David Thompson links to an early post at the uber-leftist site, Liberal Conspiracy, by one Zohra Moosa titled “We Need Our Own Space”
I’m a little bit tired of spending so much of my time defending the most basic principles of what I stand for. It serves to distract. What I need is a safer space where I don’t lose so much energy justifying why social and environmental justice are worth spending a lot of society’s money on.
What I want is a space where these ideas are a given and the debate is about how best to actualize them. Where a frank discussion about the nature of power and who gains and who loses by not changing things is as necessary as air. I want to be challenged to be the most radical humanitarian in the room. Instead of rolling around in a fog that dangerously confuses the over-policing of some with ‘freedom’ and where indifference is rewarded. I want to be inspired by the good and the great to imagine what is possible – in that place where all life prospers.
I want to have conversations with people that are constructive, compassionate and rigorous. Conversations that are both logical and passionate, because they are focussed on how best to make the world a better place so that no one is left behind.
The conversation that follows in the comments is one that should be read as it is an excellent example of why Ms. Moosa’s ideas should be challenged.
She accepts without reservation that societies leave people behind, and not that some people choose to stay behind through their own actions or lack of action.
She also demands without reservation that you and I pay ever increasing amounts of money to our respective governments so that these people might be brought up to the level we work to be at. And despite decades of evidence on two continents, she refuses to believe that taking this money away from us only holds us at a lower level and does not lift up those who would stay down by choice.
No wonder she wishes not to discuss her ideas. She might have to follow a logical progression that doesn’t make her feel saint-like.
So is she talking to herself? Would that make her. . . crazy?