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2020-02-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-29 12:16|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 The birth of entitlement, identity politics, and anarchy:

But it is a third strand of the story, running all the way down to our day, that is most important for explaining our partisan polarization. It concerns how the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964, divided the country. They did so by giving birth to what was, in effect, a second constitution

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-29 12:25|| 2020-02-29 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Outstanding essay. I shared everywhere I could. Including on Rantburg, as I had clicked through and not realized it came from here originally.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-29 12:41|| 2020-02-29 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I do not criticize the principle of equality in general, or the movement for black equality in particular.

I suppose that's prudent, but it means that you've accepted some core assumptions (both explicit and implicit) of the left.

For example, in practice,"the movement for black equality" is actually about revenge, reparations, and primacy if not supremacy.

Once you accept their premises, then you're just debating the details of the subjugation and punishment of the majority population and culture.

The Civil Rights Act (and just as importantly, the Voting Rights Act of 1965) are the policy expressions of those assumptions.

So while addressing the legislation is important, it won't achieve much if we don't have a real debate about what "social justice" and "equality" mean in light of actual history (how many whites are actually descended from slaveowners, for example?).

And can we take the sacrifices that have already been made into account (the dead and maimed of the Civil War, all the social spending of generations, the costs of black and other minority crime, the costs of affirmative action, the decline of social trust in the face of diversity)?

To say nothing of the explicit "Whitey's gotta die" rhetoric that has become increasingly acceptable.

These matters require an accounting, as well.

Without it, we're just going in circles.

Posted by charger 2020-02-29 13:09|| 2020-02-29 13:09|| Front Page Top

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-29 14:42|| 2020-02-29 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Including on Rantburg

Your duplicate now deleted from the hopper, Herb, but only after I enjoyed the fact that you gave us a straightforward excerpt without fancy HTML stuff needing to be deleted.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-29 17:11|| 2020-02-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #2: Extending credits to you for the effort and post.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-29 17:38|| 2020-02-29 17:38|| Front Page Top

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