Chic Leftist Bigotry
By Bruce Walker (10/15/03)
The Left does not care about bigotry except as a carefully nurtured vice used to create artificial schisms between peoples and to leverage Leftism into undeserved power. Grand bigotries fed constantly by the Left are familiar to anyone trapped in the prison of popular culture: men are all rapists; white people are all racists; Christians are all intolerant maniacs.
The hypocrisy of this animus is also well known. Leftists defend genuinely and dangerous misogynists like Bill Clinton and Gary Condit, but throw thoughtless condemnations at men who threaten Leftist hegemony, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clarence Thomas.
Blacks who have perfect diction and who write beautiful prose are presumed to be flacks for Republican puppet masters, while blacks who sloppily mumble words from a tiny vocabulary or speak a crude and lame vernacular are championed as leaders of black society.
Christians like President Bush and General Ashcroft, who place their faith into practice and act with serious, gentle, sober and honest purpose are transformed by Leftist mythology into Nazis, while Leftists whose lives and beliefs are indistinguishable from the Nazis of history are presented as tolerant and good people.
Two recent episodes show how blase Leftists are about genuine bigotry and how indifferent they are to the vast problems which their indifference to bigotry causes mankind.
Bobby Jindal is a rising young star of Republican conservatism and may well be the next governor of Louisiana. Ashley Bell, a law student at Louisiana State University and President of College Democrats, sent an email advising fellow college Democrats across the nation about Jindal, saying: “Bush’s personal ‘Do Boy’ Bobby Jindal...Arab American and the Republicans token attempt to mend bridges long burnt with the Arab American community.”
Jindal is the son of immigrants from India, not an Arab nation. He is the son of Hindu parents, not Moslem parents. Bell knows nothing and composes that ignorance in dreadful English. The second email, intended to correct the first email, noted: “In a recent email describing Republican Nominee in Louisiana Bobby Jindal, I used what local news has terms Arab American - But in Fact Indian America is the politically correct terminology, so thank you to the curteous dems - who let us know of the terminology mix up.”
The New York Slimes published a “news stories” a few days before the California recall election purporting to show that Arnold Schwarzenegger admired Adolph Hitler. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria soon after the end of the Second World War. The misery of foreign occupation, world moral reproach, death and destruction on a grand scale, and the desperate poverty of Austrians and other Germans with the dead Third Reich haunted the his nation.
Arnold’s heroic story of one determined soul rising above the muck of Nazism and all of the horrible problems of his nation is an inspirational example of what young Austrians could become in spite of everything. No one in Austria felt that Schwarzenegger was sympathetic to Hitler, including the Jewish community of Austria.
What Austrian Jews and other Jews in Europe do face these days is genuine anti-Semitism, fostered by old pagan European prejudices and by new militant Moslem immigrants. The Jews of Europe need all the help that we can give them, and defaming an Austrian hero with false claims of anti-Semitism can only make the plight of Jews worse in Europe.
The day after the massive repudiation of Leftism by Californians, the Los Angeles Times-Democrat, not content to let sleeping lies lie, referred to Governor-elect Schwarzenegger as a “Gropenfuher” - indecently trying to blend the scurrilous stories about alleged groping with equally scurrilous stories about putative Nazism.
The harm caused by chic Leftist bigotry in these two recent incidents is far more than the small brained goons of Leftist Inquisition can imagine. Democrat presidential candidates drone on monotonously about how President Bush should have gained more international support for his liberation of Iraq - something they, presumably, could do better.
Viciously defaming a man perhaps more popular in Europe than any American with the overused guilt by association of Nazism makes American concern about anti-Semitism seem supercilious and insincere.
When the Imperial Wizard of College Democrats displays the same mind-set as old Democrat Party auxiliary groups like the Ku Klux Klan, then any attempt to gain those friends who "Honest Joe" Lieberman feels we lack will fall flat. Bobby Jindal, whose cultural and ethnic background is Hindu India, could build bridges to the vast subcontinent that Howard Dean never could.
Arnold and Bobby are men whose genuine understanding and sympathy for Europe and India, combined with their powerful positions in American society and within the Republican Party of President Bush, could achieve through sincere dialogue that friendship with Democrats disingenuously moan now that America lacks.
It is not an accident that both of these bright stars are Republicans hated by Democrats. The political party of Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman and Robert Byrd lives on petty, nasty bigotries. The biggest threat to the L.A. Times-Democrat, the New York Slimes, and Imperial Wizard Ashley is that we treat each other as children of a loving God. Their greatest hope is that bigotry becomes chic and hate pandemic.
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