How Far Will the Left Go?
October 30, 2005, 1:13 am![]() |
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Victor Davis Hanson reminds us of the vitriol being spewed by the extreme Left:
In the last six months we have heard from various demagogues — though they are recognized as such due to their prominence in the media — that we were waging nuclear war in Iraq (Cindy Sheehan), that there was cannibalism in New Orleans (Randall Robinson), that George Bush and Dick Cheney should be shot (the novelist Jane Smiley) or executed (Al Franken). Alfred Knopf has published a book about the theoretical assassination of the president, and the Nazi slur is now commonplace in Democratic circles, where a Senator Dick Durbin or Ted Kennedy slanders American soldiers as akin to either Saddam’s torturers or even Nazis and Stalinists. The case needs to be made that we are seeing a new paranoid style — but from the Left, whose opponents are not to be out-argued, but rather deemed worthy of death or demonization as Nazis. The recent eclipse of George Galloway — due in no large part to Christopher Hitchens’ lonely and underappreciated pursuit of his perfidy — reminds us how hard these reprobates finally will fall.
I respectfully add the following to the list: Kamau Kambon, visiting professor at North Carolina State University, advocates the elimination of all white people on the planet; U of Colorado prof Ward Churchill calls 9/11 victims “Nazis;” Harry Belafonte refers to Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell as “Uncle Toms;” and Howard Dean quips that African Americans are only good for the dirty jobs as “hotel staff.”
Related: Political Correctness





