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Over at The American Catholic, Donald McClarey looks at a recent example of modern liberalism eating its own<\/a>. \u00a0A month or so ago, I was going to post something about this, but not confine it to just the US. \u00a0It was about some protesters at the University of Ghana<\/a>\u00a0objecting to a statue of Gandhi, since Gandhi was known to espouse some pretty white supremacist notions about Africans. \u00a0That\u2019s Gandhi, in some ways the spiritual replacement for Jesus in our post-Christian world. \u00a0And yet, for those Africans, not so much. \u00a0 And it wasn\u2019t just those rascally Africans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When we build a movement on brutally and mercilessly condemning the past, it doesn\u2019t take long to realize that today will be someone else\u2019s past. \u00a0And if the standard is to judge history based on the here and now, to do so without thought of anything other than the failings or sins of anything beginning with yesterday and extending backward, then it stands to reason future generations might repay the favor.<\/p>\n

Will we pull up in time? \u00a0Or are we doomed to stand by while everything including the kitchen sink is thrown out in favor of whoever has the power and yells the loudest at the moment? \u00a0We\u2019ll see. \u00a0If everything we hold dear is eventually reviled as despicable, including such quaint notions as liberty, freedom and equality, it would serve us right. \u00a0Unfortunately, it wouldn\u2019t be us who would pay the price. \u00a0Just our legacies.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"