I only ask that you edit that comment to say "The deification of criminals by BLM and Liberal organizations" to read Progressive organizations instead. Progressivism is illiberal. On my political clock, progressivism is above "the constitutional line" which spans before 3:00 on the right and after 9:00 on the left. Everything above that line is political fundamentalism. Liberals are mostly hybrids of liberal and conservative values. Progressivists are ideologues beholden to theories and solutions that don't work. Liberals on the other hand are often bleeding-heart bean counters, something we need more of.
So, deification is bad -- or just bad for people you don't like?
And how about this one:
"That the reaction is not to think it through, not to question, not to assemble facts, not to make arguments — but instead to wave banners and spout slogans such that you could hardly distinguish what they were doing from a manifesto that would come out of [does it matter?]"
— Glenn Loury, Tucker Carlson Today
When the context suits you, such words are solid gold. What you do when it doesn’t — determines the worth of your word. Loury was rightly talking about the Black Lives Matter manifesto driving the aftermath of George Floyd. But the Left’s ludicrous ways pale in comparison to conservatives going batshit crazy after 9/11. The Right delights in ridiculing the Left for burning buildings to further the cause:
Yet the “party of personal responsibility” set the world ablaze while browbeating anybody out of line in their March of Folly.
McWhorter's right. Anti-Racism has Become Religion -- but fighting that religion has become another religion (and they already belonged to one before that). You think I threw that question in there about deification just for the hell of it?
What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Religion of Ripping on Race & Woke Religions
I only ask that you edit that comment to say "The deification of criminals by BLM and Liberal organizations" to read Progressive organizations instead. Progressivism is illiberal. On my political clock, progressivism is above "the constitutional line" which spans before 3:00 on the right and after 9:00 on the left. Everything above that line is political fundamentalism. Liberals are mostly hybrids of liberal and conservative values. Progressivists are ideologues beholden to theories and solutions that don't work. Liberals on the other hand are often bleeding-heart bean counters, something we need more of.
Point taken. I prefer the term “Regressives”.
So, deification is bad -- or just bad for people you don't like?
And how about this one:
"That the reaction is not to think it through, not to question, not to assemble facts, not to make arguments — but instead to wave banners and spout slogans such that you could hardly distinguish what they were doing from a manifesto that would come out of [does it matter?]"
— Glenn Loury, Tucker Carlson Today
When the context suits you, such words are solid gold. What you do when it doesn’t — determines the worth of your word. Loury was rightly talking about the Black Lives Matter manifesto driving the aftermath of George Floyd. But the Left’s ludicrous ways pale in comparison to conservatives going batshit crazy after 9/11. The Right delights in ridiculing the Left for burning buildings to further the cause:
Yet the “party of personal responsibility” set the world ablaze while browbeating anybody out of line in their March of Folly.
McWhorter's right. Anti-Racism has Become Religion -- but fighting that religion has become another religion (and they already belonged to one before that). You think I threw that question in there about deification just for the hell of it?
What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Religion of Ripping on Race & Woke Religions
https://onevoicebecametwo.life/2024/03/18/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-the-religion-of-ripping-on-race-woke-religions-v2/