Another Schizophrenic and Incoherent Commentary From the Right

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2022/jun/02/star-parker-this-country-is-going-through-a/

What a mess. I filed this commentary away over a month ago. To be candid it's pretty worthless but reading it I had to laugh at the total incongruity and dissonance on display in the argument.

Parker is like Thomas Sowell and so many others. Because she's Black and willing to push the Right-wing line, she's an instant star. See, there's no racism in the GOP. It's those Democrats. After all it was the Southern Democrats who supported Jim Crow and the like.

It's these same kind of lame arguments that grant Parker her place. She has nothing to say. She's a syndicated columnist because the Right pushes and promotes her and the Right-Establishment loves to have minorities promoting their lines and narratives in order to discredit the arguments being made by the mainstream media and academia regarding the racist and Far-Right characteristics of Right-wing policies.

They can rail against Affirmative Action but in truth, that's why she's there. That was also the great irony in the Clarence Thomas nomination back in 1991.

But one line really made me laugh. Rolling through a litany of social evils all promoted by the pro-Capitalist, pro-Imperialist 'Left', she mentions that 'sanctity of life was devalued with Roe v. Wade'. And then in her very next breath she (by implication) condemns the end of conscription. Apparently she cannot grasp that the militarism that comes with a culture of conscription is literally dehumanising and it leads to conflict. It promotes violence and celebrates it – turning into a cheapening of life and a denigration of those the state has decided to reckon as enemies – which as often as not is guided by politics as opposed to ethics. Look for example at the recent (and continuing) campaign against not just the Russian state but the Russian people and their culture, let alone Yemen, and at least half a dozen other places. For the Right to speak of the 'sanctity of life' is ridiculous.

Parker equates conscription with personal responsibility or what she really means is 'investment' in the state and its system.

On the one hand I can say 'whatever' and dismiss the ramblings of yet another lost person but Parker (and many like her) often put a Christian gloss on their commentaries. This makes her and those like her dangerous and much more critically dangerous to the Church as many Christians fall prey to her false reasoning and sometimes ridiculous argument.

Not everything she says is wrong but that's the dangerous part. Enough is right that it grants her credibility and standing and yet her commentaries, indeed her thinking are fundamentally in error and this is on full display in her celebration and promotion of Right-wing ethics.

It's just rubbish but it sells and tickles ears and so Right-wing newspapers like the one that serves my area will run her column.