{"id":571959,"date":"2021-06-23T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571959"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:36:50","slug":"opinion-juneteenth-proved-that-progressives-dont-want-to-celebrate-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-juneteenth-proved-that-progressives-dont-want-to-celebrate-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Juneteenth Proved That \u2018Progressives\u2019 Don\u2019t Want To Celebrate Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fopinion-juneteenth-proved-that-progressives-dont-want-to-celebrate-progress%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=571959&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233510532-e1624474374632.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Last week, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law making June 19, also known as \u201cJuneteenth,\u201d a<\/span><span> federal holiday commemorating the day on which the last enslaved Americans were notified of the emancipation proclamation in 1865.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beyond the debate regarding the decision itself, what makes this particularly fascinating is the Left\u2019s reaction, which exemplifies the fundamental difference in how so-called progressives view the notion of celebratory events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cGreat nations don\u2019t ignore their most painful moments,\u201d Biden said during a signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House, as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-to-sign-bill-making-juneteenth-a-federal-holiday-11623944038\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> by The Wall Street Journal. \u201cGreat nations don\u2019t walk away. We come to terms with the mistakes we made. And remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For many, this seems likely a strangely negative way to describe the celebration of something we should celebrate: slavery\u2019s true ending. <\/span><span>However, when we understand how the Left <em>actually<\/em> view the act of commemoration, Biden\u2019s rhetoric becomes perfectly clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For the Left, the end of something bad is not something to be celebrated unless it is primarily an acknowledgement of the existence of that \u201cbad thing.\u201d Then, the next step of such acknowledgement is to act as a starting point for further \u201cwork.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In this context, Juneteenth is not a celebration of the end of slavery, but rather an acknowledgement alone of the evils of slavery. By making this ideological switch, Juneteenth becomes a starting point in a deliberately never-ending pursuit of \u201cracial justice,\u201d instead of a self-contained celebration of the eradication of an immoral evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, this isn\u2019t to say that celebratory events can\u2019t be at least partly rooted in the acknowledgement of history\u2019s darker periods. However, the subtle but core difference between acknowledgement as a primary and secondary feature is the important part here. If we are celebrating the end of something bad, the acknowledgement of the \u201csomething bad\u201d should be secondary. Primarily, we are celebrating the fact that the \u201csomething bad\u201d has been eradicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unfortunately, there is no political profit to be gained by those who masquerade as \u201cprogressives,\u201d because progress is <\/span><i><span>never<\/span><\/i><span> the goal. Instead, the perception of progress is what matters. That is why the Left will never celebrate Juneteenth as the practical end of slavery, because that would acknowledge the existence of significant and society-defining change outside of Democratic Party control. Instead, it must be repackaged as a prerequisite for future change, as a culture-wide admittance of historical wrongdoing, as an opportunity for sombre self-reflection. And, most importantly, as a justification to vote Democrat in upcoming elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That is why the Left will never cheer the end of something \u201cbad\u201d without first setting their sights on what must follow the celebrations. If they were to join us and celebrate the end of slavery as a historical good, they might just find themselves with no \u201cprogress\u201d with which to ideologically bribe their supposedly \u201coppressed\u201d voters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law making June 19, also known as \u201cJuneteenth,\u201d a federal holiday commemorating the day on which the last enslaved Americans were &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281130,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233510532-e1624474374632.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: Juneteenth Proved That \u2018Progressives\u2019 Don\u2019t Want To Celebrate Progress","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233510532-e1624474374632.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: Juneteenth Proved That \u2018Progressives\u2019 Don\u2019t Want To Celebrate Progress","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}