Lee on Nov 01 2008 | Filed under: Culture
I tend to take a liberal attitude toward alternative lifestyles generally. Apart from the moral requirement to protect personal freedom, I like to think they do more to enliven the human experience for spectators, than they do to exert the kind of apocalyptic moral corrosion envisioned by the likes of Robert Bork, et al. But [...]
MikeR on Aug 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Stop the ACLU“A man who is already crusading against ladies’ nights in bars has sued Columbia University, saying its women’s studies program is unconstitutional.”
“Maybe the whole absurd carousel of identity politics will turn full circle,
and one day an unqualified mulatto will expect us to vote for him because he’s
part white.”
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MichaelW on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Media, MichaelW's Page
Remarking on how the media narrative tends to frame stories, I once wrote:
An interesting side effect of this framework is the emergence of the hero-victim — e.g. a martyr for her cause, or the modern equivalent of a noble savage who speaks truth to power. No longer are there heroes who save lives and attempt [...]
Lee on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
In expressing consternation that women on the Left could support Hillary Clinton solely on grounds of her gender, Bookworm notes that identity politics –the idea that a person’s innate factional qualities (race, gender, ethnicity, etc) confer immutable political values– is a pretty plainly fascist modality of thought.
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