Reading this enlightened and enlightening interview with your father and you, I realize that I need to read Dr. Steele’s books, not simply his comments. His insights (and yours, following in his thought-steps) are the most inspiring that I’ve encountered in the ongoing discussion about race in America. As a Jew raised by very left-wing parents who were born in the 1920s, I was instilled with an awareness of racism and anti-semitism beginning with the “N-word lecture” that my mother gave me at the kitchen table when I was four years old. I learned that racism is a great evil that has the potential to destroy the world. Your father’s prescription for its eradication is the only one that resonates with me: personal responsibility and agency, letting go of blame and victimhood, abandoning the superficial stereotypes of identity politics, and focusing on forgiveness, love, and ultimately, Humanism.
Happy New Year to you and yours, Eli. Wishing you much success with the new film in 2024.
As someone on the Right, let me say that I don't care about innocence. I don't need the absolution of the Left, and them to tell me I'm a good person. Sorry for the profanity, but fuck that, and fuck them. They're arsonists and terrorists and want to destroy everything I've loved in my life, including my own family and family history. If I'm a bellwether of where many people are now, let it be so. Many of us are sick of it to the point that you can't call us names or cancel us. I'm unfireable at the job I hold, which is in rural America, but still, I'd rather starve to death than bend the knee before these people. I'd rather be fired than mouth the words. Fuck that. They don't deserve the sweat off of my crotch, and they will get nothing from me. There are many others like me, who are ready to go the mat. We're done with it all.
Happy New Year and best wishes to you and your father and family.
Eli I always look forward to you posts and can’t wait to see the movie. On another note and related to your project on the importance individualism and humanism I recommend Bret Stephen’s article in the latest COMMENTARY: THE GENIUS OF ISRAEL, EVEN STILL. A REALLY interesting insight and perspective.
Reading this enlightened and enlightening interview with your father and you, I realize that I need to read Dr. Steele’s books, not simply his comments. His insights (and yours, following in his thought-steps) are the most inspiring that I’ve encountered in the ongoing discussion about race in America. As a Jew raised by very left-wing parents who were born in the 1920s, I was instilled with an awareness of racism and anti-semitism beginning with the “N-word lecture” that my mother gave me at the kitchen table when I was four years old. I learned that racism is a great evil that has the potential to destroy the world. Your father’s prescription for its eradication is the only one that resonates with me: personal responsibility and agency, letting go of blame and victimhood, abandoning the superficial stereotypes of identity politics, and focusing on forgiveness, love, and ultimately, Humanism.
Happy New Year to you and yours, Eli. Wishing you much success with the new film in 2024.
Thanks for a great post today. Happy New Year!
As someone on the Right, let me say that I don't care about innocence. I don't need the absolution of the Left, and them to tell me I'm a good person. Sorry for the profanity, but fuck that, and fuck them. They're arsonists and terrorists and want to destroy everything I've loved in my life, including my own family and family history. If I'm a bellwether of where many people are now, let it be so. Many of us are sick of it to the point that you can't call us names or cancel us. I'm unfireable at the job I hold, which is in rural America, but still, I'd rather starve to death than bend the knee before these people. I'd rather be fired than mouth the words. Fuck that. They don't deserve the sweat off of my crotch, and they will get nothing from me. There are many others like me, who are ready to go the mat. We're done with it all.
Happy New Year and best wishes to you and your father and family.
Amen. Thank you!
Eli I always look forward to you posts and can’t wait to see the movie. On another note and related to your project on the importance individualism and humanism I recommend Bret Stephen’s article in the latest COMMENTARY: THE GENIUS OF ISRAEL, EVEN STILL. A REALLY interesting insight and perspective.
Happy New Year.