A critic who really has my number

The “Crosswords and Puzzles” website writes:

Unlike wine, which does get better with age, when you start fermenting in the juices of a traditional conservative like Lawrence Auster, everything goes rancid. He has attacked all the usual suspects: illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, Muslims, women, blacks, liberals, and anyone with critical thinking skills. Just your everyday, typical misfit who has surrendered his reasoning to paranoia and hallucinations of racial and gender supremacy.

Those type of guys are a dime a dozen in the fever swamps. [cont.]

That’s me, alright, a typical denizen of the fever swamps who has surrendered my reasoning to hallucinations of racial and gender supremacy, and who attacks anyone with critical thinking skills. I tell ya, the moment I see someone who knows how to think, I go after ‘em!

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However, I realize that my critic is inadvertently correct in what he says about me. “Critical thinking,” as used today, does not actually mean critical, rational analysis. Rather, it is a term used by left-wing educationists to denote a reflexively hostile and debunking attitude toward all positive and normal aspects of American and Western society, especially as relating to American national unity, the Christian religion, the white race, the male sex, traditional marriage and traditional morality, and free enterprise. So, in that sense, my critic is right: I do “attack anyone with critical thinking skills.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 19, 2007 08:45 PM | Send