Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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The Illiberalism of Contemporary ‘Liberals’
Go Kirsten! Kirsten Powers has it all: beauty, brains, and the female equivalent of that which I was about to refer to using a word I decided not to use. I think I'm in love. And she stands up to Bill O'Reilly displaying grace under pressure when the pugnacious Irishman becomes obnoxious. She's smarter than…
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Joachim Fest, Not I
One of the books I am reading is Joachim Fest's Not I: Memories of a German Childhood (orig. publ. in German in 2006 by Rowohlt, tr. Martin Chalmers, New York, Other Press, 2013). The title alludes to Mark 14:29: "But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I." WSJ review…
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Black Privilege
In the Orwellian world of the leftist loon, black is white, so black privilege, which exists, becomes white privilege, which doesn't. But there is no point in serious discussion with delusional leftards, so the best course of action is mockery and derision either in the moderate style of Kurt Schlichter or the take-no-prisoners style of…
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The Liberal
A liberal is the kind of person who would extend the right to vote to felons but will not grant the right to life to the unborn. How 'liberal' is that? How 'inclusive'? How respectful of 'diversity'? Should felons be allowed to vote? The conservative answers with alacrity. "Of course not. Why should those who…
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Capital Punishment and the Difference between Conservatives and Leftists
The difference springs to the eye by comparison of this morally sane piece by Peter Hitchens and this one by Hendrik Hertzberg. Hendrik makes no mention of the crime, the victim, and her horrible death. Instead, typical leftist that he is, he invests his interest in the perceived underdog without any consideration of why the…
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Harry Reid, Latter-Day McCarthyite
Here: [Senator Joseph] McCarthy in the 1950s became infamous for smearing his opponents with lurid allegations that he could not prove, while questioning their patriotism. Reid has brought back to the Senate that exact same McCarthy style of six decades ago — and trumped it. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Reid libeled candidate Mitt Romney…
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The Central Axiom of Partisan Politics
According to Charles Krauthammer (Things That Matter, Crown Forum, 2013, p. 64), To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. Robert Paul Wolff unwittingly provides corroboration: On Easter Sunday, it is only fitting that the reliably despicable Ross Douthat…
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Dershowitz Contra Leiter
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Of ‘Blind Review’ and Pandora’s Box
This is not an April Fool's joke. Blind review is a standard practice employed by editors of professional journals and organizers of academic conferences. The editor/organizer removes the name of the author from the manuscript before sending it to the referee or referees for evaluation. My present concern is not whether this is a good…
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Take the High Road with Liberals?
When liberals are up to their usual scumbaggery ought one take the high road with them, patiently making one's case in gentlemanly fashion and rebutting theirs, assuming there is one, all the while ignoring their insults and slanders? In The Liberal Slandering of Paul Ryan Peter Wehner takes seriously and replies earnestly to the mouthings…
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Double Trouble from Strange Bedfellows: Leftist-Islamist Collaboration
Required reading See my Islamism category for more on this and related topics. Related articles The Prospects and Perils of Muslim-Catholic Dialogue Leftism: The World's Most Dynamic Religion? Why the Political Left and Radical Islam Are NOT Strange Bedfellows
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Tony Flood on Governor Brewer’s Capitulation
Commenting on a NYT piece on Brewer's capitulation to the anti-liberty forces of political correctness, long-time correspondent Anthony Flood writes: “Religious liberty is a core American and Arizona value,” Governor Brewer philosophized, but “so is no discrimination.” The syntactically challenged governor, or was it her ghost-writer?, evaded the implication that, should the two conflict,…
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Why are the Writers at The Nation Such Race-Baiting Lunatics?
Here is another clear example: George Zimmerman felt threatened by a boy almost half his age. When Trayvon Martin couldn’t produce papers proving that he wasn’t a “punk,” Zimmerman felt justified in killing him. The judicial system backed him up. The verdicts matter. Zimmerman’s acquittal lent legal imprimatur to the understanding that it is open…
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On the Origin of Political Correctness
Communism as a political force, though not quite dead, is moribund; but one of its offspring, Political Correctness, is alive and kicking especially in the universities, the courts, in the mainstream media, in Hollywood, in the Democrat Party, and indeed wherever liberals and leftists dominate. This is one of the reasons why I am interested…
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David Gelernter on the Diversity Obsession
From The War on Truth (emphasis and a bit of ascerbic commentary added): How can we explain intelligent, articulate, intellectually vigorous people stuck in time, repeating themselves endlessly like robots? Even if the diversity crusade hadn’t become an embarrassment and a sham, the sheer mindless obsession of it suggests a seriously neurotic institution. Yale doesn’t…