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“This just can’t be tolerated anymore. It’s one thing to be called a violent teabagger. It’s another to be called a violent teabagger while you’re being assaulted. They’ve been comparing themselves to the Egyptians ousting Mubarak. Looks like they’re not too far off, given that they share the tendency to assault women with cameras.”
— Tabatha Hale at Red State today.
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“The explanation is pretty simple, really – scratch a progressive, and you’ll find a misogynist.”
— Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals.com, March 4th, 2008.
Reading David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed” I’ve become more convinced than ever that the institutional, structural violence meted out by these thugs in groups is a cultural artifact of New England Progressive-Puritans. The Calvinists of New England hanged Witches and Quaker Preachers who “threatened” the community of “perfect order” by dangerous ideas or “black magic.” Yet themselves had little personal violence, and mostly led orderly, sedate lives (think Puritan descendant John Adams). Yet they are completely prone to communal violence in any color of “authority” to punish those who threaten their “ordered liberty.”
Union thugs meting out “Justice” to those who have “threatening views” is pretty much a straight line, from hanging Witches and elderly female Quaker preachers. Culturally it is what you’d expect.
And its about time we called them on it, and their own shame. Shame is a powerful weapon, particularly among the post-Calvinists of New England’s Puritan-Progressives and their cultural descendants (among them the Upper Midwest Progressives).