Posted on 06/05/2017 10:42:42 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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So why are these left-wing extremists attacking one of their own liberal comrades? The answer is simple: they are not liberals. They are illiberal, left-wing fascists.
These so called “activists” are not interested in dialogue — one of them said exactly that in a video of their confrontation. They are only interested in their political agenda being enacted at all costs, without any negotiation with dissenters. To me, that mentality is inherently illiberal and undemocratic. It is close enough to fascism to warrant use of the label “fascist” at this point.
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As a label, “social justice warrior” just doesn’t cut it. It has too much of a positive connotation and can be embraced all too easily as the cool, rebellious thing to be.
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The majority of Americans who utterly reject the ridiculous behavior of this growing group must not let the extremists control the narrative by characterizing their behavior as being politically rebellious or “on the right side of history.” Instead, this behavior must be portrayed as it truly is, as a shameful and pedestrian surrender to authoritarian political doctrine and mob mentality.
Considering this, “fascist” works fairly well as a label for members of the social justice mob. It drives home their authoritarian, ideologically-possessed mindset and tactics which can only be described as systematic brainwashing followed by witch hunts for any who would even think to diverge from the social justice orthodoxy.
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As with Professor Weinstein, I am no conservative. I am the former president of the College Democrats of Maryland. However, this insanity is unrepresentative of true liberalism. Liberals who don’t call out these illiberal fascists are complicit in their growing influence and impunity. We real liberals must wake up, we must stand up, and we must act.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
real democrats say nothing because they WANT fascist Brown shirts intimidating the public. Democrats are tyrants in the making, and Trump spoiled their agenda.
scratch a democrat find a fascist.
No.
It's not.
Attended Univ. of Maryland during the SDS nonsense of the 60’s.
He is probably a flaming lefty who is just upset because they haven’t set the dean’s office on fire. Yet. /s
More crazy is better! Look at the DNC chair. He’s a prime example of the democratic party mindset along with every single antifa loon.
Wear that tar gladly, lefty. It is all you have left.
...and on HuffPo no less.
The writer of the article has it upside down, the number of repsonsible non extreme liberals is a tiny tiny minority. Purge the liberal ranks of liberal fascists, and almost no one will be left.
Hey HuffPo, you and today’s left opened up this Pandora’s box and now you’re disavowing the monsters that you let loose? GTFO with that nonsense. We have told you for decades that appeasing and pandering do not work to make people better. In fact, they only unleash the worst traits in humans. You never learn and you never will. What you can’t do is disavow the very creatures you created.
FU.
"Illiberal elements?" Or as I think of them: Violent brain-dead thugs...
In this case, the students would have been ordered to disperse. They would have been disciplined or even arrested for not complying with school policy. This double standard starkly displays the danger of a far-left ideological mob that is exempt from otherwise enforced social and legal
consequences.
To be frank, if this ordeal does not boil your blood and make you want to fight the regressive left and campus extremism, then you are either ideologically possessed or intellectually blind. For the rest of us, there is clearly fight on our hands for the heart of Western civilization which calls on all of us to speak up.
Hey Chris Matthews, Willie Geist, Michael Moore and Jeremy Peters THIS IS A LIBERAL writing this piece - which is it? Ideologically possessed or intellectually blind?
This man and many others predicted so-called “education” would get here. Nobody listened and now it has. Anyone listening now?
It’s just one of the reasons he had to be eliminated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSSbYkC6ZE8
Well, I can see why you’re upset. However, one can actually see the humor in this if one can appreciate the irony.
The author sounds good typing away on Huffington Post—but I would not want him watching my back anywhere on that campus....
Been there back in the 1960s—never trust a liberal...never.
Progressive: The leftist mental illness has progressed to criminally insane.
Que the Crybullies meme! d;^)
I know that left-wing fascism is somewhat of an oxymoron.No.
Correct:Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and [already in 1939!] it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.What is promised to us as the Road to Freedom is in fact the Highroad to Servitude. For it is not difficult to see what must be the consequences when democracy embarks upon a course of planning. The goal of the planning will be described by some such vague term as 'the general welfare'. There will be no real agreement as to the ends to be attained, and the effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go: with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all. ____________— F A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (May, 1945 Reader’s Digest Condensed Version)
I stopped at social justice warriors having such a positive connotation. I consider the term to be purely pejorative.
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