Upper-middle-class liberals, with their inability...

11th September 2011

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Upper-middle-class liberals, with their inability to grasp the importance of class differences in shaping attitudes toward life, fail to reckon with the class dimension of their obsession with health. They find it hard to understand why their hygienic conception of life fails to command universal enthusiasm. They have mounted a crusade to sanitize American society: to create a “smoke-free environment,” to censor hate speech, and at the same time, incongruously, to extend the range of personal choice to matters where most people feel the need of solid moral guidelines.

When confronted with resistance to these initiatives, they betray the venomous hated that lies not far beneath the smiling face of upper-middle-class benevolence. Opposition makes humanitarians forget the liberal virtues they claims to uphold. They become petulant, self-righteous, and intolerant. In the heat of political controversy, they find it impossible to conceal their contempt for those who stubbornly refuse to see the light – those who “just don’t get it,” in the self-satisfied jargon of political rectitude.

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Christopher Latsch, ‘The Revolt of the Elites.’ (via unrg)

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