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10 Nov 2009 10:08 am
Kathleen Parker, Conservative
In the best sense of the word:
The world Parker actually wants is not a world in which women make
babies and men chop wood. It is merely a world in which one can walk
down an average city street and not be confronted by a 4-year-old in a
"Future Porn Star" T-shirt, a world in which most women do not own
stripper poles, a world in which most people do not know that
sex-equity experts even exist. It's a world in which most people don't
say "vagina" in polite conversation, vice presidents are expected to
know something about the country that elected them, abortion is
stigmatized but not illegal, and racial profiling is permitted but not
celebrated.
It is, in other words, precisely the world in which we actually
live. For all her railing against our decadent times, Parker is a
stalwart defender of the status quo, committed to the arbitrary
prejudices of our age -- recall her problem with men in jewelry -- and
skeptical of anyone whose ideology might challenge our present state of
affairs. She is literally a conservative, which means she is nothing of
a Republican.
Not these days anyway.
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