[SonOfDarkSkies]

updated with the postmodern belief that race/class/gender oppressions require government affirmative reactions (which also abroad explains why we reach out to enemies and shun allies)...

I don't see what VDH means here...why does government affirmative action lead to reaching out to our enemies and shunning our friends?

Anybody?

[don-o]

Anybody?

They call it "solarity" based on race / economic condition. It's, at root, a perversion of the Christian virtue of compassion and love for all God's creation, based on His image and likeness.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think the interpretation is that the bad people of the world are bad because "we" have oppressed them. The Palestinians, the Iranians, African dictators -- these people may be bad, but that's our fault. We made them. So now, our government has an obligation to reach out and give them things and help them in every way we can, to make up for our long history of white racist oppression and exploitation.

Meanwhile, a country like the UK or Israel, since they are successful, must (by definition) be part of the problem. They also exploit and oppress. If we were to reach out to these nations, it would send a bad message to the bad people of the world and make it seem like we were not sufficiently contrite about our own past mistakes. Therefore, we must shun the UK and Israel (and others) and we must make an extreme effort to help the dictators around the world.

It shows we care.

[Tolik]

Because of the left’s fetish of a (perceived) weakness. It’s all encompassing. Nothing else matters. Weak is always in the right, strong is always in the wrong. That “weak” may be lazy, or wrong, or evil, or simply unlucky. Other side’s hard work, or virtue, or talent does not matter.

It’s ironic that one of the most popular accusations of Bush from the Left was that they said he approached the world’s problem as “black and white”, no shades of gray allowed. It’s ironic because The Left is more guilty of this no shades of gray approach to strong-weak than Bush ever was. Just one example out of thousands: The Left’s “human rights” organizations are unrelentingly critical of democratic, human rights supporting, gay tolerant Israel, much more than of murderous, “human rights is western creation”, gay killing Hamas.