Category: Race
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Is Grammar Racist?
It has to be. Whatever blacks and other 'people of color' are not good at is racist; blacks and other 'people of color' are not good at grammar; ergo, etc. This also explains why logic, mathematics, natural science, chess, self-control, self-reliance, deferral of gratification, pulling up your pants, etc. are all racist. It is also…
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Half-Way Cultural Appropriation
You appropriate our science and technology, why not then appropriate the values, virtues, attitudes, and behaviors that led to the science and technology? Here are some of them: hard work, self-control, self-knowledge, deferral of gratification, focus, protracted study, objectivity, rational thinking, coherent speech, respect for legitimate authorities, and so on. Why the half-way cultural appropriation?…
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What We are Up Against
It helps to know the enemy and not be as naive as a Mona Charen. Despite her manifold lovelinesses and virtues, Charen is a useful idiot for the Left and a useless idiot for us. (She is what I call a 'topical idiot'; she is obviously not a total idiot. And while I am abusing…
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Racial Skepticism or rather Denialism Refuted
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Race entry: Racial skepticism holds that because racial naturalism is false, races of any type do not exist. Racial skeptics, such as Anthony Appiah (1995, 1996) and Naomi Zack (1993, 2002) contend that the term race cannot refer to anything real in the world, since the one thing in the world…
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The Greatest Libel Since the Blood Libel
It comes from the Left. (Does anything good come from the Left?) Required reading.
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More on Tribalism and the Identity-Political Right
A re-post from 2 November 2017 emended and supplemented. …………………………….. This entry continues a discussion with a Right-identitarian interlocutor. My current position is one of rejection of both Left- and Right-identitarianism. I am open, however, to a change of position. That is part of what makes me a philosopher as opposed to an ideologue. I…
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On Transcending Tribalism
Jonathan Haidt: Humans are tribal, but tribalism can be transcended. It exists in tension with our extraordinary ability to develop bonds with other human beings. Romeo and Juliet fell in love. French, British and German soldiers came out of their trenches in World War I to exchange food, cigarettes and Christmas greetings. The key, as…
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Chess is Racist!
Not only is chess racist, it is also sexist and patriarchal. The fact that the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board proves nothing to the contrary. The powers allowed to the Queen are in truth nothing more than so many sops thrown to the feminists to keep them quiet. The sexism and…
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What’s That Again?
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Andrew [Sullivan] writes that liberals should stop saying "truly stupid things like race has no biological element." I agree. Race clearly has a biological element — because we have awarded it one. That is quite a clever self-contradiction, and undoubtedly a delight to the bien-pensant readers of The Atlantic. Race has a biological…
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Identity Politics: Is it Possible to Remain Classically Liberal?
Cross-posted at my FB page. Good discussion there. ……………………………. There is an identity politics of the Left and an identity politics of the Right. The second kind became obvious to me when, after objecting to the tribalism of blacks, Hispanics, and other racial or ethnic groups, and after calling for a transcending of tribalism, I…
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‘Systemic Racism’ is a Vicious, Hate-America, Leftist Myth
The Democrat Party is a party of race-hustlers. Clear proof of this is their endlessly repeated lie about 'systemic' or 'structural' or 'institutional' racism. David Horowitz, Big Agenda (Humanix, 2017), p. 51: While institutional or systemic racism has been illegal in America for 50 years, the 2016 Democratic Party platform promises that "Democrats will fight to end…
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A Comment Thread on Tribalism and Identity Politics from December, 2015
Part of an uncommonly good thread. Here is the entry to which the thread attaches. …………………………………………………. Anon, My point was that many short comments are better than one long one. One problem here is that I tossed out a word, 'tribalism,' but did not define it. What's worse is that I used it very loosely.…
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Grievance is a Growth Industry
Leftists cling to their grievances despite progress made and remedies applied. And then they invent new ones. For they must remain permanently aggrieved. That is who they are: permanently adolescent in a state of permanent rebellion. That they have less and less to be angry about means nothing. The merest microaggression suffices to 'trigger' them.…
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Why Do Leftists Call Good People Racists?
Dennis Prager: First, truth is not a left-wing value. As I have said and written ever since studying communism and the left in graduate school at the Columbia University Russian Institute, truth is a [classically] liberal value and a conservative value, but it is not a left-wing value. However, destroying opponents by destroying their reputations…
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Did Sexism Bring Elizabeth Warren Down?
That's what she thinks, but she is fooling herself. Her extremism brought her down. 'Progressive' politics is like a progressive disease: it just gets worse and worse as leftists compete to see who can go farthest Left. But while the leaders of the Democrat Party are sick with the disease and barking mad, most rank-and-file…