Comments on: Forbidden to Forbid: Word-Craft of the Culture War

By: akademiis

akademiis — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:20:50 +0000

affirmative action

racial discrimination
enforced racial discrimination
enforced racial discrimination program
enforced racial preference
governmental racial privilege system

By: IA

IA — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 02:42:55 +0000

“I just sat through a three day conference of left-wing mutual masturbation . . .”

You must have the patience of Job or the stamina of Casanova.

By: Gordian

Gordian — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 02:24:07 +0000

Those number are irrelevant. Women are an oppressed class, Men are oppressors. Therefore, to make them equal and ready to join the community of perfect egalitarianism, men must be oppressed. Thus, equality, leftist-style. And of course, only the oppressed (leftists) know when that equality is achieved, so they can only determine the necessary amount of oppression for the oppressors.

I just sat through a three day conference of left-wing mutual masturbation about privilege and oppression. I can rattle this crap off all day long.

By: IA

IA — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:13:48 +0000

So 58% of state college students are women and 42% men. Therefore, this is mathematical equality against all forms of order. But it is also symbolic. However, they know the reality and don’t seem the least bit bothered by it, violently or otherwise.

By: Gordian

Gordian — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:42:18 +0000

I like John Crow Ransom’s discussion of form as discipline and the retreat from form as symptomatic of the modern rebellion against all forms of order.

By: IA

IA — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:19:38 +0000

Thanks for the polite response. How do you explain Modern Art?

By: Gordian

Gordian — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:11:53 +0000

Well, I think Nick Steves said it below. You’re assuming an objective content to the symbol of “equality” that doesn’t exist. Equality is a mathematical function that is drawn into political theory through analogy, such that it cannot be understood literally and thereby cannot be objective in the positivist sense. Equality as a symbolic notion must be filled with an ideological meaning by whoever uses it, and even you are filling it with a meaning imbued by your own metaphysical worldview when you deny that leftists believe in “real” equality. They do believe, whole-heartedly, in equality as understood through the prism of their ideology; the nature of leftist myth demands true belief and cannot be sustained without it, just like any other cult.

If they were being disingenuous, we wouldn’t see the violent reaction to reality infringing on their myth. The genocidal urge in leftism is a result of true belief, not a deviation from it. When reality contradicts the myth, there are two possible responses on the part of the true believer: self-destruction or destruction of the offending reality. Sontag believes she is making the world equal by annihilating the white race, whose very existence proves her ideology to be false. Like I said before, equality in the eschaton justifies the actions in the present which (in the leftist’s mind) achieve that eschaton. The character of the present and present actions are irrelevant. The perfect society myth is everything.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:57:01 +0000

Digging up a leftist that isn't perfectly consistent with equalist dogma is hardly a proof of anything. We don't expect leftists to be consistent, or even coherent. Egalitarianism is the occult force behind leftism. It is felt by them more than it is thought. I don't suppose Mao and Pol Pot were being perfectly consistent in their equalism either when they murdered millions. But they did so because of their occult motivating force.

By: IA

IA — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:19:29 +0000

They pretend to believe in equality. They play mind games with themselves. I like Voegelin’s gnostic interpretation. But, unlike previous gnostics modernism is nihilistic, so there is no millennium. Only an endless series of illusions to mask Will to Power.

By: Mark Yuray

Mark Yuray — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:56:32 +0000

Truly masterful piece. The disembowelment of language is perhaps the most important issue for rightists today.