For too many liberal activists and their media allies, the answer has been to instantly elevate victims and survivors to the status of civic or secular saints, whose victimhood supposedly renders their opinion on public affairs unimpeachable. [More]Hey, who said Godless cultists couldn't be religious fanatics? State worshippers make the best kind!
[Via Mack H]
Which is supposed to make these now public figures immune from any criticism.
ReplyDelete"It's an universal law. Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogance and impatience. Whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
ReplyDeleteSolzhenitsyn's Universal Law.
I may have posted this here before…
ReplyDeleteThis all puts me in mind of a spam campaign I ran into a decade ago. “Avoid being scammed! I’ve been scammed ten times, and I wrote a book that will tell you how to avoid being scammed!” My first thought was why would I buy a book from this gullible fool? Give me a book written by someone who has NEVER been scammed, that’s who I’m likely to learn something from.
Listening to victims whose school has been shot up is in the same vein. Instead, we should be holding rallies to listen to school administrators speak who have STOPPED a few terrorist incursions successfully, and ask them what other schools ought to be doing that they aren’t now. Maybe one or two of them would suggest letting law enforcement handle their thug problem acording to the same rules they use for everybody else, instead of turning the little hellraisers into protected snowflakes to keep race-obsessives like Obama happy.