Seen at the 9/12 Tea Party in Washington (h/t Ace):
The left is never that creative with their signs.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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The left is never that creative with their signs.
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hear, hear! Great sign and true about the cleverness the right seems to have over the left.
Adopting sanctimonious attitudes has become a liberal pose in general, not only regarding race, but in other aspects of life. People do better to exercise a little humility, some recognition of a log in one's own eye, but outside Christian circles that idea might not have much currency. People whose chests swell over their own purported goodness are bores.
I have an old friend who once chided me about some topic with the comment that she and I "grew up in white neighborhoods" and "don't understand" something or other I've long forgotten.
We both grew up in Prince Georges County Maryland which is 70% black now. And she knows this. I've been living here through the demographic change. Almost all my neighbors are black.
I was curious so I googled the demographics on her state. She has lived in Vermont for 25 years now. Vermont has a black population of 1%!
But she's a Democrat so her "good thoughts" about race trump any actual living in the midst, being neighbors with people, and so forth. I know rather more about black people now certainly than I did in my youth.
It's a pose. She could, without irony, accuse me of racism based on -- I don't know what -- just because. I'm a Republican, therefore ....
It's so tiresome. I read Elizabeth Bumiller's withering biography of Condi Rice -- now that was racism -- though it was of a very complex sort. Bumiller who is white seems to take Rice to task many times for "not being black enough." And it's like an interview I saw former Vermont governor Howard Dean give Gwel Ifill. He was lecturing her about race. It was all Ms. Ifill could do to refrain from rolling her eyes, I suspect.
This kind of thinking is so wrong, so convoluted, that one gets lost in mazes trying to figure out how to set it aright.
For some, it's cheap virtue. I -- I -- I am the model of broad-minded humane civility!
Oh, please.
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