What
should be the view:
- All persons are created equally, and have the same inherent value and basic rights.
- All cultures are not equal. Some are superior to others.
What progressives teach:
- Some persons are "more equal than others." Example: it is a worse crime for a straight person to murder a homosexual than vice-versa (hate crime).
- All cultures are equal. American culture and values is in no way superior to a cannibalistic tribe from New Guinea.
Backwards, it is.
The problem with that is that what is a "culture", but a unit consisting of
individuals. If the culture is superior, then it appears that
the individuals making up that culture are superior as well, and this is what has often happened
in practice. And superior was often taken to mean "has the right to
rule over the inferior". This is why people reject the term so much.
What we are comparing is called "cultural sins". Cannibalism is one sin, dictatorship is another, and many of the things Americans and other "civilized" societies do are other sins.
So while yes, certain group
behaviors might be "better" or "worse", we have to be
very careful with that word "superior", especially as applied to groups of people.
As for the double standard of "more equal", that is when they try to compensate for what they see as inequity. This may not [always] be right, but it is still an attempt to (in their view) maintain the equality of the individual.
Also, many blacks
are suspicious of the liberals or Democrats, seeing them at least as little more the "lesser of two evils", just as many of you now see the Republicans. They
are put off by the condescension, and pretense of helping out as well.
This race issue keeps coming up under the banner of "Democrats vs Republicans", but the races are really not as at odds in political observation as this makes it seem. It sounds like a smokescreen for a political system, that I think we all at times have noted, does not really care about the country at all; either party, and both races feel that same way.
