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--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In the "Dallas could elect..." thread Wojtek wrote
> (to
> D. Claxton):
>
> Typical leftist arrogance - knowing better what is
> on
> someone else's mind. You seem to be pissed that I
> do
> not share your view of the dregs of society and use
> every opportunity to snipe at me for that reason.
> So
> for the record - I do not disparage the underclass,
> I
> just do not want to be associated or fraternize with
> them in any way.
>
> As far as the crime is concerned, it is mostly
> ghetto
> dwellers killing each other, so why should I be
> afraid
> of it? I can read stats and understand the
> probabilities of being affected by crime in this
> country.
>
>
>
> and later, to Doug...
>
> I thought that the delusion of being persecuted,
> discriminated or wronged in one way or another was a
> prerequisite of being a radical, no?
>
> ...............................
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I'd like to move beyond the back and forth these
> Wojtek proclamations usually inspire (and aren't we
> ready, at long last, to say goodbye to all that? As
> predictable as Swiss watch movements, these rows)
> and
> explore the wider phenomena of left leaning
> supremacism.
>
>
> Not racial supremacism necessarily - and perhaps by
> typing "supremacism" I've selected the wrong word,
> suggestions for replacements are welcome - but a
> more
> personal sort of super self righteousness, not
> unlike
> the theoretical superiority which pushed
> Dostoevsky's
> dream addled student towards his murderous deeds.
>
> Of course, I know that this sort of thing isn't
> limited to 'the left' - what is G.W. Bush if not a
> gelatinous mass of self righteousness in human form?
> -
> but on the left it assumes an interesting texture
> since it seems mixed with a weakness for analysis
> and
> intellectualism.
>
> I'm thinking here not only of Wojtek - our own
> Rodion
> Romanovich - who routinely rails against those who
> cannot see things as clearly as he ('the Left', of
> course, but also the SUV driving middle and upper
> classes, the crime committing 'underclass', the idle
> wealthy and perhaps cats and dogs and visitors from
> distant stars as well) but also of men such as
> Robert
> Jensen, Hitchens and many others.
>
>
> I'm curious what others think about this incomplete
> thought. Mind you, I'm not at all interested in
> Wojtek bashing: time's too short for it and he has
> proved himself to be impervious to ridicule, reason
> and sweet information.
>
> So none of that.
>
>
> But there's something here I think and I'd love to
> hear what others make of it.
>
> I suppose what I'm wondering is whether or not left
> politics, as practiced in the West generally and the
> US particularly, acts as a sort of incubator for our
> little Raskolnikovs.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> .d.
>
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