Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:10:26 AM
There are a lot of people declaring that it is a shame to have Rev. Wright's long, successful career eclipsed by a few controversial quotes. Even if I were to accept the premise, I wouldn't be able to muster much sympathy. How many times have we seen such a thing happen to people who ran afoul of the sensitivities of "African-American leaders" and happened to be white while doing so? How many times have we seen such a thing happen to anyone who dares to question either the goals or the tactics of homosexual activist organizations? I seem to recall something about Larry Summers as President of Harvard and his comments about why more men than women were in high-end science and engineering positions in academia.
This is something Left repeatedly fails to understand or care about (not sure which):
the means matter, not just the ends. We live in the culture we create. If you are intolerant, silence dissent, are hypersensitive, overreact, lose perspective, use force or playing outside the rules to reach
your ends, it will be easier for other people to use the same methods to reach
their ends, and fairness and forgiveness will be too far out the window to retrieve.
The leaders of the Left really truly believe there should be a different set of rules for them than everyone else.