Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Why the Left is Consumed with Hate
Shelby Steele offers a compelling explanation. In the '60s, the Left acquired its power and moral authority when it fought the good fight against racism and segregation and for civil rights. Those battles were fought and they were won. But power is intoxicating and those who came into it in those years of ferment desired…
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France Goes Totalitarian
Leftists are scum. Here's Rod on Marine Le Pen: Absolutely: Solidarity with Marine Le Pen! You do not have to agree with her politics to be revolted by what the French state is trying to do to her, and why. Even Jean-Luc Melenchon, the far-left French politician, is defending her here. Le Pen posted documentary evidence of…
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More Proof that ‘Progressives’ are Morally Obtuse
Re: Twitter's Content Blockage: Some examples of this supposedly offensive content include pictures of children developing in the womb and even simple ultrasound images of babies — like the ones that expectant parents hang on their refrigerator doors. Twitter's actions suggest it’s OK for Planned Parenthood to tweet that a woman has a right to an abortion, but when I tweet and…
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The Montini-Maritain-Alinksy Connection
Strange bedfellows In an interview with Playboy Magazine very shortly before his death from a heart attack in 1972 at the age of 63, which interview is part of a declassified FBI file, the man Maritain asked to pray for him declared that he would unhesitatingly choose hell over heaven: PLAYBOY: Having accepted your own mortality,…
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Of ‘Blind Review’ and Pandora’s Box
This is a repost from 1 April 2014. I was reminded of it by a missive from Spencer Case who rightly complains about a more recent bit of related academentia. But if I link to it, you won't read what I have to say below. I will talk about the latest outrage perhaps tomorrow. ……………………………….…
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Against Iconoclasm and the Erasure of History
Muslims are well-known for their iconoclasm, hostility to the arts, and destruction of cultural artifacts. Leftists are like unto Muslims in this regard too. The trouble with iconoclasm is that all parties can play the game. Mass-murdering communist regimes are responsible for some 94 million deaths in the 20th century. Why not then destroy all the statues and…
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The Sense in Which ‘Progressives’ are Progressive
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The Cautionary Tale of Pippa Bacca
Conservatives take a sober and realistic view of the world and the people in it. They are reality-based, and put no faith in utopian schemes. Like good Aristotelians, they take the actualities of the present and the past as a reliable guide to what is possible, rather than the future-oriented fabrications of a high-flying reason…
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The Frame Game
Leftists play the Frame Game. For example, they frame the gun issue as if if they want gun control and conservatives don't. This is a piece of utter mendacity and they must know it. Everyone apart from criminals wants gun control. The issue is not whether, but how much and of what kinds. Another example…
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As You Know . . .
. . . there seem to be no limits of logic or sanity on what a 'liberal' will maintain. The latest lunacy is the politically correct prohibition of the phrase 'as you know.' You must not say this because it might make a snowflake feel inadequate. Permit me to explain why some of us use…
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How Far Will the Left Go?
Trump delivers and the Left loses its mind. Victor Davis Hanson: The economy is growing at rates that we have not seen in over a decade. Unemployment, especially minority joblessness, is at a historic low. Even The stock market is at record highs. The United States is now the world’s largest producer of oil, natural…
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The Left’s ‘Snitch Culture’
Shades of the Chi-Com Cultural Revolution.
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Explaining American Leftists, Part I
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The Lunatic Left
Check out the Seven Theses of one Phil Green over at the lair of Howlin' Wolff. This is the direction in which the Dems are headed.