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If The Allegation Of Genocide Fits, Wear It |
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Written by bigpig
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Thursday, 30 October 2003 |
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Page 1 of 2 FMeekins sent us this: "Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe not unlike our own but noticeably different, or --- better yet --- maybe even our own world several decades or even a century hence. In this hypothetical realm, the fundamental liberties of an entire class of individuals are systematically violated since these people do not measure up to the criteria delineating what constitutes a human being by either possessing undesirable features or unacceptable origins. A number of conscientious citizens, realizing that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights such as life and liberty, regardless of arbitrary characteristics without reference to individual innocence, use peaceable tactics of speech and assembly to persuade their countrymen as to the moral impropriety of the position enshrined as official policy."
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FMeekins sent us this:
Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe not unlike our own but noticeably different, or --- better yet --- maybe even our own world several decades or even a century hence. In this hypothetical realm, the fundamental liberties of an entire class of individuals are systematically violated since these people do not measure up to the criteria delineating what constitutes a human being by either possessing undesirable features or unacceptable origins. A number of conscientious citizens, realizing that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights such as life and liberty, regardless of arbitrary characteristics without reference to individual innocence, use peaceable tactics of speech and assembly to persuade their countrymen as to the moral impropriety of the position enshrined as official policy.
Normally, such courageous voices are heralded as heroes --- be they the Abolitionists of early American History crusading against slavery or the X-Men of Marvel comics confronting anti-mutant animus. However, when such a principled stance is taken in our own day in the real world, it is not uncommon for those who congratulate themselves the most as to their sensitivity, tolerance, and broadmindedness to rank among the loudest in enunciating contempt for their contemporaries who embrace a competing but more traditional conception of justice.
At the University of Maryland, the campus chapter of Students for Life, in conjunction with the Center for Bioethical Reform, put on exhibit a display entitled “The Genocide Awareness Project” depicting man’s inhumanity to man. This photo montage drew parallels between various atrocities such as the Holocaust, the lynching of innocent Blacks, and the contemporary practice of abortion since each was the result of denying the basic humanity of those losing their lives in these ghastly manners.
On the campus of the modern secular university where you will find victiologists who can think of no cheerier way to spend a day than to mope about lamenting assorted woes and slights (both real, imagined, and exaggerated), one would think another chance to commiserate human suffering would be looked forward to and applauded. However, even those enjoying pity parties the most aren’t up to the festivities when it is their own ideological compatriots who bear the responsibility for unleashing the horror and bloodshed of abortion upon the world in which we live.
When confronted with the concrete reality of abortion (that being dismembered and dissolved babies rather than whimsical platitudes reverencing choice, dignity, and other manipulative sociological blather glamorizing this crime), counter-demonstrators told the campus paper, the Diamondback, “Decisions should not be based on propaganda. This just enraged me so much that they’re comparing a woman’s right to choose to the Holocaust and lynchings...Decisions should not be based on propaganda.” One might point out that last statement itself wreaks of sloganeering.
Such leftist sensibilities were echoed in a letter to the Diamondback by the presidents of the Black and Jewish student unions. These budding ethnic malcontents indignantly proclaimed, “The use of graphic photos depicting black lynching victims and victims of the Holocaust was a cheap piece of propaganda.” These race mongers go on to accuse the Genocide Awareness Project of insulting history and exploiting tragedy to score political points.
Haven’t assorted multiculturalist rackets turned this into an art form; ever heard of Black History Month or the reparations scam? The hypersensitive opposed to this exhibit exposing the horrors of abortion beyond a shadow of a doubt repeatedly speak of a reverence for history but just as often ignore the facts and truths established by this hallowed field of study.
According to contemporary academic racialists, mass murder is only a moral outrage when it is targeted towards a specified ethnic group. Things aren’t quite as bad if you’re an equal opportunity killer. At least that way, you can’t be accused of bias, which might be the greater transgression in the minds of the politically correct.
However, had these rabble rousers actually taken the time to study history instead of bashing the rest of us over the head with it, they might be shocked to learn that those who snuff out innocent human in the seemingly more antiseptic venue of the “reproductive clinic” wiggled out from the same moral cesspool as those who loaded Jews into boxcars and Africans onto slave ships.
Much of world abortion movement draws its impetus from Planned Parenthood. This organization was, in turn, inspired by Margaret Sanger.
According to Evangelical researcher Randy Alcorn in Pro-Life Answers To Pro-Choice Arguments, this woman propagated a philosophy of eugenics, the idea that individuals of certain racial backgrounds, handicaps, or mental deficiencies should be forbidden from or manipulated into not reproducing for the genetic betterment of mankind. In pursuit of this dystopian vision, Sanger’s sympathies were startlingly Nazi-like in their animus towards Gypsies, Jews, and even Christians; and her so-called “Negro Project” was specifically designed to promulgate contraception and abortion in Black communities.
Multiculturalists would like nothing more than to elevate their own favorite tragedies by laying proprietary claim to the ephemeral boogeyman of hate. According to these activists, since these atrocities are motivated by “pure hate” --- as opposed to a diluted off-the-shelf variety --- killing an even greater number of innocents for more mercenary reasons isn’t quite as bad.
But when you come down to it, what exactly makes “hate” hate? At it’s core, hate boils down to a disregard for others and the elevation of the self beyond the limitations of propriety and decorum.
Hate, therefore, transcends merely disliking someone for being someone. The carjacker or homeinvader gunning down his victim is no more a humanitarian than the SS guard tossing the Zyklon B into the gas chamber. Likewise, the motives of those casting their lots with homicidal totalitarian movements were as “complex” as those seeking abortions the presidents of the Black and Jewish student unions endeavor to excuse in their misguided epistle.
Some Nazis were as motivated by a lust for power as any blatant ethnic animosity. Slave traders were as motivated by greed as their contempt for the African people. In both cases, many involved simply embodied the same detached bureaucratic mentality displayed by abortion clinic administrators and personnel summarized by Hannah Arendt’s phrase “The Banality of Evil”.
Why, then, change our tunes when a gaggle of whiny Feminists take center stage? Even though they aren’t known for an eloquence on par with Anne Frank or Frederick Douglas, who are we to say aborted babies don’t feel as much pain in their brief and brutally interrupted lives? The Genocide Awareness is to be commended for focusing attention on this neglected historical tragedy many so-called “scholars” would prefer to sweep beneath the academic carpet.
Copyright 2003 by
Frederick B. Meekins
American WorldView Dispatch
http://americanworldview.tripod.com
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