Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Leftism and Political Correctness

  • General Petraeus, the Koran, and Political Correctness in the Military

    Here is General Petraeus' condemnation of the burning by a Florida pastor of the Koran.  And here is some excellent commentary by Andrew C. McCarthy.  Excerpt (emphasis added): Down at Gitmo, the Defense Department gives the Koran to each of the terrorists even though DoD knows they interpret it (not without reason) to command them…

  • One Root of Leftist Intolerance of Religion

    Religions make a totalitarian claim, and the Left, being totalitarian, cannot abide competitors.

  • Every Generation Faces a Barbarian Threat in its Own Children

    David Horowitz, Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (Touchstone 1997), p. 3: Irving Kristol, who had second thoughts before me, has observed that every generation faces a barbarian threat in its own children, who need to be civilized. This is the perennial challenge: to teach our young the conditions of being human, of managing life's tasks…

  • “The Tit of the State”: Krauthammer Versus NPR’s Totenberg

    Here.  "If the product is so superior, why does it have to live on the tit of the State?" One answer is that the booboisie  of these United States is too backward and benighted to appreciate the high level of NPR programming.  The rubes of fly-over country are too much enamoured of wrestling, tractor pulls,…

  • Muslim Groups Fomenting Hysteria over Rep. Pete King Hearings

    Brace yourself for the crapload of liberal-left blather sure to inundate us  over the 'McCarthyism' of the Pete King investigation.  Hats off to Pete King, a true profile in courage, who stands up to militant Islam and its liberal-left enablers.  Here is Steven Emerson, an expert commentator on these matters (emphasis added): The line of…

  • Liberal-Left Bias Among the Social Psychologists

    Here.  Excerpts, with emphases and a couple of comments by MavPhil. Let's look at the 3 very liberal social sciences: anthropology, sociology, and psychology. These 3 fields have always leaned left, but things really changed in the 1960s. The civil rights struggle, the brutality inflicted upon peaceful marchers, the Viet Nam war, the assassinations of black leaders……

  • ‘Booty’ and ‘Holocaust’ to be Removed from New Edition of Bible

    Did they take the word 'ass' out too?  Or has that word already been removed?  Leave it to a liberal jackass to pander to the dumbest among us.  We conservatives need to gird our loins, saddle our asses and and sally forth to smite these change-for-the-sake-of-change jackwagons, planting our boots in their 'booties' as needed. …

  • Toleration of Vandalism and the Difference Between Conservatives and Liberals

    I sometimes speak of the difference between conservatives and liberals as a 'planetary' one: conservatives and liberals 'live on different planets.'  This Dennis Prager column on graffiti and its toleration by the  tolerate-anything-except-common-sense-and-conservatives Left will help you understand the 'planetary' difference. 

  • No Mention of Radical Islam in the Reports on the Fort Hood Massacre

    Dorothy Rabinowitz, Major Hasan, 'Star Officer'

  • What Card Does the Card-Carrying LIberal Carry?

    Latest example here.  And we are supposed to be civil to these scumbags?  Civility has limits, just like credit cards do, the only exception being the race card whose credit line is unlimited.  Accepted by liberals everywhere.  Don't leave home without it. 

  • Pat Condell on Multiculturalism

    An articulate Brit (an expression the pleonasm of which is the inverse image of the oxymoronic status of 'articulate American') with balls of brass who speaks the plain truth about the semantic perversion of 'multiculturalism.'  Actually, there are very few words that leftists will not hijack and pilot to some PeeCee destination.

  • Irreconcilable Differences

    Accept that there are differences among people that are nonnegotiable and irreconcilable.  We are not all the same at bottom.  We do not all want the same things.  We are not equal physically or intellectually or morally or spiritually.  For example, bellicosity is as it were hard-wired into some.  They like fighting and marauding, raping and…

  • The Moral Perversity of the American Medical Association

    Here.  Another leftist outfit richly deserving of defunding.  Cancel your membership, you sawbones!  I used to be a member of the A.P.A.  But its leftist activism became too much to stomach.  So I quit.  Some reasons here.  Never put money in the pockets of leftists.  It is against your interests and against the common good. 

  • Are You a Liberal? Take This Test

    The following statements in boldface are taken verbatim from Dennis Prager's Are You a Liberal? I comment briefly on each in turn. Mirabile dictu, it turns out I am not a liberal! I could make of each  of these items a separate post. (And you hope I won't.) I don't want to hear anyone complain that…

  • Terror Attack at Moscow’s Main Airport

    NYT account here.   "Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, said the attack was probably carried out by a male suicide bomber, and that authorities were trying to identify him." Was he a Confucian perhaps, a Buddhist, or a Christian? The Gray Lady provides no clue.  Maybe he was a generic faith-based bomber.  After all, everyone…