On June 1, 2020, Rex Murphy wrote in The National Post that Canada was not systemically racist, indeed that when compared to a host of other nations world-wide, it is decidedly welcoming and compassionate. It is a truth I could defend with a myriad of historical/factual references to anyone wishing to debate it. This is …
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Awakenings
In his 2012 book “The Righteous Mind,” Jonathon Haidt argues that it is Intuition that ought to be our moral beacon, suggesting, in typical Postmodern fashion, that Reason is but a weapon we use to justify that which is in our own best interest. Whereas thinkers from Socrates to Sartre to Nathaniel Branden see rational …
Happy Labor Day Weekend
CBS Chicago has reported that as of late Sunday evening of this Labor Day weekend, 39 have been shot and 5 killed in Chicago. And Monday is still before us. That the Ideologues at B.L.M. chose to denigrate if not defund the police is understandable given their stated goal of destroying America. That simpletons at …
A Pandemic of Hypocrisy
In May of 2017 the Black staff and students at Evergreen State College in Washington exploded with anger over the refusal of liberal staff member Brett Weinstein to remove himself from campus on a day designated by them as an admission of White racial guilt. His e-mail explaining his position was reasonable and considerate; his …
Maggots?
Not long ago I discovered a video of a young David Suzuki, Canadian environmental radical, expatiating before a group of friends whose appearance and demeanor clearly identify them as counter-cultural cool. His message is interesting. We are all, he says, maggots; regular people, First or Second level Maggots, Capitalists, Tenth Level! Such a lovely expression …
This was Perfectly Predictable
The Neo-Romantic notion that Reason and The Rule of Law are inherently “oppressive” has been morphing through our culture for over 200 years now. While it is undeniable that slow but steady progress in the realm of social justice has been made throughout the post-War West within the framework of its democratically mandated institutions, it …
The Dumbest Generation
At Stanford U. in 1980 Jesse Jackson introduced the chant “Hey hey, ho ho, Western culture’s got to go.” Over the last 60 years, based on the assumption that it has violated and oppressed both many of its own citizens as well as much of the “third world,” Western Civilization as a core requirement has …
Thank God [natural selection?] for Reason
Jay Stephens is a young Black woman who says her four years at a prestigious Liberal Arts College in the U.S. turned her into a committed “conservative.” Hoping to be confronted with the great ideas that had shaped history, seeking solutions to the very real socio-economic problems beleaguering her people, she was appalled to be …
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Having Standards is Racist?
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 …
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 …