Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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The Core Tenets of the ‘Woke’ Revolution
Wake up to 'woke' by reading this outstanding piece by Bari Weiss. It is long, but very clear, covers the essential points, includes examples and some suggestions on how to fight back, and last but not least, it receives the MavPhil plenary endorsement and nihil obstat. And now I would like to ask any of…
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Bishop John Shelby Spong (1931-2021)
Yes, I know, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, but I will make an exception in this case. This man filled his belly from Christianity while rejecting not only its specific tenets, but theism itself. Spong in his final years belonged to the now largely defunct Jesus Seminar, which voted with marbles on which scriptures were…
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Speaking Truth to Power
When a leftist speaks truth to power, it is not out of respect for truth, but out of respect for the power that he hopes to achieve by using truth-telling as a means to his end.
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Dura lex, sed lex
"The law is hard, but the law is the law." Not to a leftist, however, for whom the law is but an expression of power. Power knows no moral constraint.
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Is the US Becoming the SU?
I've been warning of this for years. Ed West, America has become its own worst enemy. Excerpt: Communists saw their political beliefs as so all-encompassing that even science was political: if science contradicted the goals of communism, it wasn’t science. In today’s United States the slow death of liberalism has resulted in the blatant politicisation of…
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Every Generation Faces a Barbarian Threat in its Own Children
David Horowitz, Radical Son: 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 challenge perennially before us: to re-teach the young the conditions of being human, of managing life's tasks in a world that is…
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Andrew Sullivan on Critical Race Theory
Sullivan writes, Here is how critical theory defines itself in one of its central documents. It questions the very foundations of “Enlightenment rationality, legal equality and Constitutional neutrality.” It begins with the assertion that these are not ways to further knowledge and enlarge human freedom. They are rather manifestations of white power over non-white bodies.…
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Critical Race Theory Attracts the Uncritical
People are suckers for Critical Race Theory (CRT) because they cannot think critically. A key word in the CRT arsenal is 'equity.' ('Arsenal' is the right word given the Left's weaponization of language.) It is an Unbegriff, an unconcept. It combines something good with something unattainable except by the toleration of grave evils. Let me…
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On the Academentia Front: You Have to Read This
Bari Weiss: If you don’t know about Brearley, it’s a private all-girls school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It costs $54,000 a year and prospective families apparently have to take an “anti-racism pledge” to be considered for admission. (In the course of my reporting for this piece I spoke to a few Brearley parents.) Gutmann…
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Could I Pass an Ideological Turing Test?
On 11 January 2017 I wrote a post that begins: Could I present liberal-left ideas in such a way that the reader could not tell that I was not a liberal? Let me take a stab at this with respect to a few 'hot' topics. This won't be easy. I will have to present liberal-left…
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Hypocrisy? Double-Standardization?
Accusing a leftist of being a hypocrite is like accusing a meat-eating Texas cattle rancher of being a carnivore. The concerns of bourgeois morality find as little purchase with leftists as the concerns of vegetarians with meat-eaters. A curious 'disconnect' is therefore displayed by earnest Fox commentators who upbraid leftists for their hypocrisy and double…
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For the Left, the Issue is Never the Issue
'Never' is too strong, but close enough: Let me explain. As per the graphic, for the Left, the real issues are not protection of children and anti-terrorism. They are but distractions from the real issues. The real issues are suppression of dissent, erosion and ultimate elimination of constitutionally-protected civil liberties such as those guaranteed by…
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There is no Wisdom on the Left
The Left is at war with wisdom, as Dennis Prager here argues. And so one can only laugh at Hillary's latest money-grubbing venture in assuagement of her bottomless avarice, a book in which she casts pearls of her 'essential' wisdom before the deplorable swine. Here is one of her immortal pearls. Now hear Mr. Prager:…
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For the Left, the Subject is not the Subject: Why Math is ‘Racist’
It has often been noted that for the Left, the issue is not the issue. David Horowitz: As President Obama’s political mentor, Saul Alinsky, put it in Rules for Radicals: “One acts decisively only in the conviction that all of the angels are on one side and the devils are on the other.” Here is another…