Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
-
Robert Paul (‘Howlin’) Wolff in Cloud Cuckoo Land
When Robert Paul Wolff strays from the 'reservation' of Good Sense and floats up to Cloud Cuckoo Land* I refer to him as 'Howlin' Wolff.' The man is quite a study, a representative specimen of the species, academic leftist. When I criticize him, there is nothing personal about it: it is the species, not this…
-
Malcolm Pollack on Diversity and Immigration
Herein are enunciated a number of important truths that few these days have the courage to express. Mr. Pollack concludes: These commonsense truths are the basis of the widely accepted idea that indigenous societies have a fundamental right to defend and preserve the cultural and demographic integrity of their homelands. Nobody in the liberal West…
-
More Mass Race Delusion: The Ted Robinson Incident
Via Malcolm Pollack's recent entry commenting on the Rotherham, England sex slave scandal, here are a couple of formulations of Lawrence Auster's First Law of Majority-Minority Relations in a Liberal Society: The more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group behaves, the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions about…
-
Attacked as ‘Racist’ By a White, Defended as Courageous by a Black Professor
It is a funny world. A man who claims to be white called me a racist because of my post, Self-Control and Respect for Authority. I ignored him, my policy being that scurrilous attacks from unknowns are ignored (and they are read only up to the point where the scurrilousness manifests itself). Scurrilous attacks from…
-
Mass Race Delusion: Bruce Levenson’s ‘Racist’ E-Mail
Recently I have been pinching myself a lot, figuratively speaking, to see if I am awake and not dreaming all the delusional race nonsense I keep hearing about. Herewith, a very recent example. Bruce Levenson, owner of the Atlanta Hawks, sold his controlling interest in the NBA franchise because of this piece of 'racist' e-mail …
-
John Jay Ray on Liberals and Leftists
Here: American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE…
-
Why Privilege?
Our old friend Horace Jeffery Hodges checks his privilege.
-
Ron Radosh on the American Left
Friends of Our Country's Enemies Radosh is rock-solid. A former lefty, he knows whereof he speaks. And of course leftists hate him mindlessly for his apostasy. Somebody ought to explore the connection between the attitudes of leftists and radical Islamists toward apostates. In 1949, sociologist Jules Monnerot described communism as 20th century Islam. To which…
-
Some Questions About White Privilege
There is a lot of talk these days about white privilege. I don't believe I have discussed this topic before. 1. White privilege is presumably a type of privilege. What is a privilege? This is the logically prior question. To know what white privilege is we must first know what privilege is. Let's consider some…
-
Ten Reasons I am No Longer a Leftist
Article by Danusha V. Goska. Excerpts: 7) Leftists hate my people. [. . .] Leftists freely label poor whites as "redneck," "white trash," "trailer trash," and "hillbilly." At the same time that leftists toss around these racist and classist slurs, they are so sanctimonious they forbid anyone to pronounce the N word when reading Mark…
-
Orwellian Illegal Immigration
By Victor Davis Hanson. Excerpt: Fleeing to an Oppressive Society? Most of the advocates for open borders agitate from a position of criticism of the U.S. By that I mean we rarely hear La Raza activists explain why they want amnesties for millions of illegal aliens, at least in the sense of why millions have…
-
Is Gardeners’ Question Time Racist?
"An academic claims the Radio 4 programme’s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promote racial stereotypes." More proof of the willful stupidity of liberals and the alacrity with which they play the race card. (HT: London Karl) Gardening puts me in mind of spades, as in Wittgenstein's remark, "My spade is turned." Did…
-
Why is the World Becoming Such a Nasty Place?
Excerpt: In general, the liberal principle persists that when Arabs on the offense kill lots of Arabs it is normal, but when Jews in defense kill far fewer Arabs it is reprehensible. If Israel were weak, Hamas would do to it what ISIS is now doing to Christians, and the world would react to the…
-
The Truth About Gaza
Excerpt: To deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. But it rests on a very rational premise: Given the Orwellian state of the world’s treatment of Israel (see: the U.N.’s grotesque Human Rights Council), fueled by a mix of classic anti-Semitism, near-total historical ignorance,…
-
Liberalism: Coercive and Illiberal
I've been pounding on this drum for years. I am happy to see that people are coming around. Liberalism as an Instrument of Coercion The Liberal War on Liberalism Rather than being what it began as, a “narrowly political strategy for living peacefully in a world of inexorably clashing comprehensive views of reality and the…