A leftist version of the Nativity story
Ivan writes:
Astonishing stuff from the BBC—a nativity story where Jesus and Mary are asylum seekers, set to air December 16th, not only on tv but on big screens around Liverpool. It is rare that you see such a blatant propaganda, even from the BBC. That poster is a symbol of our times—the real, literal replacement of one religion by another. And do you see many black-white asylum seeker couples? What’s that about?
Herod is a woman who doesn’t like immigrants:
“Herodia, played by Cathy Tyson, is a paranoid government minister in a fictional state desperately clinging to power who orders a crackdown on immigration.”
LA replies:
Yes, they have to make it a fictional government, given the actual British government’s actual open-immigration policy.
Which leads us to a variant of Auster’s First Law: The more leftist a society actually becomes, the more it will see itself as fascist.
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Rachael S. writes:
Your post reminds me of a sermon I found at a traditional Catholic website, given a few days after the May 1 demonstrations in 2006. The priest echoed the leftist idea that immigrants are better than us, just here to work, and compared illegal immigrants to the Holy Family.
Of the few traditionalist priests in the country, I am sure there are some who believe in “Borders, Language, Culture,” and I can think of one, maybe two individuals I have spoken to who might be truly traditional in that regard. Their congregations are something else again. This sermon was remonstrative; the priest knew his flock didn’t want the illegals here.
It is depressing to see such a similarity between religious people (who should be able to see the adverse effects of immigration on our culture) and the cultural Marxists at the BBC.
Chris B. writes:
This confirms a theory I’ve been thinking of lately.
For liberals, God is Other People. And so they must align themselves into a relationship with Other People (preferably all humanity) that produces the least amount of psychic tension. To exclude any part of humanity is commit and fall into a nervous, horrid, state of sin. So King Herod the child killer is an anti immigration minister obviously.
Michael B. writes from Sweden:
You wrote: “Which leads us to a variant of Auster’s First Law: The more leftist a society actually becomes, the more it will see itself as fascist.”
Indeed. This, once again, is what I refer to as the contrarian Achilles’ heel of liberalism: the inherent structural self-immolation. Liberals need an enemy to find its raison d’etre for one fundamental reason—the liberal itself cannot be defined outside of the empty abstractions such as freedom, justice, etc—concepts that can mean anything to any one. So the truly liberal framework needs a constant influx of new injustices, victims and oppressors to feed on. That is why the leftist society can never be one that acknowledges itself as having arrived or succeeded, because it would defeat its own purpose. There are no things to defend, only things to dismantle. It’s almost a truism today, but the liberal needs a functioning host organism to feed off of. Remove that functioning structure and you lose liberalism itself because of the inherently contrarian nature of its ideological core. Liberalism feeds society itself, in other words man itself, into the enemy. And that is where we find its true sickness, its true anti-human core.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 04, 2007 11:30 AM | Send