Dougherty Arts Center
Black Ally To Islamist Theocratic Megalomaniacs
RECEIVED Mon., Oct. 18, 2010
Dear Editor,
I admire Louis Black’s willingness to protect constitutional freedom of speech, allowing me to constantly counter him publicly in the Chronicle. I’m awed. Ironically, and unknown to Louis, objective conservatism reciprocates by protecting him, everyone, and freedom of speech. Conservatism vigorously protects liberty. Foremost, it rids the civilized world of tyranny and exposes its credulous suicidal utopian leftist groupthink enablers.
I digress, but only slightly. Black sets himself up again in his Oct. 15 “Page Two.” He’s so obsessed with hatred of conservatism, i.e., “Yet these outspoken fear mongers continue to champion racial hatred, religious intolerance, condemning those with different ideologies, and American exceptionalism (with its implicit endorsement by the almighty of this nation over all others),” he’s willfully blinded to objective truth. His quote is untrue, distorted, and hypocritical.
Moreover, Black's credulity furnishes more self-delusion believing that Islamist theocratic despots striving to construct a symbol of victory over America at Ground Zero is morally and constitutionally sacrosanct. These exist to murder and enslave! Black's naïveté is pure leftist pathology, conflated narcissism and nihilism.
Though Black is unwilling to identify his targets, he’s obviously aiming at conservatives. Indeed, his tactical diversionary premise that distasteful positions must be defended at all costs as free speech is clearly cover to hide his real agenda of maligning conservatism – sooo transparently played.
There are existential threats to liberty, America, and civilization. Undeniably, secular and Islamist theocratic megalomaniacs strive to devour us. And all this is in addition to the other culturally lethal box canyon that Barack Obama and his morally and intellectually vapid leftist brethren have led us into – economic dystopia. Democratic Party leftism must go, beginning in the November elections. It’s the most consequential since the Civil War. Leftism must be forever branded as fatally destructive. OK Black, your move!
I admire Louis Black’s willingness to protect constitutional freedom of speech, allowing me to constantly counter him publicly in the Chronicle. I’m awed. Ironically, and unknown to Louis, objective conservatism reciprocates by protecting him, everyone, and freedom of speech. Conservatism vigorously protects liberty. Foremost, it rids the civilized world of tyranny and exposes its credulous suicidal utopian leftist groupthink enablers.
I digress, but only slightly. Black sets himself up again in his Oct. 15 “Page Two.” He’s so obsessed with hatred of conservatism, i.e., “Yet these outspoken fear mongers continue to champion racial hatred, religious intolerance, condemning those with different ideologies, and American exceptionalism (with its implicit endorsement by the almighty of this nation over all others),” he’s willfully blinded to objective truth. His quote is untrue, distorted, and hypocritical.
Moreover, Black's credulity furnishes more self-delusion believing that Islamist theocratic despots striving to construct a symbol of victory over America at Ground Zero is morally and constitutionally sacrosanct. These exist to murder and enslave! Black's naïveté is pure leftist pathology, conflated narcissism and nihilism.
Though Black is unwilling to identify his targets, he’s obviously aiming at conservatives. Indeed, his tactical diversionary premise that distasteful positions must be defended at all costs as free speech is clearly cover to hide his real agenda of maligning conservatism – sooo transparently played.
There are existential threats to liberty, America, and civilization. Undeniably, secular and Islamist theocratic megalomaniacs strive to devour us. And all this is in addition to the other culturally lethal box canyon that Barack Obama and his morally and intellectually vapid leftist brethren have led us into – economic dystopia. Democratic Party leftism must go, beginning in the November elections. It’s the most consequential since the Civil War. Leftism must be forever branded as fatally destructive. OK Black, your move!
Vance McDonald
[Louis Black responds: I'm sure I'm even more guilty than Vance so labels me. But personally, I think there is something sad about being so hysterical as to insist one's opinions are not just accurate but represent objective truth. Certainly in matters of science, math, history, and the like there are plenty of grounds to debate whether there is objective truth, and if so then exactly what it is. But to assert that one's personal ideology and political opinions are objective truth and not simply well-informed, well-thought-through, carefully reasoned opinions that are more often than not borne out by past history and current events (not that I personally believe McDonald's opinions can be even distantly refined in those ways) is impressive, but in all the wrong ways. The very nature of the best-formed personal opinions is that they are reasoned reactions and suppositions based on careful consideration of human history, methodical study, and broad-based general knowledge. There can be hard-to-debate, fully formed and informed opinions whether or not you share the same views. But one enters the land of unimaginable insecurities and almost acknowledged lunacy when arguing that one's opinions represent the truth. The extreme fragility of this baggage is only further emphasized when one claims not to know and speak just the truth but to actually insist that it is the "objective" truth. Is there subjective truth?
It is not just the level of self-delusion and personal aggrandizement inherent in claiming one's opinions as being "objective" truth but that such a position is antithetical to a constitutional democracy or republic. The very claim of knowing and owning the truth allows for fascism but contradicts any notion of an equitable society with universal enfranchisement. The opinion may be "right," it might even be a statement of "objective truth," but regardless, it is incompatible with a society where all citizens are equally empowered.]
