Brain Fertilizer

James Taranto sums up an item in Today's Best of the Web by saying:

Treating slavery as a peculiarly American evil reflects a weird sort of self-loathing ethnocentrism, an attitude that one's own country can do no right.

As much as I respect Mr. Taranto, I must point out that his sentence is incorrect and not representative of the liberal-progressive viewpoint. He should be ashamed of the vile and underhanded smear.

In reality "Treating slavery as a peculiarly American evil" is a reflection of an attitude that one's own country's conservative/Republicans can do no right.

They like themselves, of course; so of course they approve of their own actions and decisions. Pulling out of Somalia? Ignoring the genocide in Sudan and Rwanda? Being enablers apologists for the evils of communism? Idolizing Che? Lionizing Fidel Castro? Those are just peachy.

Ending slavery? Freeing people from dictatorships? Lowering taxes? Beyond the pale.