{"id":9,"date":"2003-07-14T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=9"},"modified":"2003-07-14T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T15:30:31","slug":"well_this_is_pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/14\/well_this_is_pr.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, this is pretty scary"},"content":{"rendered":"

An excerpt from an essay (the original is much longer, and says much the same thing) on why the Constitution is incompatible with progressive ideals<\/a>, written by a real, live progressive.<\/p>\n

Very generally, the Constitution, incident to protecting the ideational, economic, and familial spheres of individual life against the intrusive effects of benign and malign legislative initiatives, protects that realm of private, intimate, social, and economic culture that creates and then perpetuates a spirit of intolerance toward, alienation from, and active hatred of subordinated persons. By so doing, the Constitution not only fails to protect against that subordination, but it also fails to exhibit neutrality toward it: it nurtures precisely those patterns and practices that are most injurious to the economic opportunities, the individual freedoms, the intimacies, and the fragile communities of those persons already most deprived in the unequal and unfree social world in which we live.<\/p>\n

In other words, you can have individual freedom, or social equality, but you can’t have both.<\/p>\n

Which do you <\/i>want?<\/p>\n

The supporting detail to the above is equally scary, e.g., freedom of religion is bad because major religions oppress women. The apparent conclusion — a (progressive) society should only allow those religions that promote equality of the sexes (as, no doubt, determined by the International Council on Goodthinking Religions) — is appalling. <\/p>\n

(I don’t know that this is in keeping with the general progressive belief system, but at the very least, it serves as a reductio ad absurdem <\/i>to some such arguments — though I don’t think the original author sees it that way.)<\/p>\n

(via Ipse Dixit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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