Ann Coulter, runaway PC and the rise of morality based politics
Great article, touches on a few angles I've thought of myself in recent years, the main one being morality based politics and guilt by political association.
THE HATRED OF ANN COULTER.
Trash Talk
by Michelle Cottle
Only at TNR Online
I especialy liked the line about how that some of the authors friends honestly and sincerly believes that anything "Democrats/liberals/lefties do/believe/advocate by definition must be either irredeemably wicked or irretrievably stupid." For no other reason than that it coems from "the left" it's already discounted, already debunked, already unbelievable, for no other reason that it comes from people that are moraly, intelectualy and spiritualy less of a person than they are.
The sanctamonious, self-righteous hypocricy from the right has been instiutionalized as accepted fact by the party faithfull. Never mind the fact that the Republicans control every single aspect of federal government, or that 10 out of 13 federal courts have solid Republican appointed majorities on them, and the USSC is now 7-2 Republican appointed. Never mind that, it's *still* the liberals/democrats/leftists fault about everything.
To be able to simply discount everything you disagree with as coming from moraly shallow, inept, and simply plain bad people must be a singularly freeing feeling. To free yourself of all doubt, to never have to explain or justify, let alone support your opinions because simply by questioning them the person is questioning God, it just has to be liberating.
God is not on your side, people. Nor is He on our side. God is on no ones side. You are on His side, or not. It is not the same thing. It's more than semantics, in fact it's the most relavent point of the discussion.
By no means do I lay this legacy on the feet of conservatives alone. Political correctness ran amok in this country for too long, and the left pushed it too hard. People shouldn't not call other people names because it's "politicaly incorrect,", they should not call other people names simply because it's the polite thing to do.
But rather than pointing that out, the right threw a fit of backlash, striking out at their own reluctance to simply treat people the way they would like to be treated, and here we are, hating each other based on differing ideals and politics, the very differences that should bring us together in discussion and compromise.
But how can you compromise your morals? You can't, and, again, here we are.
THE HATRED OF ANN COULTER.
Trash Talk
by Michelle Cottle
Only at TNR Online
I especialy liked the line about how that some of the authors friends honestly and sincerly believes that anything "Democrats/liberals/lefties do/believe/advocate by definition must be either irredeemably wicked or irretrievably stupid." For no other reason than that it coems from "the left" it's already discounted, already debunked, already unbelievable, for no other reason that it comes from people that are moraly, intelectualy and spiritualy less of a person than they are.
The sanctamonious, self-righteous hypocricy from the right has been instiutionalized as accepted fact by the party faithfull. Never mind the fact that the Republicans control every single aspect of federal government, or that 10 out of 13 federal courts have solid Republican appointed majorities on them, and the USSC is now 7-2 Republican appointed. Never mind that, it's *still* the liberals/democrats/leftists fault about everything.
To be able to simply discount everything you disagree with as coming from moraly shallow, inept, and simply plain bad people must be a singularly freeing feeling. To free yourself of all doubt, to never have to explain or justify, let alone support your opinions because simply by questioning them the person is questioning God, it just has to be liberating.
God is not on your side, people. Nor is He on our side. God is on no ones side. You are on His side, or not. It is not the same thing. It's more than semantics, in fact it's the most relavent point of the discussion.
By no means do I lay this legacy on the feet of conservatives alone. Political correctness ran amok in this country for too long, and the left pushed it too hard. People shouldn't not call other people names because it's "politicaly incorrect,", they should not call other people names simply because it's the polite thing to do.
But rather than pointing that out, the right threw a fit of backlash, striking out at their own reluctance to simply treat people the way they would like to be treated, and here we are, hating each other based on differing ideals and politics, the very differences that should bring us together in discussion and compromise.
But how can you compromise your morals? You can't, and, again, here we are.
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