Tea at Trianon: Consequences of the Left’s Obsession with Race

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Consequences of the Left’s Obsession with Race

From John Hawkins at Culturcidal:

The Left in America has always been obsessed with race. Once they despised black Americans because they thought they were inferior, while they viewed white people as just “better” because they were superior.
Today, they’ve put a new twist on that thinking. Now, they feel like they need to help black (and to a lesser extent, Hispanic) Americans because they view them as inferior while white people need to be brought down because it’s not fair that they outperform black and Hispanic Americans as a group.
We’ve also seen increasingly hostile left-wing attitudes toward Jewish and Asian Americans because they’re achieving too much. It’s hard for liberals to glory in their “white savior complex” with people who are doing well enough that everyone can see they don’t need saving.
This attitude from the Left is extraordinarily toxic to American culture for a variety of reasons. (Read more.)