Politiek correcten: eat this!
Door BRECHT ARNAERT op 08/01/2009
"What a vision may offer, and what the prevailing vision of our time emphatically does offer, is a special state of grace for those who believe in it. Those who accept this vision are deemed to be not merely factually correct but morally on a higher plane. Put differently, those who disagree with the prevailing vision are seen as being not merely in error, but in sin.For those who have this vision of the world, the anointed and the benighted do not argue on the same moral plane or play by the same cold rules of logic and evidence. The benighted are to be made "aware", to have their "consciousness raised", and the wistful hope is held out that they will "grow".
Should the benighted prove recalcitrant, however, then their "mean-spiritedness" must be fought and the "real reasons" behind their arguments and actions exposed. While verbal fashions change, this basic picture off the differential rectitude of the anointed and the benighted has not changed fundamentally in the last two hundred years."
Prof. Dr. Thomas Sowell in: "The Vision of the Anointed", 1995, BasicBooks, New York.
De meest treffende beschrijving die ik ooit gelezen heb voor het fenomeen dat in Vlaanderen ook het intellectueel debat verziekt: een klasse van "gezalfden" die het licht gezien hebben en zich in een discussie moreel hoger achten dan de tegenstander, hoe logisch zijn argumenten ook zijn.
