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Entry: The VDare Monologues Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_vdare_monologues#14578 Post contents: One of the problems of political correctness is that a certain number of people will canonize anyone who isn't PC, even if said person's positions are objectionable according to objective, Christian criteria. What makes a person worthy of approbation isn't that PC folks reject him -- that only gives those same PC critics more power as the arbiters of how one thinks. I won't praise Trotsky because Stalin condemns him, nor vice versa. There is a saying, "Don't call a badger a bishop." A badger is a relatively small animal that fights ferociously against larger creatures, such as dogs, wolves, and bears. Yet determined resistance against a larger opponent doesn't make one's stance moral. An underdog is not necessarily right, and sometimes the underdog is actually the aggressor. If the SPLC focussed all of its attention on actual neo-Nazis, skinheads, Klansmen, etc., combated them by lawful and moral means, and did not exaggerate the threat they pose, then I would support the SPLC. Just because the powerful "wolves," "bears," "dogs," etc., of the world are opposed to a given political stance, policy, program, or ideology does not make that policy correct. I say this as a warning against the tendency of some to refrain from criticizing, or even from critiqueing, people simply because they are "anti-Establishment." As for witch-hunts, on the internet I've seen paleocon witch-hunts intended to "out" people as neocons. Neocons aren't the only ones who attempt to assert their own specific understanding of what "conservatism." Double-edged swords cut both ways. Sent at: 2008 09 05