02-05-2017, 11:43 AM
(02-05-2017, 08:50 AM)Galen Wrote:(02-05-2017, 05:22 AM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(02-05-2017, 03:13 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: [quote pid='20470' dateline='1486279521']I didn't even know who Milo was until the Berkley incident. I wouldn't view trashing a small one night gig as being worth all the losses and negative national publicity myself. But, I not a progressive like you who doesn't want to really think about stuff. How many colleges are there available within the United States for the adults to decide to send their kids to receive a quality college education? How many American adults removed Berkley from the list of possibilities?
No problem with that; it might be a good idea. Oakland has had several incidents, and this might have been already instituted, I'm not sure.
But the demagogues like Milo have to be countered. Otherwise they stir up lots of violence, whether by folks on his side or opponents.
Wow, black bloccers administering beatdowns!
Looks like this is the death of the left. The day has arrived when the antifa = fascists.
#ShutDownBerzerkly
This is pretty routine behavior for the left these days. Not the Eric the Obtuse will admit it. The irony of having the authoritarianism of the left revealed in all of its hideous glory where the free speech movement started. Identity politics and the culture of outrage fostered by the PC crowd is pretty damn destructive but knowing the left as I do they will double down on it.
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Thee center-left is non-violent. The Black Block is authoritarian and violent.
Donald Trump has done more to spark mass outrage than any left-wing radical. He has done much to stir the disgust of the center-left with his ethnic and religious bigotry, his calls for violence against those who make even symbolic opposition to him, his antifeminism, his broad anti-intellectualism, his contempt for the environment and for objective science... he violates the values of middle-class liberals who have never been known for violence. He governs like a tyrannical boss, something unprecedented in American history. Even in wartime, Lincoln and FDR were capable of some subtlety in decision-making. Of course, comparing Donald Trump to Lincoln and FDR is a travesty.
Feminism, respect for formal learning and science, non-violence, environmentalism, and rejection of bigotry are all mainstream middle-class values. Conservatives typically avoid trashing such values. Right-wing extremists often have no trouble trashing those values. Even some neo-Nazi types recognize the virtues of a clean environment as a necessity for the health of their beloved white race.
We Americans have a model to imitate -- the civil rights struggle for Southern blacks. This was the model that the People Power movement in the Philippines used against the dictator Ferdinand Marcos (sure, the military and police made its choice with the Filipino people) and in anti-communist campaigners of the former Soviet bloc with figures as disparate as working-class Lech Walesa and intellectually-bourgeois Vaclav Havel.
Government of the economic elites, by the economic elites, and for the economic elites to the exclusion of everyone else must perish in infancy if we do not abort it in an electoral campaign.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
