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Yardbird wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> Excerpt:
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> "The notion that virtue resides primarily in being a "victim" is dangerous
> on several counts. First, it is dangerous to the people who receive
> "victim" status, because it relieves them of personal responsibility. If
> their behavior is the fault of white males who have "oppressed" them, then
> they have neither the duty nor the power to amend it. They have no
> responsibility to get off drugs, stop committing crimes, stop drinking, or
> get a bath, a haircut and a job. All those things become someone else's
> responsibility, which the Politically Correct translate into government's
> responsibility. If government doesn't do it, then it is perfectly fine for
> the "victim" to continue to wallow in his vices; after all, it isn't his
> fault."
>
> [Note: This was originally sent to the list back in 1996, and is as
> relevant today as then. - Tony]
>
> "Direct Line" Commentary
>
> by Bill Lind in for Paul M. Weyrich
> Wednesday, July 17, 1996
>
> If you visit a modern American city, you are likely to find the streets
> crawling with beggars and bums. Of course, if you call them that, you will
> quickly be denounced as "insensitive" by the Politically Correct. The term
> they will command you to use is "the homeless." The lie they are telling is
> that these people are bums becausethey have no homes. The reality, in most
> cases, is that they have no homes because they are bums.
>
> In the ideology of Political Correctness, which is cultural Marxism, the
> most exalted rank is that of "victim." This is - not accidentally -
> parallel to classical, economic Marxism, which saw workers and peasants as
> victims of the capitalist system and the bourgeoisie.
>
> In American cultural Marxism, the sainted "victim" groups include blacks,
> Hispanics, Indians, Feminist women, homosexuals, and, as we noted , bums.
> If you are officially a "victim," you can do no wrong. If you are, say, a
> Hispanic murderer, it was really the fault of white males, whose "racist"
> society made you do it. However, should you be, for example, a black who is
> also conservative, you cease being a "victim" because you cease being
> "really black." This is obviously absurd, but that's how ideologies work.
>
> The notion that virtue resides primarily in being a "victim" is dangerous
> on several counts. First, it is dangerous to the people who receive
> "victim" status, because it relieves them of personal responsibility. If
> their behavior is the fault of white males who have "oppressed" them, then
> they have neither the duty nor the power to amend it. They have no
> responsibility to get off drugs, stop committing crimes, stop drinking, or
> get a bath, a haircut and a job. All those things become someone else's
> responsibility, which the Politically Correct translate into government's
> responsibility. If government doesn't do it, then it is perfectly fine for
> the "victim" to continue to wallow in his vices; after all, it isn't his
> fault.
>
> As anyone who has worked with drug addicts or drunks will tell you, unless
> the person himself wants to change, he can't be changed. Unless he takes
> responsibility for his own behavior, he will stay what he is. So Political
> Correctness effectively condemns its "victims" to remain what they are,
> which turns them from phony "victims" into real victims - of Political
> Correctness itself.
>
> Defining virtue as "victimization" has consequences for society as well.
> Any society that finds its heroes among its failures will produce more
> failures. And Political Correctness goes on to say that most successful
> people are "oppressors." That neatly completes the circle of discouraging
> achievement and ennobling failure.
>
> When America was a successful nation, we found our heroes among our
> successes. Remember Horatio Alger? Tom Swift? They were not singled out for
> emulation because they were "victims," but because they produced and
> achieved. Rightly, Victorian America looked to achievers for its models -
> and by doing so it generated more achievement.
>
> The worship of weakness and incapacity and the derogation of strength and
> ability, which is so central to cultural Marxism, carries in it another
> danger: fascism. Fascism arose between the wars as a response to an earlier
> worship of weakness, that contained in classical Marxism. Classical Marxism
> held up for admiration the poor, the downtrodden, the wage-slave: the
> economic failure. Fascism responded by saying that the highest virtue is
> power or will, and built its base among the achievers of the middle class.
>
> Could the same thing happen here? Americans are getting more than slightly
> tired of hearing that they must worship our society's cultural failures,
> bums, unhappy women and the like. At some point, an ideology that dismissed
> the scum and exalted people who have their acts together might sound pretty
> good. The problem is, that would still be an ideology, and it would lead us
> down another blind alley, as fascism did.
>
> What America needs is a politics that acknowledges certain duties to the
> blind, the botched and the bewildered, without making their conditions into
> virtues. Virtues are what our Western culture has always said they were:
> strength, ability and achievement, directed toward a good cause. We need a
> new political party that will recognize real virtue, reward it, and make it
> again our model - and get the bums off the streets.
>
> [Forwarded For Information Purposes Only - Not
> Necessarily Endorsed By The Sender - A.K. Pritchard]
>
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> "There was a time in America, a better time, when: We openly and
> proudly expressed our love of God and country; we did not lock our
> doors; our streets were safe to walk and drive; we honored our heroes;
> we cherished our founders, their gifts, their sacrifices, their
> courage, and their love of America; we sang 'The Star-Spangled
> Banner'; we pledged allegiance to our beloved country; we respected
> our system of laws and the Constitution; and we worked, raised
> families and prayed together as one people under one flag. Is that
> America gone forever?"
>
> --Linda Bowles
Amazing! It's amazing how so many people believed so much bullshit.
There was NEVER an America like this.
J2
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