Ann Coulter - I Supported Romney Because He Proposed Self Deportation Of Illegal Aliens
From Blogger #39;s Briefing on Immigration, CPAC 2014.
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A few days ago, New York Times columnist David Brooks took the occasion of the outrage in Ferguson, Missouri, to call for a national effort to combat classism, an unfortunate form of prejudice that, he says, results from widening inequality. Nowadays, Brooks asserted, classism intertwines with racism to produce a truly monstrous complex of attitudes toward the people at societys bottom.
If you are a newcomer to the culture-war labyrinth, you might be surprised to hear a leading conservative deplore classism, because its the rights beloved free-market system that has opened the yawning crevasse between the classesbetween the people who work and the people who own. But in truth class grievance is central to the cosmology of modern conservatism. They love nothing more than to denounce snobberyjust as long as they are able to attribute that vice to scholarly liberal weaklings who disdain the plainspoken ways of middle America. David Brooks himself wrote one of the best-known iterations of this stereotype, back in the days when people were just beginning to associate red states with proletarian authenticity and blue states with upper-class pretension. (And back in October, he argued against the scourge of partyism.)
When Brooks skewers the tastes of the liberal professional class, he often does it in a self-effacing way. He presents himself as one of them, a liberal manqu, and his message to red-state America is: Youre right to distrust them/us. But consider the right-wing classism critique as it has been enunciated by a very different writer, in a 2003 book that is probably best forgotten:
Liberals thrive on the attractions of snobbery. Only when you appreciate the powerful driving force of snobbery in the liberals worldview do all their preposterous counterintuitive arguments make sense. They promote immoral destructive behavior because they are snobs, they embrace criminals because they are snobs, they oppose tax cuts because they are snobs, they adore the environment because they are snobs.
The writer here is Ann Coulter, and though it may seem unfair to associate her poisonous prose with the thoughtful stylings of David Brooks, I do so for a reason. She and he are on the same political team, roughly speaking, and if you can make your way through the smoke and the shrill, you can see the conservative mind beginning to change.
The critical line in the Coulter passage above is about the way liberals embrace criminals. After each incident of outrageous police brutality of the last few decades, liberals have generally sympathized with the victim, while conservatives have reached for the law-and-order megaphone, closing ranks with the police and even presenting them as blue-collar heroes. This goes back at least to the Kerner Commission, which was appointed to investigate the urban riots of the 1960s (it famously found that police forces were often seen by black residents as an occupying force) but which wound up being used to stoke the white backlash. Since then, race vs. class has become the insane script for everything from the Henry Louis Gates controversy back in 2009 through the shooting of Trayvon Martin and even the recent events in Ferguson.
The twist Brooks is putting on this narrative is something new. He doesnt even mention liberals in the article. Today we once again have a sharp social divide between people who live in the respectable meritocracy and those who live beyond it, he writes.
People in the respectable class have meritocratic virtues: executive function, grit, a capacity for delayed gratification. The view about those in the untouchable world is that they are short on these things. They are disorganized. They are violent and scary. This belief has some grains of truth because of childhood trauma, the stress of poverty and other things. But this view metastasizes into a vicious, intellectually lazy stereotype. Before long, animalistic imagery is used to describe these human beings.
Brooks gives us no examples of some respectable someone indulging in such a stereotype, so its difficult to understand who he has in mind or what political effects he wants his accusation to have. But he is certainly expanding the familiar right-wing class grievance in a remarkable way. Now its not merely the police whom professional-class snobs dont understand, but their victims as well. We privileged folks can blog as earnestly as we want, but thanks to the class divide, we still dont really know what life is like in Ferguson, Missouri, or Cleveland, Ohio, or even in certain reaches of New York City.
Perhaps Brooks was moved to write this as an act of conscience. Maybe hes noticed that toxicity has taken over in the GOP. Perhaps hes realized that the decades-long conservative project of highlighting the pathologies of the underclass has been little more than an excuse for doing nothing at all to address racial grievances.
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Today is Monday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2014 with 23 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn. Evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include Mary Queen of Scots in 1542; Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, in 1765; General Motors founder William Durant and French movie pioneer Georges Melies, both in 1861; Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in 1865; Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1886; humorist and artist James Thurber in 1894; actor Lee J. Cobb in 1911; entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. in 1925; actor Maximilian Schell in 1930 (age 84); comedian Flip Wilson in 1933; actors David Carradine in 1936 and James MacArthur in 1937; Irish flutist James Galway in 1939 (age 75); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Jim Morrison in 1943 and Gregg Allman in 1947 (age 67); writer Bill Bryson in 1951 (age 63); actors Kim Basinger in 1953 (age 61) and Teri Hatcher in 1964 (age 50); political commentator Ann Coulter in 1961 (age 53); Irish singer/songwriter Sinead O'Connor in 1966 (age 48); actor Dominic Monaghan in 1976 (age 38); and rap artist Nicki Minaj in 1982 (age 32).
On this date in history:
In 1886, delegates from 25 unions founded the American Federation of Labor, forerunner of the modern AFL-CIO, in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1941, the United States, Britain and Australia declared war on Japan.
In 1949, the Chinese Nationalist government, defeated by the Communists, retreated from the mainland to the island of Taiwan.
In 1980, former Beatle John Lennon was shot to death outside his apartment building in New York City. He was 40.
In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty between the two superpowers to reduce their massive nuclear arsenals.
In 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist when the republics of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed an agreement creating the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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The Ann Coulter Hang Ups
Ann Coulter Hang-Ups shows Coulter repeatedly punting and ending interviews instead of answering valid questions about her defense of Romney who instituted #39;gay #39; marriage funded elective...
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The Notre Dame mascot jumps into the arms of guard Ryan Gillis in East Lansing, Mich., Sept. 21, 2002. (Associated Press) ** FILE ** more >
The University of Notre Dame is providing students an opportunity to take a one-credit course on white privilege through the years.
The White Privilege Seminar falls under the schools sociology offerings and will be on the agenda for spring 2015, The Daily Caller reported.
Its being billed in college materials as a six-week preparatory class designed to education and train White Privilege Conference delegation participants on the definitions of, historical/current paradigm of, and causes/effects of white privilege, The Daily Caller reported.
Those who take the class will then be sent to the conference, March 8-14. And the goal of both?
To give each student a personal transformation to leave the class and conference more aware of injustices and better equipped with tools to disrupt personal, institutional and worldwide symptoms of oppression, the course description said, The Daily Caller reported.
And some arent happy about the offering.
The problem I see with this course is that it is teaching a flawed and inherently racist sociological theory as fact, Mark Gianfalla, a campus activist, told The Daily Caller. This isnt education. Its indoctrination. Where is the required counterpoint course on affirmative action? It does not exist because that idea does not fit with the social and racial agenda of the professor.
Mr. Gianfalla also pointed out that the professor in charge of the course, Iris Outlaw, is the same faculty member who helped organize protests against the College Republicans hosting of Ann Coulter on campus last year under the premise that Ann was a perpetrator of racial hate speech.
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