Posted on 05/05/2015 9:13:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Two months ago, The New York Times published an op-ed piece by a professor of philosophy titled, "Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts."
This is how the professor began his piece:
"What would you say if you found out that our public schools were teaching children that it is not true that it's wrong to kill people for fun or cheat on tests? Would you be surprised? I was."
The problem, as the professor described it, is that a generation of Americans has been taught that there is no moral truth. There may be scientific truth and historical truth, but no moral truth.
The professor is, of course, right, as some of us -- overwhelmingly from religious perspectives -- have been lamenting for decades.
Now we have another example of the denial of moral truths. Last week, a number of leftists -- black and white -- announced that it is racist to label the rioters and looters in Baltimore "thugs." Even though both the black mayor of Baltimore and the black president of the United States did so, the left-wing argument is that the term "thug" is never applied to whites, only to blacks. The T-word is, in effect, the new N-word.
Soledad O'Brien, former CNN anchor, on CNN's "Reliable Sources":
"I think when you examine when the word is used, it's used to describe the actions of people of color, specifically people who are in the inner city.
"I can't think of a situation where there's ever been a headline or someone has called a white young person who is in the middle of a violent protest demonstration, whatever, a thug. We use it all the time when we're talking about people in the inner city.
"Thugs" [is] a proxy, a word we use instead of the N-word."
Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes interviewed by Erin Burnett on CNN:
Isn't "thugs" the right word to describe the rioters and looters? CNN's Erin Burnett asked the councilman:
He responded: "No, it's not the right word to call our children 'thugs.' These are children who have been set aside, marginalized, who have not been engaged by us."
"But how does that justify what they did?" Burnett then asked. "That's a sense of right and wrong. They know it's wrong to steal and burn down a CVS and an old persons' home. I mean, come on."
"Come on? Just call them 'Niggers.' Just call them 'Niggers,'" argued Councilman Stokes.
The left-wing website Daily Kos agreed with Councilman Stokes and challenged Burnett:
"Did she or anyone else at CNN use the 'T'-Word" when the Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl ... or when the San Francisco Giants won the World Series?"
Actually, it turns out that this is precisely how many of us in the opinion media have characterized rioters of every race. A word search on "thugs" and "Occupy Wall Street," for example, reveals that just about every major conservative commentator called those rioters "thugs."
In the Times last week, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, N. D. B. Connolly, wrote a piece titled, "Black Culture Is Not the Problem." Its thesis is that one cannot blame any of the social pathologies in inner city black life -- presumably such as the disproportionate rate of violence, the almost 80 percent out-of-wedlock birth rate or the riots -- on the values (or lack of them) in black culture. Any such pathologies are due to various manifestations of white racism. Specifically, the professor wrote, it is the "continued profitability of racism ... a country that still segregates people along racial lines, the financial enrichment of landlords, corner store merchants and other vendors selling second-rate goods."
Why is it impossible for the left to blame black rioters for their looting, burning and destruction -- the latter including an old-age home in the case of the Baltimore rioters?
One reason is that the left does not divide the world between traditional notions of good and evil. Rather, it divides the world between white and black, rich and poor, and powerful and weak. One therefore sides with the non-white, the poor and the weak.
A second reason is that the left rarely fights evil (it fights those who fight evil). It fights such things as inequality, fossil fuels and an alleged "rape culture" on American campuses. But it doesn't fight real evil (like rioters).
A third reason is that the day even a third of America's blacks come to believe that their problems are largely a product of poor cultural values, they will have become conservative and the left will have begun to lose its most important demographic group.
Those are the reasons the left now opposes calling black thugs "thugs."
‘Thug’ is color blind.
obama won’t call terrorists —> terrorists
The socialist like thugs and terrorists and want to change the subject when people get killed or wounded or businesses burn down by thugs and terrorists.
Gee I hope Donald Trump does not think I am provoking anyone.
The Left will not call the rioters thugs because with the Left, the issue is not the issue, the issue is the revolution.
The Elite Left are the leaders and intellectuals of the revolution and the rioters are the street soldiers and muscle for the revolution
He did a good job. That really sums it up.
Can’t call then ni****s. Can’t call them thugs.
But so far we can still call them teens and youths, right? That’s the standard verbiage we see the MSM use day after day after day....
Just ignore the left and carry on.
In majority of these case it need not be.
The left is pushing for a Social War wherein conservative doctrines and Christian beliefs are forever suppressed. We are now organized to resist.
They always seek to control the language.
cutthroat, ruffian, criminal, or hoodlum.
Okay libs, pick one.
Because the media is full of traitorous thugs.
You nailed it.
Not to mention the fact that the Left ALWAYS sides with criminals and the dregs of society. The sewer is their natural place in the world. It’s also where they try to drag everyone else...
If thugs are mostly of one hue there, the folks of that hue have only themselves to blame for fomenting that. But that is a long honored term for destructive miscreants of any hue.
BTW every time I hear “rap” I cringe. This is not keeping it real, this is ginning up the reality of hell where otherwise it needn’t have ruled.
I thought "thugs" was a proxy for "gangsta" because that was a proxy for the N-word?
Liberals playing word games with semantics doesn't change reality.
It is what happens when people try to do salvation without the Savior.
The Thugs or Thuggees, were history’s most notorious and deadly criminal cult. The name Thug, Thuggee or Tuggee is derived from the Sanskrit, sthag and Pali, thak. This means to hide or conceal, mainly a secret concealment.
http://www.historybits.com/thugs-thuggees.htm
Words and Language are crucial to the “beliefs” of the masses.
Control of the “Words” is how the Leftists manipulate the masses and make them so irrational that Facts and Truth don’t matter (cognitive dissonance).
It is why Socrates was critical of poets-——”feelings” trump Reason-—the Truth was irrelevant-—the Rhetoric could move the masses which is only about emotions. Mob mentality always ejects Reason (Truth).
All language allowed (PC is Cultural Marxism to control feelings)——is controlled by the Marxists intentionally for the benefit of controlling the masses.That is why Common Core and Net Neutrality is essential-—so all the “proper” ideas can be posited in the minds of the masses and they won’t be exposed to truth and capable of critical thinking tools.
All Common Core is operant conditioning and distortions/lies-—so that when children are older and hear Truth/God and Facts—they “feel” uncomfortable and reject it and get exceedingly angry to end all debate.They remain emotionally immature and ignorant-—even as old people. They remain useful idiots for life unless a paradigm shift happens-—but usually it is way too late.
When they can call themselves “thugs” in the titles of their rap groups and in their “lyrics”, then so can I. And that goes for anything else which they say.
Not only is the Sun's magnetic field in decline...but the moral compass of teenagers, leftie politicians and residents of liberal controlled cities remain un-magnetized.
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