GRAMSCIAN, POSTMODERN, AND ANTI-WEST: THE NYTIMES DEFENDS VOODOO

NYTIMES:

... articles, broadcasts and blogs depicted voodoo as the source of Haiti’s poverty and political instability — not because of divine punishment, mind you, but because voodoo supposedly is fatalistic and primitive by nature.

“The kind of religion one practices makes a huge difference in how the community lives — for better or for worse,” wrote Rod Dreher on the Web site beliefnet. “I suppose it’s at least arguable that the Haitians would be better off at the Church of Christopher Hitchens rather than as followers of voodoo.”

For scholars whose expertise runs somewhat deeper, such words have understandably provoked indignation. Worse still, the dismissive attitude about voodoo follows a tawdry history of misrepresentation in American journalism and popular culture.

“The media has reported a lot about voodoo but not much of it very insightful or intelligent,” said Diane Winston, a professor of religion and media at the University of Southern California. “Voodoo is one of those flashpoints for Americans because it’s exotic, unknown and has strange connotations. It may be a matter of underlying racism because voodoo is African and Caribbean in its origins, or because voodoo seems so different from Christianity that it’s the perfect Other.” Prof. Leslie G. Desmangles of Trinity College in Hartford, who is the author of several scholarly and reference books about voodoo, views these current caricatures of voodoo as all too familiar.

“There’s been a very degrading, derogatory language about voodoo,” he said in a recent interview. “It’s language that goes back to the 19th century.”

BULLSHIT.

NO ONE BLOGGED MORE ON HOW HAITI'S VOODO-"CULTURE" HURTS THE HAITIANS MORE THAN ME - SEE HERE AND HERE AND HERE, AND HERE AND HERE.

AND A FEW WEEKS AFTER I POSTED ON HOW VOODOO HARMS SOCIETY IN HAITI AND IS HAMPERING RECOVERY, THAT OPINION WAS CORROBORATED BY AN EXPERT IN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID AND HAITI, LEON HARRISON - IN AN OP-ED IN THE WSJ.

THE NYTIMES DEFENDS VOODOO FOR THE SAME REASON THEY - AND THE LEFT - ATTACK CHRISTIANITY: AS POSTMODERN LEFTISTS AND GRAMSCIANS THEY ARE HOSTILE TO EVERYTHING OF THE WEST AND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION.

POSTMODERN LEFTISTS BLAME THE WEST FOR ALL OF THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS - POVERTY, POLLUTION, GENOCIDE AND SEXUAL REPRESSION.

THEY WANT THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WEST REPLACED WITH A SOCIALIST ATHEIST UTOPIA:

A NANNYSTATE WHICH PERMITS UNFETTERED LIBERTINAGE AND PAYS FOR CRADLE TO GRAVE RECREATIONAL DRUGS AND HIV MEDICINE.