Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Kimball on Kolakowski on Marxism as a Bogus Form of Religion
I have argued time and again that Marxism is not a religion. But many have a burning need so to misunderstand it. What the great Kolakowski says below reinforces me in the correctness of my opinion. As for Fredric Jameson, whom Roger Kimball discusses in his Guilt of the Intellectuals, I haven't read him and…
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The Integrationist Fantasy
E pluribus unum? Out of many, one? It can work, and it did work for a time, although not perfectly. But no longer. Whether a One can be made of Many depends on the nature of the Many. A viable One cannot be made out of just any Many. To think otherwise is to succumb…
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Michael Walzer on Religion
At least one lefty gets it, somewhat. Top o' the Stack.
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Who Are These Hamas Supporters?
This just in from Tony Flood: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” chant the useful idiots at elite institutions and parades in the West. Who are these people? Atheists who support theocratic lunatics, democrats who endorse medieval tyrants, feminists who defend misogynists who parade with the desecrated corpses of women, gays who…
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Quotations from Chairman Maher
Christopher Rufo has her number. The new CEO of NPR, then, is a left-wing ideologue who supports wide-scale censorship and considers the First Amendment an impediment to her campaign to sanitize the world of wrong opinions. Maher is no aberration. She is part of a rising cohort of affluent, left-wing, female managers who dominate the…
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Signposts on the Way to the Insane Asylum
Looting is shopping without money. The 2022 riots were peaceful. The border is secure. Trespassing is insurrection. Dissent is hate. Free speech is hate speech. Barring candidates from the ballot is democratic. Abortion is health care. 'Migrants' are newcomers. The only purpose of guns is to kill people. Math is racist. There is no 'migrant'…
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The Insanity of the Left
A vote for Democrats is a vote for such leftist/'woke' insanity as this: JK Rowling has thrown down the gauntlet to the Scottish police. On 1 April, the day the new Hate Crime Act came into force in Scotland, Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, dared officers to arrest her. She posted a thread on X /…
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Economic Gaslighting
The Left's economic gaslighting is well-exposed and refuted by Jeffrey H. Anderson at City Journal: “The economic news in 2023 was almost miraculously good,” the New York Times’s Paul Krugman enthuses, as the American “economy continues to look like an amazing success story.” The title of a Financial Times article emphasizes the “strange lack of electoral reward for the success of…
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Alan Dershowitz, Thomas Nagel, and David Benatar
What do they have in common? Top o' the Stack.
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‘Racism’: Supply and Demand. ‘Cultural Appropriation’
Because the demand exceeds the supply, new variants of 'racism' have to be invented by leftist race-hustlers. One of the latest is digital blackface. (I wrote this in March of last year.) What might that be? Here: Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture…
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Authoritarianism from the Left
Michael Anton I solicit comments on the following excerpts (bolding added): The greatest factor in hastening the end of American-style democracy over the past 125 years (at least) has been increasing government centralization and administrative rule. To answer the question posed by Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein’s edited volume, Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America: it…
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Wolff on Anti-Natalism
Top o' the Stack. A glimpse into the mind of a leftist activist.
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Where to Send Illegal Immigrants
Send them to 'sanctuary' jurisdictions. Eric Adams, mayor of NYC, would be happy to show his hospitality and humanity. I am using 'jurisdiction' to cover cities, counties, and states. Here is a nifty map and a list brought to you from the fine folks over at the Center for Immigration Studies. I am proud to…
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A Lefty Sees the Light
Sasha Stone, An Ex-Democrat's Case for Trump Good advice: What the Democrats and Never Trumpers want now is to push Trump and MAGA back into the danger zone. They want more violence. They want riots. They want an uprising [so] that they can then bring in the military, weaponize dissent, speech, and ideology, and have…
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Real and Merely Apparent Incoherence on the Left
Substack latest. Four examples.