D'Souza has constructed his argument by cobbling together anecdotal accounts of campus incidents. The End of Racism was considerably more incendiary. Here are a few lines from the book:.
The book got a respectful hearing in some corners; historian George Frederickson called it the " most thorough, intelligent, and well-informed presentation of the case against liberal race policies that has yet appeared" in the New York Review of Books.
By contrast, philosopher Richard Rorty wrote a takedown for the New York Times, consisting largely of direct quotations from the book, and concluding, "Conceivably somebody could make a case for the claim that white Americans are now entitled to relax, go color-blind, and let the African-Americans rebuild their culture on their own.
D'Souza has not even begun to make it. The Virtue of Prosperity , released in the midst of the dot-com boom, is a celebration of the new wave of capitalism, and in particular the fact that going into business and making money is "seen as cool. It's unfair, D'Souza argues, for the state to deny his daughter the edge he's attempted to give her through sending her to great schools, offering her ballet and chess lessons, and so on:.
Now, to enforce equal opportunity, the government could do one of two things: it could try to pull my daughter down, or it could work to raise other people's children up. The first is clearly destructive and immoral, but the second is also unfair. The government is obliged to treat all citizens equally.
Why should it work to undo the benefits that my wife and I have labored so hard to provide? Why should it offer more to children whose parents have not taken the trouble? What's the Matter with Kansas? The Enemy at Home was rejected by much of the conservative movement, not least because of the implication that D'Souza agrees with some Islamist critiques of Western culture. For instance, D'Souza writes , "the political right and the Islamic fundamentalists are on the same wavelength on social issues," and, "Yes I would rather go to a baseball game or have a drink with Michael Moore than with the grand mufti of Egypt.
But when it comes to core beliefs, I'd have to confess that I'm closer to the dignified fellow in the long robe and prayer beads than to the slovenly fellow with the baseball cap. National Review hosted a symposium on the book that was overwhelmingly negative. Roger Kimball, who had issued a glowing review of Illiberal Education , wrote, "The problem with The Enemy at Home is … well, everything.
Sort of? There's no obvious musical accompaniment to D'Souza's career, but this is better, I promise. D'Souza appeared in an infomercial for his friend Bruce Schooley's invention, the Fliptree: a pre-lit, multi-component artificial Christmas tree designed to be easy to move and store.
It's delightful:. Thanks to Elon Green for the pointer. Not positive! He rejects the frequent conservative attack that Obama is a European-style or perhaps Alinskyan socialist at heart, arguing instead that Obama is best understood through the lens of anticolonialism, in particular Kenya's struggle against British imperialism.
Obama was taught by his father, D'Souza argues, to view the US as an imperialist actor trampling upon states both through outright war as in Vietnam or Iraq and through economic exploitation, a natural successor to the more formal role that the British Empire played in much of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Everything Obama does can be understood in light of these fundamental commitments, D'Souza believes: "Why support oil drilling off the coast of Brazil but not in America?
He views some of the Muslims who are fighting against America abroad as resisters of U. The Black Lives Matter protests in the last few months have been a good time for all non-Black people to reflect on how we participate in the oppression of Black people. Indians, in particular, have a unique responsibility here — we have privilege not in spite of how Black people are treated around the world, but because of that treatment.
My father, the other day, called me and mentioned I should keep a Gandhi portrait in my home. I gently or as gently as the Kouls get, which is about as gentle as an ice scraper being dragged across concrete reminded him that Gandhi, too, was a racist.
The film was part of a wave of anti-Clinton books and films released during the election. Some of this support has taken the form of further attacks on Democrats — his latest book, The Big Lie, draws tendentious historical parallels between Democrats and fascists. That all sounds bad, but not exactly criminal.
Why does Trump need to pardon him? What are other conservative outlets saying? Twitchy did Twitchy, and mocked liberal anger. There is obviously much for a conservative to criticize in the Obama record at home and abroad.
Those who hated him were deprived of any rational basis to despise him. Lacking a rational basis, they reverted to irrationality instead. The animus shines even more brightly through the pages of Death of a Nation.
Now blacks would become partners with Democrats in a scheme to extract resources from other Americans. We Democrats are going to create a new plantation for you, this time in the towns and cities. We are going to support you through an array of so-called poverty programs and race-based programs. Essentially we will provide you with lifetime support, just as in the days of slavery. Your job is simply to keep voting us in power so that we can continue to be your caretakers and providers.
To the extent they have jobs, those jobs are criminal assignments. They may not have jobs, but they still have a work ethic.
Their families and communities may be hurting, but they still want to pull them together. Oklahoma in was, politically, a closely divided state. The newspaper whose inflammatory coverage incited the riot had endorsed Warren Harding for president in and espoused a consistently pro-Republican editorial line.
The accused man—Dick Rowland was his name—and the purported victim, Sarah Page, were alone together in a busy office elevator for only a few minutes. Tulsa police questioned both Rowland and Page the next day.
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