Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Why Stop Here?
Why stop at these traffic lights? (Pun intended) We need to go further so as to include the pederasts of NAMBLA and PIE. We need lights depicting an adult hand-in-hand with a child with a little heart between them to signify the sexual love that unites them. After all, it is discriminatory to marginalize the…
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Soccer Moms Against Common Core
An article by Jason Riley, a black conservative I highly recommend. Unfortunately, in this brief piece he does not penetrate to the philosophical heart of the matter by making the important point that education is not a legitimate function for the Federal government. Education is properly conducted by parents, families, and the local institutions of…
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Facts, Opinions, and Common Core
Justin P. McBrayer, in a NYT Opinionator piece, writes, When I went to visit my son’s second grade open house, I found a troubling pair of signs hanging over the bulletin board. They read: Fact: Something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven. Opinion: What someone thinks, feels, or believes.…
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Did Rand Paul Really Say That?
Heather MacDonald: Announcing his presidential bid this month, Sen. Rand Paul said he wants to repeal “any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color.” Did he really say that? If yes, then he's pandering Hillariously . 'People of color,' to use the politically correct phrase, are disproportionately incarcerated because they disproportionately commit crimes. Is Rand…
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Trigger Warning!
Here you will find Keith Burgess-Jackson's trigger warning along with some related documents. The extent to which the lunatics have taken over the asylum is greater than I thought. Heather Wilhelm: “History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely,” Will and Ariel Durant wrote in 1968’s “The Lessons of History.” Even as ancient Greece and…
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Earth Day 2015: Earth as Idol
Maverick Philosopher doesn't celebrate anything as politically correct as Earth Day. Maverick Philosopher celebrates critical thinking. So I refer you to William Cronon's The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. A rich and subtle essay. Excerpt: Many environmentalists who reject traditional notions of the Godhead and who regard themselves as agnostics or even atheists…
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Dion DiMucci on Lennon’s Imagine
At Victor's place.
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Imagine No Religion?
You are free to imagine a world without religion as per the silly ditty of John Lennon, but if Pew Research Center predictions are correct, atheists and leftists need to brace themselves for serious disappointment: . . . the religiously unaffiliated population is projected to shrink as a percentage of the global population, even though…
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Why Progressives Mislead
I prefer the more muscular 'lie.' Excerpts from a piece by John O. McGinnis: Progressivism’s vision of the role of the state conflicts with the system of government envisioned by America’s Founders. The Founders wanted citizens to be free to pursue their affairs individually and in voluntary association; the powers of the federal state were…
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Robert Paul Wolff on Netanyahu
When the otherwise distinguished Robert Paul Wolff over at The Philosopher's Stone plays the stoned philosopher and quits the reservation of Good Sense, I call him 'Howlin' Wolff.' Hear him howl: I need to say this. If anyone wants to call me a self-hating Jew, so be it. Israel is far and away the militarily…
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If You Deny that There is Political Correctness . . .
. . . do you also deny that American talk radio tilts decidedly to the Right? If you deny either of them then I am the present king of France. Related articles Denying that There is Political Correctness . . . Acronyms, Initialisms, and Truncations
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Citizens Lynching Citizens
Imagine a history teacher who tells his students that in the American South, as late as the 1960s, certain citizens lynched certain other citizens. Would you say that the teacher had omitted something of great importance for understanding why these lynchings occurred? Yes you would. You would point out that the lynchings were of blacks…
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Ten Ways Men Oppress Women With Their Everyday Behavior
One of them, and one I am guilty of, is Broplimenting. This is when a guy says something nice to you without asking for your consent first. Men should always ask. “Do you consent to me complimenting you?” before saying anything nice or else it’s assault. No, nonverbal cues don’t count – he still has…
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The ACLU and Mardi Gras
Fat Tuesday, coming as it does the day before Ash Wednesday, derives its very meaning from the beginning of Lent. The idea is to get some serious partying under one's belt just before the forty-day ascetic run-up to Easter. So one might think the ACLU would wish to lodge a protest against a celebration so…
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Denying that There is Political Correctness . . .
. . . is like a mafioso's denying that there is a mafia. "Mafia? What mafia? There's no mafia. We're just businessmen trying to do right by out families." Our mafioso might go on to explain that 'mafia' is really just an ethnic slur used to denigrate businessmen of Italian extraction. This an instance of…