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I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this whole left wing racism thing. I guess I almost see them as worse than right wing racists. They seem able to justify their own racism to the very races they attack.

I vaguely remember reading a quote about benevolent oppressors being worse than malevolent ones. A benevolent oppressor isn't held in check by conscience.

24 posted on 07/07/2004 2:21:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)

To: cripplecreek

I agree. I'm a little concerned about going on a witch hunt like has happened within the catholic church.

29 posted on 07/07/2004 2:23:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)

To: cripplecreek; hchutch; mhking

I vaguely remember reading a quote about benevolent oppressors being worse than malevolent ones. A benevolent oppressor isn't held in check by conscience.

Wow. This is what's great about FR; you can go from the simply humorous to the profoundly philosophical in a couple mouse clicks.

30 posted on 07/07/2004 2:23:15 PM PDT by Poohbah ("Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" -- President Ronald Reagan, Berlin, 1987)

To: cripplecreek

Only a white liberal can call a black person the "N" word and live to tell the tale. I'm still waiting to hear the condemnations from Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, and the CBC on Ted Rall. Don't hold your breath.

38 posted on 07/07/2004 2:24:27 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)

To: cripplecreek; Poohbah; goldstategop

I vaguely remember reading a quote about benevolent oppressors being worse than malevolent ones. A benevolent oppressor isn't held in check by conscience.

It was probably one of these:

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, Res Judicatae (June 1953)
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Dissenting, Olmstead v. US, 277 US, 438 (1928)

120 posted on 07/07/2004 4:43:09 PM PDT by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)

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