May 29, 2008
Liberal ethnocentrism at its worst - Updated
One of the annoying things about liberals who carry water for the castro regime and other Latin-American tyrants like Chavez or Morales is the paternalistic, ethnocentric attitude that their statements betray. A perfect example is comment someone posted to my recent Pajamas Media column about Obama and Cuba:
Some populations are so childlike that they can only be controlled by a strong hand. Hugo Chavez understands this. Fidel Castro understood that, when he still had his faculties of thought, but perhaps Cuba was the wrong country to set his demonstration?Obama understands this very well. He is leading his sheep to pasture, even as we speak.
My response was:
To pasture or to slaughter?The idea that some people need is a “strong hand” is exactly the racist attitude that prevails among American liberals who accept for others what they would not accept for themselves, namely abuses of human rights, censorship etc.
I used the word racist but it really isn't racism because many of the people in Cuba that needed the "strong hand" according to these liberals are white (whether they realize that or not) and many the liberals that express such sentiments are black. It's really ethnocentrism. Those people over there need a benevolent dictator that keeps them from harming themselves.
UPDATE: It seems that perhaps the comment I quoted above was intended to be sarcastic/ironic judging from the commenter's blog. The sentiment though is one I have oft encountered however and that's why I jumped at the chance to post such a thought so brazen in its up-front-ness (I know that's not a word).
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at May 29, 2008 02:24 PM
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If Muslims can be a race then so can Cubans. Under the leftist understanding of race, their position on Cubans is racist. Under more objective terminology it is just abysmal.
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at May 29, 2008 09:48 PM
They show contempt for us, as if democracy is a luxury that people from poor countries cannot afford. That kind of people are the first to say that "yes, Mussolini was a fascist dictator, but at least he made trains run on time". As Val and George usually say: son unos comemierda.
Posted by: K-2 at May 30, 2008 04:11 AM
They show contempt for us, as if democracy is a luxury that people from poor countries cannot afford. That kind of people are the first to say that "yes, Mussolini was a fascist dictator, but at least he made trains run on time". As Val and George usually say: son unos comemierda.
Posted by: K-2 at May 30, 2008 04:16 AM
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