Posted on 04/23/2014 3:34:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In The Nation magazine MSNBC host Christopher Hayes spent thousands of words and four web pages explaining how those working at preventing global warming are somehow just like the abolitionists who fought to free the slaves just prior to the American Civil War.
Calling it a "new abolitionism," Hayes opens his article rehashing the South's "peculiar institution," pegging its long life to "so much goddamn money." Then he segues into likening today's global warming alarmists to those moralists and abolitionists of old.
After 11 paragraphs of making this comparison, Hayes then weakly states, "So before anyone misunderstands my point, let me be clear and state the obvious: there is absolutely no conceivable moral comparison between the enslavement of Africans and African-Americans and the burning of carbon to power our devices."
But this one-line disclaimer is hard to take seriously when he goes on with over 4,600 words proving his blithe denial to be a sham. He fully intends to compare the abolition of slavery to the religious cause of global warming. And, perhaps, that is all they really do have in common: a religious fervor on behalf of the believers.
The abolition of slavery, after all, was God's work to folks like Theodore Parker, James Russell Lowell, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and a host of other abolitionists. They believed it with the intensity of religion. Even "science" at that time often insisted that people of African descent were mentally, physically, and morally inferior. It took an act of faith to defy the scientific (and cultural) "consensus," if you will....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yep, I agree. I hear ya...
Were he and Madcow separated at birth?
When all you have left is the race card, that’s what you play.
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Wait, slavery was all a hoax designed to let useless, indolent, arrogant tyrants hijack the liberty and treasure of people a thousand times their superior?? Well, Dishonest Abe WAS involved, so maybe......
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