<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Jan 18 2008, 01:40 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Jan 18 2008, 01:40 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Has political correctness become a civilisational transfer of guilt?
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This statement captures the condescending liberal attitude almost perfectly.
But I feel that these characters are transferring over something other than guilt, something more like a bad reputation. As Elst said about Islam, the surprising thing is not the crimes that have been committed but the absolute lack of guilt in the perpetrators.
Something is going on that these rightists can mutate so quickly into liberals when the situation demands, that they can effortlessly adopt the liberal clothing, so to speak (just as the liberal adopts the clothing and ways of the defeated native -online source-). Hudaibaiya??
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This statement captures the condescending liberal attitude almost perfectly.
But I feel that these characters are transferring over something other than guilt, something more like a bad reputation. As Elst said about Islam, the surprising thing is not the crimes that have been committed but the absolute lack of guilt in the perpetrators.
Something is going on that these rightists can mutate so quickly into liberals when the situation demands, that they can effortlessly adopt the liberal clothing, so to speak (just as the liberal adopts the clothing and ways of the defeated native -online source-). Hudaibaiya??