I am sadly amused by the sheer number of articles and posts extant
attempting to justify one person or group’s behavior while claiming that person
or group is unfairly and endlessly discriminated against, a “fact” which is
made all the sadder, they tell us, by how remarkably and inspiringly tolerant
that person or group is. Immediately prior to smearing everyone with whom they
disagree by labeling them as bigoted, close-minded, hateful, intolerant, racist,
misogynistic, homophobic, Hitler-loving or all of the above.
A common
theme entering this past holiday season was how members of the LGBTQIA
community might deal with family
and friends who do not share the same values that they possess. Many of the
authors believed they were waxing poetic and channeling Gandhi and Confucius in
their maudlin bon mots and self-help references.
To wit,
one post courageously noted that Audre Lorde (a self-described “Black, lesbian,
mother, warrior, poet”) once said, “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to
diminish me.”
Yes. Quite. “I accept that I am a mass-murderer. I accept
that I like to club baby seals over the head. I accept that I sexually harass
little girls. I accept that I wish to permanently silence anyone who disagrees
with me. I accept that I am better than they are.”
What idiocy and moral cowardice.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not equating being gay, lesbian,
bisexual or transgender with a heinous crime. Far from it. But I am pointing
out that the left’s absolute self-acceptance, combined with its self-worship…and
concurrent desire to marginalize, demonize or eviscerate all differing
viewpoints-- and those who possess them—is the primary reason the United
States, and the West in general, has lost its identity, its confidence, and its
way.
Those on the left are hyper cognizant of every possible
imperfection that may have once plagued their societies but are stupefyingly
unaware of those that plague themselves.
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