The tyranny of the minority
by Jennifer Oriel, pectator Australia:
When police accused actor Justin Smollett of staging a hate crime, his left-wing cheer squad threw down their pom-poms and picked up stones. Smollett’s big mistake wasn’t allegedly lying, or playing a black, gay victim in a mediocre TV series. His cardinal sin was to expose the fallacy of the modern Left’s creation myth that politically correct minorities are persecuted rather than privileged.
Smollett is an unremarkable actor, but he is black and gay which gives him minority status.
Such status can provide a range of benefits where the state suppresses fair competition to ensure minorities have special access to education, employment and welfare opportunities. The special privileges regime extends to the realm of public reason. Many Western states built on the democratic traditions of free speech and public reason have made offending PC minorities an offence. It has created a profoundly illiberal culture where the democratic principle of loyal opposition is increasingly difficult to exercise.
Smollett is protesting his innocence against evidence that he paid brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo to stage a hate crime against him. On Good Morning America, he welled up while reconstructing the scene. It was dark, he was all alone, just another poor minority millionaire minding his own business, when the unimaginable horror appeared: a Republican voter! To add PC insult to injury, Smollett said the assailant shouted: ‘This is MAGA country, n–!’ One can only assume he said ‘nigger’ because censors ran a high pitched squeal over the offending word on TV and deleted ‘igger’ in print. Daft bastar–.
The Smollett case is the latest example of the PC Left undermining an essential part of democratic culture. The principle of loyal opposition requires the understanding that being a citizen of a democracy entails a mutual obligation to hear and be heard. Each side of politics is mutually obligated to demonstrate civility in debate and the exercise of public reason. After an election, the losers respect the outcome and facilitate a peaceful transition to the elected government.
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