Tuesday, March 27, 2007

HERITAGE FOUNDATION: Modern Liberal

Interesting speech. It's a long one though (45 min) so be sure you can settle in...

But I think he addresses some really important points. Excellent food for thought.

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Dadeo said...

OMG! I was just getting ready to post this very same video! I had just made a comment on your other post, and was getting ready to write a new post linking to Evan Sayet. Wow.

Anyway, Elise, this is the video I was talking about.

Honestly, I'm still processing what this guy said. I found it intriguing, interesting, and even provocative. But I'm not entirely convinced he is right. I will say that he certainly has more authority to speak on the issue than I, having been a liberal, and being surrounded by liberals.

Anyway, I'd like to be part of a discussion here on the cult of indiscriminateness, once you've all watched it. Truthfully, I had to watch it a couple of times, and take notes on it, in order to understand it.

Here are some money quotes:

Indiscriminateness is a moral imperative because its opposite is the evil of having discriminated.

In order to eliminate discrimination the modern liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

But it is a mindless indiscriminateness - virtually antagonistic to any other position. Why? Because when you've been brought up to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative, any position other than their own must have employed discrimination.

Once you subscribe to indiscriminateness, anything other than indiscriminateness is the evil of having discriminated.

March 27, 2007 at 5:20 PM

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