tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post1812177434399543975..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: “Truths” That Must Be DisputedFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-70294865441226717832019-08-31T09:45:47.037-04:002019-08-31T09:45:47.037-04:00Wow, that was quick! I just posted it.
In regard...Wow, that was quick! I just posted it.<br /><br />In regard to evidence of eyes and ears vs. what "must be" believed, I presume you are familiar with this quote:<br /><br />In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.<br /><br />— Theodore DalrympleNITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-17048938715140065682019-08-31T09:43:35.136-04:002019-08-31T09:43:35.136-04:00I, as a person who is - visually - literally as &q...I, as a person who is - visually - literally as "whitebread" as you can get, was once asked if I would have objections to my children marrying a black person. My reply was that if they were similar to Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Candace Owens, Star Parker in intellect, character, morals, and pro-American sentiments I would be fine with that. (Yes, I'm also hoping they marry Jews and, as I've advised them, seek out Jews whose Judaism is stronger than theirs... but this is another matter.)<br /><br />What's at issue, as I see it, is that the Left's "Great Society" has so corrupted blacks (minorities in general but blacks in particular) that they actively celebrate and laud such bad behaviors. You cannot advance people when families are razed, but this is precisely what the Left has done.<br /><br />Both Sowell and Williams have pointed out the enormous gains made by blacks in this country post-bellum. This is laudable. But this progress largely stopped, and backslid, after the Left's machinations.<br /><br />Having said this, it's clear that traits breed true. Black skin color was an evolutionary development in the African sun's light; likewise, the absence of melanin occurred in northern countries where the need for vitamin D took precedence. Other traits doubtless also breed true. If intelligence and abstract thought are not survival traits beyond a "certain shrewdness" they won't develop. That, too, will be selected for over generations.<br /><br />Confounding this nature-nurture question are things like pre-and-post-natal nutrition (I am relentless in giving my kids vitamins, and surreptitiously hide things like ALA oils and choline in their foods for better brain development; they also eat a lot of meat). Add in culture. Corruption and "thug-life" are praised both in America in the black community, as well as in Africa (and most of the third world). E.g., a friend of mine wants to do his PhD on business development in Africa, so I send articles as I find them - many deal with the raw corruption as well as the tribal nature of the cultures there.<br /><br />If we believe in America, we believe - however tenuously at this point *cough cough Comey, Clinton, etc.* it may be - in the Rule of Law. Which means we judge individuals.<br /><br />So what to do? I don't know. But I do know this: there are powerful forces at work attacking the entire sweep of Western Civilization. They must be exposed, fought, and destroyed.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.com