Is This Just a Perverse 'Selma Envy'?

“I think that we are once again witnessing what is generally termed ‘Selma envy,’” Cooke said on The Editors podcast, “but I think that there is an attendant wrinkle to it.

Advertisement

“They have managed to deploy the logic and rhetoric of Selma in all circumstances in a manner that always, invariably, helps them,” Cooke said. He brought up something National Review Online editor Phil Klein pointed out, that “it’s not just that there is a double standard when it comes to Jews. It’s that there is a double standard when it comes to who is protesting Jews.”

Ed Morrissey

Charles is right about the Left in general. That's the impulse behind all of the gay marriage and now transgender-rights activism -- a sense that the current progressives lack a real and substantial cause like the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. But the campus seizures, intimidation tactics, and outright physical violence on behalf of Hamas is something else entirely. This is aimed at the destruction of Western civilization and the US. 

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Trending on HotAir Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement