Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Wokery

  • Tucker Carlson Exposes the Malevolent Lies of the Biden Admin re: Jan 6th ‘Insurrection’

    Neither  deadly nor an insurrection. Trump's take. Diana West's commentary. Tucker Carlson Tonight – Wednesday, 08 March 2023 Surveillance Video Dismantles January 6th Narrative Narratives and the Left Leftists love narratives because a narrative needn't be true to be a narrative. Their assessment criteria are identity-tribal rather than logical.  A good narrative is a coherent …

  • ‘Equity’ Can Get You Killed

    Here

  • A ‘Progressive’ Paradox

    Leader of the Stack. Leftists like to call themselves 'progressives.'  We can't or rather ought not begrudge them their self-appellation any more than we can begrudge the Randians their calling themselves 'objectivists.'  Every person and every movement has the right to portray himself or itself favorably and self-servingly.  "We are objective in our approach, unlike…

  • Of DEI and the Devil

    The genitive of deus. Advocates of D.E.I. being slanderers, they are properly labeled diabolou (διαβόλου, genitive of διάβολος), "of the devil." (Anthony G. Flood) I am as little an etymologist as I am an entomologist, but to extend Tony's riff, I have often suspected an etymological connection between the German Zweifel (doubt) and the German Teufel (devil) via…

  • The Age of Feeling and Proto-Wokery

    Over the last few years I have spoken often of the Age of Feeling in which we now live, here for example. The feeling fetish is downstream from the feminization that has been in flow for quite some time.  These are ingredients of the proto-wokery now 'flowering' into full-on wokery.  An excerpt from an article…

  • Depredatory Wokery: Resist and Refuse

    The good Baron over at Gates of Vienna has some worthwhile suggestions. (HT: Bill Keezer) My main suggestion is that you vote with your wallet. For example, if your alma mater requests money, tell them, politely but firmly, no dice as long as they support DIE.  ('Die' is the singular of 'dice.' Surely DIE is…

  • To Those Fleeing California

    DO NOT come to Arizona! It's just too damned hot here for you snowflakes. And on top of that everybody is packing heat. That's why you don't hear any honking on the highways and byways. "An armed society is a polite society." We are racist to the core in this rattlesnake-infested inferno which is also…

  • Membership Trends in U.K. Churches

    I recommend this informative and characteristically well-written post by long-time friend and correspondent, Malcolm Pollack. It appears that among the wages of wokery are a decline in enrollment. Related: UK Christianity Out With A Whimper

  • The Wages of Woke

    Here

  • If White Supremacy is Everywhere . . .

    . . . why is it so hard to find a Latin mass?

  • Left, Right, Sex, and Gender

    Top o' the Stack. Conservatives especially need to push back against linguistic wokery. And yet how many so-called conservatives continue to conflate sex and gender, race and skin color!   He who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate. The subversion of language is the mother of all subversion. Conservatives are long on talk,…

  • Abdication of Authority?

    Or something worse? Substack latest.

  • Academentia in excelsis

    It is fitting that a demented man should 'preside' over the decline and fall of our republic and in particular over the decline and fall of its once-great universities.  No one other than Joey B among American pols could better represent a nation in steep decline by every measure, a nation that has lost the…

  • On ‘Illegal Alien’ and ‘Illegal Immigrant’

    Substack latest. The Republic is probably beyond saving at this late date. So why do I bother to write pieces that underscore what really ought to be obvious? One reason is selfish: I like to write and then re-read what I have written. But having taken the time to write something clean, coherent, and sensible,…

  • resist, Resist, RESIST!

    Seemingly, no day without a 'woke' outrage.  See below. Beneath refutation. There's no point in trying to engage these clowns on the plane of reason. Mock, deride, resist, and above all: ignore the A.P.'s  asinine recommendations.  By the way, 'asinine' is spelled exactly as I just spelled it, and not 'assinine' despite the fact that…