Regarding the title of this entry, just as Islam imposes the jizya tax, liberalism imposes the Eloi tax. The jizya tax is paid by non-Muslims living under Islamic rule. The Eloi tax is paid by liberals living under liberal rule who are so naive (or so deeply ideologically committed) as to take their liberalism straight. Meaning that they neglect to make unprincipled exceptions for themselves in order to protect themselves from the dreadful personal consequences of liberalism consistently applied.
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Dr. Jeanne Calle in Atlanta, she allows a strange young black man posing as a real estate agent to come unaccompanied to her apartment, because “I don’t want him to think that we don’t trust him,” and five minutes later she is dead; or, like the classic Eloi woman in Bakersfield, California, she continues walking alone toward her car in a parking lot despite the presence of a suspicious-looking black man loitering near her car, because she “didn’t want to seem racist,” and ends up getting kidnapped and raped; or, like Joanna Connors, a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who in 2008 told how in 1984 she followed a black man into an empty building after he pretended to be asking for help, while she ignored her misgivings because she did not want to appear racist, and he raped her. “In her articles she argues that despite being raped she did the right thing in not giving in to her feelings of racism.” And so on and on. Rape, horror, the violent death of oneself and one’s loved ones: this is the continual tax paid by Eloi.
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