By Ben Shapiro
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
This week's column is brought to you by the word
"a--holes." It's one of the left's favorite words these days, fond as
they are of shutting down the debate and casting their political opponents out
like lepers.
Take, for example, the website Gawker. The website is
liberal. And as liberal Obama backers, they feel the necessity not only to
support the Obama agenda, but also silence those on the other side through
bully tactics. Hence their decision this week to publish a full list of all the
registered gun owners in New York City. The title of their big reveal:
"Here Is a List of All The A--holes Who Own Guns in New York City."
That's an inaccurate title, of course -- the worst people who own guns in New
York City likely own them illegally. But it fits with the leftist conceit that
those who disagree on gun policy are just bad people.
It's not just gun owners who are "a--holes"
according to the left. This week, restaurant chain Wendy's announced that they
would have to cut back worker hours in order to preserve their employment
thanks to additional costs imposed by Obamacare. This, of course, is basic
economics -- when you impose additional costs on a business, they have to cut
back. But to the left, reality is a mere inconvenience. If you experience
additional costs from the vaunted Obamacare program, you're supposed to lift
your chin and soldier on, even if it means bankruptcy.
And so ultra-thug Dan Savage tweeted, "A--holes:
Wendy's Cuts Employee hrs. to Part-Time 2 Avoid Obamacare." Savage is,
amazingly enough, one of President Obama's anti-bullying czars -- he runs the
It Gets Better Project, which is closely associated with the White House. He
also bullies conservatives routinely. When Chick-Fil-A's ownership turned out
to be pro-traditional marriage, Savage tried to redefine Chick-Fil-A to mean a
graphically perverse sexual act; he did the same with Rick Warren's Saddleback
Church after Warren expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage; he did the
same with Rick Santorum's name after Santorum had the gall to speak out for
traditional notions of heterosexual marriage. Savage has also berated Christian
students for walking out on one of his anti-Christian screeds and suggested
that politicians with whom he disagrees should be murdered.
Savage wasn't the only one taking on Wendy's for failing
to magically exempt itself from the laws of economics. Potty-mouth comedienne
Sarah Silverman tweeted, "What lame period faces." And Nathan
Fillion's of "Firefly" fame wrote, "I just boycotted Wendy's.
And broke up with Wendy. Via tweet."
Leave aside the fact that the leftist solution to Wendy's
cutting back hours is to cut their profit margin even further, forcing them to
fire people. Focus instead on the morality play leftists shoehorn into the
Wendy's scenario: greedy corporation wants to avoid helping people get health
care, and so cuts back their hours. Again, the leftist position rests on the
thuggish notion that those on the other side are morally inferior to them.
The truth is that the left is morally inferior when it
plays these games. Instead of looking for actual solutions to problems of crime
and murder and bankruptcy, leftists prefer to grandstand. It makes them feel
good to label those who oppose their agenda "a--holes," even if it
doesn't save lives. It makes them feel good to rip Wendy's rather than
Obamacare, because you don't win points for backing business -- but you do win
points for slandering business in the name of the collective.
The left has become a collection of bullies, knee-jerk
moralists without the morality. They aren't interested in the best policy.
They're just interested in the glow they feel when they self-perceive as having
defended a "victimized group." Too bad the only real victims are
those who end up on the short end of their insulting cretinism.
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