{"id":12171,"date":"2020-01-31T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2020-01-31T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:31:27","slug":"the-cult-of-west-shaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-cult-of-west-shaming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cult of West-Shaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ancient habit of Western elites is a certain selectivity in condemnation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes Westerners apply critical standards to the West that they would never apply to other nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My colleague at the Hoover Institution, historian Niall Ferguson, has pointed out that Swedish green-teen celebrity Greta Thunberg might be more effective in her advocacy for reducing carbon emissions by redirecting her animus. Instead of hectoring Europeans and Americans, who have recently achieved the planet\u2019s most dramatic drops in the use of fossil fuels, Thunberg might instead turn her attention to China and India to offer her \u201chow dare you\u201d complaints to get their leaders to curb carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether the world continues to spew dangerous levels of carbon dioxide will depend largely on policies in China and India. After all, these two countries account for over a third of the global population and continue to grow their coal-based industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1950s, many elites in the United States bought the Soviet Union\u2019s line that the march of global Communism would \u201cbury\u201d the West. Then, as Soviet power eroded in the 1980s, Japan Inc. and its ascendant model of state-sponsored industry became the preferred alternative to Western-style democratic capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/01\/woke-elites-criticize-west-silent-on-china-iran\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review An ancient habit of Western elites is a certain selectivity in condemnation. Sometimes Westerners apply critical standards to the West that they would never apply to other nations. My colleague at the Hoover Institution, historian Niall Ferguson, has pointed out that Swedish green-teen celebrity Greta Thunberg might be more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3aj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11679,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/changing-reality-with-words\/","url_meta":{"origin":12171,"position":0},"title":"Changing Reality With Words","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. 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The shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords and the horrible mass murders at Sandy Hook\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Global Warming&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Global Warming","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/global-warming-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12319,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/suppression-of-expression-obscures-the-truth-about-the-virus\/","url_meta":{"origin":12171,"position":5},"title":"Suppression of Expression Obscures the Truth About the Virus","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Americans are acquainted with predictable but ultimately failed progressive efforts to suppress free expression by preemptive invective and politically correct finger-pointing. 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