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Category Archives: Culture
Exploiting the Implicit Trust in SWPL
From someone I know who works at Whole Foods: A common type of fraud this person sees: people paying via EBT purchase a huge amt of groceries (upwards of $900 in one order, which is actually not uncommon with some … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Nazi Salutes
So, when a conservative does a Nazi salute in a mocking tone, there is hell to pay: CNN is reporting that it has severed ties with commentator Jeffery Lord on Thursday after he tweeted “Sieg Heil!” at a liberal activist … Continue reading
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The Atlantic: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
This is the single best article/study I’ve read to date regarding the impact of smartphones (and social media) on Generation Z, looking at the radical impact this technology, and its concomitant new forms of socialization, are having on the psychological … Continue reading
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AP: “Undocumented Citizens”
The AP changes the vernacular to “undocumented citizens”.
Posted in Cultural Marxism, Immigration, MSM
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At Home With George Clooney In Italy
From a long THR profile of the quintessential liberal Hollywood elitist, George Clooney (“At Home With George Clooney in Italy: Amal, the Twins, Politics and an Incendiary New Movie”): George Clooney strides across the lush lawn of his Lake Como … Continue reading
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
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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
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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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Antifa’s ‘Emily’ Gorcenski Despairing About Charlottesville Rally
I was in tears watching this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=wEW-DdTH9qc
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