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The veritable Ace of Ace of Spade HQ recently commented<\/a> on the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre’s quote that “gun rights have become a metaphor for something larger: a feeling, this sense of something that’s slipping away, a yearning for individual rights.”\u00a0 Ace adroitly points out what that “something” is:<\/p>\n “And what is that thing that’s being lost?<\/p>\n “I think it’s social\/cultural pluralism. There have always, of course, been forces for social\/cultural conformity, on both the left and right. And dissidents and counter-cultural types have always been pressured to join the ‘default’ American culture.<\/p>\n “But something has changed– there is an insistence now, like never before, that those who dispute the consensus culture of the New Class — which dominates our media and idea-propagating institutions — must adapt or die.<\/p>\n “I think this is caused by a shift in the New Class’ political\/cultural cache. Whereas previously they were not in such a dominant position, they tended to argue in favor of pluralism (what we once called ‘liberalism’). This stance was self-serving for the New Class, as many in that class were themselves dissident for what would, if not checked, be a hegemonic culture they found distasteful (traditionalism, religiosity, ‘American values,’ patriotism, etc.).<\/p>\n “Thus, by defending pluralism, the New Class really was defending its own cultural prerogatives.<\/p>\n “But the New Class is feeling its oats now — it feels empowered (by Obama, by government’s increasing grandeur, by a complete domination of the news-gathering apparatus) and thus no longer feels it has to argue defensively against a hegemonic culture it despises.<\/p>\n “Rather, it senses that if it fights offensively for its own cultural preferences, it can win.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It is worth it to read the entire thing<\/a>.\u00a0 Ace also notes the essay “The Power of the Powerless<\/a>” by V\u00e1clav Havel, which is also worth reading in full.<\/p>\n It just goes to show that “tolerance<\/a>” and “diversity<\/a>” were just lies<\/a> used by the Progressive Left to gain power<\/a>, and having won power, they dispense with it and become what they accused other of.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The veritable Ace of Ace of Spade HQ recently commented on the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre’s quote that “gun rights have become a metaphor for something larger: a feeling, this sense of something that’s slipping away, a yearning for individual rights.”\u00a0 … Continue reading \n