Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Leftist Insanity Update
Every day brings further evidence that contemporary liberals have lost their minds. A yoga class has been cancelled at the University of Ottawa on the ground that participants are complicit in 'oppression' and 'cultural genocide.' By the way, we are talking about hatha yoga here which is essentially just stretching. So you might think that…
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Rabid Dogs, Syrian Terrorists, and Ben Carson
Dr. Ben Carson, the pediatric neurosurgeon who is running for president, is now in trouble with the politically correct for referring to Syrian terrorists as rabid dogs. The comparison is perfectly apt, and only a fool or a liberal could take offense at it. A Syrian terrorist is not 'rabid' in that he is Syrian;…
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The Perils of the Royal Game
"An Italian man was arrested in Dublin on Sunday and charged with killing his Irish landlord and attempting to eat his heart after an argument about a game of chess." (here) When the irascibility of the Italian collides with the pugnacity of the Irishman, look out! The above incident adds resonance to a well-known chess…
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Capitulation to the Delusional Victimology of the Left
You thought Mao's Cultural Revolution couldn't happen here? Racial Hysteria Triumphs on Campus.
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The Liberal Assault on Ballot-Box Integrity
Walter E. Williams, Destroying Your Vote: Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that’s because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification. Interesting enough is the fact that I’ve never heard of a challenge to other ID requirements as racist, such as…
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Fifty Years Later: Why Aren’t Blacks Better Off than They Are?
It has been over fifty years now since the landmark civil rights and welfare legislation of the 1960s, an example of which is the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But blacks are still not doing very well. Why? There is an explanation below the fold. But I must issue a 'trigger warning' to the PC-whipped.…
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No Idea Too Loony for a Liberal
The latest 'addictive' substance: cheese! Cheese really is crack! (HT: KBJ) Related: The Case for Nicotine
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How Valuable is Ideological Diversity within Communities of Interacting People?
Arthur C. Brooks deplores the lack of ideological diversity and the prevalence of 'groupthink' in academia in an October 30th NYT editorial entitled "Academia's Rejection of Diversity." He is of course right to do so. But this is nothing new as any conservative will tell you. And we don't need studies to know about it,…
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The Delusional Left
Two quotations from a recent book by a darling of the Left. "Trayvon Martin's hoodie got him killed." Re: Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri: "Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offence, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner?" Try to guess the author. Answer beneath the fold.
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R. P. Wolff, Ben Carson, and The Left’s Hatred of Conservative Blacks
Robert Paul Wolff over at The Philosopher's Stone opines: Ben Carson may just be the most thoroughly despicable person to make a run for the presidency in modern times. So I take particular pleasure in the third quarter financial report that revealed that the good doctor spent 57% of the money he raised — raising…
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The Great ‘Sanctuary City’ Slander?
Remove the question mark from the above caption and you have the title for a New York Times editorial for 16 October. Here are the first three paragraphs with my comments interspersed: Lawmakers in Washington and around the country are in an uproar over what they derisively call “sanctuary cities.” These are jurisdictions that limit…
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Dennis Prager on the Smearing of Dr. Ben Carson
Here is what Dr. Ben Carson said about guns and the Holocaust: "The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed." For this and other observations Carson is coming under vicious attack from the Left. What follows is Dennis Prager's commentary: Those comments…
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A Liberal’s Ten Commandments
Excerpts: 2. Schools. Most liberals oppose charter schools, support teachers’ unions, and encourage generous immigration, legal and illegal. To further diversity in the schools, create easier integration, and to nullify the insidiousness of white privilege, each liberal should pledge, “I will put at least one of my children in an inner-city public school, or in a…
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Roots of Leftist Viciousness in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
If you have been following the news you will have noticed that Dr. Ben Carson, the pediatric neurosurgeon who is running for president, is coming under especially vicious attack from the Left. His being black does not protect him for he is a conservative. GQ Magazine is now running a piece with the title "Fuck…
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‘Homophobia’ and ‘Carniphobia’
If you are a conservative, don't talk like a liberal! I've made this point before but it bears repeating. We conservatives should never acquiesce in the Left's acts of linguistic vandalism. Battles in the culture war are often lost and won on linguistic ground. So we ought to oppose resolutely the Left's attempts at linguistic…