Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Defunding the Left
You know things have come to a sorry pass when defunding the Left might have to include withdrawal of financial support from The Society of Christian Philosophers. What we really need is an Association of Conservative Philosophers. (The resonance of the initials ACP will not be lost on my astute readers.) The contributors to Rightly…
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Why No Calls For Hillary to Withdraw?
Talk about a double standard! We've known all along that Trump is crude and Clintonian in his sexual appetite, although not as bad as Bill in terms of deeds; but the Wikileaks data dump brought something new and objectively far more important to our attention. It is another revelation of Hillary's greed, mendacity, secretiveness,…
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The Academic Curtain
Thomas Sowell on the sad state of our elite universities. Excerpt: There is no barbed wire around our campuses, nor armed guards keeping unwelcome ideas out. So there is no "iron curtain." But there is a curtain, and it has its effect. One effect is that many of the rising generation can go from elementary…
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On the Left: No Wisdom, No Common Sense
What follows, from Victor Davis Hanson, is the correct view on illegal immigration. But you will never get a destructive, hate-America leftist to accept it: Illegal Immigration. No country can exist without borders. Hillary and Obama have all but destroyed them; Trump must remind us how he will restore them. Walls throughout history have been…
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David French on Hillary on ‘Implicit Bias.’ Hillary as Cultural Marxist. Psychology of the NeverTrumper
Here (emphasis added): Indeed, in the debate Monday night, Clinton framed her discussion of “implicit bias” as a malady we all suffer from, telling Lester Holt: “I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.”…
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An Open Letter to Michael Rea from a Worried Gay Philosopher
More on the Swinburne controversy.
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The Swinburne Dust Up at the Society for Christian Philosophers
Political correctness strikes again! Apparently, Richard Swinburne, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of religion, had the chutzpah to defend a traditional Christian view of homosexuality at a meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers. This provoked the outrage of certain cultural Marxists. If only a 'trigger warning' had been issued prior to…
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The IQ Taboo and the Truth-Intolerant Left
Herewith, yet another reason to oppose Hillary. The Left is dangerous for a number of reasons with its disregard for truth being high on the list. For the Left it is the 'narrative' that counts, the 'script,' the 'story,' whether true of false, that supports their agenda. An agenda is a list of things to…
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Hillary the Supine
Hillary is a supine defeatist in the face of Islamic terror and ought to be held in contempt for that and other reasons, as witness her recent remark that Trump is a recruiter for ISIS. It's a good thing Hillary wasn't around when the Axis Powers were the main threat to civilization. She would have…
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More Liberal-Left Insanity: ‘Trigger Warning’ for Kant’s Critiques
A tip of the hat to London Karl for bringing the following to my attention. Karl writes, "I love your country, but it gets more absurd by the day." It does indeed. Contemporary liberals are engaged in a project of "willful enstupidation," to borrow a fine phrase from John Derbyshire. Every day there are multiple…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
A YouTube video by William S. Lind with footage of Martin Jay, David Horowitz and Roger Kimball. Traces the origin of cultural Marxism from the breakdown of economic Marxism and the role of the Frankfurt School including discussion of the '60s New Left guru, Herbert Marcuse. By the time I began as a freshman at…
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A Leftist Rehabilitation of ‘Gaffe’
Wrangling over terminology and nomenclature is a good part of what goes on in the culture wars. For he who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate. What I call semantic rehabilitation is one side of this. 'Gaffe,' for example, has a negative connotation. It refers to to a social or political blunder…
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Do You Care About Religious Liberty?
Then you had better vote for Trump. Martin Castro, an Obama appointee, is chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Here’s Mr. Castro: “The phrases ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’ will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy or any…
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The Bumpy Ride of Our Flight 93
Good commentary from Roger Kimball on the Flight 93 piece by Publius Decius Mus. Kimball now has a more positive view of Trump: As recently as a few weeks back, I was a lesser-of-two-evils, reluctant Trump supporter: classic Russian roulette vs. the loaded semi-automatic that is a Hillary Clinton victory. But then Trump embarked on…
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Lies, Truth, Narratives, and Hillary
Hillary Clinton we now know to be a liar beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt. A liar is one who habitually makes false statements with the intention of deceiving her audience. This definition, however, presupposes the distinction between true and false statements. Aphoristically: no truth, no lies. Hillary cannot be a liar unless there…