Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Leftism and Political Correctness

  • Political Oikophobia and Trump Derangement Syndrome

    Oikophobia is an irrational fear of household items, surroundings, and the like.  Political oikophobia is an irrational aversion to one's own country, culture, traditions, and countrymen.  I suggest we call the opposite political oikophilia, an irrational love of one's own country, culture, traditions, and countrymen.  This distinction 'cuts perpendicular' to the xenophobia-xenophilia distinction. Thus, Political…

  • Hodges on Islam as Religious-Political Ideology

    Horace Jeffery Hodges is the oldest of my cyber-friends dating back to the '90s. He writes: In a recent post on Islam – how to conceive of it and how to deal with it – my cyber-friend Bill Vallicella notes that some who undertake this task mistakenly assume: that Islam is a religion like any…

  • New Year’s Resolutions for ‘Progressives’

    It's a war, and mockery is a potent weapon. Kurt Schlichter.

  • Liberal Logic

  • BRIXISH

    Malcolm Pollack goes Dennis Prager one better.  BRIXISH is indeed superior to SIXHIRB for Malcolm's reasons below, but also because it is in the vicinity of BREXIT.  After all, the BRIXISH would tend to support BREXIT.  Here's Malcolm: Saw an unfamiliar acronym over at Maverick Philosopher the the other day: “SIXHIRB”. I had to look…

  • A Liberal’s Notion of a Safe Gun

  • Disproportionate Impact

    Traffic laws have a disproportionate impact on lawless, reckless, and incompetent drivers.  Such laws are discriminatory!

  • Disproportionate Impact

    Laws against arson have a disproportionate impact on pyromaniacs and arsonists.

  • Politics as War

    A reader sends this: A correspondent has just emailed me, completely out of the blue, to tell me that you're a “racist, islamophobe, bigot”. Thought you would like that. 😀 I like it very much except that he leaves out the remaining SIXHIRB epithets: sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, and homophobic.  But three out of seven ain't bad.…

  • ‘Voter Suppression’

    Liberal loons continue to whine about 'voter suppression' with the demand for photo identification at polling places being an example of 'voter suppression.' This view is so contemptibly stupid, and so obviously motivated by the lust for partisan advantage, that it is beneath refutation.  You may as well argue that traffic laws amount to 'driver…

  • An Interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson

    A must read.  Some quotes quotations: Part of the reason I got embroiled in this [gender identity] controversy was because of what I know about how things went wrong in the Soviet Union. Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that I’ve been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove…

  • Why the Left Loves Murderous Totalitarians

    Paul Bonicelli: Finally, Castro’s death and the outpouring of praise from his fans should remind us about the essence of the Cold War: it will never really be over, because it was always more than a geopolitical struggle between two nation-states. It was and is a struggle between those who value the liberty of the…

  • Fidel Castro was a Mass Murderer

    Imagine having seven pints of your blood forcibly extracted prior to being executed for your political dissent.  You are not allowed to face the firing squad with dignity, but murdered while dazed and confused from blood loss.  And yet the Left sings the dictator's praises. Here: Castro’s body count varies depending on who you ask.…

  • Obama’s ‘Legacy’: Subversion and Racialization of the Rule of Law

    Or at least this one of his wonderful 'legacies.' Heather Mac Donald: President Obama welcomed Black Lives Matter activists several times to the White House. He racialized the entire criminal-justice system, repeatedly accusing it of discriminating, often lethally, against blacks. At the memorial service for five Dallas police officers gunned down in July 2016, Obama…

  • Are You Surprised that Trump was Elected?

    You shouldn't be.  The election result is in part a massive repudiation of the insanity of the Left of which there is new evidence almost every day.  A couple of recent examples:  The flag incident at Hampshire College;  FDNY's hiring of ex-cons for diversity. Ah yes, Diversity!  The goddess before whom the loons of the…