{"id":4826,"date":"2015-03-19T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2015-03-19T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:23:06","slug":"it-builds-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4826","title":{"rendered":"It builds character"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minstrels, singing an early version of “everything is awesome.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I knew an alleged philosopher once who held some variation of the soul-making theodicy <\/a>(suffering makes us group up morally, etc.). \u00c2\u00a0I say, “alleged,” because, although he taught in a philosophy department, he didn’t know what a theodicy was, and that his stunningly original thesis was a 14-year-old’s variation of it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now comes this genius in the Wall Street Journal, to “just say” that blacks did better under Jim Crow (with all of its lynching and racial violence). \u00c2\u00a0Talking Points Memo<\/a> reports (sorry about the indirectness, but I don’t have a subscription to the WSJ):<\/p>\n

“History shows that faster black progress was occurring at a time when whites were still lynching blacks, not merely singing about it,” Riley wrote, referring to a recent incident in which several white University of Oklahoma fraternity students were recorded on video singing a racist chant<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0about lynching.<\/p>\n

“Liberals want blacks to ignore the lessons of this pre-Civil Rights era, which threaten the current relevance of groups like the NAACP and call into question the Democratic Party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s belief that there is a federal solution to every black problem<\/strong>,” Riley wrote<\/p>\n

He went on to blame the problems of “black America” on “post-Civil Rights era social pathology and misguided government interventions.”<\/p>\n

“The problem isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the attitudes and behaviors of the boys on the bus so much as those of the boys in the \u00e2\u20ac\u2122hood,” he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure, by the way, that the “federal solution” claim does not represent the view of the NAACP and the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

The more important claim is that a campaign of racial terror is an inspiration toward racial progress. \u00c2\u00a0Some would define the “progress” in question as “eliminating the racial terror.” \u00c2\u00a0So, yes, I guess it is an inspiration for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I knew an alleged philosopher once who held some variation of the soul-making theodicy (suffering makes us group up morally, etc.). \u00c2\u00a0I say, “alleged,” because, although he taught in a philosophy department, he didn’t know what a theodicy was, and that his stunningly original thesis was a 14-year-old’s variation of it. Now comes this … Continue reading It builds character<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1926,1927,1930,1929,1928,579],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-jason-riley","tag-jim-crow","tag-naacp","tag-racial-progress","tag-racial-violence","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}