By Rich Kozlovich
On Jan 23, 2023 I posted this picture as my Thought For the Day, and in the last six months it's been hit over and over again and has now become the third largest post hit in the last 12 months.
That was unexpected, as I'd never heard of Sir Roger Scruton, I just thought it was such a great line and fundamentally rational statement, and yet amusing, so while chuckling, I posted it.
As it turns out, he was well known in academic circles and an interesting and courageous man. I always admire those who have the courage and intelligence to be the rock in the current, standing against the world saying, you're all wrong and I'm going to tell you why.
It appears to me he started out as a bit of a leftist and then realized, after watching them riot in Paris, they're nuts, saying:
I suddenly realised I was on the other side. What I saw was an unruly
mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans. When I asked my friends
what they wanted, what were they trying to achieve, all I got back was
this ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook.
I was disgusted by it, and thought there must be a way back to the
defence of western civilization against these things. That's when I
became a conservative. I knew I wanted to conserve things rather than
pull them down.
He was a conservative academic, who took public stands which cost him. He was the editor of "The Salisbury Review [which] effectively ended his academic career in the United Kingdom", because he felt it was important to take a strong stand for truth. He stated:
"........it was worth sacrificing your chances of becoming a fellow of the British Academy, a vice-chancellor or an emeritus professor for the sheer relief of uttering the truth."..........In 2002 he described the effect of the editorship on his life: It cost me many thousand hours of unpaid labour, a hideous character assassination in Private Eye,
three lawsuits, two interrogations, one expulsion, the loss of a
university career in Britain, unendingly contemptuous reviews, Tory
suspicion, and the hatred of decent liberals everywhere.
And it was
worth it.
Now that's what I call being the rock in the current.
America is as an academic sewer of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. That all may sound great, but when you look under that rock you find it's not only a lie, it's an absolutely failed philosophy illegally being imposed on the nation. In this article, Dumbing down America with DEI, By M.B. Mathews he states:
DEI advocates are dumbing down the
American culture with DEI policies. Unfortunately, many non-POC (people of
color) are signing on to these devastating policies rather than be canceled by
the DEI stasi. As noted by author Nancy Andersen, DEI, by its own
literature, finds “individualism, perfectionism, a sense of urgency, and
objectivity as representative of ‘white supremacy culture.’” It forgoes merit
for color-balancing. What DEI does, in essence, is dumb down the entire culture
by pushing the mistaken belief that America is systemically racist and
hopelessly White. What the DEI activists and supporters are doing is a travesty
of honesty and accomplishment because it tells people who are not qualified
that they are. That doesn’t help them. It hurts them.........DEI is poisonous because it
advocates abandoning a “sense of urgency”.........Diversity kills the intellect just
as surely as arsenic kills the body.
For those who've been aware of who and what the left really is, and how it keeps changing itself into an angel of light understand that equity, and equality are two different animals entirely. There is No equality under equity. If Biden or another Obamaite continue in the Presidency we will see a total abandonment of equality in favor of equity and it will be imposed by every force that can be mustered by the agencies of the federal government. We'll see the worst forms of "ruthless totalitarianism" and "racial division" possible.
In fact, an important tenet of DEI is Critical Race Theory
(CRT):
CRT makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all
aspects of American life. CRT reimagines the U.S. as a nation split by
groups, each with specific claims on victimization. CRT's intolerance
can be found in schools, the workplace, and the entertainment sector,
'normalizing' belief in systemic racism for the average American."
These Diversity demands are nothing short of a "metastasizing canker and a source of corruption and debasement that is eroding our country." This infection isn't only here in the United States, this is a worldwide effort to destroy Western culture via claims of systemic racism, and in England,
Cambridge University attempted to blocked any 'white from apply for post-graduate programs to help
underrepresented groups.
The push back forced them to change it from a blatantly racist anti-white hate push to claiming the program would now be
“open to a wider group defined by socio-economic factors instead, including
white working-class.” But they've exposed who and what they are, because here's the rub. Whites are already underrepresented at Cambridge.
The last thing I want doing work for me is someone who get their job not based on performance, but based on some Woke criteria, like doctors. Doctors take an oath to "do no harm" and we know they abandoned that idea long ago. These outrageous pandemic mandates for masks, social distancing, isolation, and most importantly, the mandated vaccinations and even vaccination passports, has exposed them as spineless and corrupt. And now America's medical schools are forcing their students to "swear allegiance to racial dogmas". From top to bottom, DEI permeates every department and every decision made in most of America's institutions.
This, according to
Michael Bertolone has been turning America into a no whites allowed,
exclusive diversity fellowship club, including:
The author goes on to say:
In other words, straight, White, non-disabled males need
not apply, which is a blatant violation of Title VII, which expressly
prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,
and national origin. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more
employees. One would assume that the leading organization representing
the legal community in the U.S. would know this and steer clear of any
impropriety in the programs it offers.
Wokeness is the "Age of Introspective Contrition [and] will depend
upon the willingness of the populace to absorb and accept the degree of
introspection and contrition it demands. It will eventually collapse
under the weight of its imposed guilt burden."
It's time to just say 'no!' to the guilt trip, to do otherwise is accept and embrace insanity. So, has Diversity, Equity and Diversity become alternative words for insanity?
Yes, emphatically, Yes!
Are we approaching the day when people will understand there can be no apologizing for telling the truth? You can never apologize enough to satisfy them. Your punishment must be permanent as a a warning to all others to never deviate, even the slightest. Consensus to the the sacred tenets of leftist insanity is absolute. Or else!
Well, how's this? Truth isn't sexist, and it isn't racist, it's just the truth, and prominent people who tell the truth must have the courage to stand for up for what's true, regardless of the personal consequences. Once that happens there's an automatic separation of the sheep from the goats, and sides are taken, and battles enjoined, but truth and time are on the same side, and as Ben Franklin said, "Truth will very patiently wait for us".
I can already hear it...."Oh yeah, what's truth?" So, here's the irrefutable definition: