Mark Steyn: People who hate people

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 10/06/2001 | Mark Steyn

[aculeus]

President gets teary in the Oval Office, the Queen chokes up at St Paul’s, David Letterman and Dan Rather sob on CBS, New Yorkers weep openly for their slain firemen, but the dead-eyed zombies of the peace movement who claim to love everyone parade through the streets unmoved, a breed apart.

Says it all.

[fporretto]

Dear God. Mark Steyn appears to be incapable of writing anything but masterpieces. How he does it, I'd give my right cerebral hemisphere to know.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Tall_Texan]

To paraphrase Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC) "There's a whole lot of "breedin'" going' on out there..."

Steyn, once again, is excellent. Why not start a "Steyn_list" and count me in?

[Mr. Bungle]

Mark Steyn is one of the best there is. He proves it with every column.

[woofie]

Lets see poverty breeds injustice + anger + ignorance....You mean Osama was wealthy? Got $300 mill or more? mmmmmm. Good education? mmmmmm. never mind...

[Paradox]

Mark Steyn. How can I say this. It is not solely genius, there are quite a few geniuses in the conservative movement. He is beyond poetry, I suppse the left has a near monopoly on that.

This guy is both. As I read this, I feel utter dismay. Dismay that I am not nearly as capable as explaining things in such a manner. Dismayed that when I debate with my left-leaning friends and family, inspirations and words such as these never seem to find their way to my mouth..

This is a crushing column, and should put to shame all those who argue about "root cause".

I guess you could say I like this guy.

[Tall_Texan]

**Why do some people look at a smoking ruin and see the lives lost ? the secretary standing by the photocopier ? and others see only confirmation of their thesis on Kyoto?**

Because the left needs to be right which it never will be because it is always left and what you have left right after the left demands their rights are less right and little else left.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

BTTT

[KarlH]

Great article, very well written and expresses what most of us think but find hard to verbalize.

These protestors of whom Steyn writes need to personalize the tragedy. The profess to love humanity in general but feeling empathy or sympathy for individuals, in particular is something they can't do.

Everyday I reflect on the fact that there is someone out there plotting to kill me, or my family, or my friends and neighbors. This is a fact. Yes, maybe not me in particular but it could be me or my family as easily as it could be you or yours, or anyone else. This helps me to focus on why these terrorists; individuals, groups, sponsor, and financiers need to be stopped.

[Miss Marple]

Not only is Steyn a fine writer, but he is able to pick up the underlying current and ironies in our culture. This is a most excellent column.

[BibChr]

What matters about the Revd Jerry Falwell, who declared that the mass slaughter was God’s judgment on gays, feminists et al, is not that he’s a social conservative (as I am) but that he’s a heartless jerk

Here I stop reading. Steyn's usually good. This is an idiotic statement. If, merely for voicing his opinion that this was a judgment of God in some measure for America's embrace of things that offend God, Falwell is a "heartless jerk," then apparently so were Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and a great many others who spoke similarly.

Dan

PS -- note that I neither endorse nor reject Falwell's conclusion; I simply reject Steyn's absurd, kneejerk, groundless and unsubstantiated slander.
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[Arthur McGowan]

I can't post a link because the "HTML Help" just below the window I'm typing in is totally screwed up and it doesn't work. Anyway, here's a link to an article on "Sexual Abuse and Arab Rage." Fascinating!!!

http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/glazov/glazov10-04-01p.htm

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Wow

Yea, thanks for the ping

[537 Votes]

What matters about Mark Bingham, one of the brave men who overpowered the hijackers of Flight 93 and thus saved potentially thousands of lives, is not that he was gay or even that he was a Republican but that he was a great American hero. What matters about the Revd Jerry Falwell, who declared that the mass slaughter was God’s judgment on gays, feminists et al, is not that he’s a social conservative (as I am) but that he’s a heartless jerk.

The days are few remaining when Mark Steyn will emerge from The Closet. Or did I miss it already?

[MadameAxe]

I stand in awe. Thanks.

[Taliesan]

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and a great many others who spoke similarly

With the slight difference that they had the "word of the Lord" -- a distinct revelation, usually clear enough to quote God directly. Falwell did not, never claimed to have, and so was just mouthing off.

There is no biblical warrant to ascribe any particular act to God's hand unless you have specific revelation to that effect. You are either a prophet or you are not. It is shoddy exegesis to say "see, the prophets said that God was judging Israel so we can say that God is judging America."

If you do represent God's thought or words but do not in fact have revelation, you deserve the label of false prophet. If you have such revelation, and speak it, and then back off from it, the blood of subsequent atrocity is on your hands.

Falwell may not be a jerk. But he is clearly, biblically, worse.

[Paradox]

Tinky Linky.

The article sounds a bit like psychobabble to me, but not implausible. Reading about Mr. Attah's lifestyle, I got this feeling that he might be a repressed homosexual or something.

[Taliesan]

"All compassion is particular." - Madeline L'Engle

[murdoog]

I'd give anything to be able to express myself HALF this well!

Let me just say in my own clumsy, ineloquent, not-fit-to-change-Mark-Steyn's-printer-cartridge way, ME TOO!