Just watched a video of Jacob Blake, a Black man, being shot by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. While the details are not yet all available, the video suggests there was no need for the cop to fire the shots he did. But while I am distressed by his behavior and convinced that the …
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Micro Minds, Micro Agressions
Having been side-tracked by Judge William Young’s “compassionate” decision to release a murderous Jihadist back into mainstream American society, let us continue to explore the ludicrous fact that in the Democratic West, White people are now deemed to be Racist not by anything they do, feel or believe, but by the simple fact that they …
The View from an Ivory Tower
Pamela Geller has just reported that Nicholas Rovinski, fanatical convert to Islam convicted of conspiring with two others to behead her in 2015 because of her publication of a cartoon that violated Islamic law, has been ordered released by Judge William Young on the grounds that the young man’s compromised health might very well result …
Critical Thinking????
In a New York Times article of May 10, 2016, op-ed writer Nicholas Kristof, himself a “liberal,” inveighed against the narrow-mindedness and intolerance of many of his “progressive” peers and particularly the reign of terror holding sway at many U.S. Universities. It was a piece which took both courage and clarity of vision. Lauded by …
Identity vs. Truth
On May 31, The National Museum of African American History and Culture, an adjunct of The Smithsonian, in a forum on issues of Race in America, suggested the defining characteristics of White Culture to be a propensity for rational thinking, objectivity, the scientific method, individualism, self-reliance, the nuclear family, private property, the work ethic, delayed …
Black Racism?
Did you happen to catch Nick Cannon’s mid-July rant against the White races, people whom he says rob, steal and rape because they are melanin deficient, because they lack that “soul” or compassion typical of Black people which is in fact an inherent by-product of their color? While his Racist onslaught was given only cursory …
Down to Basics
A good many of the blogs thus far published have been intended to establish the general philosophical basis of “small c conservatism.” Let’s now get down to applying that philosophy to the realities of the contemporary world. Ralston Saul’s disparagement of Reason in favor of a Civilization governed by Sensibility and Compassion is typical of …
The “Tyranny”of Merit ?
The underlying theme of this Blog is that “progressives” are literally intent on removing every Civilized standard of Value from the human narrative save that of Compassion. The works of Susie Orbach and Naomi Wolf invoked in my last entry implied that the reverence for Female Beauty so integral to much of the Art and …
Catering to the Deluded
The psychological immaturity sanctioned/promoted by the Left, what Sartre would have deemed existential dysfunction, is no more evident than in the writings of some of the most revered of modern Feminists. In a 1978 work entitled “Fat is a Feminist Issue,” Susie Orbach invokes the notion of “thin privilege.” It is a notion of no …
The Truth as Hate Speech
My initial Blog was entitled “Mindless by Design” because the Left has literally eliminated the legitimacy of Ideas and Values from political discourse. In the entry entitled “The Devaluation of Truth” I cited a letter penned by B.L.M in 2017 in response to an incident at U.C.L.A. in which it claimed the very notion of …