Not much I can add. As an exercise I notice that you can summarize this, and what I've seen of other fine NRO offerings, as sort of a formula. You can play madlibs with this;
If we let people get away with strange left wing idea that whatever group might also be worthy of human respect, arcane forces threatening our society will take over and ruin the way things had been. The way things had been is good, and challenging it will be bad for some other people.
So for grins and giggles, I fill in the blanks with a number of different nouns and verbs in summarizing this gentleman's editorial, and I find that the American right changes rather little over the years;
If we let Black people vote, then there would be a dangerous legal precedent to let women vote. There are already suffragettes lined up looking for legal opportunities to push through their views. And if women start voting, it might redefine gender roles, and like we know that just can't work in Western society.
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Date: 2003-03-13 10:58 am (UTC)If we let people get away with strange left wing idea that whatever group might also be worthy of human respect, arcane forces threatening our society will take over and ruin the way things had been. The way things had been is good, and challenging it will be bad for some other people.
So for grins and giggles, I fill in the blanks with a number of different nouns and verbs in summarizing this gentleman's editorial, and I find that the American right changes rather little over the years;
If we let Black people vote, then there would be a dangerous legal precedent to let women vote. There are already suffragettes lined up looking for legal opportunities to push through their views. And if women start voting, it might redefine gender roles, and like we know that just can't work in Western society.