Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Down With Evil Corporations!
Down with greed!Down with human nature!Power to the rabble!
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First John Derbyshire, then Naomi Riley
John Fund in Censoring Naomi Riley comments on the latter's dismissal by the The Chronicle of Higher Education: Earlier this week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the trade paper for faculty members and administrators in universities, fired Naomi Schaefer Riley, a paid blogger for its website. Her crime? She had the courage to respond to…
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‘Blacklisted’ Blacklisted
Here: "POLICE chiefs have banned IT staff from using the word blacklist over fears it is RACIST." (Via VFR) This sort of thing is insane, of course. And so I suspect that to argue against it is foolish: it only lends credibility to a view that ought to be mocked and derided. But I do argue it…
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PC Conservative Andrew McCarthy’s Lame Response to John Derbyshire
It is well known by now that NRO has cut its ties with John Derbyshire ('Derb') over the latter's publication in another venue of The Talk: Nonblack Version. Both Rich Lowry and Andrew McCarthy have commented on this severing of ties and both sets of comments are unbelievably lame. Here is the substance (or rather 'substance')…
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Derbyshire’s ‘Racism’
I got wind of Derb's defenestration, and the concomitant crapstorm of Internet commentary, a little late, but I've been making up for lost time. I found this curious passage over at RedState, a self-professedly conservative website (emphasis added): Derbyshire likes to pepper his racist rants with “facts” that generally consist of social studies that are…
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Derbyshire’s Defenestration
In case you are not familiar with the word, 'defenestration' is from the Latin fenestra, window. Defenestration is thus the act of literally or figuratively throwing something or someone out of a window, or the state of having been ejected through such an aperture. In plain English, John Derbyshire, 'Derb,' got the boot from NRO's Rich…
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America’s Most Indecent Race Mongers
A list.
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‘Institutionalized Racism’
Liberals love the phrase, 'institutionalized racism.' A racist society it is in which so many blacks achieve high political office despite the fact that blacks are a small minority of the population. Indeed, we have a black president. What better proof that racism is inscribed into our institutional structure? But then again, Obama is only…
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On the Misuse of ‘Unilateral’
The following post from the old blog written 20 July 2005 makes a point that bears repeating. John Nichols of the The Nation appeared on the hard-Left show, "Democracy Now," on the morning of 2 September 2004. Like many libs and lefties, he misused 'unilateral' to mean 'without United Nations support.' In this sense, coalition…
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Not Everything in the NYT Opinion Pages is Garbage
Almost everything, but not everything. Bill Keller's piece on hate crime laws is actually worth reading despite a sizable admixture of liberal horseshit without which the reader might forget that this is, after all, a NYT opinion piece.
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Why Must the Left be Totalitarian?
A reader inquires, I was wondering if you could expand on a statement you made in Political Correctness and Gender Neutral Language . . . . The statement is as follows: "The Left is totalitarian by its very nature and so it cannot leave any sphere of human concern unpoliticized." I wholeheartedly agree with your…
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Words Banned From Tests in NYC Schools
Feel-good liberalism at its best worst: Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television. These are a few of the 50-plus words and references the New York City Department of Education is hoping to ban from the city’s standardized tests. My astute readers do not need to have it explained to them what is wrong with…
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Food Fascism Update
No Kugel for You!
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The Immorality of Contemporary Liberalism
Another outstanding column by Victor Davis Hanson.
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The Voter Photo Identification ‘Issue’
Some positions are so absurd as to be beneath refutation. To respond reasonably to the unreasonable lends them a veneer of credibility to which they are not entitled. Mockery, derision, and ridicule are often much more appropriate and effective. Oftentimes, all it takes is a cartoon to refute a stupid liberal. By the way, this voter ID…