Lutey Tunes
by Mark Steyn Steyn on Culture
Apologies to all my readers: Last week I carelessly wrote about President Trump's Warsaw speech
as if the words therein corresponded to the definitions ascribed to
them by Oxford, Webster's or any other English dictionary. My mistake.
Apparently the plain meaning of the words is entirely irrelevant.
Because the words aren't words per se, they're "dog whistles":Trump's white-nationalist dog whistles in WarsawAs James Taranto noted during a previous dog-whistling frenzy:
"The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else," he wrote. "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog."
Indeed dog whistles are all they hear. If Trump is, as has been said,
the all-time great Twitter troll, in Warsaw he was trolling for western
civilization, and an entire army of mangy pooches began yowling and -
to mix canine metaphors - set off like greyhounds in pursuit of a
mechanical hare. Even if the speech had not been worth it on its own
merits, it would still have performed a useful service in demonstrating
that the western left now utterly despises western civilization. As I noted on Friday, this is the most pathetic humbug:Ours is the civilization that built the modern world - as even the west's cultural relativists implicitly accept, if only because they have no desire to emigrate and try to make a living as a cultural relativist in Yemen or Niger.Because you can't. ...
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