Julie Birchill coined the term “cry-bullies” to describe the hideous hybrid of victim and victor that characterises contemporary “progressives”. Fuelled by the poisonous ideology of “intersectionality”, which argues that everyone is merely an accumulation of either privileges or injustices, “social justice warriors” pose as victims (or claim to speak for them) while behaving like the …
Continue reading What the cry-bullies don’t get about free speech
The left have taken to invoking a literal footnote from Popper's Open Society, to try and justify their addiction to fascist violence. But they completely misunderstand Popper, who would have tolerated the alt-right, much as he disliked them. On the other hand, he would have condemned Antifa as criminals.
Originally published at Incite.Do read on ...
You'll notice a certain theme to this week's items. In response to escalating political violence, I've decided to let some saner voices, from past and present, speak - to remind us all that there's a better, a more moral way. Do read on ...
Punching a girl, without provocation, even from Antifa, isn’t at all heroic. This is apparently an unpopular opinion in some circles, but one must stick to one’s principles even when, especially when they’re unpopular, if they’re to be worth anything at all. Do read on ...
What's Lushy been reading this week? 6 February 2017 Riots and Rejection of Free Speech at UC Berkeley Once again, Some Black Guy nails it: 2o17, the year that you're a fuckin' Nazi if you just dislike illegal immigration, y'know, if you just dislike people breaking the law, if you just have a differing opinion …
Continue reading Of Curmudgeonly Interest This Week – 6 February 2017
The idea that "Everyone I don't like is Hitler" is a common social media meme, but there's a more insidious instance of this thinking that is promulgated by the supposedly "curated" media - the almost reflexive habit of labelling anyone who deviates from the received centre-left wisdom as "far-right", which is as much to say, …
Continue reading The journalistic sin that festers in open sight
Nearly 100 years on, gangs of black-clad, anti-democracy thugs are again rampaging through the streets, smashing property and beating up their opponents.
A Devil's Curmudgeon 