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The internal contradictions of liberalism
Sending an article from the Boston Globe about the troubles that ensued when Andover High School, in the interests of getting “diverse” points of view, invited a Muslim anti-Israel group, Wheels for Justice (which happens to be devoted to the elimination of Israel, though the Globe doesn’t tell us that), to address students, Alec H. commented:
Hooray, now we’ve got our own “Palestinians” right here at home. You’ve got to wonder how many of these beleaguered suburban Jews have been political supporters of open borders. Would they be prepared, even now, to change their minds?To which I replied:
Don’t be ridiculous. :-)Also, the Globe article has this quintessential liberal sentence:
The climate at the high school has grown hostile, students say, as friends argue over how to balance the right to hear all views with sensitivity to individual beliefs.Yes, those two utterly contradictory principles are hard to reconcile, aren’t they? Yet they are both quintessentially liberal beliefs, just as Prager’s belief in non-discriminatory mass immigration and his belief in preserving the U.S. Constitution are liberal, and irreconcilable. Liberalism by itself cannot resolve its internal contradictions that lead it, for example, to invite a group seeking the destruction of Israel to address a high school. As I explained in my article, “Liberalism: The Real Cause of Today’s Anti-Semitism,” such contradictions can only be resolved within a non-liberal framework that transcends liberalism.
But the funny thing is, not only are liberals unable to reconcile their contradictory beliefs, they are not even able to recognize that they are contradictory. Like Prager, they simply hold both beliefs at the same time, rushing back and forth between them. Email entry |