{"id":66,"date":"2014-03-17T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-04-06T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:17:04","slug":"environmentalism-elect-and-last-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/environmentalism-elect-and-last-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalism, the Elect, and the Last Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent read by Stanley Kurtz:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i>Campus egalitarians doth <\/i>[sic \u2014\u0152V]<i> protest too much. They seek not equality but the superiority conferred by victimhood. They yearn to be oppressed\u2014or rather, to be perceived as sufferers\u2014so as to take command of the university, the state, and through them, of you. Radical campus egalitarians are the new elect, the chosen, the saved. They are, in short, the new religious, however much, in conventional terms, they may appear to be unchurched.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i>This applies not simply to victimization\u2019s usual suspects\u2014certain approved minorities\u2014but also to campus climate crusaders, who may at first seem remote from the victim-group model. From the wretched of the earth to Wretched Earth, the planet itself is now the downtrodden. And beneath this delicious descent into climate chaos lurks the urge to dominate\u2014to cleanse the globe, not of carbon dioxide, but of heretics, of deniers, of the new unchurched. Faith, salvation, and superiority, not equality, are at play on campuses today.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nas.org\/articles\/ecologism_the_campus_cult_of_victimhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the whole thing<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent read by Stanley Kurtz: Campus egalitarians doth [sic \u2014\u0152V] protest too much. They seek not equality but the superiority conferred by victimhood. 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