The March of the Morons across the western world is deeply depressing. As soon as a new low is reached, some halfwit dives even deeper. On yesterday’s Mark Steyn Show I played the audio of the contemptible Tim Kaine, Virginia senator and 2016 vice-presidential candidate, from a speech on the Senate floor:
The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it. It got created by the Virginia general assembly and the legislatures of other states.
The thugs trashing American cities seem sincerely to believe this – that white Americans invented slavery a couple of centuries back. Whereas in reality, as I write below, for the entirety of human history slavery was an accepted fact of life, indeed as routine and ubiquitous a fact as the earth and sky.
Stupidity on this issue, alas, is deeply ingrained. In After America, I cite leftie objections to a proposed Cambridge University “Empire Ball” – on the ground of “the British Empire’s long association with slavery”:
The British Empire’s principal association with slavery is that it abolished it. Until William Wilberforce, the British Parliament and the brave men of the Royal Navy took up the issue, slavery was an institution regarded by all cultures around the planet as a constant feature of life… Britain expunged it from most of the globe.
It is pathetic but unsurprising how ignorant all these brave ‘anti-fascists’ are. Yet there is a lesson here not just for Britain but for America, too: when a society loses its memory, it descends inevitably into dementia.
That was a rather more prophetic line than I would have wished.
What a miserable stunted nothing that Kaine twerp is. The following is from The [Un]documented Mark Steyn:
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