Running With the Hare
3rd August 2016
When I was thinking about these Wet Smelly Dog Days yesterday afternoon, a phrase popped into my head: “Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds”. I believe it’s a British expression, and it refers to someone who wants two opposite things at the same time. An American equivalent is probably “To have your cake and eat it too.”
It came to mind again when I was moderating comments on the post with two videos about three leftist women in Germany who had been raped and/or groped by “refugees”. These women are devotees of the “Welcome Refugees” movement, and loathe “right-wing extremists” who want to curtail immigration. Yet they are feminists, too, and dedicated Social Justice Warriors against Germany’s “rape culture.” The two different zealotries clash when their adherents experience the seamier side of cultural enrichment, driving them into a state of cognitive dissonance.
And yet so many on the Left do this compulsively. Hollywood stars who jet off on their Gulfstreams to conferences on climate change, people who protest for ‘affordable housing’ — somewhere else, there are innumerable examples; Portland, Oregan, ‘the whitest town in America‘, is a prime example.