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Monthly Archives: September 2017
NYT: “Immigrants Shouldn’t Have to Be ‘Talented’ to Be Welcome”
So, now it’s come to this: the Left is now pivoting to eliminate any semblance of a criterion for immigration be that immigrants themselves be a positive asset to the U.S. economy (a criterion that, from a completely different perspective, … Continue reading
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Kimball: Inebriates of Virtue
From “Inebriates of Virtue”, by one of the best culture critics writing, Roger Kimball: At Yale, where censorship never sleeps, the Committee of Public Safety—no, wait, that was Robespierre’s plaything. Yale’s new bureaucracy is called the “Committee on Art in … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Political Correctness
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Spirit – Colossus (1976)
From Spirit’s album Farther Along (1976), with vocals by Randy California, a man whose short life appears to have been lived fully.
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David Brooks is Getting Anxious
Jewish cuckservative David Brooks starts his “How Trump Kills the G.O.P.” column with this: It’s ironic that race was the issue that created the Republican Party and that race could very well be the issue that destroys it. He is … Continue reading
Posted in Alt-Right, Jewish, NYT, Republican Party, White Identity
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Scruton: “The Threat of Free Speech in the University”
As I’ve noted recently, I’m particularly interested in the parallels between current P.C. soft totalitarianism and the experience of Soviet era dissidents. From Roger Scruton’s “The Threat of Free Speech in the University”: The fear of heresy arises whenever groups … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Political Correctness
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BenOp = The Ethos of Not Showing Up
Regarding Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option, The Anti-Gnostic nails it when he writes: The future belongs to those who show up, and the “Ben Op” doesn’t seem to be a strategy for showing up. Rather, it strikes me as a rear-guard … Continue reading
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Heyer Redux
Did the morbidly obese Heather Heyer, whose death in C-ville has served as a Reichstag Fire-like pretext for Big Tech’s clampdown on the Alt Right, actually die of a heart attack, more in line with her ill health, and not due … Continue reading
Brown Sugar
A natural step towards natural segregation (hat tip: AmRen): (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday launched Brown Sugar, the new subscription-video-on-demand service featuring what it calls the biggest collection of the “baddest” African-American movies for its prime members. Prime customers … Continue reading
Haidt: The Fragile Generation
Jonathan Haidt discusses ‘The Fragile Generation’: ‘I’m very concerned about a phenomenon called “concept creep” – which has been happening to a lot of psychological terms since the 1990s’, he says. ‘When a word like “violence” is allowed to creep … Continue reading
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WSJ Poll: The New Elite Class on Immigration
From a recent WSJ poll: Views of immigration have also become more partisan. In an April 2005 poll that asked whether immigration strengthened or weakened the U.S., a plurality of 48% said it weakened the nation, with 41% saying immigration … Continue reading
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