First read the excerpt from Dinesh D’Souza’s new book as posted in The Daily Signal
The Fascist Roots of the American Left It is very much worth the read.
As D’Souza suggests, the left loves to throw around the epithet “fascist.” It never dawns on them that they are what they spew, in their methodologies and indeed the controlling effectively similar philosophies which they favor – socialism (at a minimum an economic slavery to the state), of which fascism is a manifestation. Both are replete with a history of atrocities.
With D’Souza’s critique of the left in mind read the QC Times response to their own news story which included off-handed comments of former Davenport Mayor Phil Yerrington who was asked to hold forth on the recent “white nationalist” demonstrations in Virginia.
As best we can tell Yerrington made no fascist comment, (why expunge it even if he had) or inarguable reference to indentured servitude or the treatment of the Irish by some. The point was about resentment and moving on not a rigorous historical comparison.
Not quite Alexander but kind of reminds us of him in ways. Alexander’s visage is prominent at the QCT. See link for this character.*
Smarmy know-it-all snideness regularly drips from Editorial Page Editor Jon Alexander in a publication that does not seem to care how it treats its interviewees.
An interview originally published Sunday on Qctimes.com offered the former Davenport mayor carte blanche to spew his twisted view of reality. It was prominently displayed on the Times website for several hours Sunday night before being corrected.
Indeed Yerrington might have expanded a reference to “moving on” to include resentments over tribalism and slavery in Africa (blacks enslaving blacks), of various Asian continental histories, of American Indian tribes treatment of other tribes, of every subjugated clan in human history ( the Bible is rife with references). More importantly the necessity to end subjugation in modern day Muslim dominated countries would be a nice referral for the left to concentrate on. But people like Alexander, of the left, will not tolerate what they consider equivocation. Instead they concentrate on trying to aggravate wounds for political gain and posturing.
You will easily be able to relate D’Souza’s critique to so much we are seeing today in the leftist media’s treatment of conservatives and anything they say. The left’s approach: When they can’t argue — ignore, when they do argue, take down and characterize the anathema view instead. Opportunity for timely rebuttal are rarely offered, but if it is, rarely accommodated in any equivalent prominence. We will see if the QC Times tries to make itself an exception.
Imagine the implications of a newspaper basically apologizing for and altering an interview by deleting a comment they supposedly accurately reported because they disagree with it? What an opportunity to write contemporary history the way you want it to be! Are fascist Marcuse’s loose at the QCT?
Read what’s left of the referenced interview here and the rest of Alexander’s rant here.
As D’Souza concludes in the excerpted essay in The Daily Signal:
“to fight fascism with intolerance is one thing. But to fight classical liberalism and modern American conservatism with intolerance is, well, fascist.”
R Mall
*http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Ellis
Thanks to Gene Mattecheck for the heads -up regarding the QCT
