Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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The Role of Reich in the Widening Gyre
Wilhelm that is. I read his The Function of the Orgasm many moons ago, not long after I read a reference to him and his orgone accumulators in Kerouac's On the Road, which made it onto the Amazon 100 list. The Orgasm book did not. Neither did Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism, also in my…
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Virtual Virtue
Yet another from the pen of Victor Davis Hanson. The concluding section: Noble Lies Noble lying helps to explain virtual virtue: repeating something publicly that is not true but is considered something that should be true, is seen as helping to make it eventually true. If the Bay Area public has witnessed gangs of minority…
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Antifa Thugs Ignorant of Contradiction?
Jonathan Turley: At Berkeley and other universities, protesters have held up signs saying “F–k Free Speech” and have threatened to beat up anyone taking their pictures, including journalists. They seem blissfully ignorant of the contradiction in using fascistic tactics as anti-fascist protesters. After all, a leading definition of fascism is “a tendency toward or actual…
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Scandal Erupts over Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior
More proof that 'liberals' are insane: Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility? Not so fast! According to a current uproar at the University of Pennsylvania, advocacy of such bourgeois virtues is “hate speech.” The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors, illustrates the…
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Leftists Eat Their Own
That they eat each other alive is the only thing I like about them. Buon appetito! Here: Even the ACLU has run afoul of the thought police. They are taking enormous heat for a tweet featuring a cute little girl with an American flag and a shirt bearing the message “Free Speech.” They’re guilty of promoting…
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More Proof that Leftists are Vile
Aayan Hirsi Ali, Why is the Southern Poverty Law Center Targeting Liberals? PayPal bans Jihad Watch. Santa Monica tries but fails to prevent Dennis Prager from conducting.
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Liberalism-Leftism as a Cognitive Aberration
Each day's newsfeed brings another dozen or so examples of how libs and lefties are losing their collective marbles and earning their epithets libtard and leftard. Here is just one recent example for your astonishment: It was a story too dumb to be real: reports yesterday emerged from ESPN critic Clay Travis at Outkick the Coverage…
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Iconoclasm: Another Similarity Between Muslims and Leftists
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. There is also the iconoclasm of the Left. For now, a couple of links to introduce the topic. Leftist Iconoclasm Must Stop Stomping on Jesus: The Iconoclasm of the Left The…
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Why is Friendship So Fragile Among Intellectuals?
A certain commie and I were were friends for a time in graduate school, but friendship is fragile among those for whom ideas matter. Unlike the ordinary non-intellectual person, the intellectual lives for and sometimes from ideas. They are his oxygen and sometimes his bread and butter. He takes them very seriously indeed and with them differences in ideas. So the…
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Out of Power, the Left Resorts to Violence
In power, leftists denounce the politics of personal destruction and issue hypocritical calls for 'civility'; out of power, the end justifies the means, personal destruction is full on, and civility is out the window. George Neumayr: Liberalism, philosophically speaking, is proudly unprincipled, insofar as it recognizes no divine law prior to man’s will. The arrogant humanism…
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Robert Spencer Poisoned in Iceland
Robert Spencer explains on YouTube. Mark Steyn, The Poisoning of Robert Spencer
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The Bret Weinstein-Heather Heying Caper at Evergreen State
Having come to expect lunacy from lefties, I was not dismayed, but entertained, by the absurd bigotry that seeps out of the following passage from this Chronicle of Higher Education piece: Now the couple weighed a new option. A producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight, a prime-time show on Fox News, had asked if Mr. Weinstein…
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Hillary’s Victimology
This is choice: In fact, that’s one of the reasons Clinton cites for losing. Not Dewey, but the expectation that the immense campaign she’d planned for so many years would indeed succeed. She lost, she explains, as “the victim of a very broad assumption that I was going to win.” Say what? Liberals love a…
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Kathy Griffin’s Orwellianism
The aggressor is the victim.
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What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation?
TRIGGER WARNING! The following may induce snowflake melt-down. The p.c.-whipped are strongly advised to don their pussy hats and proceed to their safe spaces. ………… Is acting white cultural appropriation? No doubt, but what's wrong with that? What's wrong with cultural appropriation? I culturally appropriate every day from the Greeks and the Romans and the…