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And God created tolerance
More tolerance: in Virginia, the Boy Scouts are going to get rid of Robert E. Lee. America’s history must be abolished, because her great men aren’t good enough for us any more. Since this is America, outside the big cities, and in the South, the event is played down — it’s just the “right thing to do,” for reasons that are left somewhat obscure. In England they know how to have more fun. The Guardian, heir to the tradition of middle-class radicalism, plainly relishes the prospect of turning state power against the “anti-gay, anti-Islam” Brigitte Bardot. Their lead-in: It takes a lot for the French to lose patience with their ageing stars, and Brigitte Bardot, an unabashed fan of the National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was given a lot of rope.William Blake said that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. That’s bad as advice, but he’s right that if you do and say what seems right to you, you’ll make mistakes but learn something. And that seems to have happened with the former “sex kitten.” While going to feed her goats one day she suddenly realised that “the intrinsic and fundamental values of mankind no longer existed.” Hence the series of public pronouncements that is once again causing her legal problems. Posted by Jim Kalb at May 16, 2003 09:19 AM | Send Comments
Brigitte Bardot, a fellow conservative defender of animals.And anti-immigration,too! You go,girl! Posted by: Gracián on May 16, 2003 11:33 AMWhat a disgrace! Robert E. Lee was a great Virginian, and should not be relegated to the dustbin of history like that… Irrespective of your position on the Civil War, RE Lee espoused a decent & humanistic credo that should not be trumped by silly misconceptions & myths. His allegiance to Virginia should be championed — a loyalty that should be viewed as a positive human quality… MJK Posted by: MJK on May 16, 2003 12:34 PMLiberals used to argue that conservatives had a simplistic worldview; they would say things like “not everything is black and white”, in order to deny, in effect, that *anything* is “black and white”; this being done, of course, to break down the traditional prejudices of the vast majority of people against abortion, gay rights, etc. Now, of course, we can see the full hypocrisy of the liberal charge - they see *everything* as “black and white” - anyone on the the “politically correct” side of social change, regardless of their shortcomings as individuals, is good; anyone on the side opposed to such changes, regardless of their character, is evil incarnate. Hence in the liberal worldview Bill Clinton was a great man, while Robert E. Lee was the next thing to a Nazi. Posted by: Will S. on May 16, 2003 9:12 PMCorrection: Liberals still do use the “not everything is black and white” arguments (I certainly still encounter it a fair bit) on various moral issues; they’re simply not introspective enough to recognize that they are even more guilty of simplistic generalizations than their conservative opponents. Mr. Kalb and Mr. Auster have done an excellent job in their myriad postings here at VFR in showing the full range of factors which together make people who they are - faith, nationality, ethnicity, sex, geographical area, shared history, upbringing, personal character, etc. etc. By contrast, the liberals seem to want, more and more as time passes, to fit people into simplistic categories of “good” and “bad” merely based on the degree to which they embrace and/or embody leftist ideals, regardless of their personal character. Conservatives recognize the existence of real diversity in all the different people of the world; to liberals, “diversity” may be a goal in terms of creating unstable racial and ethnic polyglot societies, but they in fact seek uniformity and homogeneity in thought and practice… Posted by: Will S. on May 16, 2003 9:27 PM |