By David Limbaugh
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
A couple of recent news items illustrate the
close-mindedness, aggressiveness and oppressiveness of modern liberalism's
thought police.
MSNBC's Toure issued a scathing commentary against the
GOP for considering outreach efforts toward African-Americans. Toure said:
"Such is the dysfunctional, abusive relationship the GOP insists on with
black folks. They say they want a new relationship while continuing to try to
screw us over."
Toure went on to lambaste Dr. Ben Carson, a black person,
for daring to stray from leftist ideas and endorsing conservative ones, such as
a flat tax. Carson has "intellectual tumors in his mind, like a flat tax,
which is regressive and ignorant in the face of American wealth
inequality." Toure continued: "I doubt the GOP would entertain a
white non-politician with unserious ideas." But blacks such as Carson
"get raced to the front of the line because then people get to put a
bumper sticker on their cars saying, 'How can I be racist? I would have voted
for Carson."
Another story involves Ryan Rotela, a student at Florida
Atlantic University who alleges that he was suspended from his class on
"intercultural communications" because he refused to comply with a
directive (or request) by the course's instructor, Deandre Poole.
Poole allegedly told his students to write
"Jesus" on a sheet of paper, put the paper on the floor and then
stomp on it. Rotela, a devout Mormon, said he refused and "picked up the
paper from the floor and put it right back on the table." He said he told
the professor he didn't believe this was appropriate, that it was
unprofessional for the professor to have initiated this exercise and that he
was "deeply offended" by what he had told him to do.
Todd Starnes of Fox News said that according to
documents, Rotela "has been brought up on academic charges by the school
and may no longer attend class." But this "notice of charges,"
according to Starnes, is contrary to a statement the university released Friday
night, which said no one had been disciplined as a result of the classroom
activity.
Regardless, the assignment itself was outrageous and is
illustrative of a hostile attitude toward Christianity (and conservatism) on
many campuses and elsewhere in our culture today.
The left can vehemently deny it, but does anyone really
believe that a professor would still have his job if instead of using the word
"Jesus," he had used "Muhammad" or "Barack Obama"
or the name or symbol of any other iconic figure of the left?
In so many universities, what passes for open academic inquiry
is often more like indoctrination. In the name of diversity, multiculturalism
and tolerance, academics trash Western civilization and traditional moral
values on the perverse rationale that those values are intolerant and thus
undeserving of tolerance and favorable treatment.
We see this same phenomenon occurring throughout our
society, not just in universities but also in the media and in corporate
America, where the tyranny of political correctness has taken firm root. How
often have we read about corporate employees being forced to attend
"sensitivity training" when they've expressed views about same-sex
marriage or other issues about which leftist culture commanders are passionate?
As Paul Kengor of The Center for Vision & Values at
Grove City College explains, "these are the new secular disciples of
'diversity' and 'tolerance' -- empty buzzwords that make liberals and
progressives feel good while they often refuse to tolerate and sometimes even
assault traditional Christian and conservative beliefs."
Liberals hold themselves out as open-minded, tolerant and
supportive of academic inquiry, but many of them are contemptuous of views they
reject. If you do not subscribe to the left's views on politics, social
science, religion, affirmative action, sexuality, etc., your views are not only
not worthy of protection but deserving of scorn, ridicule and sometimes even
punishment and recalibration.
But guess what. These tactics tend to work. No matter how
many courageous conservatives fight back against the left's intolerance and no
matter how many black conservatives refuse to toe the liberal line that
requires them to think like liberals -- lest they cease being authentic blacks
-- more and more on the right are throwing in the towel instead of standing up
for what they believe and facing ridicule and abuse from the left.
Many, for example, are jumping on the bandwagon to
support same-sex marriage to receive their pat on the head from our progressive
culture. Some have been persuaded, no doubt, but many are just afraid to be
branded as bigots or homophobes for taking a principled stand in support of
traditional marriage.
Long ago, leftists learned that bullying and persistence
work, and they are being rewarded for their efforts by those whose social and
political opinions are determined more by a craving for popular approval than
by deeply held convictions.
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