The Intolerant Left’s Tolerance Paradox

by Alexander Zubatov

While I don’t disagree with the general point of Parker Molloy’s article (https:[email protected][email protected]e-is-garbage-666a1bf04a65#.pwxkv4ld6)— that we should not, even in a free society, have to tolerate those who, if tolerated, would not tolerate us — the irony of the article is that Ms. Molloy tries to apply this doctrine in the service of the political left, whereas, in reality, it applies much more strongly from the opposite political perspective. I discuss many of these issues at length here — https:[email protected][email protected]-98eeea6b6151#.ui93bhwhe — where I explain, citing empirical research, how resentful intolerant representatives of various minority groups in America, along with their elite white lackeys, are using America’s history of slavery to bully ordinary Americans into silence (hence, the rise of Trump, who gives them a voice again), while in Europe, intolerant Muslims and their elite white lackeys are using Europe’s history of colonialism for the same purpose. Muslims are a perfect example here, of course. The orthodoxy on the left is that we are being “intolerant” or “racist” (what race is Islam, exactly?) when we call a spade and spade and recognize, as Trump did, that much of the Islamic world hates us. But, of course, these Muslims, if they ever came to power, would never extend to us the same tolerance that the left wants to extend to them. I will quote a paragraph from my article that I linked to above, which makes this point clearly:

Western Europeans’ original sin of colonialism now informs their otherwise mind-boggling open-armed handover of their nations to people who do not appreciate the Hobbesian/Lockean heritage of secular government, following upon centuries of religious wars and requiring a public sphere which preserves individual liberties of speech and religion through the creation of a more-or-less value-neutral state with the principal purpose of preserving collective security and providing for common material welfare rather than dictating right and wrong, true and false, sacred and profane. As a recent Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies survey revealed, 13% of Syrian refugees sympathize with ISIS, which is the same as the average for the overall Arabic populations surveyed, though among Palestinians, that figure is a whopping 24% (see http://english.dohainstitute.org/file/Get/40ebdf12-8960-4d18-8088-7c8a077e522e at 19). A 2015 Center for Security Policy poll reveals that, even in the United States, where the Islamic population is proportionately smaller than in much of Europe, 51% of Muslims would want the option of being governed by shariah law rather than the U.S. Constitution, and nearly 20% would support the use of violence to make shariah the law of the land: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/06/23/nationwide-poll-of-us-muslims-shows-thousands-support-shariah-jihad/. Such people, as a French imam’s sermon on the day of the November 13th Paris attacks makes clear (http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2015/11/video-french-imam-on-day-of-paris-attacks-muslims-should-rule-france-3075408.html), aspire to avail themselves of tolerant Western rules and attitudes to take power and impose Islam, whether in the U.S. or Europe. They will have no qualms about taking advantage of the generous social welfare benefits Western Europe’s technological advancement has brought, out-reproducing and, hence, out-voting their European hosts and then, in time, imposing their theocratic values on one and all (those who think such values are only held dear by a small handful of Islamic extremists are advised to watch this short video to understand what “ordinary Muslims” believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=nA3xN5ptZXM; those who prefer an actual poll detailing Muslim beliefs can find a good, sobering one here: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/). In the absence of a major change of course, the future is clear enough: these migrants’ and immigrants’ new societies will come to resemble the dysfunctional old societies from which they fled in the first place.

In other words, the main intolerance right now is actually being promulgated by the left’s P.C. culture orthodoxy, and Trump, for all his (many, many) faults, is speaking out against that culture. And, in this respect, he is absolutely right: we need not tolerate people who want to ignore all our cultural achievements (including the achievement of tolerance itself, which was a value created — and is still largely practice ONLY — here in the West), demonize us as nothing more than “historical oppressors,” destroy all the great monuments of Western civilization and bring that civilization to its knees.

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Alexander Zubatov is a practicing attorney specializing in general commercial litigation. He is also a practicing writer specializing in general non-commercial poetry, fiction, drama, essays and polemics. In the words of one of his intellectual heroes, José Ortega y Gasset, biography is “a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”

Some of his articles have appeared in Acculturated, PopMatters, The Hedgehog Review, The Montreal Review, The Fortnightly Review, New English Review, Culture Wars and nthposition.

He makes occasional, unscheduled appearances on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Zoobahtov).