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Robert Stacy McCain on self-flattery and groupthink:
If your worldview is decisively formed within the insular climate of an elite university, the equation “liberal [i.e., leftist] = smart” is a formula you can never permit yourself to doubt, unless you are willing to admit that you have been hustled, scammed and bamboozled. A fellow with a diploma from Harvard or Stanford cannot confront the possibility that he has been swindled like an ignorant hick playing a carnival game at the country fair.
Mentioned in the comments yesterday, Professor Jere Surber unwittingly provides a textbook example. Note the parochial conceit that an educated worldview can only be a more or less leftist one. Note too the professor’s casual dismissal of those who challenge his self-flattering expectations. It’s rather like when George Monbiot waved aside those who disagree with him as mere dullards struggling with racial phobias. In George’s mind, a non-leftist outlook “thrives on low intelligence” and “appeals to stupidity.” It’s “the critical pathway from low intelligence to racism.” While self-imagined super-intellectual leftists – people like George, in fact – are apparently “self-deprecating” and “too liberal for their own good.”
Charles C W Cooke on the not-so-latent fascism of Mr George Galloway:
Britain now has a range of unbelievably capricious “hate speech” and “public order” laws that effectively give anyone who feels offended the power to shut down his critics. Such measures are sold with mawkish appeals to the protection of the weak. But they are typically used by the strong and the rich and the well-connected.
Mr Galloway’s boldness is something to behold.
And Katherine Timpf on things now deemed “unsafe” on campus:
Last October, Arizona State University’s athletics department banned face paint — “whether the theme is black, maroon, gold or white” — because ASU is an “inclusive and forward-thinking university” and they must make sure that “everyone feels safe and accepted.” They did not explain whether or not any students had actually reported feeling threatened by the paint, and if so, how those students were handling their lives currently.
Also declared emotionally hazardous to young intellectuals: the words “freshmen” and “bullet,” and, obviously, petting-zoo camels.
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“Does George Galloway *understand* that other people can read his tweets?” and “Like so many things Mr Galloway does, it’s wonderfully oblivious.”
And yet he keeps getting elected. I suspect, from my vantage point across the Atlantic, that he feels that the Left is now so strong that it can safely take off the mask of civilization and be brazenly thuggish. To what extent do you agree, David?
To what extent do you agree, David?
I don’t follow his activities closely enough to comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-HJT8_esM
“There’s a 20 year jail sentence for disagreeing with a woman. And 30 years if she’s a priveledged white woman with a blog.”
“And yet he keeps getting elected.”
I am oop north. You can stick a red rosette on a dog turd, they will win the vote.
A Labour Party candidate has called anyone who flies an England flag “a simpleton” or “a casual racist”.this. Notice the liberal peppering of white stereotypes by the sanctimonious author. Of course, part of UKIP’s popularity has absolutely has nothing to do with sneering pricks like himself being a regular feature on the Left (Labour).
Reminded me of
I must have mucked up my tags. I’m referring to this article:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/67641110/ukip-and-nigel-farage-pander-to-the-delusions-of-little-england
Loosely connected – Hate without the hate;
http://laughingsquid.com/i-am-artist-transforms-adolf-hitlers-hateful-mein-kampf-into-a-positive-message-with-found-poetry/
A remix of a Adolf Hitlers autobiographical ‘Mein Kampf’ (in English, apparently) to remove the Kampf and leave a message of only flowers and puppies.
I remeber someone doing something similar to a GWB-speech.
-S
They all do this, inevitably and predictably. When the accusation of racism is countered by “I have a spouse/child of a different race,” the accusation of tokenism is leveled.
Surely his critics should admire someone who had the foresight to marry a spouse of a different race and have children just so that he could be tokenistic a decade or so down the track.