Listening to comments of Dave Smith got me thinking... Where were the “#metoo” activists after the rapes on 10/7? Surely they have not changed their principles, have they? I wonder if it had to do with who it was perpetrated against?
Dave and others on the dissident right don’t think that the atrocities on 10/7 were an act of war and don’t warrant a military response. Is that based on principle? Or does it have to do with who is was perpetrated against?
30 student groups at Harvard immediately blamed Israel for the actions on 10/7, absolving Hamas. Was that conclusion based on principle or who it was perpetrated against?
And there are many more examples. I suspect that something has been wrong for a while, but is now being brought out of the woodwork. I’m not Jewish, but I see the canary in the coal mine, a possible sign of late Empire.
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Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
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I just hope he doesn't go in the other direction via overreach, say in terms of overestricting word usage (and threatening to pull funds), or suing or threatening to pull licenses for media companies if he doesn't like what they are saying (except in cases of libel or slander). I wasn't keen, either, on keeping the AP out for not using Gulf of America.
There are multiple threads from some things Chris posted recently, but this caught my eye
From Jonah Goldberg:
I get it. Thanks for the response. Just a few points:
1) I watched as many on the right went from demonizing Saul Alinsky to respecting, to outright envying and wanting to emulate him. Many of those people stopped being conservative or classically liberal in the process. Steve Bannon, Dinesh, etc.
2) Your argument feels very similar and I think poses similar risks. Adopting illiberal means to achieve liberal or even just "good" ends is not a remotely new idea. It is in fact one of the oldest ideas in politics. And it doesn't have a very good track record.
3) One reason for that is that illiberal means tend to become illiberal ends in the hearts of the people employing them.
4) This is a real danger from where I sit because an American conservatism that doesn't seek to conserve "classical liberalism" isn't meaningfully conservative anymore. American conservatism is about more than classical ...
