Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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No Truth, No Justice!
Rioters, looters, and their enablers on the Left love to chant, "No justice, no peace!" In one sense of these words, I completely agree. There can be no durable and genuine peace without justice. But there can be no administration of justice without respect for truth. In the Ferguson affair, did justice demand the indictment…
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Sick of Political Acrimony, Reader Goes on ‘News Fast’
This from reader K. W. with my comments in blue: I am taking a break from all news and social media. I will be keeping up with your blog, however, as your most recent treatment on the Incarnation is intriguing. I'm taking a break because I'm tired of all of the vehemence being spewed out…
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Nihilism: The Telos of the Liberal Mind
Here, by Steven Hayward, with a tip of the hat to an old friend, Ingvar Odegaard. My comment: Whites who speak of 'white privilege' would do well to reflect as well on 'black privilege.' One of the 'privileges' of blacks these days, apparently, is the right to riot and loot when a decision of the…
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Nothing Liberal About Liberals Department: Free Speech is Out on the Left
Free speech is so last century. (HT: Karl White) On Tuesday, I was supposed to take part in a debate about abortion at Christ Church, Oxford. I was invited by the Oxford Students for Life to put the pro-choice argument against the journalist Timothy Stanley, who is pro-life. But apparently it is forbidden for men…
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Why Are So Many on the Left Moral Scum?
Dennis Prager here details recent vicious attacks upon himself and his wife, and then offers an explanation of liberal-left scumbaggery: First, truth is a not a left-wing value (though, of course, some individuals on the left have great integrity). If you don't know that, you cannot understand the left. Truth is a conservative value (though,…
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Obama, Holder, and the Racializing of Crime
You can rely on liberals to politicize race and racialize politics. But they also excel at the racialization of crime. Victor Davis Hanson has their number in Crimes of Exactly What? He discusses a number of examples besides Ferguson. Excerpts: Racializing crime is a serious business, because it breaks society apart along tribal lines. It…
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Why the Left Will Not Admit the Threat of Radical Islam
My philo cronies and I were discussing this over Sunday breakfast. Why don't leftists — who obviously do not share the characteristic values and beliefs of Islamists — grant what is spectacularly obvious to everyone else, namely, that radical Islam poses a grave threat to what we in the West cherish as civilization, which includes…
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Friday Cat Blogging! Is Your Cat Racist?
Did you know that "Tom and Jerry" is now deemed racist? Yikes! Is there any limit to liberal-left foolishness? Here are three more recent examples. Andrea Tantaros of Fox News attacked for using the perfectly acceptable phrase 'witch doctor.' Australian opera company bans Carmen for smoking. Swing sets banned in two school districts in Washington…
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The Leftist
A leftist is a person who can justify unspeakably evil deeds to advance a worldview according to which people are basically good and evil does not exist.
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The Narrative: The Origins of Political Correctness
William Voegli claims that the phrase 'political correctness' first entered the American vocabulary in 1991. I don't know about that, but I do know that the concept is much older: PC derives from the CP, as I explain in Dorothy Healey on Political Correctness. I now refer you to what Bill Whittle has to say…
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Bill Maher and Sam Harris Hammer Ben Affleck
A lively 'conversation' about Islam. Affleck outs himself as a perfect idiot while getting slaughtered by the Maher-Harris tag team. Around 2:05 he starts to quote the Declaration of Independence (second paragraph) and the line about all men being endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and then 'corrects' himself substituting 'forefathers' for 'Creator.' …
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When Atheists Eat Their Own: The Sexism Charge
Allegedly, the New Atheism has a "shocking woman problem": Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins are "misogynists." Thus Amanda Marcotte in Salon. (See also Kathe Pollitt in The Nation). This appears to be the latest PC purge. It is true that the New Atheism is male-dominated. But why? According to Marcotte, The reason has, in recent…
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Islam and the Perils of Psychological Projection
I have found that it is dangerous to assume that others are essentially like oneself. Psychologists speak of projection. As I understand it, it involves projecting (etymologically, throwing outward) into others one's own attitudes, beliefs, motivations, fears, emotions, desires, values, and the like. It is classified as a defense mechanism. To avoid confronting an unsavory…
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Obama: “ISIL is not Islamic”
What's the reasoning behind Obama's statement? Perhaps this: 1. All religions are good.2. Islam is a religionErgo3. Islam is good4. ISIL is not good.Ergo5. ISIL is not Islamic. This little argument illustrates how one can reason correctly from false/dubious premises. Are all religions good? Suppose we agree that a religion is good if its contribution…
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Patriarchy and Rape Culture Flourish in Boulder . . .
. . . if this pathetic piece can be believed. But it so reads like a parody of POMO rhetoric that it negates itself. The writer is an alumna of the UC Boulder Philosophy Department. One hopes that she is not representative of the sort of graduate the department 'produces.' If she is, then…