Great Subtlety of Mind

Counselling is of course being offered to “anyone negatively affected by the incident.”
Nice little earner there for the counsellers. Of course to ensure full employment they need a continuous supply of emotional cripples which the administrative invertebrates will be happy to create.

From Elizabeth Nolan Brown’s piece:

… this case provides a good reference point for why we shouldn’t curtail freedom of expression even when it comes from despicable groups like the Klu Klux Klan.

I find so very often that this is the heart of the matter and that it is always completely missed – whether through ignorance, accident or design – by the ever-swelling ranks of the Totalitarian Left.
More than once now, I have tried to make a very similar argument (online) with supporters of the No More Page Three campaign, when they have been attempting to force local authorities to remove The Sun newspaper from the periodicals section of public libraries.
I don’t read The Sun but I find this campaign to be so wrong-headed and in so many ways that it’s almost hard to know where to start. But the suggestion that The Sun ought to be removed from library shelves because of the continued presence of a naked woman on page 3 (i.e. inside the paper, not on the front cover) immediately runs into the problem of the campaigners being hoist by their own petard – yet they refuse to even acknowledge this seemingly obvious fact.
Art News, Flash Art and other journals of contemporary art – also often on display in public libraries – frequently contain within their pages, images of naked men and women sometimes doing such eye-popping things as ‘laying’ eggs from their vaginas, wiping their own asses with soft toy stuffed animals, knitting scarves naked, using wool that’s been secreted in their vaginas and more recently charging phones … while naked … using their vaginas.

I cannot conceive of how any library policy could be crafted cunningly enough so as to target The Sun for page 3, but which could not equally be applied to a whole range of other periodicals and books – and not just ones on art.
No matter what anyone personally thinks about the The Sun‘s output, the fact remains that it is the best-selling newspaper in the UK and by a considerable margin.
How then could any public library justify stocking The Morning Star or Red Pepper, say, both of which have tiny circulations, but not the most popular tabloid in the country?

Or a good plague. Total societal collapse. Another confounding of the languages like at Babel.
Well, here’s a thought. Instead of only preaching to the choir, which don’t get me wrong is a very important thing that needs to be done, go into enemy territory and present alternative view points. Yeah, maybe you will get banned. Nothing you can do about it. Move on elsewhere. There’s plenty of targets of opportunity out there.

Is anybody else concerned that the totalitarian Safe Space policy will eventually seep out of universities and into everyday life once a sufficient amount of these lunatics graduate?
One must worry about the mind of a person that seeks to ban a political party from campaigning on the basis that it negatively impact on Union Member’s feelings, but is happy to take to Facebook to declare bloody tories, we need to get rid of them all now! ‪#‎sendthemtothegulags‬ ‪#‎buildabonfire‬ ‪#‎fullcommunismnow‬ as if it’s the most normal thing in the world.
This, incidentally, appears to be George Johnson, the great progressive thinker behind the UKIP ban.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAdeLgvN5pE

One must worry about the mind of a person that seeks to ban a political party from campaigning on the basis that it negatively impact on Union Member’s feelings, but is happy to take to Facebook to declare bloody tories, we need to get rid of them all now!
Right or left wing extremists do right or left wing extremism.
By contrast, we conservatives who are thus bookended by the right wing and left wing are the ones who actually take the time and effort to go and sort through the issues.
For the extremists, reality isn’t the issue, it’s all about the agenda.

At all times the conservative welcomes attention and discussion, for only that way does refinement and evolution and progress occur. At all times the liberal extreme points past the conservative to the other and opposing extreme, for in that way does the liberal attempt to deflect the self examination and improvement that will inevitably move the liberal away from the right or left wing and expand the liberal edge and excess to the all encompassing conservative center.
Forever denying this ongoing progression are those liberals who will remain forever liberal, and these liberals are made of the idealist liberals and the practicing liberals.
The idealist liberals are those who remain forever right or left wing, who will never accept anything the least bit conservative or opposing liberal, who remain the useless and infective extreme.
The practicing liberals are those who switch back and forth between right and left wing, depending on circumstance, who also remain the useless and infective extreme. For the practicing left wing liberal, the will of the individual is paramount, as long as that left wing liberal individual gets what that left wing liberal individual wants. For the practicing right wing liberal, the will of the right wing liberal organization is paramount, as long as that right wing liberal individual gets what that right wing liberal individual wants. When the left wing liberal gets an organizational position that allows that individual liberal to achieve whatever that liberal wants regardless of the cost to any others, then at that point that practicing liberal becomes right wing, where the will of the right wing liberal organization is paramount, as long as that right wing liberal individual gets what that right wing liberal individual wants. When the right wing liberal’s organizational point of view ends up not being able to get that right wing liberal whatever that right wing liberal wants, then at that point that practicing liberal becomes left wing, where the will of the left wing liberal individual is paramount, as long as that left wing liberal individual gets what that left wing liberal individual wants.

Aside from general current events that keep reenforcing the above, in the UK at the moment specifically, the idea of jumping from Labour to Ukip does come to mind . . .