NAACP Confirms Election of a Black President Made No Difference
The argument that the NAACP did nothing wrong in demanding that the tea parties condemn the racist elements in their midst, since it noted that the tea parties are not racist, is disingenuous. Imagine the (legitimate) uproar if the most prestigious organization that fights child molestation declared that while the ACLU was not itself in favor of child molestation, it had so many child molesters in its midst that it needed to publicly condemn child molestation and work to remove the child molesters among its members.
I have said before, you don't talk enough with our next generation. Yes, I realize you sit down with them and ask them questions and you do know a lot about some of their attitudes, the ones that "studies" like to quantify, such as "I do/don't believe that I will have a better life than my parents have" or "I have/have not stolen something from a major store in the last 12 months."
What you don't know is how they behave, what permissions they give themselves, how they loathe education, how they consider high school THE place to socialize with their friends, without which life is not worth living. You don't for a moment understand the enormous increase in bullying since we were kids, or how the kids who do the bullying have the permission of all our society to go ahead and bully the vulnerable because "he deserved it."
In your interviews with these kids you probably have never heard them bully people older than themselves. They believe no one has anything to teach them and that older people are stupid fools, and don't hesitate to tell them exactly that--if they think they can get away with it. No doubt none of the kids you've talked to have tried to tell you you're a doddering old moron but many of them are smiling and thinking it at the same time.
Another thing you can't understand is how illogical, irrational, and uncritical their thinking is. I think this applies to many, and the younger they are the worse it gets. Our generation actually got some training in this area, though less than it should have been. The next two generations have never been asked to critique anything.
Thus, when a radio voice asked, "On what grounds should we change the definition of marriage from one man, one woman to whatever you think it should be? What argument will you use when another person steps forward and demands we change marriage to one man, three women? or one woman, one dolphin? or one woman and her brother? or one woman and her typewriter?" then you get such idiotic responses as, "He compared same-sex marriage to incest"--mainly because the responder has no clue how he didn't compare one to the other, but also because this speaker knows that among his listeners none will be able to tell him what's wrong with his foolish assertion.
So, in your comparison, many of your readers, especially those under thirty-five, will react*, "He claims the NAACP is full of child molesters! Dennis Prager is a racist!" because these kids don't understand comparison, contrast, similarity, and dissimilarity. I could go on, and almost did, but I have made the point.
To most Americans, if any of them stumble upon your article, the comparison of events will seem to come out of the blue. They won't see that you're saying "this second event is like the first one in this way: an accusing group wishes to tar another group, and brings up a completely irrelevant charge that no one but a crazy person would think was true. Then they demand that the tarred group denounce this 'element' in their midst wherever it might be, and thus whether the tarred group reply or refuse to reply, the accusing group have scored a hundred points." All they'll see is "You called the NAACP child-molesters."
Gotta be more careful. More important, though, you need to learn how our young generation is being fraudulently educated from day 1 in school.
*not "reply" or "respond", Prager, they react! without thinking!
