Posted on 02/03/2019 5:20:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Cleansing ourselves” - a uniquely Puritanical concept. Except, this time ironically coming from a leftist individual who likely eschews most of what would be considered traditional Biblical morality. When every form of perversion becomes acceptable, liberals must signal their ‘virtue’ by righteously condemning what has now become the gravest of sins. And conservatives, fearing the backlash, more often than not join right in. And so the policing of the New Morality becomes even more strict than the old ever was.
Here’s a concept. Even taking into account the Michael Jackson skin darkening episode to which Northam HAS admitted and apologized for - an action Milbank still thinks disqualifies him the same as “sexual assault” and “preying on children” would - what if Ralph Northam is simply someone who made a mistake many years ago and has tried to atone for it, albeit wrong-headedly (because news flash: going liberal is NEVER the way to atone for past racial sins), ever since?When a black-and-white picture that appeared below Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page - of a bowtied man in blackface standing next to a white-robed member of the Ku Klux Klan - starting making the media rounds on Friday, it struck me at first like the most ridiculously cartoonish of fake news. Here was the Democratic governor of Virginia - by all accounts heretofore a good Leftist who openly advocates for every liberal issue under the sun including, of late, borderline infanticide - potentially being caught up in a racial controversy that would make Robert Byrd blush.
It was almost too surreal to be true, too seemingly contrived to not be a made-up meme from the bowels of the right-wing internet. But time told the tale soon enough. Was the picture real? Turns out, it was. Was the picture actually under Northam’s yearbook page? For sure. Was Northam actually in the picture, either in blackface or a KKK robe? Well, that one is a little more up in the air, especially after the Virginia governor’s Saturday press conference denying it. Whether or not Northam’s vehement denials are enough to raise more than a reasonable doubt in the minds of Virginians is yet to be seen, but regardless, the die has been cast. Make no mistake, Ralph Northam’s days as governor of Virginia are quickly coming to an end.
Now at this point, the ‘narrative’ for me as a non-left-wing columnist might typically be to demonstrate the difference between ‘Good Democrat’ Ralph Northam’s situation and that of, well, pretty much anyone right of center, like Iowa Rep. Steve King. Surely, there is a double-standard, right? They’ve obviously existed in the past. But in this case, while a cynic might say liberals have nothing to gain by replacing Northam with the even more liberal Justin Fairfax, the quick response from Democrats and liberals of every stripe, from Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the NAACP, suggests at least an increasing willingness to finally police their own.
So now everyone is being policed, at least when it comes to real or perceived racial sins, no matter how egregious or how far removed from the present. Do you feel safer? I know I do! Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank celebrated this fact in a Saturday column, contending that, while Northam has lived an admirable life of late and likely considers losing it all because of an almost 35-year-old transgression “unfair,” that’s just the way it should be.
“But some things should disqualify people from public service — a Nazi salute, sexual assault, preying on children and, yes, dressing as a Klansman or in blackface — and it doesn’t matter if it happened 35 years ago,” Milbank wrote.
So, a home invader can be the governor of Virginia, but Northam can’t? To be clear, I am not in any way excusing or condoning the use of blackface in any era. It’s insensitive, horrific, and it should be condemned, but if someone honestly doesn’t see a moral difference between preying on children and a politically-incorrect party-gone-WAAAAAY-wrong, one’s morals are, shall we say, highly suspect.
But these are the New Puritans we’re dealing with here, people for whom real or perceived racial sins - and they get to determine what those are - are the worst sins ever, basically the same as raping a woman or preying on a child. And so, Milbank celebrates the fact that Megyn Kelly lost her job at NBC (does Milbank believe Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Sarah Silverman are also equivalent to child predators? Apparently, some of that old double-standard does exist!) for seemingly defending blackface and laments Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ electoral win despite the fact that he simply said the common phrase “monkey this up.”
Then, he blamed it on Trump, because of course he did.
“Some might think this all a witch hunt, to use the president’s term of art, but it is, at least in part, a salutary backlash against what Trump represents,” Milbank wrote. “Appalled by his racism, his vulgarity and his appalling treatment of women, we are reacting by holding public officials (and hopefully ourselves) to a higher standard. We are cleansing ourselves for the sins of Trump.”
"Cleansing ourselves” - a uniquely Puritanical concept. Except, this time ironically coming from a leftist individual who likely eschews most of what would be considered traditional Biblical morality. When every form of perversion becomes acceptable, liberals must signal their ‘virtue’ by righteously condemning what has now become the gravest of sins. And conservatives, fearing the backlash, more often than not join right in. And so the policing of the New Morality becomes even more strict than the old ever was.
Here’s a concept. Even taking into account the Michael Jackson skin darkening episode to which Northam HAS admitted and apologized for - an action Milbank still thinks disqualifies him the same as “sexual assault” and “preying on children” would - what if Ralph Northam is simply someone who made a mistake many years ago and has tried to atone for it, albeit wrong-headedly (because news flash: going liberal is NEVER the way to atone for past racial sins), ever since?
Ironically, Northam is credited with winning the Virginia governor's race
using deceptive tactics, tarring his opponent, Gillespie, as a "white nationalist."
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Northam made effective use of Pelosi's demonization tactic she dubbed the “wrap-up smear.”
CHECK OUT THE PELOSI VIDEO HERE
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nancy-pelosi-wrap-up-smear/
The video has Pelosi saying: “We (Democrats) call it the ‘wrap-up smear.’ You smear somebody, with falsehoods
and all the rest, and then you merchandise it to the media,” Pelosi blithely revealed at a press conference last year.
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Northam also sent out a campaign mailer tying both President Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie to white nationalists, then on-the-prowl in Charlottesville, Va.
Later, a pro-Northam group ran an ad labeling Gillespie as a "genocidal white supremacist." Northam dutifully reported the ad as an "in-kind" donation to his campaign.
Not to be outdone, then-governor, Terry McAuliffe, accused Gillespie of having run the "most racist" campaign in Virginia history.
McAuliffe actually took Democrat slime politics to new depths of depravity; McAuliffe suggested Gillespie's campaign was
infinitely more racist than even the secessionist movement which supported slavery, segregation, and opposition to interracial marriage.
That's how ridiculous it got.
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SOUND FAMILIAR Pelosi's patented Democrat "wrap-up smear" was used against Justice Kavanaugh.
Hillary was very good at the "wrap-up smear"----she'd "leak" what she said was damaging info on Trump to the media. Then when the smear was published---she'd wave around the clipping, "proof-positive" that she was the superior candidate.
“Liberals” expanded the public morality Overton window to get their views sufficiently accepted. Now, acting toward their communist goals, they proceed by narrowing that window - creating a continuing parade of trangressors for them to fight against, including their own no-longer-Leftist-enough leadership.
In this case, it was a convenient destroying of one of their own, to distract the backlash against revelation of their plan to legalize infanticide.
He should be impeached for wearing plaid pants in the 1980’s.
“To be clear, I am not in any way excusing or condoning the use of blackface in any era. It’s insensitive, horrific, and it should be condemned,”
Get a grip, people. Its makeup.
THIS (your tweet) and other examples of Northam IN THE CURRENT TIME, is why this (from article) is not true:
“.... what if Ralph Northam is simply someone who made a mistake many years ago and has tried to atone for it, albeit wrong-headedly (because news flash: going liberal is NEVER the way to atone for past racial sins), ever since?”
Northam has a pattern of racsism that he has continued from his “Coonman” VMI days, through his moonwalking blackface/KKK med school days, right on through to the present - he has used UGLY, racism/bigotry in his campaign against Ed Gillespie (pickup truck ad as one example) and has continues to lob verbal/tweet bombs accusing President Trump of racism, using the CNN Charlottesville hoax.
Of course, the article totally misses the larger point that Northam is utterly morally unfit to be a leader of people due to his views that infanticide is A-OK.
Leftist’s own the language. What the hell happened to DEAD BABIES? Move along, nothing to see here.
Is Ralph Northam wearing black face worse than Kamala Harris wearing white face?
Plot twist: Northam was driving the pickup!
Then.... (I’m guessing here)....
Bill Maher is next?
When will Al Jolson be banned? Can’t happen? Look to Rober E. Lee statues or Dixie Street or Confederate flags.
Doe vindice
At this point in Virginia... I would think that a politically neutered Northam would be better than a politically-charged Justin Fairfax.
So I am on the keep Northam side of the issue, because he is politically neutered and that is exactly what Virginia needs right now.
If/when he steps down...God forbid he returns to medicine.
It seems to be way past time for non leftists to apply Alisnky’s Rules for Radicals #”s 4, 8 and 13: 4Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules, 8) Keep the pressure on (Kick the enemy when he’s down) and 13)Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Do we want to continue to concede the moral high ground to the left and continue to lose to them. I hope Northam stays in the Governor’s Mansion, providing a personification of the evil of the left to take potshots at continuously for the next three years.
The conception of what constitutes racism changes over time. In 1984 blackface was racist but it wasn’t too many years earlier that it was not considered racism. In the 50s and 60s it was Jim Crow, segregation and voter intimidation that was racism. In the 40s it was lynching. In the 1860s it was slavery.
I think that in the distant future ID politics will be considered racist.
He doesn’t have much fashion sense.
If I looked like the absolute dork on the right, I’d hide my face, too!
His mommie would have dressed him better!
Notice how quickly the appologists forgive the Gov, after they tore into Brett Kavanaugh for a HIGH SCHOOL yearbook
The Wash/Post described 2017 primary candidate Northam as a “moderate Democrat state senator” who moved to the left on some issues .....
Northam went so far left, he tripped over his KKK robe....... BOL
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