Posts by Dennis Frank
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to John Farrell,
Understandable if that's a behavioural pattern you've noticed, but assuming everyone does that is unrealistic.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
We don't live in a binary world, and language evolves by being customised constantly. So centrists, around a third of voters in western countries nowadays, tend to comprehend political correctness as a conformist stance or syndrome similar to group-think. Google says this: "the avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against."
Perceived by whom? Leftists, most commentators suggest. However (as a centrist) I find that behaviour just as offensive as that of the establishment folk they demonise. Sometimes more so.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to John Farrell,
I'm not likely to answer your questions until you start answering mine. Reciprocity. Are you familiar with the concept?
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to John Farrell,
Why not try learning from your own experience. Reliance on tuition from others is suitable for children & teenagers. Are you one?
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to John Farrell,
Just take a look at the instances where the rationale for uninviting rightist speakers has been given in pc logic. The Oz immigrant vc at MU cited the feelings of the sector of students who have a grievance against old wealthy white men expressing political opinions. Evaluate the language she used to spin her perception of her responsibility to protect them from the opinions Brash has expressed. Her mollycoddle stance.
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to mark taslov,
Correct, Mark, I over-generalised there. And to John: politically-correct opinions
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Hey, two more speakers with provocative opinions got uninvited! In Oz this time. It's becoming contagious. Only pc opinions allowed. I recall the Mothers of Invention singing "who are the brain police?" Leftists.
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Incidentally, any reader who is interested in the extent to which the Israel lobby is operated like a gutting knife in the body of the British Labour Party ought to read this expert commentary & analysis: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-08-08/labour-crisis-israel-anti-semitism/
The party exec committee is looking like a robot with a ray-gun having taken a hit to its control system, gone rogue & now zapping its members with random bursts. Now jews are subdividing themselves into good jews & bad jews (mentioned) & couple of days ago I saw a fascinating youTube interview by George Galloway of Prof Rosen, who said now he's being called a bad jew!
Takes me back to childhood in the fifties & constant lecturing about good boys & bad boys. Were there good girls & bad girls?
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
I totally agree, Katharine. No jewish ancestry in my family that I'm aware of, and I can quote the Professor of Genetics at Harvard, who in his new book that just arrived from overseas declares that race has no genetic basis.
However, denial of the historical evidence that something is causing them to excel in whatever they apply themselves to at a disproportionate rate is not to my taste. Silly as climate-change denial. Reality is there for us to base our lives on. Sure, part of it is socially constructed, but hiding from it tends to make folks delusional, induces pathologies. Which is what those opposing free speech are demonstrating.
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Jesus. : )