| Cliven appears to have strayed from his gov't established First Amendment zone. How dare he express his personal beliefs with regard to cotton picking, slavery, and public housing in the same sentence. Good ole CNN piling on and linking every Pub a racist by association. |
Let's just say that he could have chosen his words a whole lot better. Not that the NYT wouldn't have twisted him anyway, but he didn't do himself any favors.
Chattel slavery was completely, wholly evil. Asking if anything, anything at all is as "bad" as slavery must then be met with a firm "no!", or else one has walked into a moral trap.
If Mr. Bundy had compared the modern black urban underclass experience to Soviet serfdom he might have gotten away with it. If he had denounced how that experience robs people of initiative, self-respect, self-worth and responsibility, we would be nodding our heads in agreement. If he had suggested to the NYT reporter that the reporter should go read Hayek and return to Nevada with questions, we would be cheering.
But chattel slavery? No. Never.
Not just because slavery was evil. But also because the reference to it allows the progressive collectivists on the other side to use "the other" as a cudgel. There is no requirement for us to make it easy for them.
Oh, and Mr. Bundy, lose the word 'Negro'. It's old. |
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