Posted on 09/07/2014 8:33:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
There’s a wonderful book, A Confederacy of Dunces, the title of which refers to an epigraph from Jonathan Swift's essay, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting": "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." I was reminded of it this week when the confederacy of dunces both here and in Great Britain seems to have linked arms against the genius of Western civilization and the long-suffering middle class which has for so long sustained it.
Key players in the confederacy are perpetually offended feminists who find patriarchal tyranny lurking behind every pronoun and university library stack. This week we learned to our horror that in Rotherham, England over a 16-year period 1,400 children -- mostly white girls -- were raped by multiple Pakistani Moslem men and they were beaten, raped, abducted, drugged, threatened into compliance, and trafficked around Northern England. Worse, the situation was widely known to the police, the city council members, and countless child welfare workers, all of whom refused to do anything to bring the miscreants to justice and stop the abuse...
If you searched the usual feminist websites for the story as it broke you’d not have heard of it. Why? Quite obviously because “feminists” in the US and UK are like the old line Communists’ “useful idiot” pawns, set off to do battle with make-believe opponents on the basis of lies while their allies do far worse to them. The bureaucrats in Rotherham were, we are told, afraid to act because the pervasive worldview of multiculturalism has so paralyzed their brains that they feared being called “racists” if they took action to protect the girls.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
People are catching on - progressives are the newest form of evil...
Those bureaucrats were correct. They would have been called racists. Sadly, avoiding that was more important to them than saving those girls.
I like America better when people could smoke cigarettes and spew insults at groups they disliked. We were all better off back then. Seriously.
Progressives act like abused wives constantly making excuses for their abusive ideology.
We’re learning that it’s not just the fear of being called “racists.” There’s really big money involved here and you can be sure that it is spread around to those in the community greatest power.
Progressives act like abused wives constantly making excuses for their abusive ideology so they can stay in the relationship.
You are, of course, right. Brendan Behan said that if you took the small vices away from people they would instantly go to the big ones - namely totalitarianism. We’re there pretty much.
In the UK ALL the decent people are DISARMED....
Only the indecent ones are armed or don’t need arms to man handle and bully the decent ones..
The logic of this is indecent.. maybe obscene..
Maybe the decent people in the UK are not decent at all?..
Could it be, both World Wars killed off all the decent people in the UK?.....
“Confederacy of Dunces” was a great book.
Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.
...1,400 children — mostly white girls — were raped by multiple Pakistani Moslem men and they were beaten, raped, abducted, drugged, threatened into compliance, and trafficked around Northern England. Worse, the situation was widely known to the police, the city council members, and countless child welfare workers, all of whom refused to do anything to bring the miscreants to justice and stop the abuse... If you searched the usual feminist websites for the story as it broke you’d not have heard of it. Why? Quite obviously because “feminists” in the US and UK are like the old line Communists’ “useful idiot” pawns...
Yes. It's called liberty.
The entire article is worth reading. Don’t short change yourself by reading only what is an excerpt.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
Not.
If you genuinely have common sense, you’re very much a rara avis in this world; keep a low profile or the Army of the Proletariat will chop you in the neck.
I had not read much about this story. The one article I read said the offenders were “Asian.” I scratched my head and thought, “that sounds odd.” Now I realize the “Asians” were in reality Muslims from Pakistan. Has our media no shame?
That is a British thing, one that predates political correctness. Pakistan, as India, is technically in Asia, iirc.
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