Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Awesome: "What Occupy Harvard Should Tell Liberal Elite Parents on Thanksgiving"

I had already mocked Occupy Hahvahd here, but this piece is worth a read.  Short version: displaying undisguised snobbish, self-righteous condescension and contempt toward people with whom you disagree will not incentivize them to hail you as their cultural and social masters.  Well, DUH.  Here's a piece of it:
What you tell him is that he should put his life in your hands. Yet you scorn his religion. You mock his faith in the sacredness of conception. You deride his belief in family. You tell him that his love for hunting makes him a murderer, and that his terror at being economically displaced makes him a xenophobe and a racist. Then you emasculate his hope for the future by telling him that if his ship comes in—that dream of a ship that makes the grinding disappointment of daily life worth living through—you’ll help yourself to a big slice of it. And you expect him to believe your rhetoric about fairness and equality when, all the while, you are accusing him of gullibility in his politics and bad faith toward the least fortunate of his fellow citizens. When, all the while, you are living untouched by your own policies. When you are cushioned against life’s hardness, not by government, but by simply knowing other people in your class. You expect him to buy your talk about equitable distribution of wealth when you are sailing through tax loopholes off into the sunset.

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