Saturday, September 02, 2017

Arnold Ahlert: Rediscovering Courage — The Patriot Post

Arnold Ahlert: Rediscovering Courage — The Patriot Post
“When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.” —Eric Hoffer
Today, there is little doubt that cowardice — more often than not couched as a “reasonable” response to the demands of hateful, hysterical leftists — is not only respectable but very much in fashion. 
In Memphis, the Orpheum Theater announced it will end a 34-year-old tradition of “Gone With the Wind” summertime screenings due to “specific inquiries from patrons.” 
...a large majority of the theater’s board members are white, and all of them apparently miss the searing irony: 
Their insufferably paternalistic presumption that they know what’s best for black Americans resembles that of antebellum slave masters. 
Moreover their exhortations of inclusivity and welcomeness are nothing more than fashionable cowardice..."
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