The late Sam Francis opened the introduction to his (posthumously released) collection of essays Race and the American Prospect with this observation: “In the Victorian era, the Great Taboo was sex. Today, whatever the label we attach to our age, the Great Taboo is race.” After making many comparisons between the different times, he wrote: “If the analogy between the Victorian taboo on sex and the contemporary taboo on race is valid, then the essays in this book are logically the analogue of pornography.” [Return of the Repressed, The Occidental Quarterly Fall 2005]
Francis’ insight is particularly prescient given the Anthony Weiner scandal. The now-disgraced Congressman sent some pornographic images of himself to various attractive young women on the internet, sometimes unsolicited.
Disgusting pornographic images are not taboo to Democrats, of course—consenting adults and all that—but with so much political momentum against Weiner, they have begun trying to find some “progressive” reason to throw their former hero under the bus. Naturally, the best way is to accuse Weiner of breaking today’s “Great Taboo”.
Weiner is a far-left ideologue who has a 100% rating from the NAACP. He voted for “Hate Crimes” legislation, to apologize for slavery, and was one of a few dozen white Congressmen to vote against the censure of corrupt black Representative Charlie Rangel. What could Weiner have possibly done to deserve this indictment?
