Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Race

  • Saul Alinksy Lives in Ferguson

    A lIttle collateral reading to help along the wonderful 'conversation about race' we've been having.

  • Is There Such a Thing as Racial Profiling?

    One of the tactics of leftists is to manipulate and misuse language for their own purposes.  Thus they make up words and phrases and hijack existing ones. 'Islamophobe' is an example of the former, 'disenfranchise' an example of the latter.    'Racial profiling' is a second example of the former.  It is a meaningless phrase apart…

  • Nihilism: The Telos of the Liberal Mind

    Here, by Steven Hayward, with a tip of the hat to an old friend, Ingvar Odegaard.  My comment: Whites who speak of 'white privilege' would do well to reflect as well on 'black privilege.'  One of the 'privileges' of blacks these days, apparently, is the right to riot and loot when a decision of the…

  • Obama, Holder, and the Racializing of Crime

    You can rely on  liberals to politicize race and racialize politics.  But they also excel at the racialization of crime.  Victor Davis Hanson has their number in Crimes of Exactly What?  He discusses a number of examples besides Ferguson.  Excerpts: Racializing crime is a serious business, because it breaks society apart along tribal lines. It…

  • Friday Cat Blogging! Is Your Cat Racist?

    Did you know that "Tom and Jerry" is now deemed racist?  Yikes! Is there any limit to liberal-left foolishness?  Here are three more recent examples. Andrea Tantaros of Fox News attacked for using the perfectly acceptable phrase 'witch doctor.'  Australian opera company bans Carmen for smoking. Swing sets banned in two school districts in Washington…

  • The Narrative: The Origins of Political Correctness

    William Voegli claims that the phrase 'political correctness' first entered the American vocabulary in 1991.  I don't know about that, but I do know that the concept is much older: PC derives from the CP, as I explain in Dorothy Healey on Political Correctness. I now refer you to what Bill Whittle has to say…

  • O. J. Simpson: Trial of the Century?

    It was on this date in 1995 that the verdict in the O. J. Simpson murder trial came down: not guilty!  To refer to this proceeding as the trial of the century ought to offend anyone with a modicum of historical sense and a concern for the English language.  It is on a par with…

  • Malcolm Pollack on Diversity and Immigration

    Herein are enunciated a number of important truths that few these days have the courage to express.  Mr. Pollack concludes: These commonsense truths are the basis of the widely accepted idea that indigenous societies have a fundamental right to defend and preserve the cultural and demographic integrity of their homelands. Nobody in the liberal West…

  • More Mass Race Delusion: The Ted Robinson Incident

    Via Malcolm Pollack's recent entry commenting on the Rotherham, England  sex slave scandal, here are a couple of formulations of Lawrence Auster's First Law of Majority-Minority Relations in a Liberal Society: The more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group behaves, the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions about…

  • Attacked as ‘Racist’ By a White, Defended as Courageous by a Black Professor

    It is a funny world.  A man who claims to be white called me a racist because of my post, Self-Control and Respect for Authority.  I ignored him, my policy being that scurrilous attacks from unknowns are ignored (and they are read only up to the point where the scurrilousness manifests itself).  Scurrilous attacks from…

  • Mass Race Delusion: Bruce Levenson’s ‘Racist’ E-Mail

    Recently I have been pinching myself a lot, figuratively speaking, to see if I am awake and not dreaming all the delusional race nonsense I keep hearing about.  Herewith, a very recent example. Bruce Levenson, owner of the Atlanta Hawks, sold his controlling interest in the NBA franchise  because of this piece of 'racist' e-mail …

  • On Legal and Illegal Immigration

    A reader from Down Under poses this question: America is experiencing immigration problems somewhat like Australia's. The idea of  'multiculturalism' some would say is beginning to show its flaws. Who do you believe should be allowed to enter your country? Please feel free to be as politically incorrect as you like. 1. First of all,…

  • Why Privilege?

    Our old friend Horace Jeffery Hodges checks his privilege.

  • Self-Control and Respect for Authority

    If Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri fame had been properly brought up to have self-control and to respect authority he might be alive today.  Police have the authority to issue commands in certain circumstances as when people are violating laws by, say, walking in the street.  Cops are often rude and arrogant.  No doubt about…

  • Some Questions About White Privilege

    There is a lot of talk these days about white privilege.  I don't believe I have discussed this topic before.  1. White privilege is presumably a type of privilege.  What is a privilege?  This is the logically prior question. To know what white privilege is we must first know what privilege is.  Let's consider some…