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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:
Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society
Obama and the ‘Noble Lie’
Sorta Sums It All Up. Ahmadinejad Reacting to Obama's comment
Thuggery 101. Mr. President, do not talk to a thug unless you absolutely have to
We’ve All Metamorphosized to a Higher Plain [satire]
"This Is the Moment"? Why Obama Should at Last Speak Out on Iran
What Do these First Six Months Mean? Where Are We Going?
The New Orwellianism
Obama’s New Liberal Realism: abandoned Wilsonianism just to avoid supporting Iranian democracy
Obamaworld
Voting Present on Iran. Thugophilia Isn't Moral. The New Old Realism
Reflections on the Iranian Enigma. The World Turned Upside Down
Still a Boor and a Coward [Victor Davis Hanson on Letterman, Wright + Thoughts on a Creepy Culture]
Just Make Stuff Up. President Obama’s war on the truth
A Boor and a Coward [Victor Davis Hanson tears apart the creep, a.k.a David Letterman]
Our Historically Challenged President. A list of distortions
I No Longer Quite Believe ... [Victor Davis Hanson on Orwellian media & science, race relations]
It's Better When You Wake Up Body-Snatched . . .
The Reckoning. Obama Versus the Way of the Universe
The Age of Middle East Atonement. Therapeutic efforts to disguise the truth never really work
Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?
Sotomayor’s Mistake. The diversity mess
The Affirmative-Action Aristocracy?
Lost in the Labyrinth of Race
President Palin’s First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obama’s record
Americans Want It Both Ways Our Have-It-Both-Ways Generation
Our Jekyll and Hyde President. More radical than Jimmy Carter v smoother centrist than Bill Clinton?
Crazy Times — Crazier Times to Follow - when nonsense is passed off as wisdom
Confessions of a Contrarian [deconstructing Obama, the Left and more]
 President Obama’s First 70 Days. It really does all make sense
Thoughts About Depressed Americans
Bush Did It. What a difference an election makes [Brilliant Parody]
 Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant]
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2 posted on 07/01/2009 5:31:02 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik
Oh, it's a very old issue. The underlying premise is that moral absolution follows ideology, and hence it follows class identification. Those who are ideologically enlightened constitute a privileged class. For those within that class, nothing is forbidden; for those outside it, nothing is permitted.

Orwell had all sorts of fun with this nonsense in Animal Farm. He saw it in action within his former set of supposedly egalatarian socialists who turned out to be just as arrogant and oppressive as the aristocracy they ostensibly replaced; worse, actually, since within that aristocracy there were at least the restraints of tradition, however imperfectly observed.

This double standard is seemingly inseparable from what Marxists term class consciousness; it is, in fact, tribalism under another name, not socially progressive at all, but, in fact, profoundly regressive. All we're really hearing is a form of "four legs good, two legs bad."

11 posted on 07/01/2009 9:06:08 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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