Over at Jihad Watch comments, the CJMers (the civilians of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream) are at it again. Over 100 comments have mushroomed there, occasioned by an article about how under the leadership of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, Hungary will pursue a policy of helping Christian refugees "before helping millions of Muslims coming into Europe" -- pretty much the opposite of what the rest of the West has been doing, with Obama and Merkel leading the way.
This story seems to have triggered a discussion in the comments section about why the rest of the West is doing this. This would be the Problem of the Problem (where the primary problem is, of course, Muslims following their Islam; and the secondary problem is why the West continues to ignore the primary problem). As I've noticed for years, the CJMers seem to operate with an Explanatory Vacuum with regard to this secondary problem. That is, they apparently haven't pondered the question of why the mainstream West continues to be deferential to Muslims and to Islam, even though by now the mountain of information damning Islam is out there and available to most everyone.
Since they have no explanation, the CJMers seem to reach impulsively for the easiest answer amenable to their own particular frame of mind -- which, apparently, seems to divide along the fault line of either overly simplistic, or overly cynical (lurching into conspiracy theory).
The overly simplistic camp I have explored in my analyses of Hugh Fitzgerald's trope, his "Esdrujula Explanation" -- namely that what explains why the mainstream West continues to defend Muslims and Islam may be resolved down into any one (or a combination) of ordinary peccadillos -- either Greed, Stupidity, or Timidity. And here in the comments section of this Jihad Watch article on Hungary's decision to help Christians over Muslims, we see this dynamic of the Explanatory Vacuum play itself out:
One commenter, "Mac-101", after a long rant about the ulterior designs of Obama, Wall Street, Hollywood, etc., plotting the destruction of the West by using Muslims as tools, ends with this rhetorical question:
I KNOW it is crazy Talk, But WHAT else explains current events? I will NOT buy that our leaders are Stupid. Evil yes, Stupid NO!
The ever-present long-time regular commenter (and member of the "Rabbit Pack"), "gravenimage" apparently had no choice but to choose between Door #1 or Door #2. To Mac-101's remark in the middle of his question -- I will NOT buy that our leaders are Stupid -- gravenimage responded:
Why not? Stupidity is far more common than actual evil in the civilized West.
Other commenters either sided with one or the other impulse, as though we are forced to choose only between these two -- either Stupidity or Evil.
A little thought (which apparently the CJMers haven't given to this) quickly dispatches the first choice, since many who are PC MC about Islam are relatively intelligent. So it can't simply be Stupidity.
As for the second choice, it reflects a strangely alienated perspective, so detached from one's own West that one could really believe that its mainstream is evil. The problem with this position is that it logically has to vacillate along a bipolarity of a paradox, whereby one does not want to impute this evil too broadly throughout the West, else one would be imputing evil even to Ordinary People (and also many of these conspiracy-theorish types deep down don't want to smear the bulk of the West with such a broadly sweeping brush of evil black paint); while on the other hand, if we narrow down the evil to a Tiny Minority of a Dastardly Cabal, we run into the problem of how they could be controlling so much, including the attitudes of tens of millions of non-Elites throughout the West who remain PC MC about Muslims (see my essays on "Elitistics" for further discussion of this). At that point, one lurches sideways to damn Ordinary People as so naive and dumb they have become sheep-like putty in the hands of this Tiny Minority of evil Cabalists. And so on. The twisting and turning of the conspiracy-theorish explanation founders and becomes tedious to have to refute.
So what's the answer, my readers may ask? I don't have a final explanation for why PC MC has become dominant throughout the West in the past century (increasing in prevalence with each passing decade, and reinforced in response to the escalation of Islam into our public consciousness post-911). As I wrote in an essay in 2014, Push the wake-up call-button:
I don’t have a full analytical answer, but at least, like Florence Nightingale—who, upon being sent to the Crimean War theater to manage the field hospital there took a look and said, “I don’t know how to manage a hospital, but I do know this is how NOT to manage a hospital”—I know where NOT to begin (much less where not to roll down the hill to a certain conclusion).
My readers should consult that 2014 essay for a fuller discussion of today's posting.
3 comments:
'Many who are PC MC about Islam are relatively intelligent' is an unwarranted assumption.
'Relatively intelligent' compared to whom? Not compared Muslims infiltrating the West.
Clearly, people who are educated in one area can be and are completely uneducated in many other areas.
People MUST study Islam to know Islam, and many intelligent Westerners are too busy studying and working in their fields of speciality and raising families to study Islam.
Nor are the only choices greed, stupidity, or timidity - which conveniently ignore evil leaders and cowardly citizens.
The reality is that white Western Christians have been highly propagandized into a PC MC system while simultaneously threatened with dire results of personal violence and death and utter bankruptcy for failure to follow PC MC.
Wiki leaks shows that our leaders understand Islam which does indeed make our leaders evil for importing Muslims and inflicting Islam on highly propagandized Westerners.
Additionally, our leaders closest advisors in key government leadership positions are Muslims who certainly aim to undermine the West by converting the West into part of the ummah.
Open your eyes....
Well Egghead, the point is, many PC MCs are demonstrably intelligent enough to understand that the data about Islam damns it; and yet they continue to misunderstand that data. And we also know that these PC MCs aren't failing to understand because this data is unavailable to them. So the explanation has to move away from their "stupidity" to some other explanation for how and why it is that when presented with that data, they persist in construing the data in ways that result in defending Islam and Muslims; and/or why they fail to adequately familiarize themselves with data that not only is readily available, but also has been helpfully (although not with ideal organization) packaged, re-presented, and analyzed by countless individuals and groups in the so-called Counter-Jihad.
Ok, let's turn it around and put the spotlight on you.
The SAME problem as with imported Muslims exists with indigenous Africans in America (who not coincidentally are the most likely Americans to practice Islam in America). Many decades of vast mountains of data lead to the eminently logical conclusion that Africans in America are, by large balance, deleterious to the continuation of white Western Christian civilization and its rule of law, behavioral standards, educational standards, matrimonial standards, and, now more than ever, the actual physical safety of the white race. Additionally, even - and especially - when given control of American cities built and even now funded by white labor, Africans in America literally ruin those cities and make them uninhabitable by both themselves and others. Same result with Africans in Haiti. Same result with Africans in Zimbabwe. Same result with Africans in South Africa. Same result with Africans in Europe. Rinse and repeat.
And yet, you have been known to assert that Muslims are the existential problem versus other minorities in the mix. And your dividing line has been that Muslim violence is what propels their ideas versus others' ideas. Well, now Africans in America are polar bear hunting and shooting white police - who represent white rule of law - so do you care to confront Africans in America now?
If not, why not? I bet it's the same reason that other PC MC people fail to confront Islam.
Eventually, Islam - and Africans in America - are going to force the issue to where it will be even more impossible to ignore than it is now.
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