Calling Orwell! 'Respectability Has Become a 'Hate Crime.'

[PoliticalChic]

1. Liberals, and others who eschew literature, may fail to understand the call to Orwell, but the reference is based here: "Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words."
Doublespeak - Wikipedia


2. The “cardinal” virtues of Aristotle were wisdom, justice, temperance, courage, prudence, magnanimity, munificence, liberality and gentleness.

Aquinas found that the religious virtues complemented the classical ones.




3. Under the leadership of the Left....and I do mean 'under,' from Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx....and Nietzsche.....the only virtue is submission to the orders of government. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest” (Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).

4. And this is how far we've fallen: " Two law professors face racism, sexism, and homophobia charges for urging Americans to act responsibly."
Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior

5. Ready for the basis for the charge of 'hate speech' against these professors?
These rules constitute 'hate speech:'

" The Brookings Institution has spent a great deal of effort studying this issue.
And presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been quoting their findings on the campaign trail.
Brookings whittled down a lot of analysis into three simple rules. You can avoid poverty by:

a. Graduating from high school.

b. Waiting to get married until after 21 and do not have children till after being married.

c. Having a full-time job.

If you do all those three things, your chance of falling into poverty is just 2 percent .Meanwhile, you’ll have a 74 percent chance of being in the middle class.

Applies to everyone
These rules apply to all races and ethnic groups. Breaking these rules is becoming more commonplace, unfortunately, for all racial groups."
Three rules for staying out of poverty




6. The two professors "....published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer calling for a revival of the bourgeois values that characterized mid-century American life, including child-rearing within marriage, hard work, self-discipline on and off the job, and respect for authority."
Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior



Our political system is binary.....you either vote of respectability or for Democrats.

 

[MACAULAY]

Here is where these brave rational professors got into trouble in their op-ed:

“All cultures are not equal,” they write. “Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy.”

In a world where a significant number of people have gone insane---that is now deemed Hate Speech.

The American Culture, which built this country into the greatest in the history of mankind, is now to be dismantled by those who have escaped from the misery of their own Mid-Eastern Culture or Mexican Culture, or other failing Culture...it is to be destroyed, apparently on the ground that it is not Perfect.

It is now Hate Speech in the fucked up world of Academia and Liberalism to be proud of American Culture and the American Way of life.

Hopefully this is a phase of insanity, arising in our colleges, among our Coastal Bolsheviks, and our Rotting City Porch Sitters---will soon pass.

If it doesn't, the break up of this country is the only alternative. The Heartland folks can't live with this nonsense.

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[PoliticalChic]

7. It is not just elections that have consequences.

Allowing the left to dictate societal values has resulted in "lagging education levels, the lowest male work-force participation rate since the Great Depression, opioid abuse, and high illegitimacy rates.


Wax and Alexander catalogue the self-defeating behaviors that leave too many Americans idle, addicted, or in prison: “the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites; the anti-‘acting white’ rap culture of inner-city blacks; the anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants.”
Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior




8. Here's where the two professors angered the Leftists so much that they practically came after them with torches and pitchforks:

“All cultures are not equal,” they write. “Or at least they are not equal in preparing people to be productive in an advanced economy.” Unless America’s elites again promote personal responsibility and other bourgeois virtues, the country’s economic and social problems will only worsen, they conclude."
Ibid.

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. The longer one stays in university studying the social sciences, the less wise one becomes.
Dennis Prager.

The both the ideas of Progressivism, and equality of cultures come from academia, and neither is either wise, nor correct.




10. The roots of postmodernism can be traced to the anthropologist Franz Boas, who, in an effort to study exotic cultures without prejudice, found it useful to take the position that no culture is superior to any other. Thus was born the idea of cultural relativity.

The idea spread like wildfire through the universities, catapulted by the radical impetus of the sixties, ready and willing to reject "the universality of Western norms and principles."
Bawer, "The Victim's Revolution"


a. "Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture. This principle was established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: "...civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes."[1] ..."
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/t...elativism.html



b. What makes this view so very decadent and dangerous is that it forces us to reject the universality of such values as individual liberty, and to believe that "there are no barbarians, only different forms of civilized man."

 

[PoliticalChic]

11. Courage, one of the rarest of character treasures, second only to gratitude, is not missing in Professor Wax.

“I don’t shrink from the word, ‘superior’” with regard to Anglo-Protestant cultural norms, she told the paper. “Everyone wants to come to the countries that exemplify” these values. “Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.” Western governments have undoubtedly committed crimes, she said, but it would be a mistake to reject what is good in those countries because of their historical flaws."

It was a clarion call to the race-card croupiers!


"...the Penn graduate students’ union, GET-UP.... issued a “Statement about Wax Op-Ed,” condemning the “presence of toxic racist, sexist, homophobic attitudes on campus.” The “superiority of one race over others is not an academic debate we have in the 21st century,” GET-UP wrote. “It is racism masquerading as science.”


But the Wax-Alexander op-ed and the Wax interview said nothing about racial superiority (much less about sex or homosexuality).

It argued for a set of behavioral norms that are available to all peoples but that had found their strongest expression over the course of a particular culture."
Op. Cit.

 

[PoliticalChic]

12. "Were Wax and Alexander wrong that the virtues of self-restraint, deferred gratification, and future orientation are key for economic and personal progress, and that an anti-achievement, anti-authority culture of drug use and a detachment from the work force is inimical to advancement?


[Of course the two are correct......and for every race and individual.]


....an assistant professor of educational linguistics at the education school. The professor, Nelson Flores, also implied that Wax was nostalgic for Jim Crow.

The IDEAL Council, “representing marginalized graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania through the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly,” [claimed] Wax and Alexander’s Inquirer op-ed “pivoted on the denigration of a number of racial and socioeconomic groups,” which “will not be surprising to many students of color, especially those in the law school who have had to take a course with Wax,” IDEAL claimed. “Her racist and homophobic statements are well-documented both on and off campus.”
Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior




Exactly what our board Leftists do....lie about the authors....when they are faced with the same sorts of truths Professors Wax and Alexander authored.


Quo Vadis America.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

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