Posted on 07/11/2017 4:54:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week, The Atlantic rendered a great service to those of us who contend that America is in the midst of a civil war between the right and the left. It provided a smoking gun -- actually, the gunshot itself -- to those of us who contend that the left (never to be confused with liberals) is intent on dismantling Western civilization.
It published articles by two left-wing writers, one by Peter Beinart titled "The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump's Warsaw Speech," and one by its national correspondent, James Fallows, written on the same theme as Beinart's.
The subject of both articles was President Donald Trump's speech in Warsaw, Poland, last week, a speech described by The Wall Street Journal as "a determined and affirmative defense of the Western tradition."
Yet, to the Atlantic writers, defending Western civilization is nothing more than a defense of white racism.
Beinart begins his piece saying: "In his speech in Poland on Thursday, Donald Trump referred 10 times to 'the West' and five times to 'our civilization.' His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means. It's important that other Americans do, too."
And Fallows begins saying, "what he called 'civilization' ... boils down to ties of ethnicity and blood."
Is there one liberal or conservative American who thinks that the words "the West" and "Western civilization" mean a celebration of white-blood purity?
I doubt it.
What we have here are two vital lessons.
One is that leftism is the primary racist ideology of our time, seeing everything in terms of race, whereas mainstream liberalism and conservatism advocate a race-blind society as manifest in Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "content of his character" line. The left disdains this view.
To cite one of innumerable examples, the University of California has published a list of biased "microaggression" statements students and faculty are to avoid. One of them is "There is only one race, the human race."
In other words, the left, which controls our universities, teaches American students that it is wrong to believe in one human race. That was precisely what the Nazis taught German students. And now, we have another expression of this doctrine enunciated in the pages of The Atlantic: that those who wish to protect or save Western civilization are talking about saving the white race.
I am certainly not equating leftism with Nazism. The left doesn't seek to annihilate all Jews (it merely supports the Palestinians, who seek to annihilate the Jewish state). I am merely stating an unassailable truth: No significant political movement since the Nazis has "honored" race or equated Western civilization with race, as Beinart and Fallows do.
The second service provided by The Atlantic writers is proof that the left loathes Western civilization and therefore has become the internal enemy of Western civilization both in America and Europe.
In the left's eyes, the mere suggestion that Western civilization needs to be saved is, by definition, a call for the preservation of the white race. Therefore, the left opposes calls to save Western civilization. As Beinart wrote: "The most shocking sentence in Trump's speech -- perhaps the most shocking sentence in any presidential speech delivered on foreign soil in my lifetime -- was his claim that 'The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.' ... Trump's sentence only makes sense as a statement of racial and religious paranoia."
Those of us who have long equated the left with opposition to Western civilization are vindicated. We didn't need Beinart and Fallows -- we already had innumerable examples, such as the University of Pennsylvania English department removing its longstanding poster of William Shakespeare because he was a white male -- but in their explicit articulation of the left's view, they are immensely helpful.
Shakespeare is read in every language that has an alphabet not because he was white or European but because he is regarded as the greatest playwright who ever lived. But the leftists who run that English department place race (and gender) above excellence -- a thorough rejection of Western values.
Ironically, outside of liberals and conservatives, those most likely to celebrate Western values are likely to not be Western. The Japanese would scoff at the idea that Bach and Beethoven did not write the greatest music ever composed. That is why some of the greatest Bach recordings of our time come from Japanese musicians living in Japan. Nor would the Japanese deny that their modern country's democratic values come from the West.
The West's disdain for its own values seems to getting increasingly strident with each passing day. President Trump is making an important and laudable effort to reverse this trend. He's walking in good company. In an address to the Pan-American Scientific Congress in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 1940, then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "Americans might have to become the guardian of Western culture, the protector of Christian civilization." FDR frequently spoke about protecting both Western and Christian civilization.
We owe a debt of gratitude to The Atlantic, CNN (whose senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny described Trump's address as a "white America, America first kind of speech") and others. They have made it clear that the left has contempt for Western civilization and therefore constitutes the greatest threat to its survival.
I knew about the Bienert article but not the Fallows one. He used to be somewhat rational.
It’s finally all out in the open: the hatred of the West, our traditions and values, and ultimately our very existence.
They do the bidding of the elites in their attempt to erase us.
“to those of us who contend that the left (never to be confused with liberals)”
Huh? Is he referring to the original meaning of “liberal,” which meant someone who believed in liberty? Otherwise, I have no idea what the difference is.
IF he is smart, he just trying to divide the left - Liberals and Progressives, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, etc.
Have to give them room to fight each other.
After all the Left is trying to do it us - Alt-Right vs. Conservative vs. NeoCon.
Globalists aren’t going to stop until their criminal collusion is outlawed and even then they will go underground.
And damned utopians like Walter Cronkite said that they’d gladly sit at the right hand of Satan to make one world government a reality with American sovereignty a thing of the past.
Or, is there a single leftist or liberal who isn't aware of the blood or religious tribalism of blacks, Mexicans, and Muslims, and doesn't seek to use it to their advantage in their divide-and-conquer approach to the US and Europe?
What’s more, Cronkite never had to live under that nightmare he tried to usher in. Neither will Hitlery Rotten Clinton or Buzzy Ginsberg.
Schmuckerberg and Gates have billions to shield them from any situation.
That could be his cast...
Or he may be distinguishing between participants and mindless supporters, like jihadists and “moderate” muslims.
Liberals are “well-intentioned”, Leftists are willing to break eggs and rules to get their empire.
Great article.
This shows us the Marxist march through our institutions has proceeded from academia to our press.
Look up some YouTube posts on the Frankfurt School. That’s the Marxist bunch at work.
He means classic liberals known now as conservatives (we should reclaim the term classic liberals IMO).
“Suicide of the West” by James Burnham, identified this attribute of liberals in the early 1960’s.
No, the left has chosen another group for annihilation - conservatives.
Dalrymple is outstanding. Have and read several of his books. He wrote of the ascension of “tribalism,” which is more or less the social path directed by pop culture and the press.
When I confronted Fallows about it on Twitter, he lied and said that the Wikileaks email which contained the draft copy was not a draft copy - even though it clearly was.
Someone else questioned him on it - and that user's Tweet was later deleted.
Also, the FR article post which I made about it "disappeared" from Google search - even though it was accessible before I confronted Fallows.
It is still accessible on Bing...
Fallows is a lying sack of 0bama.
See my post #17. He colluded with the Hillary campaign - one of the Wikileaks emails proves it:
Did "Journalist" James Fallows Supply A Draft Copy Of An Article To The Clinton Campaign?
10/30/2016 9:26:43 PM PDT · by kiryandil · 4 replies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3487033/posts
Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?
That last one had some bite to it if I understand the squealing it elicited from the Left. They know who he was talking about and they don't like it. The amusing thing about that sort of intellectual poverty is that if you asked them to define Western culture what you end up with is the usual, stale litany of accusation that has by dint of sheer repetition become a culture all in itself. It isn't a very informed culture, but that isn't the point. It doesn't need to be to assume the role of tribal cohesion any more than a firm belief in the volcano gods does.
Naturally I wouldn't wish to offend any volcano gods believers with this statement, but there is the inconvenient fact that they didn't build a society capable of rational discussion, high-speed communications and transportation, food surpluses, and novocaine, features they wish to enjoy without understanding. So with the Left. Shall we talk of any of these in the face of the Cambodia of Pol Pot, the Cuba of Fidel Castro, or the Venezuela of Huey Chavez?
So too with this peculiar fixation on race that is somehow not itself outrageously racist. Trump's speech contains the word "white" precisely once, in the context of "White House". It mentions race not at all. Yet here our volcano god witch-doctors can see it clear as day, because "Western" means "white" - well, no it doesn't. Making the accusation is not proving the case. Holding the belief dearly proves nothing, except that they're fools who have made themselves enemies of something they don't understand.
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