I link to a lot of people on my blogroll.<\/p>\n
A link doesn’t <\/em>necessarily imply complete agreement on every – or any – issue.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I link to David Strom<\/a>, Fraters Libertas<\/a>, Kool Aid Report<\/a> and Ed Morrissey<\/a> even though I’m not against the North Star line, am not Catholic, ignore the Packers (to say nothing of Notre Dame, Hockey and parrots) and never cared much for Iron Maiden, and oppose smoking bans.<\/p>\n Indeed, I link to the likes of Blanked Out<\/a>, Blog of the “Moderate” Left<\/a>, MNSpeak<\/a> and Powerliberal<\/a> even though I don’t agree\u00a0on much with any of them.<\/p>\n So let’s take a brief – and final – run through last I would never put a racist blog on my blogroll.\u00a0 And I don’t think Tracy Eberly or Anti-Strib are “racist” in any sense that a victim of genuine racism (as opposed to agenda-flogging selective indignation) would recognize.\u00a0 So they’ll remain on my blogroll; I’ll continue to support them – and hope and trust that they’ll express their views about race and culture a lot more artfully, if no less forthrightly.<\/p>\n As a friend, I’ll both agree with Tracy that our culture does <\/em>have plenty to be proud of and is <\/em>objectively better in balance for the vast majority of its\u00a0people\u00a0than most of the world’s other societies.\u00a0 America, and the West that it leads and (with Britain) defined, eschews ritual genital mutilation, the stoning of gays, the lynching of adulterers, and…the list goes on.\u00a0 Our language, unlike so many of the\u00a0world’s tongues, doesn’t have different words for “human” that grow more derogatory the farther from “American” or “English” one gets.\u00a0 Our society is far from perfect, but it\u00a0strives to uphold\u00a0not only the rights of women and social and cultural and ethnic minorities\u00a0and<\/em> has done more than any other society in history to atone for the wrongs of its own past\u00a0than any other culture in\u00a0history.\u00a0\u00a0Tracy is right about this; I’d like him to express that point without pissing in Native Americans’ wheaties along the way, just\u00a0for the sheer South-Park-<\/em>olicious fun of it.<\/p>\n As a blogger who reads Anti-Strib (at the very least <\/em>for Hot Telanovela <\/em>Chick Friday) and supports the local center-right blog scene, I’ll criticize the offense – partly because actions DO have consequences to a principled conservative, and partly because I’d hate to see one of the Cities’ more prominent center-right group blogs get trashed for no good reason.\u00a0 Anti-Strib<\/em> has some good friends, some good writers (Badda, Kermit, and yes, Tracy) along with some notso-hotso ones (it’s Tracy’s party, he can invite who he wants), and above all some solid points to make.\u00a0 Anti-Strib<\/em> did yeoman work<\/a> in exposing the casual, racist screedmongering of Minneapolis School Board member Chris Stewart and American Hot Sausage (which passed without a word from\u00a0 Karl Bremer, and\u00a0earned a flakky puff-piece<\/a> from Steve Perry\u00a0– even Eva Young<\/a> covered that one); Anti-Strib<\/em> makes a valuable contribution to the local blog scene, and will do so in the future.\u00a0 They deserve (and have earned) both\u00a0criticism and <\/em>recognition; they also deserve, I think,\u00a0the benefit of a doubt.<\/p>\n I’d hate to see Anti-Strib’s<\/em> rep get shredded (or shredded further)\u00a0over Tracy’s gaffe, or maybe worse, defending something that’s just not worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I link to a lot of people on my blogroll. A link doesn’t necessarily imply complete agreement on every – or any – issue.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I link to David Strom, Fraters Libertas, Kool Aid Report and Ed Morrissey even though I’m not against the North Star line, am not Catholic, ignore the Packers (to say nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}month’s <\/strike>week’s dismal little flap<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
last week<\/strike> last month, which the local Sorosphere has been tossing about like a bunch of poo-flinging monkeys, had some background – an obnoxious commenter – and an underlying point (not all cultures are equally good, and other cultures can and should be criticized as freely as our own).\u00a0 Observing this helps explain the piece, I think…<\/li>\nhave earned the right to squawk<\/strike> be worth a listen.\u00a0 But nobody’s demanding that accountability, because it’d be dumb<\/em>; that’s not DL or DM’s purpose!\u00a0 Declaring the MOB different is purely agenda-driven wishful thinking.\u00a0<\/li>\n