By the way, notice how the article says that the belief in the unassimilability of Muslims that was once held only on the “far right” is now spreading to the center. This demonstrates my definition of the three types of politics. Reactionaries and traditionalists recognize a threat to their society the moment it appears. Conservatives recognize a threat to their society only after the society is half ruined. And liberals and leftists recognize a threat to their society only after the society is completely ruined, or they never recognize it at all."Pravda on the Hudson raises possibility of Muslim repatriation." By Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, 10/10/06 (emphasis added).
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October 11, 2006
Three kinds of politics.
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The situation could well be worse than Auster thinks. Americans have become quite sensitive to "invasions of civil liberties," even when no invasion has taken place and all the action is in the private sector.
It wasn't that long ago that the ACLU defended the rights of the American Nazi Party to hold a public march in Skokie, Illinois, a city with a large Jewish population. The clinching argument was that for the municipal authorities to refuse to issue a permit for the march constituted a "heckler's veto," and a violation of the First Amendment. But the First Amendment has never applied to levels of government other than the federal, and a march down a public street in Nazi regalia is not speech by any known method of interpretation.
My point is this: if we're unwilling to countenance so mild a restriction on an overtly evil force in the name of our ideals, how could we expect the Aemrican people to mount a campaign of hostility and exclusion against a group united by what it calls a religion?
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