{"id":35744,"date":"2018-06-04T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35744"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:33:57","slug":"qotd-pushing-the-confederacy-down-the-memory-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/qotd-pushing-the-confederacy-down-the-memory-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Pushing the Confederacy down the memory hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately, I have been mightily irritated by the politically-correct campaign to permanently banish the old Confederate flag, and all music associated with the Southern cause, or any symbol that it once existed, before it was comprehensively defeated a century-and-a-half ago. Memorials of Robert E. Lee are being treated as memorials of Adolf Q. Hitler.<\/p>\n

It strikes me that even under the old lamentable cotton-plantation slave system of the South, people mixed and got to smell one another \u2014 rich and poor, black and white, genteel and grotesque. That, the most forgotten slogan of the Dixie Land was her war cry: \u201cDown with the Eagle, and up with the Cross!\u201d That, it is the Cross of Saint Andrew astride the old Confederate flag that is most galling to the hyper-secular, liberal mind. That, the greatest triumph of the Union propaganda was to tar all those flag-bearers in the way our contemporary media demean all dissenters from the current party line as \u201cracists,\u201d \u201csexists,\u201d \u201cphobes,\u201d and nothing more. That, the principal crime of the South was to stand by the wording of the U.S. Constitution, and from the beginning, to get in the way of a grand national scheme for social engineering, which triumphed with Lincoln (though hardly a liberal by the standards of today). That, in the Southern view, the eagle swooped down on them, with claws.<\/p>\n

Something similar is now happening in the division of \u201cRed States\u201d and \u201cBlue\u201d: in an America from which the Christian conception of the \u201ccommon man\u201d is being systematically expunged. All who resist the categories to which they have been assigned are instinctively rebelling; \u201cvictim\u201d and \u201coppressor\u201d alike. This is what \u201ccommon men\u201d will do, when tarred and pressed, often without fully understanding why they rebel. They remember, however obliquely, whose sons and daughters they are. That, no matter how low in social station, they are Christ\u2019s, and not the segregated chattels of some malicious and incompetent \u2014 and intentionally divisive \u2014 Washington Nanny.<\/p>\n

The recovery of USA, and more largely, the recovery of Christendom, turns on the recovery of this conception of the \u201ccommon man\u201d \u2014 as Man, not as member of a client group. This has nought to do with \u201cequality,\u201d for it is none of a government\u2019s business to help one group get even with another. Rather it is to serve man as man. This is a matter that goes deeper even than slavery, as Saint Paul explained. It is an unarguable, even mystical point. Where that conception survives, of the common in man, Christendom persists, and can potentially flourish.<\/p>\n

David Warren, “The common man”, Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2016-08-29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately, I have been mightily irritated by the politically-correct campaign to permanently banish the old Confederate flag, and all music associated with the Southern cause, or any symbol that it once existed, before it was comprehensively defeated a century-and-a-half ago. Memorials of Robert E. Lee are being treated as memorials of Adolf Q. Hitler. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53,41,11,13],"tags":[360,650,351,269],"class_list":["post-35744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-religion","category-usa","tag-christianity","tag-civilwar","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35745,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35744\/revisions\/35745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}