Barton Swain: "Radicals Have A Point About Racical Liberalism"

This is in the vicinity of some stuff that I worry about. 

Specifically: 

   Liberalism didn't fix our racial problems. In particular, of course, I have tended to fret about the wealth and income gaps. So that provides some support for the radical / progressive position that's now shrieking its way to the top of our national "discussion" of race. Of course its central plank is that there must be no discussion--it itself must merely be accepted and parroted and granted the status as unquestionable orthodoxy. But that's not the point right now...

   So when I think about this I think--or have tended to think--liberalism didn't fix our racial problems. So it's not entirely unreasonable that radicalism / progressivism / leftist views of race should get a shot at it. 

   However: now I think instead: the conservatives have actually had the much more plausible view, and they're still liberals (in the broader sense), and their views don't come with the insanity that the progressive left's views come with--e.g. the destruction of liberalism broadly construed, anti-rationalism/misologism, lunatic violence, etc.

   Swaim is right that "cancel culture" is really just political correctness. (Actually that's not quite what he says, but that's the fact.) So it doesn't need a new name. It's just PC + the internet. The PCs have always shrieked at their opponents and insisted that alternate positions were unPC, hence unallowable. 

   But I disagree that that was a liberal view. 

   His response ought to be: stop no-true-Scotsmanning your way out of this, jackass.

   Not a very PC thing to say...

   Though PC is anti-liberal, it's seeped into liberalism, I guess...so you'd have to say that this modified liberalism isn't actually liberal...but no need to get tangled up in terminology, really.

   Anyway. Liberals seem to have been wrong about just throwing more money and programs at the problem. To whatever extent they've adopted PC, they're even wronger. Such totalitarianism can't be accepted, as it's the most profoundly anti-liberal, anti-American view there is.

   There's fair reason to think that the conservatives have been right, anyway--nothing's going to work if we don't figure out how to undo the destruction of the black family. 

   So at least we have a respectable hypothesis about how we might proceed without disaster, and with some cause for hope.

   Fast and disjointed, but there it is.