Love in Jackboots

The American Mind ^ | 02/10/20 | Auguste Meyrat

[PoliticallyShort]

At best, people publicly compete to pretend they love strangers living ways of life incompatible with their own, the better to appear virtuous or at least to avoid punishment. At worst, policies that command love between strangers and across incompatible lifeways degenerate quickly into violence and persecution. Pride parades and calendars of ritual appreciation are undergirded by campaigns to eliminate political dissent, ranging from physical assault and property destruction to cancelling and doxxing.

The new project shows the extent of the ruin that awaits down this path. As its proponents claim, even those who denounce hate and personally reject it are guilty of it. People who choose to “live and let live” and harbor no ill-will toward any race are core to the problem. According to Ibram X. Kendi, the apostle of anti-racism, individual attitudes and actions do nothing to ameliorate the racist structure of society. Only by promoting an “outcome-centered” equity agenda, he contends, can we get beyond “irrelevant” personal intentions. The “privilege” of the tolerant can never be checked (or tolerated), only confessed, punished, and purged. Under such absolutism, civic life itself, like those who dare to live it, becomes the enemy. To justify love’s bizarre transformation into a tool of compliance and coercion, our new absolutists depict their actions as necessities of public health.

[Red Badger]

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[Red Badger]

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[Retrofitted]

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” — H.L. Menchen

[TLI]

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]

One of their own, John F. Kennedy.

Of course learning from the past appears to not be of any value to the insane prog.

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[Rummyfan]

Ibram X Kendi, born Henry Rodgers, is the biggest fraud to come along since ... John DeLorean.

[Rummyfan]

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” — H.L. Menchen

Been feeling that way for a while now... BTW, Mencken.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Great article. Thanks for posting.

[PoliticallyShort]

Thanks for reading!

[Retrofitted]

Thank you for the correction! I knew I got something wrong there but for the life of me missed the most obvious. I appreciate it!