Posted on 11/17/2016 9:23:12 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- On Friday, the BBC enlisted me to defend my support of Donald Trump for president. Though the ensuing television interview was conducted in English, I found it incomprehensible. I was speaking in my native tongue to two apparently intelligent English-speaking women, yet their responses to my clear, if amused, rejoinders amounted to gibberish. They sought to understand Trump's victory but did not have the most elementary understanding of the American democratic process or any grasp of rational thought. I detected no whiff of alcohol on their breath or any other sign of inebriation. They showed no sign of drunkenness or drug abuse, so I left the studio perplexed. Ultimately, I wrote my friend of 35 years, Andrew Roberts, the distinguished historian, and asked, "What gives with the BBC?"
First, I asked Andrew whether he had ever heard of the so-called novelist whom the BBC brought forth to engage me. I had never heard of her, and for decades I have kept an eye on the intellectual vistas as editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. She is a Nigerian lady of supposedly great gifts named Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, though it soon became apparent that she was in an impenetrable fog about the recent election. She gave a highly emotional rendering of the election, saying something about how it left her feeling very much alone, and I guess bereft. Why on Earth she was appearing before a British audience to discuss an American election I have no idea. If the BBC wanted to explore creative writing, I suppose she was their gal. But then what was I doing there?
The interview got off to a bad start and became worse. The moderator, Emily Maitlis, commenced asking: "The first ever black president will be followed by a president who is endorsed by the (Ku Klux Klan). ... Where does that leave you?" My response was what any normal American would respond. I said, "I can't imagine anybody (sic) more marginal to American elections than the KKK." I went on to say, "Every four years the KKK comes up because people like Hillary Clinton want to bring the KKK up." I began to add that the Klan was composed of a few hundred stoneheads living marginal lives in the American outback until they could be dredged up to serve the Democrats' malign purpose, but the moderator interrupted me to ask, "So it doesn't shock you?" I responded, why not talk about the influence of the Knights of Columbus?
My interlocutors apparently had no idea what the largest Catholic male organization in America might be. The host inquired, is it "another extremist group?" At that point I was reminded that fruitful conversation is utterly impossible with the woefully ignorant. My thought was reinforced by the ever-helpful Adichie who observed: "There seems to be a refusal to accept reality. So (Maitlis) has asked a question about the KKK, and it hasn't been engaged with, and instead we're being told that there's this other group called the Knights of Cint-whoever." I replied: "Balderdash. That is balderdash," which "engaged" both of these ladies.
The conversation's downward spiral continued. A memorable moment was when Adichie notified me: "If you're a white man, you don't get to define what racism is. You really don't." I responded, "Do you know that the false consciousness, which is the theory you're talking about, is a Marxist concept?" She had not a clue as to what false consciousness meant, but you might think about its consequences for intelligent debate the next time you hear it employed by a lazy mind. Then la Adichie came up with more evidence of the president-elect's alleged racism. When Trump says that a judge "is unable to judge him fairly because he is Mexican, that is racist," she said. I supplied her with the judge's name, Judge Gonzalo Curiel, and suggested he is as white as me. We are both white men. Race was not at issue between us. My correction had no impact on her. She continued in her invincible ignorance.
The next day, Andrew Roberts got back to me. He had never heard of Adichie either. And he added, "The idea that white males have nothing to say on race is itself racist (and sexist)!" Thus, my brush with these two ladies has been put in historic perspective by a historian. But I feel there will be more inscrutable moments with the left before its members quiet down. Medication might help.
Ming Tea (Austin Powers) - BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1w85qMqIjs
Just about time for me to tune into the latest episode of “The Death of Mary Queen of Scots.”
I’ve always admired Tyrrell’s writing skills. He did not disappoint in this piece regarding these two dunderheads.
I’ve had similar experiences with liberals. There’s a severe level of programmed virulence they manifest, like robots utterly unable to think past their programming. There’s literally a humanity, or a profound level of humanity, missing from them. They assume no common ground with anyone, only politically defined differences, and those differences are absolute.
In other words, they don’t see themselves as human beings talking with other human beings in common humanity, jointly discussing differing views as human beings for our common human culture. No. Instead, they see themselves as paragons of not even virtue but perfection, of established truth, and anyone differing from their views in even the slightest ways as medieval heretics, and that difference invoking criminal charges up to and including burning at the stake. And yet at the same time, when challenged they can’t defend those views - but they know they’re right, and they know the greatest possible evil is the questioning of those views.
It is very disconcerting - something has been broken, lost, replaced, removed from them. There is no casualness, no relaxation, no insight, no humor, no perspective. They are frightening people, if they even are people anymore. I think they more see themselves as enforcers of purity, which I believe is also what the Muslim religious police call themselves.
Medication might be part of the problem. Too many people walking around these days, who are way over Medicated.
They display about 80% of the signs of a brainwashed cult. Of the signs they don’t meet completely, they still often meet them at least partially (for example, they do not force “mind altering practices” on other lefties, but such things are certainly common and encouraged).
http://www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm
I have had these exact same conversations with Brits on Facebook. These people are painfully unaware of American culture and politics and yet spew forth their ignorance with a shocking amount of confidence. I suppose they think their plummy accents (at least on tv) and their “whilst” instead of “while” on the page will intimidate and shut up Americans.
Happily, their stupidity made me take down my Federalist Papers and am happily going through it looking for facts in which to pink them.
BTW, the interview is up on You Tube. Just watched it. Maddening. I don’t think Bob Tyrell handled himself all that articulately but then he was constantly interrupted by the condescending news reader and the novelist from Marxist hell. The Marxist novelist swam through the interview, uninterrupted. The highlight of the interview was Tyrell bringing up The Knights and Columbus and the blatantly stupid news reader responding “Is that another extremist group?”
Extremely arrogant, school-spoiled brats that get blue ribbons for showing up and are never, ever allowed to lose at anything. Since preschool. Adult children with an intellectual age of maybe twelve years old. Maybe.
What should we expect of them when faced with losing or being shown wrong, but irrationality and tantrums?
I think we should encourage the zany world of leftism to put more blubbering ignoramuses in positions of power over their flocks. They are utterly uneducable and should be treated like people with learning handicaps...”Here, let me help you take your finger out of your nose...”
The author is the kind of guy I could share a bottle of single malt and a couple of maduro leaf cigars with.
Obviously Nigel Farange, Lord Mockton, Daniel Hannan, Boris Johnson, Trevor Loudon, Paul Nuttall and Steve Hilton were not used. They understand the rise of Trump or should.
They do understand the rise of Trump
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