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October 21, 2005
The Quintessence of Bigotry
Posted by Dave Blount at October 21, 2005 6:45 AM
If you want to find pure, unadulterated bigotry at its most narrow-minded and obnoxious, there's only one place to look — among the sneering hypocrites who populate the liberal elite media establishment. Mark Morford is a case in point, as illustrated in a tirade he recently disgorged onto the welcoming pages of the San Francisco Chronicle.
The piece expresses displeasure with an Arkansas family — and by extension, with red-state Americans in general — for producing too many children. The blindness and fanaticism of the unreasoning hatred on display is appalling to behold.
Morford accuses the Duggar family, which admittedly got a little carried away by having 16 kids, of being "spotless, white, hyperreligious, interchangeable people with alarmingly bad hair." The proud father is ridiculed for being named Jim Bob, and for "hankerin' to be a Republican senator."
Interchangeable. To sages like Morford, people in fly-over country aren't even human. They don't have unique personalities. They are just bodies that breed. Morford doesn't approve of all this breeding, which he refers to as "a massive viral outbreak of homophobic neo-Christians."
Imagine if someone accused members of an ethnic group other than Caucasians of breeding too much and being "interchangeable." Imagine someone publicly sneering at the religiousness of anyone but Christians.
If this weren't in the Chronicle, I would think it was a tasteless parody:
Why does this sort of bizarre hyperbreeding only seem to afflict antiseptic megareligious families from the Midwest? In other words — assuming Michelle and Jim Bob and their brood of cookie-cutter Christian kidbots will never be allowed near a decent pair of designer jeans or a tolerable haircut from a recent decade, and assuming that they will all be tragically encoded with the values of the homophobic asexual Christian right — where are the forces that shall help neutralize their effect on culture?
There's that word "homophobic" again. Accusing people of not embracing the gay lifestyle is the ultimate insult among liberals. "Homophobic" is used to mean "bigoted." The hypocrisy a character like Morford calling other people bigots is almost too much to get your head around.
Not only are they all white-skinned Christians lacking individual identities, red-staters don't even wear designer jeans. Too someone with Morford's moral depth, that must constitute an unconscionable crime.
This utterly vile diatribe goes on to ridicule the parents' belief that each child is "a blessing from the Lord" — a correct point of view, no doubt, would be to see children as cancerous growths that must be exterminated before they have a chance to grow into "über-white future Wal-Mart shoppers." At the end, he seems to call for laws to prevent people from having too many of the hateful little things.
There are countless reasons why I have no use whatsoever for the liberal point of view. But Morford personifies reasons number one and two: the profound moral depravity and thoroughly abhorrent chauvinism that characterize the left's self-proclaimed elite.
Thanks to V the K for the tip.
