Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Is Leftism a Religion?
Via Malcolm Pollack, I came to an essay by William Deresiewicz in The American Scholar in which surprising claims are made with which Pollack agrees but I don't. Deresiewicz: Selective private colleges have become religious schools. [Emphasis added.] The religion in question is not Methodism or Catholicism but an extreme version of the belief system…
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Leftist Crocodile Tears Over the College Radicals They Themselves Created
Dennis Prager: In the last few weeks, there has been a spate of columns by writers on the left condemning the left-wing college students who riot, take over university buildings and shout down speakers with whom they differ. These condemnations, coming about 50 years too late, should not be taken seriously. [. . .] Here's…
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Omertà Among the Philosophers
Here: Neven Sesardic’s recent book, When Reason Goes on Holiday, provides a detailed account of the morally questionable actions undertaken in the interest of political causes by some of the most important philosophers in the analytic tradition: Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Imre Lakatos, Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, among several others. Some of their actions were…
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The Anti-PC Revolt and the Milo Problem
Cathy Young explains how not to combat PC. For an explanation of what political correctness is and is not, see A Mistaken Definition of 'Political Correctness' and a 'Correct' Definition. Written with the clarity, rigor, and good sense you have come to expect, and for which you pay nothing. What a deal! The third related…
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Robert Paul Wolff Loses His Mind
Hear the Wolff howl.
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The Liberal
Concerned as he rightly is with the pollution of the physical environment, the liberal yet cannot seem to muster much moral enthusiasm over the pollution of the cultural environment, if he's even aware of it. Hillary, you will recall, cozied up to Jay Z. If you don't know who he is, good.
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‘Liberal’ Name-Calling
One wonders how there can be peace with 'liberals.' Whence their slanderous scumbaggery?
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Liberal Immigration Hyper-Hypocrisy
Trump Labor Secretary nominee Anthony Puzder is under fire for having employed an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper. But why should liberals care given that they do not distinguish legal from illegal immigrants while standing for open borders and sanctuary jurisdictions in defiance of the rule of law? Suddenly, these destructive leftists care about immigration…
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Reading Now: When Reason Goes on Holiday (Encounter, 2016)
Neven Sesardić is a Croatian philosopher, born in 1949. He has taught philosophy at universities in Croatia, the United States, Japan, England, and Hong Kong. An earlier book of his is Making Sense of Heritability (Cambridge U. P., 2005). “Gripping, thoroughly researched and documented, judiciously argued, and alternately depressing and infuriating, Sesardić’s courageous book offers the astounding…
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Diversity Can Be Our Weakness
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada responding to the fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec located in the Ste-Foy neighbourhood of the city of Québec: Diversity is our strength, and religious tolerance is a value that we, as Canadians, hold dear. I should think that strength derives from unity, not diversity. "United we…
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Trump as Right-Wing Post-Modern Anti-Hero
Excellent analysis by David Ernst. Excerpt: All this raises an uncomfortable question for people who have no use for PC’s agenda, and who value the freedom to think for themselves. How do you respond to someone who is determined to smear you for your alleged bigotry regardless of what you think and why? How do…
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Is Productive Discussion with Leftists Possible?
This is from Robert Paul Wolff's blog: As the horrors of the next four years unfold, with Climate Change deniers, women's reproductive rights opponents, public school opponents, gun enthusiasts, proponents of eliminating any minimum wage at all, those eager to up the rate of deportations, and war starters in control of the government, there are…
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And No PussyHats!
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Sunday Cat Blogging!
Pussy riot, American style. An impotent response to Inaugural balls. Cultural polluter Madonna has crowned herself poster girl of the pussy riot. Destructive leftists will justify as free speech her border-line incitement to violence. But the right to free speech is not absolute. Observations on Free Speech, #9: 9. To say that the right to…
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Nat Hentoff, Defender of Human Life (1925-2017)
I have been a fan of Nat Hentoff ever since I first read him in the pages of Down Beat magazine way back in the '60s. He died at 91 on January 7th. My tribute to him is a repost from 4 June 2012: A Prime Instance of Political Correctness: The Blackballing of Nat Hentoff…