Wednesday, October 12, will mark the 141st anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s death. He was a giant who epitomized the best that used to distinguish America from the rest of the world.
Robert E. Lee embodied a rare combination of breeding, class, and honor along with a republican spirit, noblesse oblige, and humility. One of history’s greatest military commanders, he abhorred war’s carnage. He balanced courage with prudence and a deep Christian faith with nonparochial humanism. Upon his death, the New York Herald wrote:
Robert Edward Lee was an American, and the great nation which gave him birth would be today unworthy of such a son if she regarded him lightly. Never had mother a nobler son….
Just as he had refused an offer to command the Union Army so he could defend his beloved Virginia, Robert E. Lee would decline lucrative offers after the War Between the States, saying he felt it his duty to live with his people and educate their youth. Six months after the surrender at Appomattox, Lee accepted the presidency of Washington College. He served in that capacity for five years until his death on October 12, 1870.
Washington College is now Washington and Lee University. Its academic programs include such linchpins of Western civilization as Poverty Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Gay and Lesbian Life in 20th Century United States, and African-American Studies replete with the obligatory critical race theory. One wonders if the latter includes a post-structuralist, discursive narrative of the transgressive trichotomy in the Afro-American cantata genre known as “Got mah EBT?” rap as evinced here and here.
The main business of this sorry caricature of what academia ought to be is now “diversity” and white mea-culpism. Chanting the magic mantra of “social change and justice” follows the teachings of Sri Barack Ramobama Gurudeva, not General Robert E. Lee, let alone George Washington.
Washington and Lee University has an Office of Diversity & Inclusion brandishing the obligatory mantra of “GLBTQ, Multicultural, Religious, International.” It has a CAIR “discrimination” snitch line, the acronym shared with the controversial Islamic organization but standing in this case for “Confidential and Impartial Resolution Resources.” Said “discrimination” is deemed so crucial that 14 of the most important faculty and administrators on campus are iterated as Investigation and Review Officers.
WLU’s “University Statement of Commitment to Diversity” reads in its fanatical zeal like the proclamation of a group of brainwashed, terrorized Chinese kulaks who finally saw the light of the Little Red Book and swear in front of the assembled peasantry eternal fealty to the Great Leader and the Revolution:
Washington and Lee University commits itself to the recruitment and retention of a broad, inclusive student body, faculty and administration who represent a wide range of interests, abilities and cultures—a diverse array of talent. The University will strengthen a curriculum that increases knowledge, awareness and understanding of diversity and inclusiveness….
Diversity, shmadversity—the photo accompanying this gibberish shows 11 black students and three dweeby white ones.
WLU’s “Programming & Awareness”—the Russkis were at least creative enough to call it agitprop—includes a lavish annual celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday, but you’ll search in vain for a celebration of George Washington’s or Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Ditto relative to WLU’s pushing of Hispanic Heritage Month, GLBT History Month, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Hermaphroditic Striped Gerbils’ Heritage Month…no, wait, backtrack on that last one.
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A historian (and ex-Marine) friend reacted to Scott Locklin’s essay about the importance of tough manliness: “One of the reasons I hate liberalism is that it is wimp liberalism.” He then adduced the therapeutic state’s handling of violent criminals as an example of limp liberalism. He said that had the hyper-macho POTUS Theodore Roosevelt been reelected in 1912, the Germans wouldn’t have dared to start World War I.
Scanning the news page the other day, it struck me that liberalism—even when not limp but incarnated in such priapic women as La Hillary, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, the Napolitano person, or Janet Reno—is still a road to war, mayhem, and self-destruction. Instigating idiotic wars in faraway places with billions spent—not a dime of which we have—and then “hoping” via a menopausal psychotic she-narcissist that the rebels “safeguard” 20,000 surface-to-air missiles, the black-market value of which rests in their ability to shoot Boeings out of the sky—why, that strikes me as utopian estrogen-cockiness deserving the most hateful opprobrium. Same goes for pleading that Egyptian mobs whose ascension the US has foolishly sponsored refrain from their destruction of the Israeli Embassy and the Middle East’s fragile peace with it.
It’s no coincidence that back in March, shortly after this whitey-sponsored Arab Spring insanity was initiated, the addled gelding Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was spouting on teeveee to Chris Wallace:
Thank God for strong women in the Obama Administration….I think the president has caveated this way too much. It’s almost like it’s a nuisance.
Europe has been destroyed partly because gelded men have streamed insane socialist women into positions of power in defense, internal security, law enforcement, foreign policy, etc., there to implement their lunatic passive-aggressive chimeras. This is how a deconstructed postmodern Minister of Defense (in this case, of Spain) does troop review, her maternity dress billowing, fittingly four years after her country capitulated before reconquista Muslim terrorists. And this woman—a socialist baroness, no less—had as much to do with immersing bankrupt Europe in the expensive and dangerous hellhole of the Arab Spring as BHO’s “three strong women” had to do with nudging the near-bankrupt America to jump into that terrible morass.
The liberal-progressive David Brown’s choice for Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, among her many stupefying displays of terminal stupidity renamed terrorism by fanatical Muslims “anti-Islamic activity” and described fanatical Muslim terrorists as “criminals whose victims come from all walks of life, communities and religions.” For a change, “conservative” David Cameron’s choice for Home Secretary, Theresa May, has been not only densely dim in responding to widespread rioting in Great Britain, but repeatedly so.
If Obama has his three strong women, the fatuous “conservative” poseur Bush used to send Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes to represent the United States before medieval Arabian potentates to better elicit their pity for the idiot giant. Clinton had his big ones (Reno) and small ones (Shalala), but his iconic yenta—other than the Mrs.—must have been Madeleine Albright. Immortalized in her hen-on-amphetamines approach to the job of Secretary of State in this David Zucker video, Madam Secretary is now, among her many other ventures for spreading strong estrogen doctrine, the doyenne of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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They can be grasped conceptually in a hundred ways, yet they cannot be named. Take, for example, the 2002 B flick They, about a young woman haunted by demons who invade her dreams, then her days, and eventually rape and devour her. Perfect. Or take They Live, a 1988 B movie in which aliens from outer space control American society through signals multiplexed into television broadcasts. Couldn’t get closer. But if you try to name them directly and exhaustively, you will miss.
Before one attempts a taxonomy of They, one needs to construct a typology. A moth collector’s skills are required, not those of a propagandist. One begins by assembling a large and varied number of specimens. Then the sorting-out begins, each to its own kind in a separate bin according to observable common characteristics. Here, we are still running after specimens with a butterfly net.
They say we must reverse “moral collapse” after 65 years of debauching, debasing, spoiling, indulging, decivilizing, secularizing, pornifying, Negroizing, yobbizing, chavifying, and inciting the British lower class in its dysfunctions.
They, who so prided themselves on their tolerance to imported barbarians and taxed themselves to support the barbarians, now are told by the barbarians, “One dog less” when they die. Alas, They who were demented enough to saddle Europe with 50-million-plus barbarians blabbering of some long-ago desert brigand, deserve the contempt.
They, at the BBC—once the world standard of excellence in broadcast media—now add “p.b.u.h.” (peace be upon him) after each mention of Muhammad, refer to feral thugs burning and looting Britain as “protesters,” promote an insane, unmixable concoction of multiculti-GLBT-Islam-socialist-Afrocentric-feminosupremacist twaddle and admit cheerfully they are biased on religion and politics. They are not bothered by small technicalities such as their own fate when the “protesters” reach the BBC Broadcasting House or when Muslims set British policy on GLBT or when the feminosupremacists have to make their way through throngs of Pashtun males imported upon the Beeb’s recommendation.
They, at any other broadcast, cable/satellite, newspaper, magazine, book-publishing, or theatrical-film battalion in the Snatchers’ MSM Assault Brigade, get their brain signal from the same source the BBC does. They even sell Obama merchandise in the CBS News’ online store and will release an Obama-slew-Osama movie just before the 2012 election.
They kneel in African stadia in chains or on American streets to beg forgiveness for black slavery, oblivious to the assertive swagger of the Religion of Peace whose adherents have harvested a much greater and more cruel slaving crop, both in Africa and in Europe.
They forbid IQ testing of black students and ring the great larum-bell because “only” 16% of grant applications by black researchers are funded, compared with 29% from white ones. Either path to excellence in science is highly promising for China.
Speaking of China, They use supercomputer components supplied by Huawei Technologies to perform simulated flight tests for next-generation US military aircraft and spacecraft and have given China’s Hutchison Whampoa a no-bid contract to scan American import cargo for nukes. America’s “best and brightest” are doing this.
They sue coffeehouses for refusing to employ dwarfs as baristas, notwithstanding the fact that espresso-machine controls are perched four-and-a-half feet from the ground. They sue trucking companies for refusing to employ alcoholics as truck drivers. They sue police or fire departments that don’t have “enough” of what is, to them, a sufficiently dark skin-color palette.
They rig the rules of the game so that tattooed morons can find enough degenerates onto whom to offload their glottal discharges to amass a $100 million fortune in ten years—which only ranks #4 on Forbes’s richest rappers list. Morons’ idol moron celebrates the American Dream with heartfelt paeans such as, “Summertime, white Porsche Carrera is milky/I’m on the grind, let my paper stack but I’m filthy/It’s funny how niggaz get to screw-facin’ at me.” At the same time Their rules consign people such as Samuel Francis to death by boycott, economic deprivation, and a broken heart.
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They bring tens of millions of 7th-century Muslim immigrants to 21st-century Europe and then clamp down on Europe for resisting the unnatural graft.
They bring tens of millions of subliterate irredentist Mexicans to American territory conquered from Mexicans and then call “racist” those who notice that the Mexicans are subliterate irredentists.
They funnel 200 different peoples onto the same already-crowded patches of Europeans’ (or ex-Europeans’) land insisting that we are all the same and then invent multiculturalism and voting in 25 languages.
They import grasping poverty from the Third World and then are perplexed when the poverty grabs what it can purloin from its hosts’ public treasury.
They pillory Enoch Powell in 1968, only to wake up to smoldering England and bands of “youths” beating, stabbing, and robbing Britons in 2011.
They see who the “youths” are and then write headlines such as, “Is technology to blame for the London riots?”
They force women on the Army and Navy and then panic that there is a “rape epidemic” in the Army and 19% of the female sailors are pregnant.
They encourage sodomy and are mystified when a Sodom-like medical plague breaks out.
They force the sodomites on the Marines and then court-martial the Marines who don’t approve of forced sodomizing.
They recruit five-foot grandmothers for sheriff’s deputies to escort violent felons twice their size and half their age and then pass bills honoring the grandmas after they were squashed by said felons. To secure the homeland, they ignore the known knowns and harass the unknown unknowns.
They let through swathed Allahu Akbar followers but corral white Christians to shuffle through naked scans shoeless, beltless, and presumed-innocentless.
They plea-bargain and parole millions of violent felons and then blame crime on guns.
They sell guns to violent criminals in Mexico who use them to shoot Americans, then blame crime on guns in American citizens’ hands.
They build China’s military from scratch with American dollars and American technology and then notice in bewilderment that China’s military has become a towering menace. If American, they arm, train, and sponsor tribal jihadis all over the Muslim world and then are dumbstruck when the jihadis turn all that on their infidel benefactors. If European, they genuflect before and pay jizya to aggressive Muslims, then blame “right-wing extremists” when aggressive Muslims slap them in the face.
They fight al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, support it in Egypt and Libya, and import it to every Western country. If Jewish, they live like WASPs, vote like blacks, and lobby like La Raza—and then complain that many don’t like them. If Christian, they vote socialist and then discover the unknowable secret that socialists hate Christians.
They bind Northern Europe’s productive countries in the same currency with the sunny South’s freeloaders and then are stunned when the euro is in danger of collapsing.
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