{"id":4876,"date":"2018-01-13T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T09:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/13\/trumps-real-sin-he-speaks-taboo-truths\/"},"modified":"2018-01-13T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T09:55:52","slug":"trumps-real-sin-he-speaks-taboo-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/13\/trumps-real-sin-he-speaks-taboo-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Real Sin? He Speaks Taboo Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why the bipartisan preening outrage over the President's craphole comment? Roger Kimball<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Everyone, near enough, knows that he was telling a home truth. It was outrageous not because he said something crude that was untrue. Quite the contrary: it was outrageous precisely because it was true but intolerable to progressive sensitivities.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, the potency of taboo is still strong in our superficially rational culture. There are some things\u2014quite a few, actually, and the list keeps growing\u2014about which one cannot speak the truth or, in many cases, even raise as a subject for discussion without violating the unspoken pact of liberal sanctimoniousness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Klavan<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nothing scandalizes a leftist like the truth. Point out that women and men are different, that black Americans commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime, that most terrorist acts are committed by Muslims, and the Left leaps to its collective feet in openmouthed shock, like Margaret Dumont after a Groucho Marx wisecrack. This is racism! This is sexism! This is some sort of phobia! I\u2019m shocked, shocked to find facts being spoken in polite company!<\/span><\/p>\n

No one is really shocked, of course. This is simply a form of bullying. The Left has co-opted our good manners and our good will in order to silence our opposition to their bad policies. The idea is to make it seem impolite and immoral to mention the obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bullying is highly effective and very dangerous. In England, in the city of Rotherham, at least 1,400 non-Muslim girls, some as young as 11, were brutally raped by Muslim immigrants over a period of years in the 2000s. Police and other officials worked to keep the facts hidden because, according to multiple reports, they were afraid of being called racist. Think about that: police officers did not want to seem racist, so they stood by and let their city\u2019s children be raped.<\/span><\/p>\n

[ . . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Here in the states, the First Amendment has so far allowed old-fashioned American loudmouths to fight the system whenever they could find ways around our monolithic corporate media. But the Empire of Lies is quick to strike back. Google\/YouTube now stands charged by multiple accusers of singling out conservative voices for censorship, \u201cfact-checking,\u201d and demonetization. Hidden-camera videos released by Project Veritas this week show Twitter employees conspiring to \u201cshadow ban\u201d conservatives on their system. On campus, intelligent conservative speakers of good will like Ben Shapiro, Charles Murray, and Cristina Hoff-Somers have faced violent protests meant to shut them up.<\/span><\/p>\n

No person of importance on the right seeks to silence anyone on the left. The Left, on the other hand, is broadly committed to ostracizing, blacklisting, and even criminalizing right-wing speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s state the obvious. Some countries are shitholes. To claim that this is racist is racist. They are not shitholes because of the color of the populace but because of bad ideas, corrupt governance, false religion, and broken culture. Further, most of the problems in these countries are generated at the top. Plenty of rank-and-file immigrants from such ruined venues ultimately make good Americans\u2014witness those who came from 1840s potato-famine Ireland, a shithole if ever there was one! It takes caution and skill to separate the good from the bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

For these very reasons, absurd immigration procedures like chain migration, lotteries, and unvetted entries are deeply destructive. They can lead to the sort of poor choices that create a Rotherham. Trump\u2019s suggestions\u2014to vet immigrants for pro-American ideas and skills that will help our country\u2014are smart and reasonable and would clearly make the system better if implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, when it comes to the Great Shithole Controversy of 2018, my feeling is: I do not care, not even a little. I\u2019m sorry that it takes someone like Trump to break the spell of silence the Left is forever weaving around us. I wish a man like Ronald Reagan would come along and accomplish the same thing with more wit and grace. But that was another culture. History deals the cards it deals; we just play them. Trump is what we\u2019ve got.<\/span><\/p>\n

For all the bad language, for all the loose talk, I would rather hear a man speak as a man without fear of the Nurse Ratcheds in the press and the academy than have him neutered and gagged by a system of good manners that has been misused as a form of oppression. Better impoliteness than silence. Better crudeness than lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have seen the effect of uncontrolled immigration on Europe. It is very, very bad. The fact is: some countries are shitholes. I don\u2019t want this to become one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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