Crack-ups at the Crossroads of Intersectionality by Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Progressives do not see the United States as an exceptional uniter of factions and tribes into a cohesive whole—each citizen subordinating his tribal, ethnic, and religious affinities to a shared Americanism, emblemized by our national motto e pluribus unum. Instead, they prefer e uno plures: out of one nation arise many innately different and separate peoples.Progressivism’s signature brand is now tribalism: all of us in different ways are victims of a white male Christian heterosexual patriarchy—or a current 20 percent hierarchy that past and present has supposedly oppressed anyone not like themselves. In contrast, our differences define who we are, and are not incidental to the content of our characters. The salad bowl, not the melting pot, is the new national creed. America is to be a conglomeration of competing tribal parties in the fashion of the Balkans, Rwanda, or contemporary Iraq. (Hanson hits one out of the park this time, really slams every facet of the stupidity and ultimately the evil of this kind of PC madness taken beyond mere extremism. Had the people of the 13 colonies not been able to decide to put aside their many differences, and they had a whole raftful of them, there'd never have been a USA and our history would be an unimaginable series of tragedies and conflicts. The world would be a different place, maybe there'd be a lot more people speaking German and Japanese today, or Russian. Maybe North America would be like South America, with a gaggle of different states scattered across it. And no men on the moon, and not a fraction of the progress made technically over the past century. It is very simple- we are stronger together than we are separately, we all have better rights and prosperity when we are ready to accord to everyone else the same freedom, rights, and opportunities we want for ourselves. Tolerance and compromise are the essential aspects of a free and progressive society, divisiveness, mistrust, and blind aggressiveness towards others are the sure way to condemn everyone to a life of unending conflict. We need desperately to reject and actively fight against the divisiveness, the PC insanity, and reach out to everyone else with open minds and hearts. --Del)
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