Even the most evil people are still human. They have their motivations and reasons for what they do that seem logical to them, even when we disagree and consider them invalid.
Yet most liberals, who are so screamingly anxious to “understand the root causes” of “why ‘the Others’ hate us,” are utterly disinterested in “the Other” right here among them. They can usually find on their own street, and certainly here at FR, articulate conservatives who are more than willing to explain in great detail why we believe as we do.
But they don’t care. They don’t want to understand us, only condemn us. Somehow they are unable to see the contradiction between this and their stated tolerance and belief in moral relativism.
As an example we’ll never see in our lifetime, why not a movie about the South of the early 60s. A (generally) decent white southerner sincerely believes it is his duty to resist racial integration and as a result commits horrible crimes.
We’ve had movies where we are asked to “understand” pedophiles, Communist traitors and serial killers. For that matter, there are successful TV series built around the glorification of serial killers.
But nobody is interested in trying to explain why many generally decent Americans believed it to be their moral duty to defend Jim Crow.
BTW, I’m not trying to say that I believe those who fought for Jim Crow were true American conservatives, at least with regard to this issue, as I believe quite the opposite. However, the JC guys and liberals both believe they were conservatives.
Did TOWNHALL.COM scrub this post. It is not on their URL or at least it is down temporarily.