Posted on 11/07/2002 4:21:29 AM PST by kattracks
CNSNews.com) - A conservative author lashed out against the militant Left Wednesday for celebrating America's vices and downplaying her virtues. "In other countries, you have governments and people that inflate virtues of a nation but downplay the vices. In America, it's just the opposite," said Daniel Flynn, author of "Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness."
Flynn, who serves as the executive director of Washington-based Accuracy in Academia, said the Left would like the world to believe that America stands for the "slave master's whip;" the 1968 My Lai massacre in which American soldiers slaughtered a village of innocent Vietnamese civilians; and the fatal beating of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old homosexual student.
But most Americans have a different perspective of their country, he noted.
"They view things like the soldiers sticking by Washington through the winter at Valley Forge; they view the Thirteenth Amendment; the promise at Ellis Island that immigrants coming through there see; Edison turning out the lights; Lindbergh touching down at La Bourget (Paris); the soldiers storming the beaches at Normandy," he said. "That's the America that we all know."
But instead of accentuating the positive aspects of America, Flynn said the Left chooses to promote an anti-American ideology and agenda, an influence that has gained prominence on college campuses across the country.
"It used to be on the campuses that the folks who would be honored were people who helped build this country, people like Washington or Lincoln or Jefferson," he said in his speech at the Leadership Institute in Washington. "Today, the folks that are being honored are people who hate this country, who try to destroy it."
Flynn chose his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, to illustrate his point. He said the college's 26-story library is named in honor of W.E.B. DuBois, the controversial founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
"DuBois was a guy who renounced his [American] citizenship; who went to Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana and lived there for the last few years of his life; joined the Communist Party; and when Stalin died, eulogized Stalin as a 'great and courageous man," Flynn said. He added that DuBois was eventually kicked out of the NAACP for his advocacy of racial separatism
Flynn said he could understand why a communist country would want to honor DuBois, the way former Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung did in 1959, but objects to the "several hundred" schools across America that have named buildings and institutes after the anti-American, black communist.
Diversity Double-Talk
"The left talks a great deal about diversity, but the diversity that exists on college campuses is a diversity where you have a faculty that looks like the United Nations, but thinks like a San Francisco coffee house," Flynn said.
For example, he said the Left hates Christianity's influence in American society because it is an "intolerant" religion.
"But if you look at America, people of all faiths can practice their religion here," Flynn said. "You're not going to be able to practice your faith in a lot of places outside of western civilization."
Flynn said the Left also scorns America for being a xenophobic and racist country. However, he said those claims could be easily rebuked.
"From 1820 to 1930, we took in 60 percent of the world's immigrants during that period of time and today we take in more immigrants than we did at that time," Flynn said. "How does the Left explain the fact that every decade you've got tens of millions of people trying to get into this country, and most of these folks are people of color?"
Blame it on America
Prior to John Walker Lindh's capture in Afghanistan, Flynn said the so-called American Taliban sent an email to his mother that questioned her loyalty to America. "I really don't know what your big attachment to America is all about," Lindh wrote. "What has America ever done for anybody?"
To start with, Flynn said, America has given more than $500 billion dollars in aid to foreign countries since World War II. "This is roughly $500 billion more than the rest of the world has given us," he noted.
Yet, Flynn said some anti-American recipients of U.S. foreign aid refuse to acknowledge America's tremendous outreach efforts. Instead, some of those struggling nations express their gratitude by burning the American flag in the streets and chanting, "Down with America," sentiments that he said are often expressed by the Left in America.
But Flynn said the most blatant examples of the Left's "blame America" philosophy arrived in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"Some on the Left celebrated the attacks, others justified it or gave reasons why the attacks happened ... basically, to put the blame on America," Flynn said. "They didn't do any critical thinking, they just blamed America."
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We spend half a frickin' trillion a year on truly stupid stuff--in other words, at 50 times the rate we spend money on foreign aid.
Let's focus on this nick we got while shaving, and ignore the blood spurting from the stump where our arm used to be...
I'm not convinced "W" is on the DOE bandwagon, although we began to hear rumblings about better funding for the DOE not long after inauguration. It doesn't follow his strong assertions during the campaign that control of pulik skools belonged at the local level. We need to follow this apparent contradiction closely. There must be some underpinnings there we don't see....like the NEA???
The problem is that we will spend the billions to teach that America is evil. We will teach our children to hate this land with our own money. How sad; how sad.
True enough if we don't defund the DOE. Even then the RATS will need to be removed from the local school boards and state DOE's. The slime is everywhere!
FGS
I absolutely believe God heard our prayers for His intervention on Nov 5. We can also petition Him to bring along, kicking and screaming, these America haters also. If we care for our country enough to ask His intervention once again, we will have our country back. The pinkos will be a footnote in an otherwise glorious history.
Amen, I mean, regards,
FGS
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You were simply exercising your 1st Amendment rights! So what if you are not a verbal person?
"The left talks a great deal about diversity, but the diversity that exists on college campuses is a diversity where you have a faculty that looks like the United Nations, but thinks like a San Francisco coffee house," Flynn said.
Correction.... the only reason they won in 1992 was Ross Perot working in cahoots with the bent one.
Add George H.W. Bush reneguing on his "No new Taxes" pledge and I think we have it covered.
Bill Kristal was on with Brit Hume last night and he said that the democrat party has lost it's collective mind.
Absolutely correct. The left hates America. They are nothing but "blame America firsters." This includes Klintoon, who also said it's America's fault that the WTC was attacked.
I agree that he made a mistake there, but that is not my point. I believe that if Perot was not in the race, klinton would have never won, no way, no how, no matter what President Bush might have pledged.
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