Category: Wokery
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Soaring Auto Insurance Rates
I received the bill for my 2013 Jeep Wrangler Sport the other day: $302.89 for six months. For the preceding six months I paid 274.09, and the six months before that 260.42. So yesterday I paid my agent a visit and reminded him of my stratospherically high credit rating, my lack of claims, my sterling…
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A ‘Temporal’ Argument Against Race Change
The following excerpt is 'cannibalized' from my Substack article, Can One Change One's Race? ………………… Can I change my race? No. I can no more change my race than I can change the fact that I was born in California. I might have been born elsewhere, of course, but as a matter of contingent fact,…
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Kathy Hochul, Leftist Idiot
Head over to Malcolm Pollack's place for some sensible commentary. Meat quote: Political thinkers from Hobbes to Schmitt have understood that the fundamental principle that legitimizes the power of the State is the reciprocal obligation of obedience and protection. We cede to the State the awesome power of coercion by threat of violence, and in…
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How Censorship Drives the Woke Revolution
Nick Short at Tom Klingenstein's place quotes from Tucker Carlson's interview of Mike Benz: Benz: You had this new power within DHS to say that cybersecurity attacks on elections are now ‘our purview.’ And then they did two cute things. One, they said mis-, dis-, and mal-information online are a form of cybersecurity attack; they…
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Is Leftism a Form of Mental Illness?
Wokery is the most extreme form of leftism. Some if not all elements of wokery are indicative of mental illness on the part of those who actually believe them. I will mention just four. Thinking that one can effect a sex-change by merely mental gymnastics, by 'identifying' as a woman or as a man. Cognate…
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‘Racism’: Supply and Demand. ‘Cultural Appropriation’
Because the demand exceeds the supply, new variants of 'racism' have to be invented by leftist race-hustlers. One of the latest is digital blackface. (I wrote this in March of last year.) What might that be? Here: Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture…
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What’s Wrong with Illegal Immigration?
I present a number of arguments, some 'liberal,' atop the Stack. I am well aware of the infirmity of reason, and of the stupidity and suggestibility of people, especially in this Age of Feeling and Xed-out attention spans. And so I am well aware of just how little is accomplished by calm and careful argumentation…
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The Demand Exceeds the Supply
The demand to feel aggrieved exceeds the supply of grievances. Hence the invention of 'micro-aggressions.'
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No Labels? Label We Must!
"Not Right. Not Left. Forward." There are are real differences between Right and Left that cannot be ignored. The positions must be carefully defined and appropriately labeled. 'No labels' is itself a label, an inept one. Label we must. We ought to do it carefully and thoughtfully. The world is a plural world shot through…
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The Greatest Risk We are Taking
Pat Buchanan warned us six years ago. Substack latest.
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Joe Biden: An Anti-Civilizational, Race-Baiting, Opportunist and Ignoramus
And as all of those things, a worthy representative of the contemporary hard-Left, hate-America, Democrat party. Ben Shapiro has his number: More importantly, however, Biden's characterization of "English jurisprudential culture" as "white man's culture" is profoundly disturbing. English jurisprudential culture is rooted in the belief in the rule of law, due process of law, equal…
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Word of the Day: Perseveration
Leftists want to limit your vocabulary so as to limit your thought and make you easier to control. They want total control. David Horowitz says it well on his masthead, "Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out." (When a transgressive calls herself 'progressive,' you know there's a cesspool of mendacity up ahead.)…
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On ‘Over-Represent’
A big Stack attack on language abuse and wokeassery. The importance of language and the injustice of 'equity.'
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Where to Send Illegal Immigrants
Send them to 'sanctuary' jurisdictions. Eric Adams, mayor of NYC, would be happy to show his hospitality and humanity. I am using 'jurisdiction' to cover cities, counties, and states. Here is a nifty map and a list brought to you from the fine folks over at the Center for Immigration Studies. I am proud to…