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January 29, 2017

How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism

- - there is no other word for an ideology that holds Western civilization and America's core values in contempt -- supposed to unite with "educators" who instruct elementary school teachers to cease calling their students "boys" and "girls" because that implies gender identity?
With English departments that don't require reading Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English? With those who regard virtually every war America has fought as imperialist and immoral? With those who regard the free market as a form of oppression? With those who want the state to control as much of American life as possible? With those who repeatedly tell America and its black minority that the greatest problems afflicting black Americans are caused by white racism, "white privilege" and "systemic racism"? With those who think that the nuclear family ideal is inherently misogynistic and homophobic? With those who hold that Israel is the villain in the Middle East? With those who claim that the term "Islamic terrorist" is an expression of religious bigotry? America's Second Civil War | RealClearPolitics

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 29, 2017 3:56 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Hey Hercules, quit loafing with the dough you made on the last Augean stables cleanup -- another cleanup is kneaded!
This time it's the schools. Too many rotten fish hooking our kids.

Posted by: Howard Nelson at January 29, 2017 8:26 AM

"How are those of us who oppose...supposed to unite with "educators"..."
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You don't.
Do you want to personally rehabilitate the criminal that robs you?

The correct way to deal with shitty *educators* is to remove yourself from their influence.

Yeah, I know, you'll have to take on MORE responsibility of your charges and do what needs to be done, but if you want a better quality product you're gonna hafta effect some influence.

You teach them to eat, to drink, to walk, to talk, to wipe their ass, can you not teach them to read and do basic arithmetic? If you have internet access it is very easy, though a little time consuming at first, to teach your kids how to educate themselves.

Posted by: ghostsniper at January 29, 2017 9:54 AM

We are in a civil war? I've been saying that for months: America's low-intensity civil war

Posted by: Donald Sensing at January 29, 2017 3:34 PM

I think we will see more in your face resistance, the way that customs agents are now doing with the stay of a Trump edict on foreigners holding US visas. Judges may find out just how powerless they've become when people stop obeying their lawless rulings.

Posted by: Jewel at January 29, 2017 5:39 PM

Hmmm... maybe, just maybe, if we stopped artificially and erroneously elevating the quasi-ideology of "the left" to a level it does not deserve, some real progress might actually be made.

The notion of "left" implies that it represents thoughts that, while socially unsustainable, are on the same "level" as the ideas that oppose them (i.e., "the right"). This is a huge mistake, and for all his warts as a POTUS, this is one of the things I admire most about Trump: he not only doesn't take their shit, he doesn't even acknowledge it as such - he ridicules it in exactly the way it needs to be ridiculed. When an adult espouses adolescent nonsense, that "adult" should be ignored, ridiculed or otherwise rhetorically laid low with extreme prejudice.

The Civil War of today is being waged between morally adolescent, wannabe authoritarians who are attacking morally mature, (essentially) libertarian republicans. Now you can argue and get caught up in the finer points of those labels if you want, but the bottom line is this: you can't compromise with adult Children and expect anything other than ad temperantium results, i.e., creeping social insanity.

Until self-labeled conservatives start to "get" that they're giving WAY too much credit to "the left", i.e., as simple opposition espousing notions worthy of rational refutation, things are not going to improve greatly, because moral adolescence in modern society is self-replicating (see the diseducation system).

Posted by: AGoyAndHisBlog at January 31, 2017 9:51 AM

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