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 …
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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 …
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 …