Posted on 12/09/2014 6:40:16 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Well aside from “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor,” or blanket amnesty that is and is not lawful for a president to grant, there is a special category of progressive mythology. Or rather a particular cast of “truth tellers,” victims, supposed whistle blowers, and popular liberal icons who spin tales for a supposedly higher good, on the premise that untruth for a cause makes it sort of true.
From the details of Rigoberta Menchú’s memoir, to Tawana Brawley’s supposed rape, to the O. J. “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” myth, to the open-and-shut case of the hate-crime crucifixion of Matthew Shepard by savage homophobes, to Dan Rather’s fake but accurate National Guard memo, to the Duke lacrosse team’s supposed racist raping, to Barack Obama’s autobiographic interludes with his girlfriend, to Scott Beauchamp’s “true” stories of American military atrocities in Iraq, to Lena Dunham’s purported right-wing sexual assaulter at Oberlin College (home of the 2013 epidemic of pseudo-racist graffiti), to the pack of University of Virginia fraternity rapists on the loose, to “Hands up, don’t shoot,” we have come to appreciate that facts and truth are not that important, if myths can better serve social progress or the careers of those on the correct side of history.
The new generation of progressive mythmaking has taken up where prior generations left off. In the old progressive mythology, Alger Hiss never passed on U.S. secrets. Instead, he was a tortured idealist, intent on preventing the descent of America into dangerous know-nothing McCarthyism. The Rosenbergs really did not spy for the Soviet Union — or if they did, it was to help a wartime ally with a similar anti-fascist agenda.
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Fantastic article. Its the way I felt when I had my conversion.
This article is one of his best and well worth the read.
Thank you !
Mr. Hansen is every bit as good as Mark Steyn.
Excellent! Thank you for posting.
It’s the left’s version of taqiyya combined with the dumb-assery of too many people all wrapped up in a 2 minute sound bite (or endless loop) on the evening news.
And it gets crazier by the day.
Lying for the cause? ‘Cause we get more free stuff?
FReeper Lurker said he is every bit as good as Mark Steyn, I have to agree.
Great article.
If “people” felt so passionate about certain issue(s), it is but a simple act to gather as much info to edumacate themselves.
But no, these are willing stooges, to be used (and treated by me, esp.) as useful idiots.
(A HUGE sigh) So many of them .......
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