Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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If Trump Were a Nazi . . .
. . . the Raging Bull of the HollyWeird Left, Robert De Niro, would be in a concentration camp along with Sleazy Rider Peter Fonda and the sick comedienne Kathy Griffith. And if Trump were a Nazi, would he be tight with the NRA, defender of Second Amendment rights? But of course for the Left…
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Political Correctness Comes at a Price
"Starbucks may have appeased progressives with its social-justice workshops and open-bathroom policy, but such moves have failed to caffeinate the company’s bottom line." Story here.
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‘Progressive’ Hate, ‘Progressive’ Projection
The Bad Hate the Good: The Southern Poverty Law Center vs. Prager University: The SPLC smears individuals and groups it differs with by labeling them as some form of "hater": "racist," "white supremacist," "extremist" and the like. That it is cited and even relied upon by The New York Times, Facebook, Amazon, Google, CNN and…
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For the Left, the Issue is Never the Issue
David Horowitz (2013): Here is another statement from [Saul Alinsky's] Rules for Radicals: “We are always moral and our enemies always immoral.” The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the immorality of the opposition, of conservatives and Republicans. If they are perceived as immoral and indecent, their policies and arguments can be dismissed,…
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Wolff on Anti-Natalism: A Glimpse into the Mind of a Leftist Activist
In an entry bearing the charming title WTF? Robert Paul Wolff expresses astonishment at his commenters' discussion of anti-natalism: I have to confess that blogging is weird. It has its pleasures, but from time to time the conversation here takes a genuinely strange turn. Anti-natalism? Seriously? With all the challenges that face us, with the disaster that…
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Leftists as Politically Retromingent
A retromingent is an animal that urinates backwards. Posturing as 'progressive,' the leftist pisses on the past, seeking to erase its memory by destroying monuments and redacting the historical record. There is no piety in the leftist, no reverence. Try using those words at a Manhattan or Georgetown cocktail party and see what happens. This political retromingency…
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No Day Without Cultural Appropriation
Andrew Klavan: Cultural appropriation is not a glitch of American life. It's a feature. It's part of what makes the country great. We take your culture, we get rid of the oppression, the mass murder, the slavery, the intransigent poverty and the endless internecine wars. We keep the pasta and the funny hats, and occasionally…
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David Rubin: Why I Left the Left
David Rubin, who describes himself as gay, pro-choice, and classically liberal, explains why 'progressives' are in fact regressive. (A point I have made many times.) A Prager U video under five minutes in length. Trigger Warning! The video contains vicious, racist, incendiary content sure to melt snowflakes. Richly deserving of being 'demonetized' by Google if…
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Annals of Leftist Autophagy
Roger Kimball on recent examples of leftists devouring themselves.
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The Essence of Cultural Marxism: No Truth, Only Power
Rod Dreher: There it is, reader. There is the “cultural Marxism” that you hear so much about, and that so many on the left deny. It is in the Marxist principle that there is no such thing as truth; there is only power. Lenin understood this well. This is the meaning of his famous dictum, “Who, whom?” …
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Prager on Fear of the Left and its Consequences
Read it. Excerpts: There are two reasons the left labels most conservatives and all Trump supporters “white supremacists,” “neo-Nazis” and “racists.” One is to defeat conservatives without having to defeat conservative ideas. The other is to instill fear: Speak out and you will suffer the consequences. [. . .] It is becoming more and more…
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Stella Morabito on the “Feral” Michelle Wolf
'Feral' is precisely the word for this disgusting leftist. The vile specimen cannot seem to distinguish between being foul-mouthed and being funny. There is no humor in what she said. Succeding as a scum bag, she fails as a comedienne. She actually joked about abortion in the crudest terms imaginable. "Don't knock it if you…
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What Alfie’s All About
Read it. The title is a play on the title of a great Burt Bacharach-Hal David composition here sung by Dionne Warwick.
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Is Leftist Politics Anti-Identity Politics?
S. J. writes, Reading your posts lately, the following thought struck me. I wonder if it's struck you, and if you'd agree: Identity politics is a misleading name for the recent catastrophic turn in so-called progressive politics. For what it actually aims at primarily is the *destruction* of traditional modes of identity, which are, loosely…
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Eminent Domain Abuse
Little Pink House, a movie. The right to private property is another thing leftists don't understand, unless it is their private property. Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959, tr. Ryan Bloom, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010, p. 177: The Revolution is good. But why? One must have an idea of the civilization one wishes to create. The abolition…