david robertsAs I've said a million times: reactionaries find the thought of being held accountable for their words & actions genuinely outrageous.
This shit is so funny
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AssBoss80085/status/1606457994757144578
This is a famous political definition of conservatism:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
But I also think ...
...it speaks to features of the reactionary personality. Grandpa should be able to opine freely on which groups do & don't deserve basic rights, which bits of science are & aren't valid, whether half the human species should be allowed to control their own reproductive systems...
... who should & shouldn't be allowed to vote, who is or isn't going to hell, who is or isn't fully human ...
... but his kids must nonetheless smile, treat him with respect, and hand their impressionable children over to him. Hey, they're just "political opinions."
It's the individual corollary of Wilhoit's famous political definition. Interpersonal rules of decency protect but do not bind him.
Yes, everyone, I know who Wilhoit was and where the quote comes from. I was reading Crooked Timber comment threads when you people were in diapers.
David Slack@drvolts In college, one of my professors talked about the church as an institution that is trying to be “in the world but not of it.”
This thread makes me realize that modern conservatives seem to want to be of the world but not in it. “I belong here more than you do but also none of the rules apply to me.”
Kobe652@slack2thefuture @drvolts Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
— Frank Wilhoit
— Frank Wilhoit