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Boston Globe: Obama Afraid of Muslims Because of New ‘Red Scare’

June 30, 2008 by 1 Comment

Boston Globe: Obama Afraid of Muslims Because of New ‘Red Scare’
-By Warner Todd Huston

Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe has done it again. Now, usually Z is one of those columnists that is sure every white American is a racist and many of his columns are based on that assumption, but it looks like he is branching out from his normal black/white identity politics angle and adding a new twist to his column. You see, Z has just discovered that whites don’t hate only blacks, they hate Muslims too. How inclusive, eh?

Even more ridiculously, Z imagines that white Muslim haters in “red states” are forcing Barack Obama to distance himself from his Muslim background. In fact, according to Z, Islam is the victim of white America’s newest “red scare” and Obama is feeling the heat because of that undue hatred. It all means we are “Holding Muslims at arm’s length” to Derrick Z. Jackson.

I wonder where Z was on 9/11?

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If You ‘Feel’ Educated… You Are

April 13, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

We no longer educate in the United States of America. No, instead of making to educate our children we emot-ucate them. It’s all about our children’s tender egos, their vaunted self esteem, their itty bitty feewings. We don’t want them to know or understand so much as we want them to “feel good” about themselves. If they don’t know during what years the civil war was fought, that’s OK as long as they think they are “good people” anyway. If their math skills are substandard, who cares as long as they really like themselves?

The Boston Globe, for its part, seems to agree that everything is better when our students “feel better.” As far as real life’s lessons go, as far as hard work, good grades, educational standards go… well, not so much. No, it’s “group therapy, “liberation”, and “collective defiance” meant to make kids “feel good” that the paper seems to feel is a story worth pursuing.

On April 8th the Globe published a story titled “Wall of rejection letters is teen’s group therapy,” wherein the Globe celebrates the “defiance” evinced by the kids in Newton South High School who sought a measure of catharsis by posting their college rejection letters on a community bulletin board designated the “wall of shame.”

The Globe was pleased to see these kids making themselves “feel” better by each gathering his rejection together with others’ and transforming individual failure into a festival of self-pity aimed at mitigating responsibility. “Gosh,” the feeling seems to be, “if everyone else is failing too, I must not be so bad after all!”

The truth is, though, if so many others are failing, perhaps there is something wrong with the education these kids are receiving at the High School level? Instead of everyone breathing an undeserved sigh of relief that they are “in the same boat” as others, it would do far more for their futures should they endeavor to find out how to get in a different, more seaworthy boat.

But, look at the delusions these kids are under as described by the Boston Globe.

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