Monday, October 27, 2003

Relativity Stops at the Family's Edge

This City Journal piece by Brian Anderson is very astute on the growing Conservative/ Libertarian tendencies of the younger generation. Check out this snippet on South Park.
One of the contemporary Left’s most extreme (and, to conservatives, objectionable) strategies is its effort to draw the mantle of civil liberties over behavior once deemed criminal, pathological, or immoral, as a brilliant South Park episode featuring a visit to town by the North American Man-Boy Love Association—the ultra-radical activist group advocating gay sex with minors—satirizes:

NAMBLA leader [speaking at a group meeting, attended by the South Park kids]: Rights? Does anybody know their rights? You see, I’ve learned something today. Our forefathers came to this country because they believed in an idea. An idea called “freedom.” They wanted to live in a place where a group couldn’t be prosecuted for their beliefs. Where a person can live the way he chooses to live. You see us as being perverted because we’re different from you. People are afraid of us, because they don’t understand. And sometimes it’s easier to persecute than to understand.

Kyle: Dude. You have sex with children.
NAMBLA leader: We are human. Most of us didn’t even choose to be attracted to young boys. We were born that way. We can’t help the way we are, and if you all can’t understand that, well, then, I guess you’ll just have to put us away.
Kyle [slowly, for emphasis]: Dude. You havesex. With children.
Stan: Yeah. You know, we believe in equality for everybody, and tolerance, and all that gay stuff, but dude, fuck you.
[Emphasis added.] As the father of two young boys, you don't really want to know what I think about pedophilia and pederasty (which was rampant under the Taliban by the way). One of my favorite quotes on what stinking garbage extreme pomo multiculturalism is comes from Richard Dawkins: "Show me a relativist at 30,000 feet, and I'll show you a hypocrite."