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Category Archives: Political Correctness
How The West Didn’t Win
“Today the term racism has come to mean almost any recognition of race…and of difference (or average differences) between groups.” — Ed West [Via: Derb] After four years of writing a ‘controversial’ column for the Telegraph, Ed West is no longer … Continue reading
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Richwine Redux
John Derbyshire, who has firsthand experience of such things, has an excellent column on the Jason Richwine witch hunt. Sailer (does the guy ever sleep?) has tons of incomparably good stuff on the subject as well. The Richwine episode is … Continue reading
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Richwine Resigns
Race realism’s latest sacrificial lamb: The Heritage Foundation announced the resignation Friday of senior policy analyst Jason Richwine, co-author of a controversial report critical of the Senate’s immigration reform bill. After Heritage issued the report this week, news articles pointed … Continue reading
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Schumpeter on Keynes
“He was childless and his philosophy of life was essentially a short-run philosophy.” — from Joseph Schumpeter’s obituary of John Maynard Keynes, in the American Economic Review, September 1946. More on the Ferguson kerfuffle from the left and the right.
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Niall Ferguson’s Candor => P.C. Inquisition
Professor tosses off an offhand, albeit plausible, hypothesis about a Saint of the Left’s penchant for minimizing long term risk.. P.C wrath ensues: Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and author, apologized on Saturday for saying economist John Maynard Keynes … Continue reading
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Mountain Don’t
PepsiCo has yanked a Mountain Dew ad because of it’s ‘racial insensivity’ (Can’t have any of that. You must not think bad thoughts.) The soda and snack food company said it immediately pulled the 60-second spot after learning that people … Continue reading
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White Males Need Not Apply – Pt. 3,411,812
More discrimination from the ‘diversity’ crowd: An agent looking to hire a new host for Kids’ CBC has retracted a casting call which declared they were looking for “any race except Caucasian” after receiving questions about the exclusion…. The search … Continue reading
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Joan Walsh’s Worldview
Regarding the Borat Brothers, Salon’s uber-liberal & always-sanctimonious Joan Walsh describes them as “a product of America as well as a product of alienation.” She also believes that “race is entirely a political and social construct.” How are we losing … Continue reading
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Boston: Let The Liberal Mush Begin
In “Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid?“, John @ Powerline has a wonderful deconstruction of Megan Garber’s pomo-laden, near-incomprehensible essay in The Atlantic. Garber’s piece is: … a good exemplar of the mushy liberal commentary that has proliferated in recent … Continue reading
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Celebrating Black Beauty and Advocating Diversity
The NYT has a piece “Celebrating Black Beauty and Advocating Diversity“, which isn’t about the horse but is rather about a documentary promoting black female empowerment. The moral of the documentary appears to be that the global aesthetic preference for … Continue reading
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