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February 08, 2008
Love of country must always be qualified these days
James Lileks considers the state of the nation.*
It is also unacceptable to suggest that some people do not succeed because they aren’t smart, since that suggests that merit is rewarded, and that can’t be true. Merit has nothing to do with America; it’s all about white male privilege. Do not be fooled by the rise of Hillary and Obama; put them together, and what do you have? White. Male.
This via Rantburg whence Procopius2k comments:
A mere hundred years ago, only the rich in America could be fat and happy and lazy. Just google up some black and whites of the time. The 'fat cats' sitting around the dinning table in their suits, with a cigar and loads of food on the table. Then the classic images of the hard working down trodden 'working class', thin and sunburned, that hungry look. Well America applied itself to rectify that 'injustice'. So, today its the rich who are thin and sunburned and the poor who are fat, happy, and laid back. And everyone is bitchin' that this so bad. Make up your mind people :)
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 8, 2008 06:53 AM
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... but we have Kinsella and company ...
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs
at February 10, 2008 09:18 PM
Absolutely. I was delighted to be amongst the fairly long list of people he smeared as a "crypto-Nazi". I would threaten to sue him if I thought anyone took him seriously. Besides, in the internet age, everybody gets to be a Nazi for fifteen minutes.
