Western Civilization at Stake 

     "The West has liberated the world from universal squalor and disease, thanks to scientific method and the Western passion for discovery and knowledge," said Heather Mac Donald, a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, in a speech at Hillsdale College. 

     "It has given the world plumbing, hot showers, flight, clean water, steel, antibiotics, and just about every structure and every device that we take for granted." 

     She spoke of our "privileged" existence. referring to anyone whose life "has been transformed by Western ingenuity...that is, virtually every human being on the planet. It was in the West that the ideas of constitutional government and civil rights were born." 

     "Stop apologizing for Western Civilization," she said. "To be sure, slavery and segregation were grotesque violations of America's founding ideals. Black Americans suffered injustice and cruelty. Today however, every mainstream institution is twisting itself into knots to hire and promote as many 'underrepresented' minorities as possible." 

      "To our shame, we had slavery. What civilization did not? But only (British and American) expended lives and capital to end the universal practice. Every ideal that the Left uses today to bash the West - such as equality or tolerance - originated in the West." 

Tomorrow, Part 2: the George Floyd riots.