What do a director, a Senator and a dead black boy have in common?
In the grand scheme of world events, the arrest of Roman Polanski is pretty insignificant. What is significant is how it can be used to illustrate what exactly is meant by the liberals’ version of “social justice”.
In the liberals’ great planned society, “justice” is meted out not based on the crime itself, but on the perceived merits of the individuals involved. Hollywood and other members of the left are full or righteous indignation over the arrest of Roman Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg claims Polanski didn’t commit “rape-rape”, it was “just statutory rape”. Either Whoopi Goldberg is unaware that Samantha Gailey was not a willing participant who just happened to be underage, or she is ignoring the part about Samantha being drugged and sodomized after repeatedly telling Roman Polanski to stop. Let’s give Whoopi the benefit of the doubt on this one and say maybe she is rushing to judgement without all the facts, as liberals are prone to do. If Roman Polanski was a 34 year old Polish bus driver living in a trailer park who got a 13 year old drunk and sodomized her then fled the country to avoid a jail sentence, would anyone be defending him? If Samantha Gailey had been a poor black girl, would we be having this discussion? But, Roman Polanski isn’t a bus driver, he is a “talented director”, part of the liberal elite. Lady Justice has to peek from under her blindfold and see that this man surely can’t be treated the same as others of less talent. The person he raped was a member of his own race and approximate social status, so really, who was hurt by all this? It’s just a misunderstanding between upper class, beautiful white people. Why are we even still talking about it? This isn’t a “hate crime” and there is no great inequality to be righted here, so the victim becomes diminished in the eyes of social justice.
The Other McCain points out how the same sort of social justice was applied in the Ted Kennedy case. Ted Kennedy was a rising young star who was going to do so much good for humanity as a whole. It sure would be tragic if a little thing like killing a woman ruined all that. Besides, the Kennedy family had already suffered enough. Mary Jo Kopechne’s family would have to take one for the team.
Some of you may not know this, because it has received very little coverage, a black honor student was beaten to death last week. Derrion Albert of Chicago was hit in the head with a railroad tie, then kicked and punched repeatedly as he lay on the ground, then smashed in the head with the railroad tie once more. This won’t be prosecuted as a hate crime. Why? Well, because the assailants were also black. Therefore, this crime is somehow less heinous and disgusting than if it were committed by a group of white kids. The death of Derrion Albert is not important to liberals because there is no social inequality in it. Poor black kids killed another poor black kid. The lack of press coverage may also have something to do with the fact that President Obama is currently in Copenhagen lobbying to have the 2016 Olympics held in Chicago. It sure wouldn’t look good if honor students were being beaten to death in the streets there. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the Alberts.
Social planning doesn’t eliminate injustice and class warfare, it codifies them.
October 1st, 2009 at 3:05 am
as cute as your characterization of the Polanski petition is, I don’t think it has anything to do with liberal or conservative. it has to do with sane and dumbfuck arrogant. or, perhaps, obscenely wealthy and the rest of us.
your otherwise reasonable point is rather crippled by your attempt to shoehorn this into being a ‘liberal versus conservative’ problem…not everything is about that.
My point was about “rule of law”, which conservatives tend to favor vs. “social justice”, which is a goal of a variety of liberal organizations. As you said, in the case of Polanski, it is arrogant wealthy elitists protecting one of their own. This is because it is their judgement that losing his talent is more harmful to the greater good than allowing a 13 year old to be raped (and it is another chance to prove that they are not subject to the same rules as everyone else).