Gliberalism

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http://www.nypress.com/18/37/news&columns/spencerackerman.cfm
TERROR AND GLIBERALISM
America's best bipartisan heads numbly nodding along.

By Spencer Ackerman
Decades ago when Osama bin Laden was a gawky teenager considering a career in civil engineering, Ishmael Reed attacked what he called "gliberalism." Gliberalism is the curdling of the most vital political tradition in American life into a crude, apologetic vanity, one that contends, Reed wrote, that "violence is healthy for the 'oppressed' even if it kills them."
Gliberalism captivated upper-class liberals paralyzed by their material and social privilege on the one hand and their sympathies for the dispossessed on the other. It proved a dangerous overreaction to the uncomfortable premodern concept of noblesse oblige, the idea that, adapted for the modern era, privilege confers a responsibility to provide for social justice. Instead, gliberalism contended, privilege rendered untenable any critique of socially iniquitous impulses among the underclass. As Morrissey once sang, "you just haven't earned it yet, baby."



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