Abraham Lincoln debating Stephen Douglas during the campaign for the 1860 presidential election, when Lincoln expressed views on blacks that would end any politician’s career today. (Litho by American School, 1858)
Abraham Lincoln debating Stephen Douglas during the campaign for the 1860 presidential election, when Lincoln expressed views on blacks that would end any politician’s career today. (Litho by American School, 1858)
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Jacques Derrida remarks that Hegel compared words used over time with coins whose inscriptions wear away with use, ultimately leaving two blank and valueless faces signifying nothing. Words change their meaning, certainly, but they also lose meaning through overuse. Our most obvious contemporary example is the word “racism.”
Racism is a perfectly natural response to the “Other” the hard ideological Left like to parade around like a show pony. It is hardwired into us and is a protective reaction, it being an evolutionary advantage to be with those like yourself, and is why from canteens in high school to canteens in penitentiaries, blacks will always sit with other blacks and whites with other whites. (more…)
