Posted on 07/24/2013 7:26:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I love Cornell West. Authentic caricatures are a rarity in nature.
I don't think it's cultural at all. Racial and gender quotas have resulted in a system where people are promoted way above their abilities - a system with a supercharged Peter Principle.
I've never seen Colonel West acting like a Frenchman before.
Cornel that is.
:: Democrats appeal to blacks, to other minority groups, and — most significant — to women with rhetoric and policies that promise the mitigation of risk. ::
This is a well reasoned article.
He be’s like a Kentucky Colonel, sir.
Long ago when I was still a thin man I’d reached the same conclusion: that minorities were on a plantation, and their leadership were Overseers, keeping them in line and performing the most basic tasks with no more than fleeting promises of promotions from their work. And it’s still holds true today, Party notwithstanding.
The plantation rhetoric is distasteful for the same reason that facile Nazi tropes should be verboten: Some instances of evil are unique, and using them as a handy cudgel in every disagreement dilutes their emotional potency.
In principle, maybe, but slavish devotion to the Democratic [sic] party in spite of its deep and abiding disregard for blacks has resulted—literally, not figuratively—in great suffering that both could and ought to have been avoided. Incidentally, foreign words, "verboten," for example, even though widely understood, ought to be italicized.
Hitler was Hitler, and nobody else is.
I haven't noticed an acute shortage of wannabe Hitlers or Hitler admirers, nor of Marxist aspirations and policies even the old monster himself might well have had second thoughts about.
When black critics use plantation rhetoric, it is repugnant; when white critics use plantation rhetoric, it is repugnant and condescending.
That reminds me all too clearly of leftist extremists haughtily announcing what's politically correct and incorrect.
The plantation analogy is very appropriate. Its not about cultivating and harvesting crops but it is about cultivating and harvesting votes. They keep them uneducated and dependent to keep them on the plantation.
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Very good article. Thanks for posting.
The plantation rhetoric is distasteful for the same reason that facile Nazi tropes should be verboten: Some instances of evil are unique, and using them as a handy cudgel in every disagreement dilutes their emotional potency. Hitler was Hitler, and nobody else is. The Reverend Sharpton is slavish, but he is not a slave. When black critics use plantation rhetoric, it is repugnant; when white critics use plantation rhetoric, it is repugnant and condescending.
Take the idea that Hitler was unique? Yes, as was Robespierre, Marx, Lenin & Obama. But all five used the technique of viciously scapegoating a small percentage of the population, for the same purpose, with very similar & very bloody results--except for Obama thus far. Just what about Hitler makes analogies to others who employ the same tactics in any way inappropriate. Actually, Hitler's worst offenses can be largely traced back to Marxist ideas, whjich hardly makes him unique.
The fact that Obama has not yet sent his scapegoats to the guillotine, or suggested as did Marx that the world would be better without Jews, or like Lenin or Hitler, sought to systematically exterminate targeted populations, does not change the clear instances of legitimate comparison. (Remember, Hitler, like Obama, won an election, and did not start the wholesale killing of the most targeted group until 9 years later.)
Does this mean that we should expect Obama to launch an extermination of his pilloried "1%," smeared in the 2012 campaign? No, but no one in France in 1789 really expected the "Reign of Terror" in the early 1790s. There are people who have advised Obama in the past, who have definitely identified with a Nazi like slaughter of targeted Americans. And didn't FDR's supporter Stuart Chase call for same even in the 1930s? The comparisons are completely legitimate.
For more on Hitler/Obama comparisons, see Leftwing Chickens Coming Home.
As for Al Sharpton, the writer is right that he is not a slave; but completely ridiculous in calling him "slavish." He is a scoundrel, who employs the same demagoguish tactics as a Marx or Hitler, to exploit people susceptible to being misled. Some of those tactics, like those of the Revolutionary movements in France, Germany & Russia, referred to, have already resulted in civilain deaths at the hands of thuggish supporters of the demagogue.
William Flax
It's NOT about RACE !
BTTT
I equate the democrat party with the characters from kAnimal Farm. The farmer is the DNC The pigs are the black folk/women/gays that keep the mass in check.cthe rest are the useful idiots.
Looks like a black Nathan Bedford Forrest with spectacles.
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