdown on the use of force by animal-rights activists, environmental activists, union thugs, and the Occupy movement. Instead, you will find in them a desperate hankering to pin on the Tea Party responsibility for conduct the Tea-Partiers abhor and a willingness to engage in race-baiting and talk of class warfare on a stunning scale.<\/p>\n

The truth is that it is a short distance from the hatred preached by Jonathan Chait to assassination, and five and six years ago there was a great deal of open, public fantasizing along these lines by left liberals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inflammatory stuff.\u00a0 Provocational, even. In fact, were Mr Rahe to be gunned down as a result of writing such racist lies — and that’s what these lies are, racist<\/em>, because we all know that talk of incivility and anger is really just code<\/a> for “I see militant blacks crouching in the shrubbery” —\u00a0 left-liberals, while they can’t of course condone such violence, can nevertheless certainly understand<\/em> it:\u00a0\u00a0 after all, they can intellectualize violent events and tease out all sort of root causes and homecoming chickens aching for roost — and in that regard, sympathize with the motivation, if not the action.\u00a0\u00a0 Because, you see, they care<\/em> and they feel<\/em> and they can relate<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That, and it’s okay<\/em> to be intolerant of intolerance. \u00a0 In fact it’s encouraged. \u00a0 And as a caring, feeling, relating progressive, what can be more righteously cleansing than your abject, visceral hatred of horrific haters who hate?\u00a0 Because their racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and anthropocentric hatred leaves them deserving of your righteous and goodly hatred of hate — without which you would be tacitly condoning their evil, and find yourself labeled a hater, as well.<\/p>\n

And you’d hate for that to happen, no?<\/p>\n

(h\/t sdferr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“How Hatred Became a Liberal Value”: \u00a0remember when left-liberals insisted on civility. I remember when they condemned the tactics of intimidation championed by the New Left. I remember when progressives insisted on impartiality on the part of judges, civil servants, policemen, and those who purported to be reporting the news (as opposed to espousing opinion). There were always exceptions to the rule. Dan Rather was playing tricks as early as<\/p>\n

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