by Ann Coulter
Stephen R. Dujack, proposed witness for the Senate Democrats during the Supreme Court nomination hearings on Judge Samuel Alito, wrote an entire op-ed in the Los Angeles Times elaborating on the similarity of chicken farms to the Holocaust. As Dujack explained it:
Like the victims of the Holocaust, animals are rounded up, trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered. Comparisons to the Holocaust are not only appropriate but in-escapable because, whether we wish to admit it or not, cows, chickens, pigs and turkeys are as capable of feeling loneliness, fear, pain, joy and affection as we are. To those who defend the modern-day holocaust on animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food and give us sustenance, I ask: If the victims of the Holocaust had been eaten, would that have justified the abuse and murder? Did the fact that lampshades, soaps and other “useful” products were made from their bodies excuse the Holocaust? No. Pain is pain.
This is liberalism’s real strength: It is no longer susceptible to reductio ad absurdum arguments. Before you can come up with a comical take on their worldview, some college professor has already written an article advancing the idea. With Darwin as their god, everything is just a matter of personal preference. For Singer, the utilitarian ethic is based on “quality of life” and prevention of suffering of living things smart enough to teach at Princeton. For Hitler, it was increasing the population of “Aryans.” For liberals, the utilitarian ethic is equality of outcome—which they will enforce with fascistic zeal through confiscatory taxation, abortion on demand, racial quotas, gendernorming strength tests, and “everybody gets an À’ and a blue ribbon.”
But who decides which preference prevails? In October 2005, black activist Kamau Kambon told an audience at Howard University Law School that blacks should wipe “white people off the face of the planet.” So I guess that’s his personal preference. How does Singer prove him wrong? Does being called “the most influential living philosopher” by The New Yorker make Singer more “fit” than Dr. Kambon? Will that make him “fit” enough to withstand a bullet? Whose survival-of-the-fittest regime wins? It’s one assertion versus another assertion.
The fundamental difference between our religion and theirs is that theirs always tells them whatever they want to hear. Like the “living Constitution,” Darwinism never disappoints liberals. They never say, “Well, I’d like to have cheap, meaningless sex tonight, but that would violate Darwinism.” They can’t even say, “I’d like to have cheap, meaningless sex tonight with a goat, but that would violate Darwinism.” If you have an instinct to do it, it must be an evolved adaptation. Liberals subscribe to Darwinism not because it’s “science,” which they hate, but out of wishful thinking. Darwinism lets them off the hook morally. Do whatever you feel like doing—screw your secretary, kill Grandma, abort your defective child—Darwin says it will benefit humanity! Nothing is ever wrong as long as you follow your instincts. Just do it—and let Mother Earth sort out the winners and losers.
Religious people have certain rules based on a book about faith with lots of witnesses to that faith. God is not our secret Santa. His commands are not whatever we want them to be, and the Bible is not a “living” document. This is why it’s always so disorienting when liberals harangue Christians about Biblical commands. Unlike the liberal religion, morality exists outside our egotistical, materialistic, fickle, megalomaniacal Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Colin Farrell, Paris Hilton selves. These rules are decreed by a legislator whose opinions are not subject to appeal by the ACLU. We can’t discover penumbras that will suddenly allow us to endorse genocide, sex with animals, gay marriage, strip clubs, premarital sex, or whatever the latest liberal fad is. The truth is the truth whether we like it or not. While secularists are constantly comparing conservative Christians to Nazis, somehow it’s always the godless doing the genocides.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
