Lowest Setting

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

John Scalzi summed up Liberals’ worldview when he quipped “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.”

 

The problem with any quip is that it contains a kernel of truth so it can’t be denied completely.  But only a kernel, meaning it should be denied in part.  The difficulty lies in determining which part.

 

In Rome in 400 AD, Straight White Male was undeniably the lowest difficulty setting.  Women and minorities had it tougher, no question.  In South Africa in 2017, Straight White Male is a death sentence.  The validity of the quip depends on Where you are.

 

Limiting the quip to the United States, it’s still not universally true.  In Virginia in 1800, sure.  In Minneapolis in 2017 with its commitment to diversity and affirmative action in education and employment, it’s definitely not so.  The validity of the quip depends on When you are.

 

Liberals continue to act as if today was November 1, 1959; as if Eisenhower was still the President; as if drinking fountains were still segregated, women had coat-hanger abortions, welfare was non-existent and the Klan enforced Jim Crow laws.

 

It takes a special kind of wilfull blindness to ignore the progress America has made, to continue to blame everything on the past, insisting on new and better solutions to problems that already have been solved.

 

Joe Doakes

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2 thoughts on “Lowest Setting

  1. Problem is the problems have NOT been solved by coercive government actions. They just now cost a lot more than they did to achieve pretty much the same result.

  2. “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.”
    Wrong.
    Wrong, wrong, wrong.
    The lowest difficulty setting is “wealthy.” Any sex, any race.
    A rich lesbian has it far better than a non-rich white male.
    Obama did not have a more difficult time getting into Harvard than some random guy raised in a trailer park by meth-addled hillbillies.

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