So many good quotes, only 140 characters . . . #parenting #Islam #AmericanSniper #LiberalHypocrisy What drives me crazy is when rich liberal single parents think they have legs to stand on when speaking on behalf of low-income single parents. I certainly understand the defensiveness, and no doubt they have some shared experiences. But the most infuriating problem with elite culture is its refusal to understand that it can afford its sins — or if you prefer something more secular, its mistakes. But elites won’t come out in favor of marriage as a social ideal (except for gays, of course), because as Charles Murray likes to say, they refuse to preach what they practice. We make all sorts of allowances for Islamic extremism because we are cowed by its numbers (and its willpower), not its arguments. If there were 1.6 million, not 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, there wouldn’t be nearly so much fumfering and fooferall about Muslim sensibilities. This observation doesn’t mean we shouldn’t concern ourselves with how we are perceived by the world’s Muslims. But we also shouldn’t kid ourselves about what’s going on here either. Rather than admit their principles are at stake, we define the problem away. In his State of the Union address, Obama spoke of the “bankrupt ideology of violent extremism.” The thing is “violent extremism” simply isn’t an ideology. And the ideology we’re at war with isn’t bankrupt. It’s sick and twisted, sure, but it’s actually quite rich with meaning and doctrine for lots of people. You can always tell when someone won’t stand up to a bully if they can’t even look the bully in the eye. . . . I wonder if there has been a better example than the Left’s reaction to American Sniper. It seems as if those that do not like the movie are basically making the point that the movie did not do enough to show Bush and Cheney in a poor light. The fact that the movie instead chose to focus on Chris Kyle, and not the politics of the war, is driving some on the left crazy. And the popularity of the movie is making them even more upset.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 05:45:50 +0000
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