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Set Aside All Traditional Modes Of Argument, And The Left Does Make Sense

Posted on | December 24, 2014 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

But among all the posturers, none was so preening as New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio. In advance of a trip to Washington for a White House summit on policing, he told the press that a “scourge” of killings by police is “based not just on decades, but centuries of racism.” De Blasio embroidered on that theme several days later, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict an officer for homicide in Garner’s death. (The 350-pound asthmatic Garner had resisted arrest for the crime of selling loose cigarettes; officers brought him to the ground, provoking a fatal heart attack.) “People are saying: ‘Black lives matter,’” de Blasio announced after the grand jury concluded. “It should be self-evident, but our history requires us to say ‘black lives matter.’ It was not years of racism that brought us to this day, or decades of racism, but centuries of racism.” De Blasio added that he worries “every night” about the “dangers [his biracial son Dante] may face” from “officers who are paid to protect him.”

The mayor’s irresponsible rhetoric was a violation of his role as the city’s leader and as its main exponent of the law.

The idea of leaders as exponents of the law is rooted in traditional, rational categories of thought. Fifty years after the Godless Commies launched their assault on our culture, you need to get past all that.

If an official is a Democrat, in the media, or part of the Racism Industrial Complex (all of which had been distinct some years previously) then everything he’s about is the flesh. If you’re not in his club, you’re an animal to be herded.

All that they do or say is about inflaming the hormones. Rage breaks down traditional culture, hedonistic pleasures maintain their sheep in an infantile, irrational flock.

The ultimate test of American Exceptionalism (or even Anglosphere Exceptionalism) is how well we weather this diabolical assault, and set about restoring the ideas of the rule of law, private property, limited government, and individual liberty that the Left so hates and is out to demolish.

But, like Democrat plantation owners of old, their cause is not just. God has bad news for them under the sun, and even worse when their time for eternal judgement arrives.

via Instapundit

Category: Culture

Comments

17 Responses to “Set Aside All Traditional Modes Of Argument, And The Left Does Make Sense”

  1. Jim R
    December 24th, 2014 @ 5:02 pm

    In advance of a trip to Washington for a White House summit on policing, he told the press that a “scourge” of killings by police is “based not just on decades, but centuries of racism.”

    His head would explode if somebody publicly argued that the “scourge” of police killings is due to decades of liberals passing more and more laws that have to be enforced on Americans, like prohibiting selling individual cigarettes in the street.

    It would also be interesting to ask him just how many people ARE killed by the cops each year; I’d wager that he doesn’t know.

    I don’t say that police killings are something we should blithely accept, but I’m really not in the mood to be lectured by a man who (A) has such a cartoonish view of the problem, and (B) has the power to do quite a lot about it in his city gut prefers to pass the buck and blame whitey.

  2. Adobe_Walls
    December 24th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm

    Police shootings are down 25% in NY over the last decade or so.

  3. richard mcenroe
    December 24th, 2014 @ 8:04 pm

    You put a Sandinista in charge of your city, and you get a Latin American shithole. Why is anyone surprised?

  4. Jim R
    December 24th, 2014 @ 8:05 pm

    Color me cynical, but I’m thinking that trend is about to reverse. I hope I’m wrong.

  5. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 24th, 2014 @ 8:15 pm

    Murder as a whole is down 90% in NYC over the last decade.

  6. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 24th, 2014 @ 8:23 pm

    It was not even a great album from the Clash (I much preferred London Calling).

  7. Adobe_Walls
    December 24th, 2014 @ 10:54 pm

    Not if the NYPD simply backs off, of course other shootings will go up if they haven’t already after they reduced stop and frisk.

  8. Adobe_Walls
    December 24th, 2014 @ 10:55 pm

    The 70% or so who didn’t vote might be. Anthony Weiner is looking pretty good right now.

  9. smitty
    December 24th, 2014 @ 11:41 pm

    And that’s not a member we ever thought we’d admire.

  10. theoldsargesays
    December 25th, 2014 @ 12:30 am

    ISWYDT

  11. Adobe_Walls
    December 25th, 2014 @ 12:51 am

    Well played sir.

  12. kinh nghiem du lich han quoc thang 11
    December 25th, 2014 @ 8:27 pm

    kinh nghiem du lich han quoc thang 11

    Set Aside All Traditional Modes Of Argument, And The Left Does Make Sense : The Other McCain

  13. neshobanakni
    December 26th, 2014 @ 5:21 pm

  14. neshobanakni
    December 26th, 2014 @ 5:22 pm

    Your last three paragraphs explain why I my natural libertarian tendencies give me pause.

  15. FIN 534 Week 4 Homework Chapter 6
    December 26th, 2014 @ 6:33 pm

    FIN 534 Week 4 Homework Chapter 6

    Set Aside All Traditional Modes Of Argument, And The Left Does Make Sense : The Other McCain

  16. theoldsargesays
    December 26th, 2014 @ 10:48 pm

    Like his predecessor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Deblasio feels very comfortable speaking out against gun violence and community policing policies while surrounded by armed police officers 24/7 and living in a secure mansion on the Upper East Side.

  17. TravisJSays
    December 27th, 2014 @ 3:15 pm

    It’s tough to be an isolationist libertarian when the mongol hordes are about to take your city.