Posted on 11/12/2015 2:02:58 AM PST by markomalley
The racist, McCarthyite, totalitarian movement rearing its ugly head on college campuses as diverse as Missouri, Yale and Vanderbilt is being treated by conservatives as a case of kids too fragile to handle views with which they disagree. This may work as a debating tactic but it misunderstands both the malignancy of the politics behind the campaign and the ferocity of its radical leaders. Now they are calling for the heads of liberals (and getting them). But quaint American prejudices like the First Amendment still stand in their way. But for how long? If this movement, which includes large contingents of the Democratic Party – including the president, achieves critical mass and succeeds in its agendas and acquires the necessary power, who can doubt that they will be putting dissenters in prison and worse? These are people intoxicated with their own virtue, and determined to purge non-believers in their path. They are a perfect analogue to the Islamic fanatics who want to purify the planet. While the Islamic fanatics be-head, the American fanatics suppress and burn. At bottom, they see the world in parallel terms: Slay the infidels wherever you find them.
The current eruptions on college campuses, which will be escalating through this year, are the product of four decades of capitulations to leftwing racism and political correctness, which is a totalitarian party line whose inventor Mao Zedong murdered 70 million Chinese in its name. America still has strong traditions of intellectual pluralism and individual rights, which are obstacles in the way of the progressive storm troopers, but for how long? How many capitulations by so-called liberals, how many unconstitutional executive orders, how many coercions by Democrat-controlled government agencies before there are no obstacles left?
We saw these lynch mobs first hand in Ferguson, but only an inaudible few were willing to name them for what they were. In Ferguson, the president of the United States supported the lynchers, along with the Democratic Party and the leftwing chorus. And so it spread to New York and Baltimore and now Missouri and Yale. The time has come to call this for what it is, an American fascism. But the time is also getting late to reverse the tide.
Then wallow in, and enjoy your ignorance.
Guess I struck a nerve. It’s Horowitz that’s wallowing in ignorance and I refuse to participate. At least he agrees with Hillary, as do you, apparently.
Keep em coming, I’ve got all day.
Restore the republic.
Please elaborate. How?
After it’s all over, the ones left alive are the best armed and courageous. The new leaders we select will reestablish the Constitution and the republic. Having lost the republic once, those who make it through the tribulations will ensure that it will never happen again.
There is another possibility; that an evil person may take advantage and rule as a despot. That we cannot allow. The natural state of man is freedom, not slavery.
Bill Ayers does, presidential advisor and general big shot.
I don't know about his SDS gun moll, Bernadine Dohrn.
The Killing Fields was on last night .... powerful testamentary representation of what the Khmer Rouge and totalitarianism are really like.
I hope they run it every night, until liberal heads explode.
By the way, the Khmer Rouge killed a ton of people for owning glasses. That meant they could, and did, read.
No, no, Horowitz is just reciting the Leftist rant that he is attacking. I think you misunderstood him.
the Khmer Rouge also killed off the pop singers, something Hollywood doesn’t really comprehend...
“Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll” [Official Documentary Trailer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipq4FefX5Ps
SLEEPWALKING THROUGH THE MEKONG trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohR-9ugs9V0
This is the trailer for Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, the documentary film featuring Dengue Fever. The two disc set, including the DVD of the film and the film’s soundtrack, will be released on April 14, 2009 in the US. The film chronicles the journey taken by Los Angeles based Khmer rock band Dengue Fever to lead singer Chhom Nimols native Cambodia during the 2005 Water Festival. The bands performances there marked the first time a Western band had performed classic 1960s and 70s Cambodian rock n roll in the country where it was created and nearly erased from existence by the brutal Pol Pot regime.
Iran similarly had a “cultural revolution” in the 70s that wiped out what existed before.
Michelle Obama said our HISTORY and TRADITIONS would have to change.
Do you think she meant that literally about our history having to change, like those old Soviet encyclopedias? Like Winston Smith, beavering away in the bowels of Orwell's MiniTrue?
I have read several of his books, and I appreciate his conservative qualities. And I also appreciate the bent of this article.
But in the context in the article and how he used it in his opening sentence, I don’t believe he is gratuitously using the word in a mocking way or throwing it back at them. While David Horowitz is a conservative, I believe that historically, he doesn’t have any appreciation of McCarthy and as he would likely put it, his “methods”.
There are a lot of conservatives who feel that way about McCarthy, that he ran roughshod over people, unfairly painted them, shouted them down and wouldn’t let them speak, which is how David Horowitz is rightly painting this campaign we see on campus.
In that narrow sense of how the word “McCarthyism” is used by society, David Horowitz is spot on and correct and I don’t have an issue with the meaning he intended.
I have an issue with using him as the example, which I think is exactly what he did.
However, the “McCarthyism” lie is propagated over and over again. I think is unfair, undeserved, and a shame. McCarthy was a patriot who sacrificed his office, his reputation, and eventually, his life in defense of his country from what we know now for certain was not a “Red Scare” of boogeyman communists hiding under beds, but was a serious infiltration of communists and communist sympathizers in government, particularly in the State Department.
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