Stephen Roney's Blog, page 130
July 3, 2022
The View from India
Apparently, Indians are white supremacists...
All Men Are Created Equal
This essay from AP seems to deliberately obscure the plain sense of the simple passage from the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.”
“Those words say to me, ‘Do better, America.’ And what I mean by that is we have never been a country where people were truly equal,” Jennings says. “It’s an aspiration to continue to work towards, and we’re not there yet.”
“We say ‘All men are created equal’ but does that mean we need to make everyone entirely equal at all times…?’”
“Robin Marty, author of ‘Handbook for a Post-Roe America,’ calls the phrase a ‘bromide’ for those ‘who ignore how unequal our lives truly are.’”
But if men are created equal, it cannot be the business of government to make them equal. The duty of government is to treat them equally; to value them for their own deeds, as opposed to valuing them for how they were created.
The author then suggests that unless we recognize gay marriage, we are denying gays the right to marry, hence treating them unequally. But we are not—gays always had equal rights to marry; just not to marry men. Is it discriminatory if we still do not allow people to legally marry animals, their grown children, themselves, or multiple partners? No, so long as the same law applies to all for the same act.
Nor is there any question that the term “all men” always referred to black men. There is no way to twist it so that it does not.
I fear this essay is an example of the postmodern spirit, which insists that we can twist words to mean whatever we want, making them endlessly debatable, and, ultimately, meaningless.
The essay concludes with Ibram Kendi explaining “The anti-racist idea suggests that all racial groups are biologically, inherently equal.”
This is self-evidently false. Racial groups are not biologically equal, because they are not biologically identical. It is the human soul that is equal; in moral worth, because equal in the eyes of the Creator. Not everyone has the mental or physical capacity to be a doctor, or a star athlete, and it is not discrimination if you are not. One gets into these confusions when one gets materialist, and denies the soul of man.
Kendi of course goes further, and insists that all cultures must also be accepted as equal. This is nonsensical. A culture is a set of ideas; this is tantamount to insisting that all ideas are equally true.
Including things like apartheid, genocide, caste, and child sacrifice.
Timber
I saw a reasonably balanced account of the Ottawa July 1 protesters on CBC. They ended, fairly enough, by noting that, although the parade of ‘freedom fighters” looked large, they really represented only a small proportion of Canadians.
This seems to be true enough, according to the polls, according to the last federal election, according to the recent Ontario election. Even the spring surge in CPC membership does not prove anything. It makes the Conservatives the largest party in Canadian history, but its membership is still a tiny proportion of the general population, perhaps 2%.
However, I recall a university class back in 1974, which hosted a guest speaker from the PLO. I pointed out after her talk that polls showed the great majority of Palestinian Arabs actually supported Israel.
“Wait ten years,” she said. She was right.
It takes time for any very new message to percolate through the population.
The priority now is to get the message out. The leftist elite knows this, because they are doing everything they can to prevent the message from getting out.
I retain a visceral dislike of Erin O’Toole, because he took the opposite path, declaring the conservative message wrong and promising no change. It was a betrayal; all the more so since he ran for the leadership as a “true blue” conservative. Had the party faithful wanted to run centre-left, they would have done better with Peter MacKay. O’Toole sold them and the Canadian people out for personal ambition.
Pierre Poilievre, by contrast, is a brilliant communicator; and he knows how to use social media. This allows him to bypass the media control and speak directly to the people. He has long reminded me of John Diefenbaker with his inquisitorial fire in question period. His latest video reminds me of Ronald Reagan.
He speaks in clear and simple terms of things we all know in our hearts.
We need is to get the message out, and Canada will quickly tip to the side of freedom. Poilievre looks like our best chance yet to get that message out.
'Od's Blog: Catholic comments on the passing parade.
July 1, 2022
Welcome to Canadian Summer!
Pour la Fete du Canada
Plattsburgh Drive-In Blues.
For Canada Day
One of the saddest of all songs.
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Pour la Fete du Canada
