Fraters Libertas

...Like A Ten Year Old Boy (True Recall reference..as Larry the cable guy says "I don't care who you are, that's funny")

We smart alecks on the right like to mock the childish arguments, behavior (see idolization of Hunter Thompson as an example) and logic of our precious little friends on the left. As the Elder and I discussed the other day, their insistence on hypocrisy as the greatest evil (even when it is non-existent) is so "Your not the boss of me!" teenage that it's just laughable when you hear it.

So I had to have a good laugh (followed by a long cry) at this pathetic piece that appeared on the front page (!) of today's Rochester Post-Bulletin (no, it isn't avail online):

"Ten Year Old Fights Intolerance"

As the youngest member of the Diversity Council in Rochester, ten year old Grant Eckhoff already is well versed in the value of creating an inclusive community where people are appreciated, not scorned, for their differences.

"Our town is growing, and we need to learn about diversity because it helps us understand that if you are one color of skin, treating a person of different color of skin badly is not right." Eckhoff said Tuesday during the kick-off of the Diversity Council's annual fund-raising campaign and membership drive.

What's amazing about hearing this child give his considered opinion on this subject is that the substance is no different than hearing some diversity consultant, HR director or Democratic member of the house say the same thing: "It's like, bad and stuff to like, not like someone because they are, you know, different."

To continue with the piece...

Grant and his dad Jon Eckhoff, who owns Venture Computer Systems are serving as co-chairmen of the campaign.

Co-chairmen, with a ten year old boy. How quaint. Perhaps the old man was thinking of ways to spend more time with his son. Being a small business owner and all, he must be very busy. So why not bond on white guilt? Hell, who needs Playstation and all that manufactured fun when you can go around hitting up other business owners for dough to assuage their Southeastern Minnesota guilt?

The goal is to raise $100k. The donations:

...will help the council stop racism and predujice faster and help the community become a better place, Grant said.

There was no mention of adding a decent strip club, a sushi restaurant or bar that can mix an acceptable martini in this town--in other words, real improvements that would make this a better, more tolerant place to live.

Grant's dad Jon is not what you might call a bashful, subtle or particularly humble individual:

Jon Eckhoff said he hopes his son lends a powerful voice to the campaign by being an example of what one person can do in fighting intolerance. "Grant gets it. He's just one of those kids understands the Golden Rule. He always has."

Always. What, since he was six, seven years old?

The self-aggrandizement evident in that comment is so appallingly annoying, so arrogant that I hardly have the words to express myself.

But being not terribly bashful, subtle or humble myself, I'll continue.

This guy (the father) is a straight-out wanker. Indoctrinating your child with leftist politics that he isn't even close to old enough to understand it is beyond the beyonds. And parading him as a trophy of his father's enlightened perspective at a public meeting of the community is downright sick. What does Jon expect us to do when we read this, say "Oh, isn't that cute! A dad who cares about, you know, those minorities...and he's even teaching it to his son!"

So we here at Fraters would like to raise a giant Cosmo (a drink we would never actually consume ourselves, but imagine the kindler, gentler souls like Jon enjoy daily) to Jon Eckhoff of Rochester, MN for taking the cake as the most self-absorbed and guilt-ridden New Age dad this side of Berkeley.

Cheers!