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In America Today Race and Gender Don't Matter
RECEIVED Thu., Jan. 24, 2008
Dear Editor,
P.T. Barnum would love Louis’ current “Page Two” [Jan. 25]. Indeed, anyone with an IQ of room temperature and above who believes anything he says is buried by unadulterated intellectual denial and moral ignorance.
The truth is that in America today, race and gender, in fact, do not matter regarding a person’s meritorious abilities and efforts to succeed. When in the past they did matter, it was America that led the way to overcome that millennia-old social pathology while the world followed. The results are black and women judges, legislators, diplomats, and professionals, as well as an expanding prosperous race- and gender-blind society. And “human rights and universal suffrage” have enlarged exponentially.
But this means nothing to Louis. No, for his terrible ultimate goal is the cultural enshrinement of envy. His shameful attempt to “recast” social justice, equality, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence champions envy by advocating legal theft from producers, large and small, eternal dignity destroying government dependence for those receiving such ill-gained largesse and servitude of all to the ultimate envy monster–raw political power by fiat. His is the real insidious untruthful manipulation of language that so-called progressives have employed from Marx to this day.
Moreover, the sad irony is that Louis’ accusations about how horrible Republicans have “managed to recast much of the long-established language of the progressive agenda to mean its almost exact opposite” is once again exactly what he is doing in his lame defense of the sacred Democrat “progressive agenda.” Louis revels in abject hypocrisy, blatantly fooling himself and others.
While Louis and his hallowed Democratic Party insist on this disturbing, freedom-killing, neo-left agenda, they must never be believed. Resistance must be vigorous and unceasing.
P.T. Barnum would love Louis’ current “Page Two” [Jan. 25]. Indeed, anyone with an IQ of room temperature and above who believes anything he says is buried by unadulterated intellectual denial and moral ignorance.
The truth is that in America today, race and gender, in fact, do not matter regarding a person’s meritorious abilities and efforts to succeed. When in the past they did matter, it was America that led the way to overcome that millennia-old social pathology while the world followed. The results are black and women judges, legislators, diplomats, and professionals, as well as an expanding prosperous race- and gender-blind society. And “human rights and universal suffrage” have enlarged exponentially.
But this means nothing to Louis. No, for his terrible ultimate goal is the cultural enshrinement of envy. His shameful attempt to “recast” social justice, equality, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence champions envy by advocating legal theft from producers, large and small, eternal dignity destroying government dependence for those receiving such ill-gained largesse and servitude of all to the ultimate envy monster–raw political power by fiat. His is the real insidious untruthful manipulation of language that so-called progressives have employed from Marx to this day.
Moreover, the sad irony is that Louis’ accusations about how horrible Republicans have “managed to recast much of the long-established language of the progressive agenda to mean its almost exact opposite” is once again exactly what he is doing in his lame defense of the sacred Democrat “progressive agenda.” Louis revels in abject hypocrisy, blatantly fooling himself and others.
While Louis and his hallowed Democratic Party insist on this disturbing, freedom-killing, neo-left agenda, they must never be believed. Resistance must be vigorous and unceasing.
Vance McDonald
