I can assure you that is the last thing the liberal establishment wants,. The left wants to silence them and smear them with anything they can get to stick. There are a slew of articles trying to do just that, and I already objected when Surly started posting them here. Because they were just hit pieces. Not a shred of truth in any of them.
I challenged him and I challenge you to prove your points with facts, and not just tell me you don't like Niall Ferguson because he's highly educated, an erudite scholar and maybe a bit snooty. Angry? Did we listen tot the same video? What angry things did he say?
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They are questioning the accepted dogma of the liberal academic world, and the liberal political machine, which is a false narrative.
Oh, fuck this noise. If I have to rouse myself from my pallet of woe in a drug-induced haze to defend itself from ad nom bullshit own New Year's Eve, then all I can say is Happy New Year to you too, motherfucker.
Asvin and you posted little mini-hagiographies of Jordan Fucking Peterson, who decries the same "cultural Maoists" that Kunstler decried a couple of years ago when some young people made bold to challenge his whitemaleperks as an Intellectual Made Man at a speaking engagement on an Ivy League Cathedral. JHK apparently had to mop the flop sweat from his upper lip twice in this engagement, and the never of the challengers... one imagines he oping up a giant can of, "Don't You Know Who I AM" in thunderous, Episcopalian tones.
Lunkster has never been the same, his precious fee-fees so damaged by... the
temerity. And now like Peterson, et al, he unpacks his little hate boner for "political correctness" at every opportunity, the better to become the darling of the rage spluttering right and other weak men who have no accomplishments aside from un unearned, accident of birth as a White American Man.
As I have said in this pagers before and will say to you again now, "political correctness" is what the oppressor classes call it when the traditionally oppressed make clear they are sick and tired of putting uo with their shit. Still true, ace.
Then I posted some diatribes in reply, which you libel with the above untruths, because they put them lie to bullshit in which you find such comfort and succor.
One of the ruses you resort to is the same one Ashvin like s to employ, namely assigning your opponent several hundred pages of homework before you respond. I am disinclined to spin up to speed on the disagreeable when I can barely make time for the essential. I don't know and don't give a fuck about Ferguson, but whenever I hear about one of the retrogrades rattling on about 'free speech," you can be sure it's as a marketing tactic, not a core moral value. The speech they are interested in is their own, not yours or mine.
Peterson became the darling of the fashy-haircut crowd when he picked an imaginary free speech fight over transgender pronouns in Canada, for instance, recently sued two professors for criticizing him and his views. This is Viagra for the right wing rage boner, because nothing gets a neo-nazi in full rut more than a case of incipient victimhood. Also don't lose sight of the fact that "free speech" and "platforming" arguments are often used as proxies for actual arguments. “These cowards won’t debate me!” is an easier sell than “Let me tell you about why I think 200 years of science is wrong even though I can’t get my ideas published in a scientific journal.”
Most white people, and in particular white males, oppose the notion of white privilege because, once you acknowledge that to be born while and male in America is be born on third base while insisting you hit a triple, you are the left with the unpleasant implications. As white men we process the world via our own cognitive frame, take in new information, sift through the data, sort the important from the unimportant and decide how to feel about it all. Thus we as white people view our privilege as natural and invisible. If I had a dollar for every time a white person has told me "no one ever gave me anything" in the context of race, I'd own my own island.
Equality for the traditionally oppressed this translates to a loss issue for poor whites. If black folk, other minorities, immigrants and refugees have "cut ahead of them in line," meaning the government caters to others before them, they become angry. Although they never question why they should occupy the first position. That implicit assumption — I should be tended to before all others — encapsulates how they view white privilege as natural and invisible. It's n the DNA of this country, including the Constitution.
And now we find ourselves at the end of cheap energy and the beginning of unpayable debt, and now the benefits of whiteitide are not so easily observed by poor whites in eastern Ohio, or West Virginia. But the mantle of privilege, that assurance that, no matter what, "I'm white and you're not," will continue to be exploited by the divide-and-conquer crowd.
Where you see "Red Guards" (as if), I see waves of armed brownshirts.
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August 02, 2016, 03:36:03 PM