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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"9"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2514827902088961157"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-12T02:21:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-12T02:22:00.430-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"culture war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"history"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The War on Columbus is a War on America"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(I first \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/10\/goodbye-columbus-america-apologizes-for.html\"\u003Ewrote this article in 2009\u003C\/a\u003E and have been posting it every year. In the decade since, Indigenous People's Day went from obscure revisionist history to the dominant narrative embraced by Democrats. Statues of Columbus have been destroyed or removed. Biden and numerous blue states and cities have gotten behind Indigenous People's Day. Some of the references from 2009 are no longer relevant, but a decade later the article's theme and its prediction, that the next target would be America and Independence Day is very much a current reality.)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EColumbus may have outfoxed the Spanish court and his rivals, but he is falling victim to the court of political correctness. The explorer who discovered America has become controversial because the very idea of America has become controversial.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/StZ00sv0RYI\/AAAAAAAACrI\/c42D1QzmArQ\/s1600-h\/columbus.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/StZ00sv0RYI\/AAAAAAAACrI\/c42D1QzmArQ\/s320\/columbus.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThere are counter-historical claims put forward by Muslim and Chinese scholars claiming that they discovered America first. And there are mobs of fake indigenous activists on every campus to whom the old Italian is as much of a villain as the bearded Uncle Sam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EColumbus Day parades are met with protests and some have been minimized or eliminated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a number of cities Columbus Day was transformed into Indigenous People's Day, which sounds like a Marxist terrorist group's holiday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter making a shambles of his efforts at socialized medicine, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed on to Indigenous People's Day. What began in Berkeley, spread to Denver, Pheonix and Seattle, among other cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo American state has followed Venezuela's lead in renaming it Día de la Resistencia Indígena, or Day of Indigenous Resistance, which actually is a Marxist terrorist group's holiday, but the whole notion of celebrating the discovery of America has come to be seen as somehow shameful and worst of all, politically incorrect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe shift from celebrating Columbus' arrival in America to commemorating it as an American tragedy by focusing on the tribes who had settled there earlier, rather than the American settlers, is a profound form of historical revisionism that hacks away at the origins of this country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe attacks on Columbus Day have less to do with the distant descendants of those tribes, most of whom owe more of their ancestry to the later arrivals made possible by Columbus, than with the agenda of the left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnti-Columbus Day protests are mounted by La Raza, whose members, despite their indigenous posturing, are actually mostly descended from Spanish colonists, but who know that most Americans are too confused to rationally frame an objection to a protest by any minority group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe absurdity is deepened by the linguistic and cultural ties between the Italian Columbus Day marchers and the Latino Anti-Columbus Day protesters with the latter set cynically exploiting white guilt to pretend that being the descendants of Southern European colonists makes them a minority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf being descended from Southern Europeans makes you a minority, then Columbus, the parade marchers, the Greek restaurant owner nearby and even Rush Limbaugh are all \"people of color.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EItalian-Americans are the only bulwark against political correctness still keeping Columbus on the calendar, and that has made mayors and governors in cities and states with large Italian-American communities wary of tossing the great explorer completely overboard. But while Ferdinand and Isabella may have brought Columbus back in chains, modern day political correctness is erasing him from history and replacing him with a note reading, \"I'm Sorry We Ever Landed Here.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut this is about more than one single 15th century Genoan with a complicated life who was neither a monster nor a saint. It is about whether America really has any right to exist at all. Is there any argument against celebrating Columbus Day, that cannot similarly be applied to the Fourth of July?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Columbus is to be stricken from the history books in favor of ideological thugs like Malcolm X, then America must soon follow. Columbus' crime is that he enabled European settlement of the continent. If the settlement of non-Indians in North America is illegitimate, then any national state they created is also illegitimate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is easier to hack away at a nation's history by beginning with the lower branches.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EColumbus is an easier target than America itself, though the left considers both colonialist vermin. Americans are less likely to protest over the banishment of Columbus to the politically correct gulag\u0026nbsp; than over the banishing America itself, which was named after another one of those colonialist explorers, Amerigo Vespucci. First they came for Columbus Day and then for the Fourth of July.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe battles being fought over Columbus Day foreshadow the battles to be fought over the Fourth of July. As Columbus Day joins the list of banned holidays in more cities, one day there may not be a Fourth of July, just a day of Native Resistance to remember the atrocities of the colonists with PBS documentaries comparing George Washington to Hitler.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese documentaries already exist, they just haven't gone mainstream. Yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe celebrate Columbus Day and the Fourth of July because that is our history. Had the Aztecs, the Mayans or the Iroquois Confederation developed the necessary technology and skills to cross the Atlantic and begin colonizing Europe, the fate of its native inhabitants would have been far uglier. The different perspectives on history often depend on which side you happen to be on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo Americans, the Alamo is a shining moment of heroism. To the Mexicans who are the heirs of a colonialist empire far more ruthless than anything to be found north of the Rio Grande, the war was a plot to conquer Mexican territory. And neither side is altogether wrong, but choosing which version of history to go by is the difference between being an American or a Mexican.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nation's mythology, its paragons and heroes, its founding legends and great deeds, are its soul. To replace them with another culture's perspective on its history is to kill that soul.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is the ultimate goal of political correctness, to kill America's soul. To stick George Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, James Bowie, Paul Revere, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and all the rest on a shelf in a back room somewhere, and replace them with timelier liberal heroes. Move over Washington, Caesar Chavez needs this space. No more American heroes need apply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFollowed of course by no more America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D0Vh8qLs_ds\/TpO3j219SYI\/AAAAAAAAFMw\/-uXdJSY3xxI\/s1600\/Sprit_of_%252776.2.jpeg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D0Vh8qLs_ds\/TpO3j219SYI\/AAAAAAAAFMw\/-uXdJSY3xxI\/s400\/Sprit_of_%252776.2.jpeg\" width=\"300\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThis is how it begins. And that is how it ends. Nations are not destroyed by atomic bombs or economic catastrophes; they are lost when they lose any reason to go on living. When they no longer have enough pride to go on fighting to survive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe final note of politically correct lunacy comes from a headline in the Columbus Dispatch about the Columbus Day festival in the city of Columbus, Ohio. \"Italian Festival honors controversial explorer with its own Columbus Day parade\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce the great discover of America, Columbus is now dubbed \"controversial\" by a newspaper named after him, in a city named after him .And if he is controversial, how can naming a city after him and a newspaper after the city not be equally controversial?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECan the day when USA Today has a headline reading, \"Some cities still plan controversial 4th of July celebration of American independence\" be far behind?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. And\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/DgreenfieldWriting\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eclick here to support my work with a donation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2514827902088961157\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/the-war-on-columbus-is-war-on-america.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2514827902088961157"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2514827902088961157"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/the-war-on-columbus-is-war-on-america.html","title":"The War on Columbus is a War on America"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/StZ00sv0RYI\/AAAAAAAACrI\/c42D1QzmArQ\/s72-c\/columbus.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6232376468807446917"},"published":{"$t":"2021-08-05T00:22:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-08-05T00:22:53.718-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"censorship"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"history"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It Doesn't Take Censorship to Fight a Pandemic"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After Biden’s spokeswoman boasted that the administration was ordering Facebook to censor some people’s speech, Fauci joined the campaign by appearing on CNN to warn about the dangers of letting anyone say whatever they think. \"We probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that's being spread now,\" he falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFauci as usual is wrong. The polio vaccine was the subject of numerous controversies which played out in public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8pC5iyeVU8M\/YQtngGWlZlI\/AAAAAAAATY0\/zxQ5EljY3QsNZaLdWInnH2v1N2Dz7wSWQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s543\/Keep_your_mouth_shut.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"543\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8pC5iyeVU8M\/YQtngGWlZlI\/AAAAAAAATY0\/zxQ5EljY3QsNZaLdWInnH2v1N2Dz7wSWQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Keep_your_mouth_shut.jpg\" width=\"236\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThere were anti-vaccine campaigns long before Facebook. The most bracing of these took on the polio vaccine with the headline, \"Little White Coffins\" declaring, \"Only God above will know how many thousands of little white coffins will be used to bury the victims of Salk's heinous, fraudulent vaccine.\"  Walter Winchell, who at his peak reached over 50 million people, warned that one particular version of the vaccine, which contained a live virus, was a \"killer\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContrary to Fauci’s fantasies (aided and abetted by a media eager to find a pretext for censoring any open marketplace of ideas), the fifties were not a totalitarian dystopia in which free speech did not exist. Many of the same controversies as today, from socialism to science, played out to large audiences across a bewildering array of national and local newspapers, radio stations, mailings, books and magazines in a country where the media had not yet been consolidated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday, much of the newspaper, radio, and television markets, not to mention publishing, are controlled in one way or another by a handful of giant companies. While the fifties had their massive chains and networks, they were far more intellectually diverse, and had plenty of different owners and perspectives in the mix. The American cultural environment today would strike people from that era as Communist because it resembles the tight centralized control of the Soviet Union. America has never had as little free and open debate as it does now because never have the means of debate been clutched in as few hands as is now the case..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was aggressive promotion of the polio vaccine by the government, by local authorities, and by non-profit advocacy groups, but there was also vigorous opposition by a variety of people, some credible and some not, and the scientific debates over the vaccine, most notably between the live virus and the inactive virus, played out in public with ordinary people following the back and forth between Salk and Sabin. When Salk’s inactive vaccine was replaced with Sabin’s live virus, the vaccine researcher turned to attacking it as unsafe and dangerous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans not only survived a vigorous public debate over the polio vaccine, but managed to stop polio because the debate over the vaccine between advocates and opponents, and between scientists, played out in public creating a sense of transparency and trust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat revisionists act as if public health, elections, or any important enterprise can only succeed if dissenting voices are suppressed. But public trust comes from debate, not from a lack of it. Americans trusted the polio vaccine more than they trust the coronavirus vaccines because they were part of a public debate, instead of being told to shut up and just go along.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the existence of a vigorous public debate proved vital when batches of the polio vaccine from one manufacturer not only proved lethal, but infected children with polio and paralyzed some of them. The initial response by many in the scientific community and among corporate leaders was a cover-up. Instead, the Eisenhower administration chose to be transparent even though it led to a smear campaign by Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEisenhower, instead of acting as if there was nothing wrong, admitted that the government had failed. It would be incomprehensible today when no politician ever admits to having mishandled the pandemic. New York's Cuomo might have killed countless seniors, but he'll never admit to it. Neither will any of the other governors who forced infected patients into nursing homes\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContrary to Fauci’s lies, the polio vaccine process survived not only “false information”, but vigorous public debate between its two central figures, Salk and Sabin, between Republicans and Democrats, (Basil O'Connor, the vaccine’s biggest champion, was FDR’s old friend and had brought him on board), and catastrophic failures that included a vaccine manufacturer who infected 40,000 children with polio, paralyzed 51 children, and killed 5 children. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinally, Fauci is wrong about there being no more polio in America. What he really means is that there’s no virus in the wild naturally spreading “polio” in the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolio now comes to this country through vaccines taken abroad by immigrants or travelers. (Fauci would also prefer that we not debate Biden’s open borders policies which are bringing in illegal aliens infected by the coronavirus and spreading them around the country.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a temporary win by Sabin, the United States switched to a live virus in its polio vaccine due to an outbreak caused by an inactive vaccine which turned out to carry the live virus. More recently, we went back to the Salk inactive virus vaccine. However countries which use the live virus vaccine continue to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2009\/04\/minnesota-officials-link-polio-infection-oral-vaccine\"\u003Espread polio\u003C\/a\u003E to a percentage of those who are vaccinated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2005, an Arizona woman \"contracted vaccine-derived paralytic polio\" from South America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2008, the CDC reported that \"vaccine-derived polioviruses were detected in patients from eight countries who had acute flaccid paralysis.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why vaccine debates, and any other medical debates, are worth having.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe polio debate still continues today generations later. The switch from a live to an inactive vaccine happened less than a generation ago. Historians still argue over whether the vaccine outbreak was the fault of private industry or government oversight. And that’s a good thing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVaccines are an important and powerful tool. Like any other scientific program, they can go disastrously wrong. The best way to maintain public trust in vaccines or in any other program is through transparency, telling the truth and conducting an open and public debate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDebates over vaccines or any other subject will not always be conducted in good faith. But secret planning and cover-ups are always held in bad faith and destroy public trust.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFauci is a government employee. And the legitimacy of the government derives from public oversight and scrutiny. That legitimacy fails when those employees mislead and manipulate the public. Fauci was showered with the same outpouring of worshipful attention as Salk, without possessing anything resembling Salk’s level of accomplishment. But where Salk also faced harsh criticism and accountability when things went wrong, Fauci never has.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe glides from one interview to another, changes his story twice a week, adopts whatever the popular Washington D.C. is, and never actually confronts any of the difficult issues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the 50s, Fauci would have long since faced accountability. And Americans would have never tolerated the level of control over the public by unelected administrators. Let alone the calls for the suppression of free speech that Fauci feels free to indulge in to his fan base at CNN.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeople not only have a right, but an obligation, to debate what their government does. Their opinions may be right or wrong, but that’s not for Fauci and the government to decide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is not the job of government employees to tell the public what to think, but to serve the public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a government administration blames a crisis on the public having too much of a say in things, it’s either covering up its own horrifying actions or plotting a coup against the public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEither one is a warning that the only thing unhealthier than a virus is big government.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6232376468807446917\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/08\/it-doesnt-take-censorship-to-fight.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6232376468807446917"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6232376468807446917"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/08\/it-doesnt-take-censorship-to-fight.html","title":"It Doesn't Take Censorship to Fight a Pandemic"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8pC5iyeVU8M\/YQtngGWlZlI\/AAAAAAAATY0\/zxQ5EljY3QsNZaLdWInnH2v1N2Dz7wSWQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Keep_your_mouth_shut.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8300273629695799141"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-20T19:36:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-07-20T19:36:23.373-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"history"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"political correctness"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sports"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Every Sports Team Must Change Its Name"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Washington Redskins agreed to change a name that offended no one except white leftists, but the media, which always speaks with forked tongue, is demanding more sports scalps. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Cleveland Indians have issued a statement whining that \"the recent social unrest... has only underscored the need for us to keep improving as an organization on issues of social justice.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when the Indians were just known for being cursed with the second-longest championship drought in sports, now they can be cursed for their commitment to social justice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe curse used to be known as the Curse of Chief Wahoo, but he's already been purged for political incorrectness. And now the Indians announced that they're \"committed to engaging our community and appropriate stakeholders to determine the best path forward with regard to our team name.” Those stakeholders won't be their fans or anyone who knows what baseball is. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YfIO-MslbUI\/XxYp_ytVhmI\/AAAAAAAASSg\/CayLylURm2UBIdLfHZ3_uDYvmFj1xylmACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/el%2Bpaso.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"656\" data-original-width=\"909\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YfIO-MslbUI\/XxYp_ytVhmI\/AAAAAAAASSg\/CayLylURm2UBIdLfHZ3_uDYvmFj1xylmACNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/el%2Bpaso.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the purge of Indian names from sports is just getting started. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Kansas City Star ran a piece declaring that, “It’s time for the Chiefs to defuse the cultural offenses they enable and reflect”. The editorial though quickly goes beyond blasting the Chiefs,  to declaring that America is genocidal and that the Declaration of Independence is racist. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpoiler alert. They’re not just coming for the Kansas City Chiefs, they’re coming for America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERemember when American newspapers didn’t entirely consist of headlines that looked like they were badly translated from Chinese Marxist rants? Maybe it would be easier to rename the Chiefs, the Kansas City Marxists. We could call them the Reds, but that name is taken. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Atlanta Braves have said that they aren't changing the name, but will consider getting rid of the tomahawk chop. But the only thing appeasement half-measures accomplish is putting blood in the water. And once social media piranhas smell blood, they’ll never stop until they drink it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Hawks are currently refusing to change their name, but are promising to, “expand awareness of Black Hawk and the important contributions of all Native American people.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs if that will protect them from a mob of angry white leftists who couldn’t care less. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe culture war isn’t hitting sports because white lefties, some of whom claim to be Native American activists even though they have the blood quantum level of Elizabeth Warren, care about the feelings of American Indians, but because it gives them the power to terrorize people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe movement has already moved north of the border to Canadian football where the Edmonton Eskimos announced that, after \"an extensive year-long formal research and engagement program with Inuit leaders”, they’re currently keeping the name. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoston Pizza, among other sponsors, is pulling out because a Canadian pizza chain founded by a Greek immigrant named after something it’s not, doesn’t want to be associated with Eskimos. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lefty media has already moved beyond Indian names, sensing that well might soon run dry. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Washington Post’s Karen Attiah, best known for helping turn Osama bin Laden’s old pal, Jamal Khashoggi, into a martyr, quickly put out a piece demanding that the Texas Rangers change their name because they’re symbols of white supremacy and law enforcement. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’re “not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen”, Attiah huffed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s big coming from a Jeff Bezos employee who had tweeted that, \"White women are lucky that we are just calling them 'Karen's' and not calling for revenge.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe the team can move to D.C. and change its name to the Washington Post Racists. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"While we may have originally taken our name from the law enforcement agency, since 1971 the Texas Rangers Baseball Club has forged its own, independent identity,\" the Texas Rangers responded. As if anyone had confused the team with the law enforcement agency. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YiHTv9Z_d1A\/XxYqasCHrAI\/AAAAAAAASSo\/aqAuiT4qLe0fJ9Soi0iMEBrUcEwa28DuwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/scottsdale.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"143\" data-original-width=\"309\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YiHTv9Z_d1A\/XxYqasCHrAI\/AAAAAAAASSo\/aqAuiT4qLe0fJ9Soi0iMEBrUcEwa28DuwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/scottsdale.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot that it’s going to stop there. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStatues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Columbus are under attack. CNN is denouncing Mount Rushmore as a symbol of white supremacy. It’s only a matter of time until the Patriots, the Cowboys, the 76ers, 49ers, the Trailblazers, Nuggets, Spurs, and any names that reference American history, settlement and westward expansion, will also be banned. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat includes the Yankees and the Knicks, whose names are already forgotten national slurs. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two New York City teams got their names from the slurs that the English settlers used to hurl at the Dutch settlers who wore short pants, or knickerbockers, and the slur John Cheese or Yan Kees, that the Dutch hurled back at the English usurpers. That won’t be the issue for the culture war mob, which doesn’t care about the slurs that different groups of white people called each other, but they both ‘problematically’ reference the European settlement of New York. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoth teams could change their names to those of local Indian tribes, but that’s already off limits. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome media editorialist will, eventually, link the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Southern cavalier mythos and accuse them of white supremacy. The English Civil War would seem to have little to do with a Cleveland team, but King Charles I was involved in the African slave trade. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The name Cleveland Cavaliers represents a group of daring fearless men, whose life's pact was never surrender, no matter what the odds,” the fan who won a contest to name the team wrote. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe’ll see how long that lasts. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers will come under fire once someone realizes that their namesakes were involved in the slave trade in ways that were far more brutal than anything in Virginia. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if you’re going to get rid of them, the Pittsburgh Pirates will probably have to go too. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Minnesota Vikings might seem safe, since the Vikings largely focused on European slaves, but they did deal in at least some African slaves, which would also put them off limits. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat names would still be safe? Birds, animals, colors, and the climate. Just avoid history. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the safest names will be corporate brands. The Washington Redskins are trying to figure out what to rename their team because FedEx gave the Redskins an ultimatum. They might as well just call them the Washington FedExes to celebrate the new politically correct corporate oligarchy which enforces political discipline through firings, indoctrination, and ad campaigns. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nation with no history, no mythos, and nothing to take pride in except for the million dollar losers at the local stadium is a lot easier for all sorts of people and organizations to rule over. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe simplest solution might be for every team to change its name to Black Lives Matter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd when the Pittsburgh Heinz Black Lives Matters play the New York MetLife Black Lives Matters, it’ll be a little bit confusing, but that’s okay because no one will be watching. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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New York City has not one, but two Malcolm X boulevards, along with a playground. Washington D.C. has Malcolm X Avenue. The Los Angeles City Council renamed the intersection near the Bilal Islamic Center, Malcolm X Way. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are a few of the hundreds of streets, schools, and assorted other civic infrastructure named after the black supremacist leader who worked together with the KKK and the American Nazi Party. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I sat at the table myself with the heads of the Ku Klux Klan,” Malcolm X later admitted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UQnCLjYq9_M\/XvizyqCDWJI\/AAAAAAAASO8\/AV5i0t5Z4z4iJVqh4MLlbh_xveZtOqp5wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/malcolm%2Bx.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"432\" data-original-width=\"656\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UQnCLjYq9_M\/XvizyqCDWJI\/AAAAAAAASO8\/AV5i0t5Z4z4iJVqh4MLlbh_xveZtOqp5wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/malcolm%2Bx.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's a Malcolm X statue in Harlem, and the racist leader's family home in Omaha is listed by the Park Service in the National Register of Historic Places even though he became famous preaching the Nation of Islam’s theology that white people are devils created by a mad scientist and would be killed by UFOs. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Postal Service even came out with a stamp for a racial separatist who campaigned for a separate black country, and against racial intermarriage. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Check up on these integration leaders, and you will find that most of them are either married to or hooked up with some white woman,\" Malcolm X ranted.  “No black person married to a white person can speak for me!\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese racist beliefs made Malcolm X a natural ally of the KKK in fighting against civil rights. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1961, Malcolm X met with members of the Klu Klux Klan in Atlanta to work together on an alliance against the civil rights movement. The meeting was the result of secret diplomacy between Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad and Klan leader J.B. Stoner who would later be convicted of the bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham. While Muhammad and Stoner put on a public show of attacking each other to increase their stature, behind the scenes the NOI and KKK were allies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven as Klansmen bombed black churches like Bethel, they would leave the NOI’s mosques alone. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Malcolm X would later blame this “conspiracy” on Elijah Muhammad, the NOI leader, the former Malcolm Little was a child of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which had previously allied with the Klan and praised Hitler. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Between the Klu Klux Klan and the NAACP group, give me the Klan,” Garvey had once said. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlliances between white supremacists and black supremacists would continue under Louis Farrakhan’s leadership of the Nation of Islam. These racist alliances now date back for at least a century. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X and his Klan counterparts both agreed that there was a superior race that would defeat the inferior race. They both saw integrationists as their enemies and blamed the Jews for everything. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Jew is behind the integration movement, using the Negro as a tool,” Malcolm X told the KKK. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe man now honored as a civil rights leader also suggested that the Klan kill white civil rights activists, or as Malcolm X called them, “traitors who assisted integration leaders” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner came three years later. Viola Liuzzo was killed the year after that. By then, Malcolm X had joined her as a casualty of his former hate group. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe great historical irony is that a black nationalist ally of the Klan who had fought the civil rights movement and encouraged the murders of men like Chaney and Goodman has become a definitive civil rights figure, while Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's march with MLK is airbrushed out of movies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X had never made any secret of his rabid anti-Semitism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Jews run the country,” he once declared. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Malcolm X’s meeting with the KKK was briefly kept secret (though at least one of Little’s fellow Nation of Islam ministers had participated in a Klan rally), his flirtation with the American Nazi Party became very public that same year when Malcolm X delivered a racial separatist speech to an audience that included George Lincoln Rockwell and other members of his American Nazi Party. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X introduced George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, on stage, led a round of applause for the Neo-Nazi leader, and called him, “Mr. Rockwell.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBehind the scenes, the NOI and ANP had worked out an agreement of “mutual assistance”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome will protest that Malcolm X rejected his racist views when he traded in the Nation of Islam and adopted mainstream Islam. And yet we are told that we must judge every historical figure, every statue and street name now being denounced as racist, for their worst moments, not their best ones. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is an obvious hypocrisy in allowing Malcolm X to grow, but not any American historical figure. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X did change, but he didn’t stop being a bigot. Instead he shifted from a racist and religious bigotry to an exclusively religious bigotry. The new Malcolm X could accept the men with blue eyes whom he saw while performing his pilgrimage to Mecca as long as they shared his Islamic religion. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Andrew Bostom, the historian and author of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism notes, during his pilgrimage, Malcolm X paid a visit to Hitler’s Mufti, who had lobbied Hitler to kill Jews, and met up with current leaders of the PLO, including Ahmed Shukeiri, who had called for throwing the Jews in the sea. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe year was 1964 and the PLO was not fighting to conquer the West Bank and Gaza, which had been seized by the Arabs in 1948, it was fighting to wipe out the Jews. “Those who survive will remain in Palestine, but I estimate that none of them will survive,” Shukeri would later warn Israeli Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X had gone from bonding with the KKK over their mutual anti-Semitism to bonding with a new bunch of Nazis over the mass murder of Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X's visit to Gaza took place under Egyptian hegemony, Shukeri was a Nasser puppet, and the civil rights leader was studying his new \"moderate\" Islam under the auspices of a totalitarian regime that was repressing Coptic Christians and plotting to kill millions of Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe newly tolerant Malcolm X accused \"Israeli Zionists\" of practicing colonialism in Africa under the authority of their \"Jewish prophets\" and their \"Jewish God\". Like so many other antisemites, Malcolm X easily transmuted his old denunciations of Jewish financial dominance into Zionist financial control. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a Nation of Islam member, Malcolm X had defended the hate group's anti-Semitism by denouncing the \"Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in this country, economically.\" As an Islamist, he raved that, “the number one weapon of 20th century imperialism is zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Malcolm X’s lazy antisemitic stereotype, the Jews were still using money to control black people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile just about every Islamist was controlling Malcolm X. Not only did Malcolm X study at Al Azhar University, the fountainhead of ugly Islamist bigotry, but the head of Saudi Arabia's Muslim World League and Muslim Brotherhood leader Said Ramadan were all teaching Malcolm about Islam. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old Malcolm X had palled around with the KKK and junior Nazis. The new Malcolm X had finally found the real thing. The Saudis and the Muslim Brotherhood saw in Malcolm X an opportunity to bring down the Nation of Islam, whose beliefs had very little to do with the Koran, and to build up an Islamist presence in America. The Nation of Islam fought back and the power struggle killed Malcolm X. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X had gone from the KKK to the Islamist networks that would spawn Al Qaeda and ISIS. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a plane crash, Malcolm X had celebrated the death toll and declaimed, “Why can’t Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe PLO would begin a major rash of airline attacks in a few years that would inspire 9\/11. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new Malcolm X was really no different than the old Malcolm X. What both incarnations had wanted was a separatist Muslim state. The old Malcolm X had admired Muhammad Ahmad, the Islamic leader of the Mahdiist Islamic State, who had responded to British efforts to suppress slavery with a brutal campaign by former slave traders that defeated the British forces and enslaved their wives and children. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Mahdiism has re-established the slave trade, which is now in full vigour, and almost all those slaves who were liberated in the Government days have been sold again as slaves,\" Father Joseph Ohrwalder, a captured missionary documented while noting the booming demand for “black” slaves. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X’s enthusiasm for a jihad for slavery might seem improbable, but so would his alliance with Nazis and the Klan. It was always tyranny, bigotry and repression that captured his imagination. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe former Little was drawn to Sudan, the gateway of the trade in African slaves to the Arab lands, and the launching pad for Islamist efforts to colonize Africa. While great efforts have been taken to portray Malcolm X’s conversion to Islam as an enlightening revelation of racial tolerance, the former racist had just signed on with an international theocratic movement that was beginning a global jihadist campaign. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShould American streets, schools, playgrounds and libraries be named after such a man? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf we are going to question the legitimacy of statues of everyone from Columbus to Jefferson, what possible reason could there be for leaving in place the legacy of a Klan ally and a vicious racist? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECelebrating Malcolm X shows that this is not about racism or slavery. It’s about racial supremacism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can ally with the KKK, party with the Nazis, and romanticize Islamic slavery as long as you’re a black nationalist. The Democrats, and their legion of corporate and media allies, can falsely claim that this is about racism. But it’s about the same racial supremacism that led Malcolm X to make common cause with the Nazis and the KKK. And then to study Islam with the murderers of Christians and Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf they want to tear down statues of racists, then there’s one statue in Harlem they can start with \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMalcolm X must fall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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Or how badly. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QQ6mZar_I6o\/XV895ll09sI\/AAAAAAAARlE\/2X2zLIQ6nAELkyOJZa-5YbqjA0K1w8Y2QCLcBGAs\/s1600\/statue-of-liberty-in-chains-never-war-is-hell-store.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"749\" data-original-width=\"599\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QQ6mZar_I6o\/XV895ll09sI\/AAAAAAAARlE\/2X2zLIQ6nAELkyOJZa-5YbqjA0K1w8Y2QCLcBGAs\/s320\/statue-of-liberty-in-chains-never-war-is-hell-store.jpg\" width=\"255\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThat poem that Emma Lazarus became famous for was forgotten, remembered again, and has been misused, quoted out of context and transformed into a battle cry for open borders and a disastrous immigration policy. Its lines about “wretched refuse” and “poor” immigrants have been taken literally. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the vocal advocates for the poem imprinted on the Statue of Liberty would have loathed the \u003Cbr \/\u003EConfederate socialite and the Zionist writer who are responsible for the words they claim to love. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the age of 34, Emma, a New York poetess with a bad case of writer’s block, was asked to submit a poem for a fundraiser to build a pedestal for a statue that most people hadn’t seen yet. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat included Emma. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer first response was to turn down the request. Though she didn’t know it yet, her life was nearing its end. Five years after she wrote what would become her most famous poem, she would be dead. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the request came from Constance Cary Harrison, a New York socialite, whose family story was a tapestry of American history, from John Randolph to Thomas Jefferson to Jefferson Davis. Her father was descended from Jefferson, her great-uncle's godparents had been George and Martha Washington, her grandfather had been the 9th Lord Fairfax and she had sewn one of the first Confederate flags. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMark Twain had mockingly replied to her request with, “What has liberty done for us? Nothing in particular that I know of. What have we done for her? Everything. We’ve given her a home.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHarrison was a prolific author, both in her days as a Confederate activist, writing as Refugitta, and a New York grande dame, and she didn’t accept rejections, either from Twain, or from Lazarus. As a teenager, she had lost her family home, her brothers, and her way of life. In many ways, she was also an exile. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so, Harrison had encouraged Emma to think of the Jewish refugees she had been working with. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwain’s sardonic comments had gotten at the problem with the Statue of Liberty. Its theme was Liberty Enlightening the World, but what did that mean? Did it mean that Americans were meant to export freedom to the world: a notion that would eventually drive American foreign policy in the 20th century? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was the vision of some of the French activists involved with gifting the Statue of Liberty to America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmma Lazarus hadn’t seen the giant woman who would become the Statue of Liberty, but the obvious reference point for a giant statue in a more classical age was the Colossus of Rhodes. Unlike the ancient Greek statue, the American colossus would match it size for size, but would be female. It would not stand to celebrate a military victory, but to welcome visitors, many of them immigrants, to New York. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy welcoming in people from foreign dictatorships, American liberty would enlighten the world. Not by invading and conquering other countries, but by allowing oppressed people to live freely in America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe central image of The New Colossus welcoming immigrants though didn’t come from Emma though, but from Harrison, the wife of the private secretary of Jefferson Davis, who as a teenager had lost most of her family, and had spied for the Confederacy in Washington D.C. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Think of that Goddess standing on her pedestal down yonder in the bay, and holding her torch out to those Russian refugees of yours you are so fond of visiting at Ward’s Island,” Harrison had told her. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was Emma Lazarus who dramatized it, harnessing the romantic vision, mingling classic Greek references with a modern American take into, “A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe woman embodied the contrast between America and Europe. The Statue of Liberty had been a message from France to America about our place in the world. Emma’s poem, The New Colossus, continued the dialogue, with a response from America to Europe about our idea of liberty. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmma’s poem has since become a foundational text of liberals, but its origin was with a woman who had sewn one of the first Confederate flags and was first known for her writings for its cause. Harrison, like Lazarus, like the resulting poem though, was more complicated than fans of the poem might like. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHarrison had been as firm an opponent of slavery, as she was a partisan of the Confederacy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmma Lazarus was a Zionist, long before the term was common currency, and her preferred solution for Russian Jews wasn’t emigration to America, but to Israel. The New Colossus was not a significant part of her life’s work. It was a favor for a friend. When the poem was read at the fundraiser, it wasn’t by Emma, but by F. Hopkinson Smith, an engineer associated with the Statue of Liberty project. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe poem was written in two days, and made a splash at the time, but was then forgotten, only to be revived generations later when Americans needed a symbol to counteract Nazi Germany. Emma Lazarus would have been deeply disappointed had she known that she would only be remembered for a poem that she had written in two days for a friend’s fundraiser and wasn’t even mentioned in her obituary. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts revival has focused heavily not on its opening lines, but a few lines before its conclusion, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.” The most obvious error they make is to remove the context and read The New Colossus with the painfully literal-minded didacticism of the idiot. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the poem speaks of “wretched refuse”, they ignore the ironic tone and assume that the ideal immigrant is wretched refuse. Since the poem speaks of “poor” immigrants, they insist that the United States is obligated to take in not just immigrants who are currently poor, but intend to stay that way. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey believe (often without reading it) that the poem speaks of America’s obligation to the world. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the poem isn’t an idealistic address to the world, but an ironic one to backward tyrannies. By cutting away the opening, “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp”, the context and contrast between the “storied pomp” and “wretched refuse” is lost. Only “yearning to breathe free” still suggests that the poem is a dialogue between two different ways of life that is meant to demonstrate how liberty works. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica, The New Colossus is saying, was built by people who came here because they had no place in their old societies. Emma’s message was not that America was an evil imperialistic nation obligated to take in every migrant to atone for its sins, but that it was a free nation built by people who had escaped the “ancient lands” with their “storied pomp” and thrived in a land where they could “breathe free”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts point was not that America was obligated to take in “wretched refuse”, but that the people who were considered “wretched refuse” by the ruling classes of Europe, had made America into a great nation. The \"wretched refuse\" is Europe's view of the waves of migration by English tenant farmers, Scotch and Irish laborers, German and Jewish refugees, Italian workers, and many others considered of no worth in their home ports. Because Europe considered its people \"wretched refuse\" and the other unflattering descriptors, its nations lacked the liberty that America had. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Statue of Liberty had been a gift from France to America. But the French idea of liberty was different than the American one. The French had wanted to make a political point with the Statue of Liberty. Their liberty was an idealized figure enlightening the world. A secular goddess of political revolution. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmma Lazarus instead humanized her into an American figure, a welcoming statue, not an ideal of political terror. Perversely, her poem has been embraced by the advocates of political revolution who see immigration as a means of transforming and overturning the United States of America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was the French vision, but it was not the American one. And it was not Emma’s vision. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New Colossus instead suggests that free societies succeed and tyrannies fail. Like Mark Twain, Emma Lazarus challenged the French presumptuousness of gifting America the Statue of Liberty. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica did not need the statue; it had the reality. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe French had meant for the Statue of Liberty to be a towering ideal, but The New Colossus is more of a sympathetic lighthouse, highlighting America as a place where Europeans can breathe free. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer Statue of Liberty has no interest in the “storied pomp” of “ancient lands”. American liberty would not be an ideal, but a working reality. It couldn’t be exported because what was truly required was for people to “breathe free”. To be able to live without compulsion and tyranny of one kind or another. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican superiority lay not in abstract ideals about liberty, but in the reality of breathing free. We might take in French immigrants, but we could not teach the French to be free. Only they could do that. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe advocates for open borders don’t believe in people being able to “breathe free”. They take the part about “wretched refuse” seriously because they envision a world in which everyone is reduced to refuse. Likewise, they don’t think of being “poor” as a temporary condition, but as a permanent one. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New Colossus was an ironic dialogue between America and Europe. Its biggest fans today take the European side, ignore the irony, and want to use immigration to stamp out freedom in America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir new colossus of immigration is a conquering giant. It does not stand for liberty, but tyranny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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