Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Ann Coulter and Heather Mac on the Anti-Civilizational Left
No Biggie, Just the End of Civilization When Race Trumps Merit … Ann Coulter May 10, 2023 Whatever you had planned to do for the rest of the day, please drop it and read this right now: Heather Mac Donald’s new book, “When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty,…
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Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism II
On 26 January I wrote: The new global-capitalist woke leftism (GCWL) is very different from the old socialist-humanist leftism (SHL, which I take to include both the Old Left and the New Left). I want to understand the similarities and the differences. GCWL versus SHL 1) Both are secular and anti-religion. Since 1789 the Left…
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American Restoration
Substack articles by Bruce Abramson. From his About page: Suppose you think that it’s wrong to discriminate based on race. To the Woke, you’re a racist. Suppose you say that humans are either male or female. To the Woke, that’s dehumanizing. Suppose you champion free speech. To the Woke, you’re promoting hatred. Suppose you think…
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DIE: ‘Equity’ Can Get You Killed
Here: America’s top medical schools, worried [that] they have too few minority students, are doing something about it. They are lowering academic standards for admission and trying to hide the evidence. Columbia, Harvard, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Mount Sinai, and the University of Pennsylvania have already done so. The list already tops forty, and more…
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A ‘Progressive’ Paradox
Leader of the Stack. Leftists like to call themselves 'progressives.' We can't or rather ought not begrudge them their self-appellation any more than we can begrudge the Randians their calling themselves 'objectivists.' Every person and every movement has the right to portray himself or itself favorably and self-servingly. "We are objective in our approach, unlike…
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resist, Resist, RESIST!
Seemingly, no day without a 'woke' outrage. See below. Beneath refutation. There's no point in trying to engage these clowns on the plane of reason. Mock, deride, resist, and above all: ignore the A.P.'s asinine recommendations. By the way, 'asinine' is spelled exactly as I just spelled it, and not 'assinine' despite the fact that…
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Globalist-Capitalist Woke Leftism
Here are some half-baked thoughts that perhaps Vito C. and Ed B. can help me formulate. The new global-capitalist woke leftism (GCWL) is very different from the old socialist-humanist leftism (which I take to include both the Old Left and the New Left). I want to understand the similarities and the differences. GCWL versus SHL…
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The Ersatz Religion of ‘Wokery’: What is to be done?
The short answer is that the cure for an ersatz religion is genuine religion. Colin Dueck in a review of Joshua Mitchell: So, what is to be done? Mitchell’s answer in American Awakening is the observation that an essentially theological problem requires a theological solution. If the destructive ersatz religion of left-wing identity politics rests…
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‘Spirituality’ and ‘Religion’
What explains the bien-pensant substitution of the first word for the second? I give three reasons. Substack latest.
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The God Question and the Christian Proposition
A conversation between Alain Fikielkraut and Pierre Manent. Very French and very flabby, but here is an excerpt that I approve of (emphasis added): P.M. What is the nature of Islam’s challenge for us? And who is this “we” being challenged? The challenge lies in the fact that what is happening is that Islam is exerting…
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Is Reason a White Male Euro-Christian Construct?
I lay into John D. Caputo in my latest Substack article.
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Fetterman Unfettered: Against Ableism
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman is currently competing with Dr. Mehmet Oz for a seat in the U. S. Senate. Any objective person who observes both men in action can see that Fetterman is mentally, morally, and politically unfit for office. (I won't comment on the 'hoodie,' the ugly forearm tattoos, the neck…
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Marxism and Pelagianism
If Pelagianism is the false belief that man can save himself without help ab extra, then Marxism is a latter-day secularized form of Pelagianism. Among the central pillars of Marxist and indeed all leftist delusion is the conceit that human beings are fundamentally good. The blood-drenched attempts at the remaking of humanity in the image…
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Leftist Omni-Politicization
For the Left, everything is either political or to be politicized, including that which is non-political. Take this to its logical extreme and you end up with 'woke' mathematics. This reductio ad absurdum will cause a sane person to reject the premise. The sane will point out that some things, by their very nature, cannot…