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Meanwhile, Back at NPR:
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Sounds like my parents. Wonderful people, but sometime in the last 20+ years they went off the deep end, politically speaking.
Out: Using racism to say “Look at me – I’m better than you”
In: Using woke to say “Look at me – I’m better than you”
The smug superiority remains the same.
”Sure, looting is counterproductive. But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression…”
Easy for her to say. This callous woman pulls down over $600k/year as CEO of NPR. I’m betting she wouldn’t be so dismissive of the theft and destruction of her own (likely gated) home if it were targeted by rioters. I suspect that’s when she would no longer find it ‘hard to be mad’.
All “public funding of the arts” needs to end, period. Public funding means government funding which means government control, always. It never ends well, as this astonishingly stupid woman proves beyond a reasonable doubt. Remember, NPR has also brought us such gems as taxpayer-funded “performance art” featuring some moron smearing her naked body with chocolate on a public stage.
Art and music flourished for centuries funded by private patrons. There was never any real justification for replacing the patrons with government functionaries who produce nothing and ruin everything they touch. Enough, already.
Above and beyond some museums, libraries, and archives (and even these are hypertrophied), federal funding of ‘culture’ should be $0. State governments provide for public higher education and commonly have state libraries, museums, and archives. That’s quite enough. If your local public radio station wants a government subsidy, they can dun the county government and see what that gets them. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is exhibit A of the proposition that a public agency, once created, endures forever. Our federal legislature is worthless.
Note, liberals believe that public agencies and government corporations are their property and have no obligation to attend to any clientele but them. Their mentality is criminal.