Nathan Pinkoski for First Things on whether Donald Trump regrets
taking Jared Kushner's advice to downplay the National Question: <URL:https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/05/spiritual-death-of-the-west>
| Badinter discerns that we are imperiled above all by Western
| civilization's spiritual crisis. This insight is what now makes The
| Camp of the Saints so disturbing to read. The desire to make oneself
| culturally prostrate has come into the open. In France, Raspail's
| speculations about how the logic of hate speech laws would extend to
| any speech critical of progressive multiculturalism have been
| completely vindicated. In 2023, they are being used not just to
| prosecute politicians like Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour, but to
| pursue the novelist Michel Houellebecq. Throughout Western Europe
| and especially in Great Britain, multiculturalism no longer entails
| moral impartiality toward the mixing of diverse ethnicities. It
| means the ghoulish celebration of white demographic decline. (There
| has been a 10-percent drop in the white British population since
| 2001.) In response to a still-unconfirmed report of a mass grave for
| indigenous children at a residential school, the Canadian government
| kept the Canadian flag lowered for 161 days in 2021, raising it only
| to immediately lower it again for Indigenous Veterans Day.
| Meanwhile, the government plans to increase immigration to
| unprecedented levels, so that over the next decade, Canada will
| bring in enough immigrants to equal the population of six provinces.
| Efforts to stoke the engines of shame are prevalent in the United
| States, as well. Elite bastions of progressivism champion
| initiatives designed to deconstruct the nation, such as the 1619
| Project and an open southern border. Their multicultural pedagogy
| promotes racial hierarchies at school and work. And the practice of
| criminalizing non-multicultural discourse and singling out whites
| for special scrutiny is rendered explicit in a 2023 bill before
| Congress, H.R. 61, which makes "hate speech that vilifies or is
| otherwise directed against any non-White person or group, and such
| published material" a special criminal category.

Does Susie Wiles worry that Miriam Adelson, Ken Griffin, Lachlan
Murdoch, and David Sacks will allow Ron DeSantis to use their campaign
bullhorn to stump against legacy American proles' dispossession?
John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"A Rand Paul staffer was attacked by a criminal "released from
federal prison just the day before the vicious attempted
murder...the violent assailant was released early due to the
jailbreak D.C. establishment bill that Donald Trump signed into law,
known as the 'First Step Act.'"" - Steve Cortes <URL:https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1668591865812140035>

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