Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Cultural Appropriation
Let's make a deal. We'll stop appropriating your food when you stop appropriating our mathematics, science, technology, and high culture generally including our superior political arrangements, not to mention our superior methods of cooking food. Do we have a deal? If not then STFU. Related articles A is A: Monism Refuted On Books and…
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A Mistaken Definition of ‘Political Correctness’ and a ‘Correct’ Definition
One often reads the following definition of political correctness. "Someone who is politically correct believes that language and actions that could be offensive to others, especially those relating to sex and race, should be avoided." Here. Merriam-Webster, Wikipedia, and other sources offer similar definitions. This is not at all what 'political correctness' means when used…
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Bill de Blasio Goes After Chick-Fil-A
There was a dust-up back in 2012 over Chick-Fil-A. But now the company is back in the news because of an attack by the leftist mayor of NYC, Bozo de Blasio. Story here. You can do your bit in countering these totalitarian bastards by observing my maxim, 'No day without political incorrectness.' Each day…
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Jason Riley, Conservative Black, Disinvited from Campus
For a long time now, leftist termites, aided and abetted by cowardly administrators and go-along-to-get-along faculty members, have been busy undermining the foundations of the West, including the universities. Here Jason Riley reports on an outrage that affected him personally. Excerpts: Nor is it merely classroom instruction that leftists tend to control. Liberal faculty and…
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Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?
Apparently not for the cry bullies and cowardly administrators at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst: UMass-Amherst students this week threw a mass temper tantrum to derail a forum that challenged the speech police. “The Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?” featured three guests: American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos and…
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The Moral Equivalentism of the Left: “We Are All Islamic State”
Chris Hedges well illustrates the leftist obsession with moral equivalentism in his piece, "We are All Islamic State." I will quote some portions, then comment. The piece begins: Revenge is the psychological engine of war. Victims are the blood currency. Their corpses are used to sanctify acts of indiscriminate murder. Those defined as the enemy…
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From the Transgressive Left to the ‘Conservative’ Left
Perhaps you have noticed that radicals are rather less interested in speaking truth to power after they get power than before. Their transgressive speech and behavior becomes curiously 'conservative.' Giving umbrage gives way to taking umbrage. Debra Saunders: What happened to shrugging at an opinion with which you disagree and leaving it at that?…
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The Opium of the Redistributionists
If religion is the opium of the masses, then OPM is the opium of the redistributionist. Bernie Sanders, the superannuated socialist, "and his wife, Jane, paid an effective tax rate of 13.5 percent, or $27,653 in federal taxes on an adjusted gross income of $205,271." This is for 2014. That is less than Mitt Romney…
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Trump an Authoritarian?
It is passing strange that our progressive pals, the fascists of the Left, should complain about such a thing. Daniel Oliver expatiates.
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White Elites versus White America
My man Hanson. I can't touch him, so I quote him: There are two characteristics common to popular uses of the term “white”: It is almost always used pejoratively, and it is mostly voiced by elites of all backgrounds — and usually as a slur against the white working and “clinger” classes. So “the Latino…
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A Waste of a Good Hyphen
A reader doesn't get the point of my earlier entry: Use-Mention Confusion Dennis Miller: "Melissa Harris-Perry is a waste of a good hyphen." So let me explain it. Miller is a brilliant conservative comedian who appears regularly on The O'Reilly Factor. If you catch every one of Miller's allusions and can follow his rap you…
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Against the Lunatic Left
Does it do any good to keep pointing out the obvious, namely, that liberal-left scum have taken over the country and are destroying it? We can't seem to do anything about it. Who will stop the rot? Not establishment Republicans who go along to get along. Trump? Are you serious? There was a point at…
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Zuhdi Jasser, Profile in Civil Courage
I have had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Jasser speak twice, a few days ago right in my own neighborhood. He is an outstanding American and a Muslim, one who demonstrates that it is possible to be a moderate Muslim who accepts American values including the separation of church/mosque and state. I have reproduced, below…
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Dennis Prager Agrees with Me on Trump vs. Hillary
Perhaps it would be better to say that the view that Mr. Prager expresses coincides exactly with the view I have been developing over a number of posts. His piece therefore earns for him the coveted plenary MavPhil STOA (stamp of approval). There is a profoundly fascist element to the American left and the political party…
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Brussels? What’s the Big Deal?
In the 22 March 2016 attack in Brussels 34 people (31 victims and 3 perpetrators) were killed and 300 injured. Why should anyone care about this? In 2013 in Belgium alone there were 746 traffic-related fatalities. And in 2010 there were in Belgium 197 gun-related deaths. Surely it can't be rational to get excited over…