Good article.
One has little if any recollection of her from the movie, which was the masterpiece of Gregory Peck's acting career, but in the story as told by Harper Lee it came through loud and clear...
In the 1960s there was still dignity to be found in honor.
Now, at least among the Left that has adopted a view of life as if most everything ...
... can be broken down into having power or not having power,
... that see’s justice not in terms of individual desert but of being a victim by association,
... that assigns people as if entities either victim or oppressor status ...
... and which blindly seeks power in the name of social justice and increasingly economic justice — both of which run entirely contrary to justice for flesh and blood Persons according to their character and deeds — there is only power, and power in dishonor if it advances them is no better or worse than power with honor.
Though indeed things like virtue and honor lend themselves to views that are increasingly abhorrent to the Left, to ideas like some things are better than others or some things are objectively good or bad completely divorced from notions of social justic, and even running counter to social justice. As has been observed: if what has been wrong with the world has so often been the attempt to be right, and all of that has failed to eliminate bad things, then what must be done is to do away with discrimination between right and wrong, to do away with the idea that there are better mores and better societies. To imagine no heaven, no hell, and all the rest as the insipid song goes.
Modern White Trash: 