{"id":1590346,"date":"2022-08-05T07:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590346"},"modified":"2022-08-05T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:48:24","slug":"fueled-by-two-tiered-political-justice-the-lefts-1960s-violence-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fueled-by-two-tiered-political-justice-the-lefts-1960s-violence-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueled By Two-Tiered Political Justice, The Left\u2019s 1960s Violence Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffueled-by-two-tiered-political-justice-the-lefts-1960s-violence-is-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>The violent bear it away.<\/em> That title of Flannery O\u2019Connor\u2019s 1960 novel still resonates. Some relentless atavism is at work in our culture, a monstrous irrationality that awakens what O\u2019Connor called \u201cthe stuff of which madmen and fanatics are made.\u201d Violence, no longer shunned, is now an accepted political tool.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2014preceded by U.S Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s refusal to enforce federal law against protesters at justices\u2019 homes\u2014exposed the fragile divide between constituted order and willed anarchy. In effect, the attorney general\u2019s inaction acquiesced to mob intimidation and signaled a willingness to risk further lawlessness.<\/p>\n<p>The descent into Third World-like threats against the judiciary did not come suddenly. The slouch toward selective law enforcement and politicized violence has a history. By whatever name we call it\u2014<em>wokeism<\/em> nowadays\u2014adversary culture has been loosening essential restraints for some six decades. Like the lifecycle of a parasite, the passion for repudiating established order mutates and reappears in successive stages. Today\u2019s recurrence of the New Left virus keeps the inherited infection alive in a new generation of hosts.<\/p>\n<h2>A Hatred \u2018Like a Cleansing Flame\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>A sizable portion of the American electorate has never heard of the New Left, of which they are heirs. For many, weaned on Apple News and Yahoo headlines, history began with Facebook or an Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>The smartphone generation draws a blank on the name Todd Gitlin, a prominent 1960s activist, president of Students for a Democratic Society, and cultural historian. An eventual critic of the movement he inhabited, Gitlin anticipated the corrosive power of identity politics, racial jockeying, multiculturalism, and political correctness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Twilight-Common-Dreams-America-Wracked\/dp\/0805040900\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E6A32HJHLLXJ&#038;keywords=todd+gitlin+%2B+twilight+of+common+dreams&#038;qid=1658933798&#038;s=books&#038;sprefix=todd+gitlin+%2B+twilight+of+common+dreams%2Cstripbooks%2C64&#038;sr=1-1\">He wrote<\/a>: \u201cYou can hate your country in such a way that the hatred becomes fundamental. A hatred so clear and intense came to feel like a cleansing flame. By the late 60s, this is what became of the New Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The animus remains. Left zealots are still dedicated to a holy cause. All that changed were the objects of fanatical grievance. Abortion and climate change now head the list, followed by ever-mutating racial and sexual resentments.<\/p>\n<h2>By Any Means Necessary<\/h2>\n<p>On July 7, the fifth anniversary of the ball field shooting of GOP Whip Steve Scalise and four others, a climate activist group called <a href=\"https:\/\/nowornever.earth\/\">Now or Never<\/a> vowed to shut down this year\u2019s game on July 28. (Thanks to Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer, they did not need to.) Demanding \u201cbillions of dollars in clean energy investment,\u201d the group\u2019s website promised more \u201cclimate action\u201d to save the planet: \u201cConventional means no longer apply. \u2026 It is time to escalate. \u2026 It\u2019s time to leave everything on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That playing field analogy translates to \u201cby any means necessary,\u201d a call to arms taken from a speech on terrorism by Franz Fanon in 1960. A black Marxist born in Martinique, Fanon joined the FLN during the Algerian War. His seminal text, \u201cThe Wretched of the Earth\u201d(1961), became the left\u2019s manual for lethal insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>Only revolutionary terrorism could transform \u201ca whole social structure \u2026 from the bottom up.\u201d Assent to violence was a prerequisite. \u201cAt the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force,\u201d Fanon wrote in 1963.<\/p>\n<h2>New Targets for Violence<\/h2>\n<p>After the war, the taste for revolution redefined its target and its market. In the post-colonial era, totems of decolonization shifted to new applicants for victimhood.<\/p>\n<p>Ideologues of feminism and post-colonialism shared an epiphany: Colonization is not limited to historic events. It is an ongoing process. Accordingly, the anti-colonial struggle expanded to radical feminism, environmentalism, LBGT-ism, transgenderism, and the spreading epidemic of claims by pressure groups gripped by identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>In consequence, newly discovered conceptual colonies multiply. Only the colonizer remains the same. Each imagined territory\u2014from \u201ccoloniality of gender\u201d to colonized mathematics with its \u201cmarginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges\u201d\u2014demands rites of expiation from the white heteronormative patriarchy.<\/p>\n<h2>Attack White Men<\/h2>\n<p>Whiteness itself has become the tincture of systemic oppression. Psychology Today, a useful guide to the zeitgeist, began its \u201cJourney Into Whiteness\u201d in 2009. It has wrung its hands over the hegemonic white psyche ever since. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/sound-science-sound-policy\/202207\/the-dobbs-decision-is-deeply-rooted-in-the-patriarchy\">recent headline<\/a> ran: \u201cThe Dobbs Decision is Deeply Rooted in the Patriarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White Western patriarchy, its norms and institutions, is today\u2019s all-purpose bogey. Impassioned Greens can justify terror on the perception that \u201cclimate change is violence.\u201d How so? Because it <a href=\"https:\/\/dothegreenthing.com\/issue\/man-made-disaster-how-patriarchy-is-ruining-the-planet\/\">worsens<\/a> inequalities created by an imperialist, white supremacist patriarchy. Just days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-01903-9?_hsmi=219627248\">Nature<\/a> alerted readers to the danger of climate change driving violence against women and \u201cgender minorities.\u201d Theorizers of post-colonial feminism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seeing-Gender-Iris-Gottlieb\/dp\/1797211978\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26GEUXPEFZ0AK&#038;keywords=seeing+gender+by+iris+gottlieb&#038;qid=1659367099&#038;sprefix=iris+gottlieb+seeing+gender%2Caps%2C64&#038;sr=8-1\">deem<\/a> colonization itself \u201ca gendered act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current terms for achieving gender and racial <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2022\/06\/09\/state-department-to-announce-global-racial-equity-chief-leaked-email-shows\/\">equity<\/a> fulfill Fanon\u2019s definition of decolonization: \u201c[It is] quite simply, the replacing of a certain \u2018species\u2019 of men by another species of men.\u201d And it is \u201calways a violent phenomenon.\u201d His theorizing is the fulcrum on which wokeism turns. \u201cIf the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a massive and decisive struggle\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Woke Believe Violence Is Justified<\/h2>\n<p>The summer of 2020 tutored us in that struggle. It carried a warning: Violence in an ideologically acceptable cause does not occasion moral revulsion among the woke. That lesson was repeated by the post-<em>Dobbs<\/em> firebombing of crisis pregnancy centers and law enforcement\u2019s subsequent shrug over organizations that <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2022\/may\/pro-abortion-activists-admits-to-fire-bombing-wisc-pro-life-office-calls-for-all-pro-life-groups-to-disband\">declared<\/a> themselves \u201cat war\u201d with pro-life activity.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cNotes on Nationalism\u201d (1945) George <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/GEORGE-ORWELL-NOTES-NATIONALISM-ANGLAIS-PENGUIN\/31175475383\/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade0to10-_-product_id=COM9780241339565USED-_-keyword=&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjw852XBhC6ARIsAJsFPN2aHyCmLDtB-KEnVuLM9GJwXyX-mh_-BImQltxKane76BFyDsNHDgUaAkYwEALw_wcB\">Orwell wrote<\/a> that the key to political judgments\u2014who is guilty? who is the victim?\u2014is apt to lie in the identities of the parties involved instead of in the nature of the wrongdoing: \u201cActions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage \u2026 which does not change its moral when it is committed by \u2018our side.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comment was a counter ahead of time to Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s glorification of \u201cWretched of the Earth.\u201d In his preface to Fanon\u2019s text, Sartre spoke for the revolutionary side: \u201cNo gentleness can efface the marks of violence; only violence itself can destroy them.\u201d He made a romance of it: \u201cirrepressible violence\u201d against a perceived enemy is \u201cman recreating himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That siren call was not lost on the organizers of Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in 2020. They named themselves after the Algiers Autonomous Zone (ZAA). Launched by the FLN in 1956, it was the center of FLN\u2019s guerrilla network.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s shanty tribute to \u201cThe Battle of Algiers\u201d\u2014Gillo Pontecorvo\u2019s 1965 documentary guide to tactical insurrection\u2014was more than burlesque. It was a forecast.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Maureen Mullarkey is a painter and a critic. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), she writes on art and its intersection with religious and politics. Her essays have appeared in various publications, including The Nation, The Hudson Review, Arts Magazine, Art &#038; Antiques, and The American Arts Quarterly. She was a columnist for The New York Sun during its life as a print publication. 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