The flap over Phil Robertson and his Biblical philippic on homosexuality, bestiality, fornication and all the rest of the old-fashioned sins has another angle.
Writes John Fund:
The whole point of any hegemonic system is that the hegemons need to train the underlings to accept their subservience as a fact of nature. It's kinda like Downton Abbey. The downstairs people never let a peep of their resentments show to the upstairs people. They just dutifully do their work and melt into the furniture. Moreover, if the rulers are doing things right, the underlings will be focusing on their resentments vis-a-vis their fellow underlings. They will pissed of that some other servant is getting an undeserved advantage because she has the ear of the mistress. They are not thinking about the injustice of the whole system.
So if the liberals were actually as intellectual and knowledgable as they claim they would not just be condemning Robertson for his racism. They would be twisting the knife with knowing remarks about feudal lords and slave owners down the ages.
Of course, liberals have their own problems in this department. They think that everyone except a few bigoted conservatives absolutely love their welfare state and their wonderful Obamacare. But most Americans know that when a liberal professor comes calling with a menacing remark about a "nice little grade you got here" they know how to behave towards the liege lord that has the power to make things really difficult for them.
Maybe in 30 years you'll run into some doddering old professorette that can swear on a stack of grant proposals that none of her students were ever mistreated or shamed as the conservatives imagine.
Writes John Fund:
But people saved plenty of ire for his comments, offered in an interview with GQ magazine, that when he grew up in Louisiana in the 1950s he never saw “the mistreatment of any black person” and that African Americans in that era didn’t have complaints about white people.Well of course he didn't see any mistreatment. If you want to know what the slaves think about their slavery, don't ask the slavemaster. In the Jim Crow of the Southern states, a white guy ain't gonna get the straight scoop from a man he and his kind are likely to call "boy."
The whole point of any hegemonic system is that the hegemons need to train the underlings to accept their subservience as a fact of nature. It's kinda like Downton Abbey. The downstairs people never let a peep of their resentments show to the upstairs people. They just dutifully do their work and melt into the furniture. Moreover, if the rulers are doing things right, the underlings will be focusing on their resentments vis-a-vis their fellow underlings. They will pissed of that some other servant is getting an undeserved advantage because she has the ear of the mistress. They are not thinking about the injustice of the whole system.
So if the liberals were actually as intellectual and knowledgable as they claim they would not just be condemning Robertson for his racism. They would be twisting the knife with knowing remarks about feudal lords and slave owners down the ages.
Of course, liberals have their own problems in this department. They think that everyone except a few bigoted conservatives absolutely love their welfare state and their wonderful Obamacare. But most Americans know that when a liberal professor comes calling with a menacing remark about a "nice little grade you got here" they know how to behave towards the liege lord that has the power to make things really difficult for them.
Maybe in 30 years you'll run into some doddering old professorette that can swear on a stack of grant proposals that none of her students were ever mistreated or shamed as the conservatives imagine.
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