Thursday, March 03, 2005
A basic leftist gambit
This is one of the most common tricks in Lenin's playbook (as translated by Saul Alinsky, Frances Fox Piven et al). Conservatives don't seem to understand it; at least I've never read or heard any indication that they do. It goes like this: Let's say the population is divided into several groups. Call them M and F, or B and W, or whatever.... Pick the one that is likely to serve as a loyal cadre for the Left. For example, Group F. Use your monopoly on culture and media to push Group F toward participating in certain jobs or institutions.... just as a hypothetical, let's say police and fire departments, coal mines, and men's athletics. These jobs and institutions are not chosen randomly; you know in advance that members of Group F will perform poorly in each one, and that the poor performance will be so obvious and important that members of Group M will have to penalize it.Now the setup is complete. Since we "know" that all humans are precisely identical grains of sand, the criticism and rejection must be caused by Group M's evil fascist tendencies, not by any natural difference in ability. There are no natural differences. Group F now desperately needs government assistance to maintain any sort of income or dignity in the face of the fascist M oppressors.
Stalin used this method far more crudely. He just picked up entire ethnic groups and shipped them into the middle of other groups that could be counted on as oppressors. The government then had to maintain a brutal presence to keep the two groups from knifing each other to slivers, and both groups were grateful for the govt's help. ¶ 10:30 AM
Stalin used this method far more crudely. He just picked up entire ethnic groups and shipped them into the middle of other groups that could be counted on as oppressors. The government then had to maintain a brutal presence to keep the two groups from knifing each other to slivers, and both groups were grateful for the govt's help. ¶ 10:30 AM
