Why Facts Don’t Matter to Liberals

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Years ago, I had a debate with a woman about race. At one point she said, “I’m a bleeding-heart liberal and damn proud of it.” I knew immediately she had just said something that left her open to attack, but I wasn’t quick enough to go on the offensive.

Why be proud to be liberal? Because liberals think that makes them better than we are. They think they’re compassionate, tolerant, generous; we’re mean-spirited and selfish. This becomes a central part of their identity — a feeling of moral superiority they hate to give up.

It’s dangerous to be proud of your politics. It means you have an emotional attachment to them that has nothing to do whether they make things better or worse.

If the policies you support make you feel virtuous, it’s a lot harder to wise up even when the results are horrible.

We’ve seen this over and over. For example, how is it possible to get headlines like this?

[link] “Chicago man accused of setting train passenger on fire had 72 prior arrests.”

“Career criminal with more than FIFTY prior arrests and FORTY convictions brutally murders man with machete.”

This guy, who tried to kill a man by throwing him onto railroad tracks, had been arrested “dozens” of times. Every one of these stories, by the way, is from just last month.

A normal person sees these headlines and thinks “this is insane.” Those criminals should be locked up or — maybe even better — executed and dead.

Only people for whom facts don’t matter would set up a system like this or permit it to continue. I know you’ve heard phrase: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” There’s even an abbreviation for it: POSWID.

By that reasoning, anyone who ties the hands of the police, abolishes bail, appoints activist judges and prosecutors, must want criminals on the streets to mug or kill you. That must be the intent because that’s the result.

Wrong. Crazy libs didn’t build this system because they wanted more crime. They built it out of a raging sense of moral superiority. You see, they are paragons of compassion.

They believe poverty and “marginalization” cause crime, that the police are brutes, and that locking people up is primitive revenge that turns confused young people into killers. They think they can identify “at risk” youths and save them with love and counseling.

If that doesn’t work, it’s only because we didn’t try hard enough. We need more “programs,” more love, more counseling, more “violence interrupters,” more mentors, more absurd incentives like paying people to stay in school, more of anything but punishment.

And when one of their darling marginalized persons burns someone to death on the subway, they believe it would be barbaric to put him to death.

It is exquisitely difficult for people who believe these things to change their minds. They would have to give up something infinitely precious: their conviction that they are morally superior. It’s hard for anyone to admit he’s wrong. It’s much harder for moral peacocks to admit they’re wrong, because it means that the mean-spirited, bigoted people they despised for years — people like you and me — were right.

Oh, the horror!

You would get some of this in an all-white society, but it’s much, much worse in a jungle like the US. Besides preening themselves on their love for their fellow man, peacocks get the much bigger thrill of standing with the victims of slavery, the middle-passage, ICE raids, detention centers, red-lining, 400 years of white supremacy.

When facts are an obstacle to righteous indignation, it’s the facts that have got to go.

That’s why the peacocks must stay deliberately and forever blind to the most glaring fact about our rainbow country: that many of their pets don’t have enough brains and impulse control to behave like white people.

If people of color bring misery on themselves, that takes away the immense joy of being able to blame us, and there’s nothing more thrilling for white progressives than feeling so, so, so superior to “racists.” White people despising white people. That is the pinnacle of moral superiority.

And so, in the teeth of mountains of evidence, they jabber nonsense about biased tests and spout the craziest idea ever: that race is a social construct.

You cannot believe that unless you are mentally impaired, and what most impairs the liberal/egalitarian mind is this compulsion to feel morally superior. If you are deeply, emotionally attached to 2 + 2 = 5, if you think believing makes you a good person, it’s hard to see you’re wrong.

I’m not talking here about non-whites. They are completely different, and white liberals don’t understand them at all. Their “progressive” politics have nothing to do with virtue. It’s team sports, and they are on Team BIPOC.

Take Decarlos Brown, who casually stabbed Iryna Zarutska to death.

Who turned him loose despite all his felony arrests? Not white loonies. The magistrate who let him walk out the door, the  clerk of the superior court of Mecklenburg County who nominated her and the  senior resident superior court judge who appointed her were all black.

Not just black; professionally black, angrily black.

They weren’t peacocking. They just wanted to give the brutha’ another chance. Blacks are a cinch to understand. But it was white loonies who set up the system that gave a black woman the discretion to turn a killer loose on Charlotte, North Carolina .

There’s an excellent book called Pathological Altruism that helps you understand white people.

It points out that feeling righteous indignation stimulates the basal ganglia in the brain just as addictive drugs do. Peacocks can become addicted to that feeling. “I’m good. I’m really good, not like those selfish, racist brutes.”

But there’s a warning here for our side, too. Don’t let your basal ganglia fool you. Remember the phrase, “The purpose of a system is what it does”? It’s tempting to think the people on the other side aren’t just loony, but evil. They want more crime. They want us dead.

No, probably not. Remember: They think that if you care about the survival of white people, it’s only because you hate everyone else — that you want them dead.

They utterly fail to understand us. Don’t misunderstand them. Yes, it looked like German Chanceller Angela Merkel wanted to destroy Germany when she let in millions of brown men.

It’s just the sort of thing someone who wanted to destroy Germany would do. But she probably thought she was being wonderfully kind, atoning for Nazism, living the universal ideal, transcending race and religion, spreading sweetness and light. Pathological altruism. Deluded, not evil.

Do their motives matter? Maybe not. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” said Jesus, and the tree of progressive liberalism bears poisonous fruit. But quite a few on the other side still have to come our way for us to win. We are more likely to persuade them if we understand them.