Saturday, July 18, 2020
Failing to Use the Salad Fork
There’s a scene in the movie, "Dirty Harry” where, upon meeting the person that is to become his parter, another police officer lists the different groups of people that the main character hates. Noting that the new partner is hispanic, “Harry” says, “especially spics.” While it may be appalling to hear such a thing, particularly in today’s sanitized climate, we later find a genuine fraternal camaraderie between the two characters. Harry’s causal misanthropic manner has no relation to his genuine decency toward others. A similar circumstance occurs in Clint Eastwood’s film, “Gran Torino” where, upon entering a barber shop, Eastwood’s character rambles off a litany of racial insult and monikers to the Italian barber while the barber rattles off equally bigoted comments toward Eastwood’s Polish heritage. Seconds later, it’s clear that they are just “two guys talking” and they’re actually good friends.
Both movies will no doubt be on the chopping block of politically incorrect “racist” movies. The idiots who are so far removed from how real people think and act are incapable of appreciating human interaction that is free from contrived and phony constraint.
In the end, so much of the current obsession with “race” and ethnic difference is no more than a demand for rigid adherence to manners. Just as the prissy snob looks down their nose at the person failing to use the proper fork at a formal dinner, these elitist busy-bodies have taken the normal weaknesses that all humans have and transformed them into monstrous acts of “violence and oppression.” In a world where real violence and racism exists, the left has chosen to embark on a project to cleanse all human history and thought of the natural prejudices that have existed among most people throughout history.
One can be certain that the smug finger-pointer in search of racism and prejudice will be the first to conjure stereotyped images of uneducated red neck Trump supporters while denigrating all of European civilization’s legacy as no more than colonialism and slavery. In their blurred vision, our busy-body betters are incapable of seeing the West’s active role in eliminating slavery, of introducing democratic government, or seeking acceptance of woman and marginalized lifestyles.
The contemporary crusade against....bad manners, is no more than a pathetic escape from sincere human interaction and tolerance and, like most things in the leftist’s world view, a pathetic escape from reality itself.
Cultural Marxism has little to do with “culture.” Indeed, it has little to do with anything beyond an awkward and frivolous power-grab by angry elitists who are more concerned with charging etiquette faux pas as crimes than offering a stable and sane world for fellow citizens.
