Opinion | Pride vs. shame: ‘We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children’ WashTimesOpEd
Once again, definitions can be helpful in focusing the mind. Dictionary.com defines shame as “the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper.” Among shame’s antonyms is humiliate: “made to feel a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity, deeply embarrassed or put to shame.”
Put another way, suppose we all get to define what is honorable and proper? Is shameful also individually defined, or does it still have a universal application? If left to the individual, can anything then be called improper and dishonorable? No reporter I’ve seen asked them what they meant by “coming for your children.” No politician appeared to denounce the statement.
How much more are we willing to tolerate before decadence tightens its grip so strongly that there is no escape, and we are left to the consequences of our own base desires? Other nations that have allowed norms to be violated did not live to see future decades or centuries.
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