Tribunal of the Left
Wretchard writes:
If we start regarding the Palestinians as men like other men and hold them to the same standards we will accomplish two things: utter the greatest Liberal heresy possible and treat them as equals.
Oh, but we no longer see men as morally autonomous. Standing to come before the tribunal of the Left--where redistributive redress and ideological injunction are bandied about with a cynical eye--is granted only to the well-organized victim group that speaks truth to power. These new pockets of political consequence are composed of men all too happy to trade their own individual interests for the newfangled glory of anger in defeat, supplicants and petitioners drawn to Stereotype's crescent of embrace, surprised when they find themselves in shackles instead.
If we start regarding the Palestinians as men like other men and hold them to the same standards we will accomplish two things: utter the greatest Liberal heresy possible and treat them as equals.
Oh, but we no longer see men as morally autonomous. Standing to come before the tribunal of the Left--where redistributive redress and ideological injunction are bandied about with a cynical eye--is granted only to the well-organized victim group that speaks truth to power. These new pockets of political consequence are composed of men all too happy to trade their own individual interests for the newfangled glory of anger in defeat, supplicants and petitioners drawn to Stereotype's crescent of embrace, surprised when they find themselves in shackles instead.
posted by John Aristides at 6:13 AM
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