Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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A Reader’s Comments on the A. P. A. ‘Climate’ Report on The UC Boulder Philosophy Department
Philip Sheridan writes, I read the 17 page American Philosophical Association site visit report on the University of Colorado, Boulder, philosophy department. As a consultant, I wrote many reports like this — you interview, obtain documentation and data, analyze the information, compare performance to best practices, and then finalize recommendations. Most of the time outside…
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Andrew Cuomo and ‘Liberal’ Extremism
A recurrent theme of mine is that contemporary liberals are extremists. Note the qualifier 'contemporary.' I am not talking about 1960 JFK liberals, let alone the classical liberals of the 19th century. Contemporary liberals are, in my recent coinage, LINOs, liberals in name only. What in fact they are are hard leftists. So I suppose…
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More Proof of Liberal Scumbaggery
I say you are moral scum if you willfully slander your opponents having made no attempt to understand their point of view. This is from a Guardian piece on George Lakoff: To liberals, a lot of conservative thinking seems like a failure of logic: why would a conservative be against equal rights for women and yet despise the…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
According to Ron Radosh, ". . . 'The Hammer Song,' known by most as “If I Had a Hammer,” was written by Lee Hays (not Seeger) as a song to be used in defense of the indicted Communists, and not as a clarion call for brotherhood." May of us were fooled way back when, we…
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Automotive Profiling
'Profiling' drives liberals crazy, which is a good reason to do more of it. No day without political incorrectness. Here is a form of profiling I engage in, and you should too. You are on the freeway exercising due diligence. You are not drunk or stoned or yapping on a cell phone. You espy an…
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Liberals as ‘Diversity’ Fascists
I refer to contemporary liberals as LINOs, liberals in name only. Why? See here: I couldn’t believe it. I was trying to discuss traditional marriage – and the state was trying to stop me. Incredible, in a 21st-century European country, but true. I was invited to speak at a conference on marriage last summer, to…
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Call for Vapors: Dead Smokers’ Society to Meet in January in Scottsdale
Mike V. writes, I am hosting the first meeting of The Dead Smokers Society on Monday, January 13th, from 10 a.m. to noon at the stoplight at Scottsdale Community College. I have invited all of my friends to smoke and vape with me on the street on the first day of school. This could be…
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Some Points on Homosexuality in the Context of the Culture War
A few days ago I was blissfully unaware of Duck Diversity Dynasty, the reality show on the Arts and Entertainment channel. I still haven't watched even one episode, nor am I particularly inclined to; the antics of rednecks are not my thing. I have gathered, however, that the series falls more on the entertainment end…
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California Regulators Go After Sriracha Hot Sauce
Pope Francis recently spoke, quite foolishly, of "unfettered capitalism," as if there is any such thing in the world. A more worthy cynosure of disapprobation is the slide toward unfettered regulation and omni-invasive government spearheaded by presumably well-meaning liberal-fascist nanny-staters. You know things are getting bad when they come after your hot sauce. An Asian…
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Welcome to the Age of Liberal Intolerance
The totalitarian Left aims to inject its political poison into everything. Not even chess can claim neutrality. Emphasis added. Mark Steyn: <iframe src="//ib.mookie1.com/view.html?go=241012" style="display: none;"></iframe> <iframe src="//ib.mookie1.com/view.html?go=240630" style="display: none;"></iframe> A few miles from Buckingham Palace, Muslims in London’s East End are now sufficiently confident to go around warning local shopkeepers to cease selling alcohol. In…
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Obesity is not a Disease
Liberals spout nonsense about an 'epidemic' of obesity or obesity as a public health problem. True, we Americans are a gluttonous people as witness competitive eating contests, the numerous food shows, and the complete lack of any sense among most that there is anything morally wrong with gluttony. The moralists of old understood something when…
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Keith Burgess-Jackson on Thomas Nagel
This is worth reproducing; I came to essentially the same conclusion (emphasis added): The viciousness with which this book [Mind and Cosmos] was received is, quite frankly, astonishing. I can understand why scientists don't like it; they're wary of philosophers trespassing on their terrain. But philosophers? What is philosophy except (1) the careful analysis of…
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Can a Sane and Morally Decent Person be a Liberal?
My title is intentionally hyperbolic and provocative, but not without justification given the outrageously vile (e.g., Martin Bashir) and breathtakingly mindless (e.g., Melissa Harris Perry) commentary encountered at liberal media outlets such as MSNBC. Here is a measured formulation of my question: To what extent does liberal ideology militate against sanity and moral decency in…