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Category Archives: Culture Wars
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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German Scientists: Drug Public with Oxytocin to ‘Promote the Acceptance and Integration of Migrants’
From BNN (hat tip: MB): German scientists have suggested that a combination of drugs and “peer influence” could make Europeans more amenable to accepting large numbers of migrants in their midst, following a shocking new study at the University of … Continue reading
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L.A. Votes to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples Day
It’s not only statues that the Left is toppling, it’s also holidays. From the AP: LOS ANGELES — The City Council has voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day as an official Los Angeles holiday. Councilmembers voted 14-1 to … Continue reading
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NYT: “How ‘Doxxing’ Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars”
The JYT has a piece today on doxxing (“How ‘Doxxing’ Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars”). It begins: SAN FRANCISCO — Riding a motorized pony and strumming a cigar box ukulele, Dana Cory led a singalong to the … Continue reading
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Young White Men
Rod Dreher, who has been wrong about so much of late, has a good post (comprised primarily of thoughtful reader comments) titled “Young Men, Faith, & Fascism”. The gist of the piece surrounds attempts to understand why young white men … Continue reading
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New Yorker: “Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?”
A writer in The New Yorker asks “Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?”: America’s stability is increasingly an undercurrent in political discourse. Earlier this year, I began a conversation with Keith Mines about America’s turmoil. Mines … Continue reading
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It’s Jill!
The P.C. Commissars find “It’s Pat!” hateful and would never allow something like it to air today: During a panel about transgender representation on TV during the Television Critics Association press tour, Transparent creator Jill Soloway noted that Julia Sweeney’s long-running Saturday Night … Continue reading
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AirBnB Blocks Attendees of ‘Far Right’ Rally
The new fascism of the Left marches onward. From Time: Airbnb has deleted the accounts of some users affiliated with far-right political groups planning to attend a “Unite the Right” rally organized by white nationalists this week in Charlottesville, Virginia. … Continue reading
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Radical Feminism => Gender ‘Fluidity’
Scott Yenor makes a compelling case that the Political Correctness madness surrounding transgenderism and other upcoming notions of gender ‘fluidity’ is a logical extension of post-60s radical feminism: In today’s culture wars, yesterday’s common sense is often tomorrow’s bigotry. No … Continue reading
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Hollywood: Confederate v. Black America
From the world of liberal cable programming, we will have the privilege of not one, but two competing, alternative-history dramas about blacks. Both sound insufferable. From Deadline: A century and a half after slavery was abolished in the U.S., the … Continue reading
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