Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Liberals in a Hurry.

Black Lives Matter is replaying the history of Marxism.

First, it is a useful outlier for the moderate leftists for whom there are no enemies to the left.

Next, the radical left has the moderate left executed as Menshevik traitors.

//The disruption was livestreamed on BLM at W&M's Facebook page. Students took to the stage just a few moments after Gastañaga began her remarks. At first, she attempted to spin the demonstration as a welcome example of the kind of thing she had come to campus to discuss, commenting "Good, I like this," as they lined up and raised their signs. "I'm going to talk to you about knowing your rights, and protests and demonstrations, which this illustrates very well. Then I'm going to respond to questions from the moderators, and then questions from the audience."

It was the last remark she was able to make before protesters drowned her out with cries of, "ACLU, you protect Hitler, too." They also chanted, "the oppressed are not impressed," "shame, shame, shame, shame," (an ode to the Faith Militant's treatment of Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones, though why anyone would want to be associated with the religious fanatics in that particular conflict is beyond me), "blood on your hands," "the revolution will not uphold the Constitution," and, uh, "liberalism is white supremacy."

This went on for nearly 20 minutes. Eventually, according to the campus's Flat Hat News, one of the college's co-organizers of the event handed a microphone to the protest's leader, who delivered a prepared statement. The disruption was apparently payback for the ACLU's principled First Amendment defense of the Charlottesville alt-right's civil liberties.

Organizers then canceled the event; some members of the audience approached the podium in an attempt to speak with Gastañaga, but the protesters would not permit it. They surrounded Gastañaga, raised their voices even louder, and drove everybody else away.

The college released what can only be described as an incredibly tepid statement...//

Or as they said during the French Revolution, "to the guillotines."


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Stupid me, I just realized you changed your mast head.

IF YOU ARE NOT A LIBERTARIAN CONSERVATIVE, YOU MIGHT ASK, WHY ISN’T THIS BLOG MORE POSITIVE TO YOUR POINT OF VIEW. YOU MIGHT AS WELL ASK WHY GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984 WASN'T MORE POSITIVE TO YOUR POINT OF VIEW.

So you've evolved from a neocon into a libertarian conservative? If so, that's an impressive leap so late in life. But Perhaps I misunderstand your old and new mast heads.

As for your reference to Orwell and 1984, if that was all Orwell wrote, it might make sense. It wasn't, and it doesn't. Posting anecdote after anecdote of those you identify as "leftist totalitarians" behaving like nuts does not a political ideology make, and it certainly doesn't amount to libertarian conservatism and it definitely doesn't add anything positive to the current rapid deterioration of political discourse in our country. Actually, it adds to the deterioration of said discourse. So maybe "deteriorating libertarian" would be a better moniker. Of course, as one becomes more and more of a libertarian, the more one tends to seek to force people to your point of view. Just like "leftist totalitarians." The circle of politics.

 
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