“From where will we expect the approach to danger? Will any transatlantic military giant have land and crush us in a blow? Never. All armies of Europe and Asia … They could not drink from Ohio River or a song on a blue back in a thousand years. – Abraham Lincoln
The winning series, which campus activists enjoyed this fall, abruptly interrupted the last terrorist attacks in Paris. Some activists were sufficiently annoyed by throwing in a reflex they took on Twitter to complain under the hashtag “F — Paris”.
The most obvious irony resulted from the fact that some of the same protesters who grabbed the media about their fools-foolish-declaration zones free from the first amendment-nagle moaned when the cameras turned to bloodshed in the heart of Europe.
But there is deeper irony. After attacks in Paris, driven by a cynical media strategy led by the president himself, the national conversation quickly turned to Barack Obama’s foreign policy failures to biggoteria and insensitivity to the Republican party. It cannot be denied that Donald Trump has done this an effortless point from the Berci Berci. But left unnoticed in the hustle and bustle is a terrifying disconnection between the conversation of elite liberals, and the one that was pushed by their left -wing shock troops on earth.
For example, in ABC “TEMP”, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Broke up to the Republican rhetoric about Syrian refugees, saying that we must “trust in who we are as a nation … We must stop in the values ​​that made this country strong.”
Ellison was hardly alone. Everyone seems to talk about these American “values” of tolerance, diversity and pluralism. Obama was in tears about how rejection of refugees is “not American” and how these refugees are similar to pilgrims who came to our banks. He pays for oral rote for condemning murderers in Paris.
Meanwhile, on our campuses, the same values ​​are routinely condemned as a little more than “white privilege”. It is not necessary to add that people who want to see Columbus Day were banned and called for American crimes to settle crimes, do not think too high about these pilgrims.
As for our values, protesting students and their factors enabling the campus and outside of it offer full gardins rejecting (classic) liberal principles of America, and sometimes America itself. Until now, you have heard that “freedom of speech” is simply a code of “white privilege” and even “hate speech”. Tolerance itself has become a grubby word for many.
Many campuses have announced a policy of zero tolerance for “hate speech” and “insensitivity to the race”, and countless campus requires the implementation of such politicians in their schools.
It doesn’t sound so bad. The problem is that the definitions of hate speech and insensitivity have become completely malleable and subjective. A misunderstanding with a crowd of right -wing is considered unacceptable. There is a vague Maoist taste to demand that liberal white professors and administrators profess and satisfy for “white privilege”.
It came to the fact that even admiration for non -European culture is condemned as a bigot, if admiration flourished in the so -called “cultural appropriation”. Ethnic food fashion is condemned for their insensitivity; The EverydayFeminism.com website has recently proposed a “feminist guide to a gourmet without culturally.”
We have heard for generations that “diversity makes us stronger.” I will leave the next day to ask if this premise can withstand the test of reality. An vital issue is that many main beneficiaries-at least their self-proclaimed leaders, which was once called “Diversity Inc.”. Now reject the logic of diversity at the most basic level. The notable “crucible” is now ridiculed as a kind of cultural genocide.
Nothing is more convenient for the Talk Show elites than in the case of alleged intolerance forces on their right. Governor Ohio John Kasich recently argued about promoting American “Judeo-Christian” values ​​of tolerance, equality, freedom of speech and pluralism. Chuck Todd from NBC worried that such rhetoric was “anti -Islam”.
Meanwhile, the left campus openly rejects these basic American values, and the response of the media elites launched a range from patronizing tolerance to satisfy the encouragement.
We certainly need more civilization trust. But demonstrating this only to condemn partisan opponents, he is not confident at all. This is a recipe for suicide.
