Another Steele Must-Read
Don't miss Shelby Steele's brilliant commentary on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Here's just a snippet:
White guilt in the West -- especially in Europe and on the American left -- confuses all this by seeing Islamic extremism as a response to oppression. The West is so terrified of being charged with its old sins of racism, imperialism and colonialism that it makes oppression an automatic prism on the non-Western world, a politeness. But Islamic extremists don't hate the West because they are oppressed by it. They hate it precisely because the end of oppression and colonialism -- not their continuance -- forced the Muslim world to compete with the West. Less oppression, not more, opened this world to the sense of defeat that turned into extremism.
That resentment parallels and reflects the age-old, unreasoning hatred that is anti-Semitism.
White guilt in the West -- especially in Europe and on the American left -- confuses all this by seeing Islamic extremism as a response to oppression. The West is so terrified of being charged with its old sins of racism, imperialism and colonialism that it makes oppression an automatic prism on the non-Western world, a politeness. But Islamic extremists don't hate the West because they are oppressed by it. They hate it precisely because the end of oppression and colonialism -- not their continuance -- forced the Muslim world to compete with the West. Less oppression, not more, opened this world to the sense of defeat that turned into extremism.
That resentment parallels and reflects the age-old, unreasoning hatred that is anti-Semitism.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:57 AM
2 Comments:
It is unfortunate when scholars kiss up to power as this author is obviously doing.
Editor: would you say that he's getting uppity?
I know it seems like fun at first, Cliff. But when you try to debate an idiot, eventually you end up frustrated from their inability to make sense. For example, he doesn't understand that Steele's theory doesn't necessarily refer to only white guilt over blacks exclusively, but minorities of all kinds. The whites with guilt, mostly libs, but some cons as well, weigh their words and actions in dealing with any non-white group. They're afraid of offending anyone to the point of crippling themselves. And such deep thinking (only half-way down to the basement, really) is way beyond eddy's capacity to fathom. So give it up and just mock him as I do. Eventually, we'll have an intelligent lib (they do exist you know) who will comment here and pose a real challenge.
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