Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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The Erasure of Garrison Keillor
His work and legacy, not the man. The Stalinism of the Left at work eating its own. Of a piece with the leftist erasure of history via the destruction of monuments and statues. Leftists share this nasty tendency with Muslims with whom they work in cahoots, consciously or not. Muslims are well-known for their iconoclasm, hostility to…
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Elizabeth ‘Fauxcahantas’ Warren, Undocumented Indian and Cultural Appropriator
The lovable Howie Carr takes the fraud to task: How much longer do we have to pretend that Elizabeth Warren is anything but a Fake Indian? It happened again yesterday — President Trump referred to the senior senator from Massachusetts as “Pocahontas,” and the alt-left media went into paroxysms of fake outrage, as if it’s…
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A Mark of a ‘Liberal’
An infallible mark of a 'liberal' or 'progressive' is a refusal to distinguish legal and illegal immigration. Read their articles and see if I am not right. One inference to draw is that they neither understand nor value the rule of law.
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More Proof that Liberals are Insane
Don't waste time debating these loons. Just go to Whole Foods, spend money, and speak polite English. "Thank you, sir, you have been most helpful." "Excuse me, boys and girls, but politically correct language is deeply offensive to those of us who are sane." "We respectfully oppose the tyranny of a tiny minority and will…
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Can Belief in Man Substitute for Belief in God?
A slightly redacted re-post from 26 September 2009. ……………………………… The fact and extent of natural and moral evil make belief in a providential power difficult. But they also make belief in man and human progress difficult. There is the opium of religion, but also the opium of the intellectuals, the opium of future-oriented utopian naturalisms such…
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Dennis Prager on Liberalism, Leftism, and Race
Dennis Prager insists on a distinction between leftism and liberalism. "The two have almost nothing in common," he tells us. He points to a number of differences. I will comment on just one: Race: This is perhaps the most obvious of the many moral differences between liberalism and leftism. The essence of the liberal position…
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Is Good Faith Dialogue Possible with Leftists?
Arguably not: Our “mainstream conservative” is a pathetic hostage to the Left. He somehow hasn’t yet realized that the Left is hell-bent on branding everything “racist” regardless of whether the label has any basis whatsoever in either reason or reality. Things are so bad that a progressive merely has to threaten to play the “you’re a racist”…
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The Unserious ‘Serious’ Discussion About Guns
George Neumayr is one of the few who is talking sense on the issue. What follows is a fine complement to what I say in The Problem: Gun Culture or Liberal Culture? I have bolded some passages. …………………. The philosophy underlying liberalism is at once totalitarian and relativistic. It proposes more government and less morality.…
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The Problem: Gun Culture or Liberal Culture?
This is a repost, slightly redacted, from 2012 to help stem the tsunami of folderol washing over us from the orifices of the mindless gun-grabbing Left in the wake of the Las Vegas rampage. 'Liberal' is elliptical for 'contemporary liberal.' I am not speaking of classical, 19th century liberals or JFK-liberals. It is not 1960…
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Time to Defund the NFL
Some important points re: the NFL flag and anthem controversy. 1) In its third clause, the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging freedom of speech or of the press." This protects the U. S. citizen from any attempt from the side of the U.…
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Social Constructivism, Denial of Reality, and the Role of Religion
John Derbyshire gives the following as examples of reality denial: All but a very tiny proportion of human beings are biologically male (an X and a Y chromosome in the genome) or female (two X chromosomes). A person who is biologically of one sex but believes himself to be of the other is in the…
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Jordan Peterson and the Transgender Wars
Things in Canada are worse than I thought. Their Pee-Cee brigades are even more insane than ours. Quotable (and quoted): At the University of Toronto, after receiving two written warnings, he [Jordan Peterson] has been in danger of losing his job following his announcement that he would refuse to use the preferred gender pronouns of…
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Why Are Leftists So Tolerant of Radical Islam?
William Kilpatrick uncorked a powerful insight in a must-read piece to which I linked yesterday: Because so many Americans still live mentally in a time when intolerance was considered the greatest evil, they have difficulty understanding that an indiscriminate tolerance can father just as many sins. That is part of the explanation. Related: Why the…
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The Nihilism of the Left
Leftists are so far gone that they are willing to protract their nihilism unto the destruction of the very secular values that they supposedly champion. Pascal Bruckner: Generations of leftists saw the working class as the messianic leaven of a radiant humanity; now, willing to flirt with the most obscurantist bigotry and to betray their…
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There is no Systemic Racism
The Democrat Party is a party of race-hustlers. Clear proof of this is their endlessly repeated lie about 'systemic' or 'structural' or 'institutional' racism. David Horowitz, Big Agenda (Humanix, 2017), p. 51: While institutional or systemic racism has been illegal in America for 50 years, the 2016 Democratic Party platform promises that "Democrats will fight…