Posted on 07/08/2017 11:02:03 AM PDT by John Semmens
President Trump’s defense of “western values” in his speech in Poland this week was condemned by a pair of left-wing magazines. The New Republic’s Jeet Heer called it “a paean to white grievance.” The Atlantic’s Peter Beinart called it “an outburst of racial and religious paranoia.”
“Mr. Trump’s unapologetic praise of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness puts ‘white values’ ahead of alternative perspectives,” Heer complained. “His pledge of support for the dignity of every human life is a thinly-veiled jab at a woman’s right to abort her unwanted child. His assumption that it is the hope of every soul to live in freedom insults those who place obedience to the collective above selfish individualism.”
As an illustration of how wrong Trump’s views are, Heer contended that “Trump’s aversion to the steady creep of government bureaucracy that he says drains the vitality and wealth of the people completely misses the mark. It is the bureaucracy’s intervention that prevents those who produce wealth from hogging it all for themselves. It is the bureaucracy that ensures a fairer distribution to all regardless of their role in production.”
Beinhart found “Trump’s assumption that the freedom engendered by white philosophers and politicians encourages creativity and innovation is offensive to the artistic output achieved by persons-of-color living under alternative philosophies and politics. His placement of faith and family ahead of government as the center of our lives rejects the gains that secular progressivism have brought to modern life.”
“Worse still is Trump’s selective endorsement of faith,” Beinhart added. “The faith Trump values is the ‘turn-the-other-cheek’ variety espoused by Jesus. Well, what about the faith Mohammed espoused? How can we consider ourselves culturally diverse if we insist on portraying a faithful Muslim fighting for Islam as an unacceptable life style? Isn’t their genuinely held belief that it is their obligation to convert or slay unbelievers just as valid as a belief that we must do unto others as we would wish them to do unto us?”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://azconservative.org/2017/07/08/trump-speech-defending-western-values-denounced/
As one of the people this big government liberal is trying to protect, I would rather handle due diligence on my own. I'm glad that President Trump is undermining the mindless assumption that anything on the mainstream media should be accepted as both factual and unbiased.
President Trump's message was effective because it was true. The far-left media were in the tank for their Ctrl-Left candidate, and it took an outsider to undermine the insider campaign to put an end to individual rights. I hope and pray that more voters will be aware in 2018 and 2020, critically evaluating news rather than taking the media narrative on faith.
Excuse me .. “Western Values” are really HUMAN VALUES .. which has no relation to race, creed, or religion.
The word “white” has no relation to Western Values.
The LEFT always wants to make us appear to be WHITE only.
NEW PAT CONDELL VIDEO!
If you DO NOT keep up with this guy, you REALLY need to see his latest 10 minutes describing the future of most of Europe — and the United States — if we fail to come to our senses. NEWS FLASH: Even One-World rainbows and unicorns advocate BILL GATES (Yes, THAT BILL GATES!) just commented that Europe must rethink what they’re doing before it’s too late!
Pat Condell has been doing HIS best to sound the alarm. The current mess is what happens when PEOPLE DON’T LISTEN and FAIL TO USE THEIR BRAINS!
Even Condell — a self-professed atheist — understands that some CULTURES are superior to others. How INSANE that so many Christian and Jewish DO-GOODERS DO NOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFL7Axvc9M&t=3s
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