"Our liberal friends divide humanity into groups with different levels of moral
responsibility for their actions, infantilizing some to one degree or another.
Last week a liberal mother called into the Hugh Hewitt show and guest host Dean
Barnett asked her what she thought about the accusations made by the New
Republic's Baghdad Diarist: Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Did she think his
accusations made against fellow soldiers in Iraq were credible? The caller
responded, as we all like to do when we don't want to answer a question, by
dodging the issue. They're just kids, she said. "
I think this is very true, it reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine a number of years ago. We were watching a film about field workers, and it was an old film - when the workers were poor white people. One of the womyn in the film said she had in the neighborhood of 13 children. When I commented on why someone would have so many kids, my friend said, "they were poor".
In the 90's it was the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and today it is the wars in the Middle East. Often you hear the same demeaning thing said about both places. People talk about the history of violence that they have, and how they have been at war forever and we can't help them.
I think these are not just liberals though, I think it is actually an easy way to escape our own moral feelings about a situation.
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