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April 15, 2008
Mary Lefkowitz Defends Reality from Moonbattery
Posted by Dave Blount at April 15, 2008 11:43 AM
Kudos to Mary Lefkowitz, for standing up for truth against the politically correct lies that have been supplanting it in the increasingly bizarre realm of academia. Her new book History Lesson describes the ordeal she went through after attempting to defend factual reality from the bogus Afrocentrism movement, which rewrites history so that blacks built the pyramids and influenced classical Greek culture.
From a review in today's Wall Street Journal:
She concluded that the Afrocentric authors regarded history as a form of advocacy: Like other postmodernists, they believed that truth is impossible to know — that all "narratives" are socially constructed and thus possess an equal claim to legitimacy. At the time, traditional scholarship was generally under assault, but the classics were particularly vulnerable, because they purported to study the foundational texts of the West. Attacking the classics as a complex system of lies was emotionally important to those who wanted to take Western culture down a peg. Feelings and politics mattered, not scholarship. As Ms. Lefkowitz puts it: "[Bernal] seemed to be saying that the most persuasive narrative was the one with the most desirable result. In effect, he was preaching a kind of affirmative action program for the rewriting of history."
Martin Bernal is the author of a collection of preposterous Afrocentric lies entitled Black Athena. It represents what future generations will be taught instead of history if moonbattery triumphs.
Outraged by the nonscholarly approach of Afrocentric writers, she somewhat naïvely imagined that facts would put their extreme theories to rest. She noted, for instance, that Socrates couldn't have been black, as alleged, because his parents were Athenian citizens and blacks, in classical Athens, were not eligible for citizenship. She noted, as well, that Aristotle would have had a tough time stealing his philosophy from the library at Alexandria, since he died before the library was built. Such arguments went nowhere, Ms. Lefkowitz writes, with those who saw Greek philosophy "as yet another case of a colonialist European plundering of Africa."
To the Left, there is no objective truth, only ideology. Two plus two is five, if that's what dogma dictates.
It isn't enough for moonbats to corrupt our institutions, to steal our freedoms, to cripple our economy. They want to obliterate the factual reality upon which our civilization is based. Thankfully a few people like Mary Lefkowitz are still putting up resistance.
On a tip from Byron.
