Due to their racist, imperialist, homophobic past, all of these have to go. A Devil's Curmudgeon. We Must Erase EVERYTHING “Problematic” to Achieve Social Justice. Like all bullies, continually giving in to the Cancel Culture inquisitors does nothing to satisfy their lust for power. On the contrary, the more they get away with, the greater …
O, weep for Academia — he is dead - apologies to Shelley. Two years ago, Camille Paglia stated bluntly that “universities are a wreck right now”. Two separate events in recent weeks have shown that she is right. In the first, academic activists have forcibly purged published papers they didn’t like. In the second, three …
How white leftists see themselves. The finale of Game of Thrones, and indeed its entire final season, has been easily the most talked-about television event since “Who shot JR?” – mostly for the wrong reasons. Show watchers had for years sneered at fans of George R. R. Martin’s books, who noted the steadily declining quality …
Recently, three high-profile Twitter users have been pilloried in the court of digital opinion. Two made crass jokes, the other vomited years of racist abuse. While the jokers found their careers abruptly aborted, the racist has been promoted to the pinnacle of her career.
Originally published at Incite.
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Murals and "street art" are usually pretty dismal stuff. But a new mural depicting Labor leader Bill Shorten as a two-faced snake-oil salesman manages to be better than most.
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Oops. It's been a while since I've done one of these. In fact, I've been unforgivably slack with the blog, I know. I have been busy, writing regularly. I'll update with some of my recent articles over the next few days.
Just two items for this week, and very long ones, but well worth your time. Do read on ...
The intent of this post is not to to adopt a position for or against any of the issues mentioned in it – be it same-sex marriage, euthanasia or abortion – but to point out that humanism, even secular humanism, does not, ipso facto, dictate a particular position on any of them. Yet many secular humanists seem to assume, indeed openly argue, the opposite.
This does a disservice both to the public sphere, and to humanism itself, leading as it does, some secular humanists to adopt deeply anti-humanist attitudes. 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 ...
My latest for Whale Oil blog Purveyors of narrow-minded identity politics fail to grasp the strength of truly liberal democracies, which is that their laws and institutions are crafted for the benefit and protection of everybody. Groups who, when in power, shape political weapons to bully and harass their opponents into submission are invariably dismayed …
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 …
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