Posted on 03/08/2019 4:28:19 PM PST by Twotone
Do blame me, I’m from Massachusetts. The commonwealth ranks as the most intolerant state in the U.S.
Don’t blame me too much, though. I live in Worcester County, tied for the most tolerant county in Massachusetts. Sure, nationwide it’s in the 99th percentile, “which means,” according to the PredictWise survey, “that 1 out of every 100 counties is more prejudiced against the political ‘other.’” But at least I don’t live in Suffolk (home to the Boston Globe), Middlesex (home to Harvard and MIT), or the six other Bay State counties that rank in the 100th percentile. You see, my county, relatively speaking, is quite open-minded.
We are not like those other people. We never are.
A lack of self-awareness comes as a corollary to intolerance. Intolerant people, in their speech and bumperstickers, advertise their tolerance. They justify their prejudice by projecting their jaundiced fantasy of “the other,” to borrow from the academese used in the report, upon real people who rarely conform to the caricature. We never see ourselves as intolerant because we depict our foes as intolerable.
A second corollary involves historical amnesia. Today’s intolerant divorce themselves from the intolerance of their political ancestors by imagining them as the political ancestors of their political opponents. So, eugenics, prohibition, and so much else enthusiastically supported by progressives become, in the telling of modern progressives, the work of reactionaries. This enables followers of an intellectual tradition to not learn from past mistakes.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Think about it. If someone told you that they repeatedly voted for Ted Kennedy, would you really want to associate with such a person?
Please don’t move here.
I don't think my vote mattered in that state/commonwealth, but I felt good about it.
And yes, I did vote for Bill Weld, twice, but you should have seen the other choices. Mark Roosevelt, maybe, one election, and a very corrupt SOS, the Dem machine's candidate. I think I voted for BU's John Silber in the Dem primary that election year.
Some interesting comments have been made after the article:
Bostonirisher wrote: “I do not where to start. I am an Irish Catholic Republican. Live in Suffolk County. I have been marginalized by somewhat friends because they think that I will voice my opinions at inopportune times. It is sorta like being a moderate or Westernized Muslim. The extremists really want to kill us, whether the Democrats or the Islamofascists. In fact, one neighbor suggested that I kill myself. My parents are still alive so I have to stay.”
Suggested that he KILL himself? How long till Left Wing lynch mobs start having people for wearing the wrong hat?
Oh ... wait.....
Frank Natoli also makes some interesting observations.
Progressive are to a free society what boll weevils are to cotton,
Great Analogy!
In before the MA FReepers chime in and brag how their state ranks #1 in education and professional sports.
When driving and I see a vehicle with MA tags, a part of me wants to say to them “GO BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS!”
It’s like being a Republican living in Philadelphia. It is very sad that Philadelphia and Boston are hallowed ground of our founding and are now “dusty” historical relics and liberal sh*tholes that will die on their liberal sword.
MA used to be fairly normal when I was there in the mid-sixties...at least the western part. I’ll always cherish my tours of S & W factory. By the way, what the hell are they still doing remaining there?
Today’s intolerant divorce themselves from the intolerance of their political ancestors by imagining them as the political ancestors of their political opponents. So, eugenics, prohibition, and so much else enthusiastically supported by progressives become, in the telling of modern progressives, the work of reactionaries. This enables followers of an intellectual tradition to not learn from past mistakes.
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