Sunday, October 10, 2010

Jeffrey Goldberg: An Embarrassment To The Enlightenment

Here is what passes for civilized discourse for The Atlantic.

Really, how did American Judaism produce this vile, racist creature?

How did America produce someone as thoroughly pig ignorant and intolerant of political differences as Goldberg?

Actually, that isn't a rhetorical question. The Left in this country is as convinced of its moral superiority as any Robespierre or Lenin ever was. Disagreeing with them, they believe, is simply proof of your moral deviancy. Thus the name calling; thus the attempts to punish thought and speech they don't care for; thus the non-stop campaigns to demonize and marginalize.

In every sense it is illiberal. Unfortunately, we now live in an age where a 140 character tweet is deemed sufficient space to issue one's opinion on the value and worth of another human being.

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