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  • Socially Engineering Racial Conflict

    2332141_blogBy Selwyn Duke

    Addressing a large panel of black conservatives on Hannity Friday night, host Sean Hannity
    asked whether “African-American” was the correct label for black people.
    Thankfully, a vast majority of the panelists quite passionately agreed it was
    not, mainly making the point that we shouldn’t hyphenate ourselves. This is
    true, but it still doesn’t get at the heart of the matter.

    I said many years ago that I didn’t use the term
    “African-American” and that I never would. It is part of the Lexicon of the
    Left, and, as the old book the Tyranny of
    Words     points out, the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins
    the debate. But what really is the problem with the term in question?

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  • Where Serena Williams is Right about Rape

    862858_blogBy Selwyn Duke

    If you want to know why lies seem increasingly common, it’s
    because we persecute people for honesty.

    A good example is the recent statements tennis star Serena
    Williams made about the Steubenville rape
    case    . Commenting on the matter in a Rolling
    Stone     interview, the Wimbledon champion opined:

    Do you think it was fair, what they
    [the assailants] got? They did something stupid, but I don’t know. I’m not
    blaming the girl, but if you’re a 16-year-old and you’re drunk like that, your
    parents should teach you — don’t take drinks from other people. She’s 16, why
    was she that drunk where she doesn’t remember? It could have been much worse.
    She’s lucky. Obviously I don’t know, maybe she wasn’t a virgin, but she
    shouldn’t have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something,
    then that’s different.

    Now, where Williams went wrong was in questioning the
    fairness of the sentence. The two assailants, high-school football players Trent
    Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, received, respectively, two years and one year in
    juvenile detention for the extreme sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl, abuse
    punctuated by disgusting, evil attitudes and commentary. In my view, they got
    off easy. But isn’t Williams correct in saying that the girl also made it easy?

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  • Obama, Maybe Catholicism is “Divisive” — and Maybe That’s Good

    954801_blogBy Selwyn Duke

    It isn’t always true that “united we stand.” United in the wrong
    things we can fall, and sometimes, for some to stand on principle, we
    must stand divided.

    Barack Obama is currently taking some heat for what has been
    characterized as a shot at Catholic education. While in Northern Ireland
    for the G8 summit recently, Obama spoke to an audience of approximately
    2,000 students at Belfast's Waterfront hall and said, “If towns remain
    divided — if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants
    have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and fear or
    resentment are allowed to harden — that too encourages division and
    discourages cooperation.” Now, it should be mentioned here why this is
    considered an attack on Catholic education. While there are Protestant
    schools in NI, the government school system is mainly Protestant while
    most Catholic children attend schools run by the Catholic Church. And
    you can bet that if Obama were authoring an end to school segregation in
    NI, his solution would not be to eliminate the government schools and
    have everyone attend the Catholic ones.

    Yet I won’t criticize Obama here the way some have. After all, there is a controversy
    in the U.K. over NI’s school “segregation,” a situation that sees more
    than 90 percent of children in NI attending separate schools. So, in
    fairness, Obama’s writers were likely just echoing the politically
    correct, Kumbaya sentiments of the U.K. press. Instead, I’d like to pose
    a question that gets at a deeper issue:

    What is the real source and nature of division?

    Read the rest here.

  • People Die — Live With It

    American MindBy Selwyn Duke

    If there is one overlooked aspect of the current
    federal-government surveillance scandal, it’s modernist America’s
    attitude toward death. What do I mean? Well, if I said that the number
    of children who die in school shootings every year was statistically
    insignificant in a nation of 311 million people or that there is an
    acceptable level of death through terrorism, many would accuse me of
    being a cold, soulless bean counter. But don’t we in essence live this
    attitude all the time? Every year approximately 175,000 children die
    through drowning, but we haven’t yet outlawed swimming pools or called
    for exhaustive government surveillance of them; and about 42,000 people
    die yearly in traffic accidents — 115 a day and 1 person every 13
    minutes— but we haven’t yet mandated a five-mile-per-hour speed limit.
    Death is often accepted as the cost of doing business, and in this case
    the business is living.

    That is, we accept death within certain contexts. But the context
    here isn’t “avoidable” deaths — it’s deaths that manage to avoid the
    news.

    Read the rest here.

  • ESPN’s Random Act of Feminism

    Snake and AppleBy Selwyn Duke

    It’s really hard to know today where the stupidity ends and
    the propaganda begins. MSNBC recently made
    news     by labeling infamous segregationist George Wallace a Republican during
    a recent television broadcast. Now ESPN has followed suit, with a random act of
    feminism. 

    On the sports network’s Friday US Open golf telecast, there
    was a short retrospective piece on golf great Lee Trevino’s gag at the 1971
    Open at Merion, where he tossed
    a rubber snake     at opponent Jack Nicklaus right before their playoff. The
    piece’s narrator mentioned that it was history’s second most famous serpent
    story, next to that of the Garden of Eden. This was accompanied by Eden
    imagery, which certainly enhanced the work’s artistic quality, so the
    association made sense. But then the piece took an interesting twist:

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  • The Bright Side of Amnesty

    Greater MexicoBy Selwyn Duke

    Saying there’s a bright side to amnesty may seem much like talk
    of the advantages of malignant cancer. But this won’t be a pie-in-the-sky
    article about the “economic benefits” of new workers, expanding the tax base or
    the wonders of “diversity.” There is no Ayotte-Rubio flip-flop here; in fact,
    for those who don’t know me, I’ve long called for a halt to even legal
    immigration. And understanding why is necessary to put amnesty’s “bright side”
    in perspective.

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  • The Acceptance Con

    2052845_lowBy Selwyn Duke

    “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no
    god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” This thought,
    articulated by Thomas Jefferson 200 years ago, aligns well with
    sentiments espoused today. “I don’t care what adults do in their private
    lives,” says the libertarian. “But listen, buddy,” adds the
    don’t-tread-on-me conservative, “just don’t shove it in my face.” But
    does this characteristic attitude of American modernity damn us to spawn
    a very un-American posterity? Does a misguided tolerance ensure an
    intolerable future?

    Continual tolerance of a thing generally
    leads to its acceptance. For instance, while we may find ice-age
    temperatures unpleasant, a civilization experiencing them long enough
    becomes like the Eskimos in the Arctic and accepts its eternal winter as
    the new normal. But what of the abnormal? Should it be tolerated?

    To
    answer this question, we must first address moderns’ flawed conception
    of tolerance. G.K. Chesterton once said, “Tolerance is the virtue of the
    man without convictions”; it should be added that it is also his vice.
    For tolerance is a virtue only when exercised as is necessary, since it
    implies a perceived negative. For example, you would have to tolerate an
    itchy rash or stubborn cold, but you wouldn’t tolerate a fine car or a
    delectable meal — you relish those things. And while we may admire a man
    who tolerates suffering with a stiff upper lip, this may turn to
    contempt if he invites it upon himself with a tolerance for being a
    doormat; it then seems like weakness of character at best, masochism at
    worst.

    Read the rest here.

  • Marco Rubio is Dead to Me

    Greater MexicoBy Selwyn Duke

    Young, handsome and Hispanic, Marco Rubio was once hailed as
    one of the new faces of the Republican Party. But now we learn that he actually
    brings two new faces to the GOP.

    One that says one thing one moment and another that says a
    different thing at a different moment.

    After all, while Rubio appeared in this deceptive ad touting
    the supposed conservative nature of his amnesty bill, The Examiner tells
    us     the following:

    In a Spanish-language interview
    Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on
    the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform group, made his strongest
    statement yet that legalization of the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal
    immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement
    measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security
    requirements.

    “Let’s be clear,” Rubio said.
    “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going
    to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization.
    Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of
    permanent residence.”

    And then comes the death of the nation.

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  • Bill Cosby on Culture: Very Right and Very, Very Wrong

    Woman in BurkaBy Selwyn Duke

    Comedian Bill Cosby spent years rendering fatherly advice on the hit sitcom The Cosby Show,
    but in recent times has received more press for the fatherly advice he
    has given off screen. And he’s on the social stage again with a New York Post article
    in which he discusses apathy, responsibility, race and religion.
    Unfortunately, his pleasingly paternal prescriptions were mixed with
    statist paternalism — and naiveté.

    Cosby opened his piece with a defense of Little Big Gulp’s (a.k.a. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s) health puppeteering, writing:

    Read the rest here.

  • Rise in Female Breadwinners Means America is a Loser

    1991659_blogBy Selwyn Duke

    When women start doing what men have traditionally done,
    yours is a civilization of the setting sun.  This is brought to mind when pondering
    a recent Pew Research Center study
    showing that women are now the primary or sole breadwinners in 40 percent of
    American households.  You may have heard the story — it created quite a
    stir on Fox News, with Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly (who became quite
    hysterical) taking exception to male colleagues' warnings about the
    development's sociological implications.  But if these two ladies, and the
    other critics, had reacted rationally and not emotionally, they would realize
    what is obvious:

    The rise in female breadwinners is a sign of a civilization
    in decline.

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