Friday, November 22, 2013
Random memory about arsking
If JFK said "Arsk not what your country can do for you, arsk what you can do for your country" today, he would be instantly squashed and perpetually demonized by the media and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. He'd be impeached.
Think about it. What happens today when a white man makes the same point? "It's a dog whistle." "It's institutional racism."
In 1960 the hellhounds of Die-Versity hadn't yet been set loose, so he could say it without being squashed.
In fact the quote was nearly meaningless at the time. Very few people were arsking what the country could do for them, so he was simply expressing a common feeling, not preaching against a dangerous trend. When welfare became an official way of life a few years later, the satans who made it into an official way of life (LBJ, Cloward and Piven) were hardline Soviet agents who liked to quote JFK while destroying the civilization that he more or less liked.
¶ 2:45 AM 
