Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • Defining My Kind of Conservatism Against the Neo-Reactionary Variety

    My brand of conservatism takes on board what  I consider to be good in the old liberal tradition.  I like to think that it blends the best of conservatism with the best of liberalism.  A couple of  sharp young philosophers have surfaced to challenge me, however.  Their brand of conservatism looks askance at paleo-liberalism and…

  • What’s Next, Book Burning?

    "Roughly 150 Black Lives Matter protesters reportedly stormed a library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Thursday night to berate students studying there for their supposed racial privilege."  Here. The solution, of course, is to expel the BLM thugs.  But that would be a 'racist' thing to do.  So is it the leftist view…

  • Capitulation to the Delusional Victimology of the Left

    You thought Mao's Cultural Revolution couldn't happen here?  Racial Hysteria Triumphs on Campus.

  • Black Lies Matter!

    Black lies matter when they undermine the rule of law and get people killed.  I should think that blacks would be especially concerned since they are the ones who suffer the most when crime spikes. One of the black lies was repeated by Jalen Rose on the O'Reilly Factor the other night.  He repeated the…

  • Fifty Years Later: Why Aren’t Blacks Better Off than They Are?

    It has been over fifty years now since the landmark civil rights and welfare legislation of the 1960s, an example of which is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  But blacks are still not doing very well.  Why? There is an explanation below the fold.  But I must issue a 'trigger warning' to the PC-whipped.…

  • The Delusional Left

    Two quotations from a recent book by a darling of the Left. "Trayvon Martin's hoodie got him killed." Re: Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri:  "Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offence, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner?" Try to guess the author.  Answer beneath the fold.

  • R. P. Wolff, Ben Carson, and The Left’s Hatred of Conservative Blacks

    Robert Paul Wolff over at The Philosopher's Stone opines: Ben Carson may just be the most thoroughly despicable person to make a run for the presidency in modern times.  So I take particular pleasure in the third quarter financial report that revealed that the good doctor spent 57% of the money he raised — raising…

  • Dennis Prager on the Smearing of Dr. Ben Carson

    Here is what Dr. Ben Carson said about guns and the Holocaust: "The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed." For this and other observations Carson is coming under vicious attack from the Left.  What follows is Dennis Prager's commentary: Those comments…

  • Liberals and Standards

    Heather MacDonald reports: Monday’s violence [at the West Indian American Day Parade] also should provide advance warning that the New York City Council’s plan to decriminalize such quality-of-life laws as public drinking and public urination is a recipe for disaster. The decriminalization agenda in New York and nationally is driven by the specious claim that…

  • “Black Lives Matter”

    Victor Davis Hanson argues that this is just another of a series of silly slogans fated  to perish of its own inanity and be forgotten.   He gives it a year. Meanwhile lawlessness rises as Heather MacDonald documents. Part of the problem, of course, is the refusal to hold the Black Lives Matter crowd and their…

  • The Catch-22 of ‘Disparate Impact’

    If I were an envious man, I would envy Malcolm Pollack this post.

  • White People Will Always be Racists

    Here's why.

  • Liberal Race Lunacy in Oregon

    Here.  No commentary necessary.  To post this pernicious nonsense is to refute it.   “Many white people in Oregon have no idea that our schools and state are immersed in white culture and are uncomfortable and harmful to our students of color, while also reinforcing the dominant nature of white culture in our white students…

  • Modality, Possible Worlds, and the Accidental-Essential Distinction

    This from a reader: The Stanford Encyclopedia notes in its article on Essential vs. Accidental Properties, "A modal characterization of the distinction between essential and accidental properties is taken for granted in nearly all work in analytic metaphysics since the 1950s.”  Personally, I find modal definitions of this type very hand wavy.  Ed Feser states my objection…

  • Gasthaus Blut und Boden

    Imagine a German restaurant so named. Blood and Soil. My astute readers needn't be reminded of the provenience of this phrase.  "Best blood sausage in the East Valley!"  Or MOM's Diner of Mesa.  "Fine Aryan cuisine served up right by members of the militia of Montana."  Would you be offended?  I just made up those…