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At least this leftist is honest

Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 7 months ago to Politics
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It's rare for hard-lefties to be this honest. But what worries me is that there would be numerous universities who would love her position, embrace her with open arms and indenture her for a lecturing career with a fast track to the top. Ellsworth Toohey in a skirt!


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  • Posted by Maritimus 8 years, 7 months ago
    I am astounded that extreme coercion is invoked for the purpose of advancing "liberalism". That label has lost any reasonable meaning.
    Mussolini, the founder of fascism was a socialist before that. Hiller's movement was called "national socialism". A short definition of socialism is: expropriation of privately owned businesses.
    Any time the "liberals" pronounce the word liberalism, Thomas Jefferson takes a 360 in his grave.
    EDIT: missing article
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  • Posted by strugatsky 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Fascism is a form of socialism. Nothing surprising here. Except for the fact that socialists generally hide their true nature and this idiot does not, possibly due to her mental age being even younger than her physical age.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 8 years, 7 months ago
    Eliminating freedom of speech in the name of "jus-
    tice"?! Does she think justice can be had apart
    from freedom? So "at least" she is honest? As I
    quoted the other day, "Hypocrisy is the homage
    vice pays to virtue." What she is is brazen.

    I believe that this is what comes of public
    education. Government control of education
    can, and will, and does, and must, lead to gov-
    ernment thought control.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "settled science"
    There's no such thing as settled science. Science invites new data. It's never settled.
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  • Posted by ewv 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Harvard has been a center for Pragmatist philosophy since the beginning of the movement with William James and others in Cambridge, along with the intellectual rise of the progressives. Beginning in the late 1800s it was the center of both philosophy in the United States and Pragmatism. The two main leaders of the Pragmatist movement in philosophy were William James in the psychology department and representing the 'empiricist' side, and Josiah Royce, head of the philosophy department and representing Hegelian influences. See Bruce Kuklik, The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930. If you want to see the importance of ideas in directing the course of a culture, read about the influence of Pragmatism in Louis Menand, *The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America". Both authors are sympathetic to Pragmatism. Harvard relishes the reputation.

    Student activists suppressing free speech are also not new. Harvard has had its share of "protests" shutting down "unwanted" speakers, including by the violent New Left, SDS types from the 1960s and 70s. This isn't a 'man bites dog' story.

    A few years ago Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe openly attacked First Amendment freedom of speech during a panel discussion on gun control. He thinks that limiting the First Amendment would be useful to get rid of the Second Amendment.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 7 months ago
    I guess you can't reason with a mindless, brain only, 180 degree opposed viewless point.
    When one tries, they make it illegal.
    It's like trying to wake up islams bicameral slumber, no matter what you say or do, it's just not in their experience nor vocabulary.
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  • Posted by plusaf 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, I think I might vote for Hillary or Bernie BEFORE punching a spot for Ralph, but it's YOUR vote...

    :)))))))))
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  • Posted by JuliBMe 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Quite frankly, I'm not being represented at all. And, I pay my "fair share" of taxes. I did not ask for, nor do I approve of at least 85% of what they spend my money on. I'm sure that is true with a majority of people who do pay taxes.

    I live in California. I have NEVER voted for a democrat. Yet the only representation available to me is a democrat. So, I have never been represented.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 7 months ago
    only truespeak is permitted;;; the media agrees!!! -- j
    .
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 8 years, 7 months ago
    Let us first define the word: Justice.
    At least she is young. The world will kick her in the ass and educate her about REAL justice...
    unless you are "Brain-dead Bernie", of course.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 7 months ago
    I hope more and more of these people come across with this honesty so others can objectively review the real agenda of these totalitarians.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If we're going to go back to having pagan priests as leaders, maybe we should go back to sacrificing them to the gods when there's a recession.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What's rare about that? Is there a single non-fascist in the Democratic Party?
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  • Posted by JuliBMe 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is because the voting age is so low and eligibility is not confined to people with "skin in the game" (ie., people who pay the bill) that it seems to have become pointless. That's not to say that it actually is pointless because if all concerned citizens actually did vote, the government we'd have would more reflect the majority. As it is, the only "concerned" citizens who vote with any regularity are the left while they ACTIVELY demoralize the right's desire to vote. And many on the right fall for it EVERY time.
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 8 years, 7 months ago
    Don't bury the lead: RUMOR OF CONSERVATIVE SPEECH AT HARVARD. (Full disclosure. $5Au took one course at Harvard and, incredibly, the prof covered economics without political commentary. He might be fired if this is discovered.)
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  • Posted by broskjold22 8 years, 7 months ago
    She has no idea what the difference between politics and economics is. She seems to equate political rights and economic "rights", believing political rights were achieved by leftist policy which naturally extends to the economic sphere. The inversion she represents is astonishing.
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