{"id":7954,"date":"2014-05-15T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/15\/the-illiberalism-of-contemporary-liberals\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:17:53","slug":"the-illiberalism-of-contemporary-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/15\/the-illiberalism-of-contemporary-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illiberalism of Contemporary ‘Liberals’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kirsten\"<\/a>Go Kirsten!<\/a>  Kirsten Powers has it all: beauty, brains, and the female equivalent of that which I was about to refer to using a word I decided not to use.  I think I'm in love.  And she stands up to Bill O'Reilly displaying grace under pressure when the pugnacious Irishman becomes obnoxious.  She's smarter than O'Reilly and she knows it.  Bill does too.  But hats off to O'Reilly  for giving the young whippersnappers a forum and for speaking truth to power lo these many years.  He is an inspiring profile in civil courage.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Speaking truth to power" is a lefty phrase that we need to co-opt.  Leftards use the phrase even when they have power.  You see, for a lefty, having power is supposedly bad and so they have to pretend that they don't have it even when they do.  It's like money in that respect.  They like to posture that they are anti-Establishment when they are the Establishment, and that they are dissenting when they are spouting and toeing the party line.  They also think they somehow own dissent<\/a> as if conservatives are somehow barred by the very meaning of the word from dissenting.<\/span><\/p>\n

In any case, Miss Powers really hits the nail on the head in her column:  Here is some of it and it ought to anger you with a righteous anger:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Don't bother trying to make sense of what beliefs are permitted and which ones will get you strung up in the town square. Our ideological overlords have created a minefield of inconsistency. While criticizing Islam is intolerant, insulting Christianity is sport. Ayaan Hirsi Ali<\/a> is persona non grata at Brandeis University for attacking the prophet Mohammed. But Richard Dawkins describes<\/a> the Old Testament God as "a misogynistic \u2026 sadomasochistic \u2026 malevolent bully" and the mob yawns. Bill Maher calls the same God a "psychotic mass murderer<\/a>" and there are no boycott demands of the high-profile liberals who traffic his HBO show.<\/span><\/p>\n

The self-serving capriciousness is crazy. In March, University of California-Santa Barbara women's studies professor Mireille Miller-Young attacked a 16-year-old holding an anti-abortion sign in the campus' "free speech zone<\/a>" (formerly known as America). Though she was charged with theft, battery and vandalism, Miller-Young remains unrepentant and still has her job<\/a>. But Mozilla's Brendan Eich<\/a> gave a private donation to an anti-gay marriage initiative six years ago and was ordered to recant his beliefs. When he wouldn't, he was forced to resign from the company he helped found.<\/span><\/p>\n

Got that? A college educator with the right opinions can attack a high school student and keep her job. A corporate executive with the wrong opinions loses his for making a campaign donation. Something is very wrong here.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the mob gleefully destroys people's lives, its members haven't stopped to ask themselves a basic question: What happens when they come for me? If history is any guide, that's how these things usually end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Powers is a Dem.  But she's young; give her time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRelated articles<\/legend>\n
\n
\"\"<\/a>Montaigne on Why Language Matters<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Andrew Cuomo and 'Liberal' Extremism<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Bill O'Reilly Tells it Like it Is on Race<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Why Would Anyone Need a Semi-Automatic Rifle?<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>'Leftist,' not 'Liberal'<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go Kirsten!  Kirsten Powers has it all: beauty, brains, and the female equivalent of that which I was about to refer to using a word I decided not to use.  I think I'm in love.  And she stands up to Bill O'Reilly displaying grace under pressure when the pugnacious Irishman becomes obnoxious.  She's smarter than … Continue reading “The Illiberalism of Contemporary ‘Liberals’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}