THE HISS OF DEFLATION

Brendan O'Neill illustrates how erudite sarcasm neatly deflates the pretensions of the high and mighty panjamdrums populating that rarefied atmosphere of what might loosely be termed 'academia' these days:

"Some of us were lucky enough never to have heard of Ms Sarkar before this TV ding-dong (and the vast majority of Britons still enjoy this privilege, of course). But five minutes of Googling tells me she is a middle-class academic who appropriates black street slang to appear more authentic than she is? Blacked-up university leftism is where we’re at now, guys. How more Britons do not die from cringing, starting with Ms Sarkar’s own students, I will never figure. She also apparently writes for Novara Media, which is a kind of Vice for bourgeois leftists; socialism for Shoreditch Shitheads. And now, of course, she is the woman who said ‘I’m literally a communist, you idiot’ to Piers Morgan’s wobbling face, which is nice: 15 minutes of fame and all that. The clickbait industry wrote it up, tweeted it, and waited for students and unemployed people to provide them with the clicks that help them keep going. And so is the mad cycle of online noise sustained, sadly."

ALLIT-ERATA-FEST

The 'wicked' West needs a few more Trumpian 'terminators' to wipe the globalist grins from Marxist mouths.

AN EDUCATIONAL ASSIST

A mere snippet from one of the many, many important issues excised from 'educational curricula' in schools/colleges/Uni's these days:

My name-changing friend did not know that slavery occurred on every continent except Antarctica. Europeans enslaved other Europeans. Asians enslaved Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans. Arabs enslaved other Arabs. Native Americans even enslaved other Native Americans.
He accused me of "relying on white historians" who, he insisted, had a "vested interest to lie."

What about Thomas Sowell, the brilliant economist/historian/philosopher, who happens to be black? Sowell writes: "Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century.

"People of every race and color were enslaved -- and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed."
Sowell also wrote: "The region of West Africa ... was one of the great slave-trading regions of the continent -- before, during, and after the white man arrived. It was the Africans who enslaved their fellow Africans, selling some of these slaves to Europeans or to Arabs and keeping others for themselves. Even at the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere. ... Arabs were the leading slave raiders in East Africa, ranging over an area larger than all of Europe."

and.............."I asked my friend if his anger over slavery extended to countries like Brazil.

"Brazil?" he said.
Harvard's Department of African and African American Studies professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- who also happens to be black -- wrote: "Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America. And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That's right: a tiny percentage. In fact, the overwhelming percentage of the African slaves were shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America; Brazil received 4.86 million Africans alone!"  [Larry Elder]

And to those who constantly carp (incorrectly) that Christianity supports slavery they fail to acknowledge that before Christianity slavery was as much a fact of life as marriage, and that it took a Christian politician; Wilberforce, to campaign against it and with the help of Christianised consciences, he won! Freeing multitudes within the Western nations and around the world.

Although only an idiot believes that it does not still take place.

READ THE SIGNS

The recent win by a left wing activist in a New York Democratic primary merely exemplifies the tragic superficiality of politics in the new age:

But he added that Ocasio-Cortez’s win was less an endorsement of her leftwing ideology than a reflection of Democratic voters’ current preference for fresh faces and female candidates. [Lauren Gambino]

Unfortunately many vote on these unsubstantial issues and in doing so open the door to massive ideological impositions on the entire population, and most (I would daresay) do not like what they think they want when they get it; i.e. the French revolution, the Russian revolution, the Maoist revolution, the Cuban revolution, the Cambodian revolution, the Venezuelan revolution ...etc etc ad nauseum.

Freedom is not something to be taken for granted. We in the West should not believe that our relative freedom to disagree or to do as we want within the law as an automatic 'right' bestowed upon us by some egalitarian overseer such as the United Nations. It has been a hard won right, usually involving the sacrifices of many, but it is very easy to lose. 

The Marxist view and its impact on society has been well documented throughout the twentieth century and though many of the young people who wish to try it on in the West are starry eyed romantics, those who thump the drum behind the scenes are fully cognisant of what the totalitarian imposition of absolute power means: it means power and position to the overseers.  

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.  [Winston Churchill]

2 L8 ZE CRIED!

This is a sampling of some of the Sydney University 'intellectuals' who oppose a centre for the study of Western Civilisation @ Sydney University...it doesn't take an Einstein to work out why:

"Nick Riemer, who appears to be a driving force behind the opposition, specialises in semiotic theory... In addition to what is a decidedly postmodern area of study, ­Riemer’s publications also reveal a cultural-left inclination. Titles include The Roots of Islamophobia in France, where he argues hostility towards Islam, instead of being caused by terrorism, “grew out of elites’ need to manage working-class resistance”.

Riemer’s other publications deal with the plight of refugees on Manus Island and “why racist John Howard doesn’t deserve an honorary doctorate”.

Linda Connor, who co-wrote the attack on Howard with Riemer, is also not an academic specialising in Western civilisation. Research interests include a “study of environmental change and energy transitions” and her qualifications include a PhD in anthropology dealing with “fieldwork in Indonesia, on transformations in Balinese religion, and ritual, healing and spirit possession”.

Professor John Frow['s]... research interests include “cultural studies”, “post-structuralist theory” and “the sociology of literature”. Publications include Marxism and Literary History.

Fiona Lee, also within the ­Department of English, expresses an interest in teaching prospective students about “critical theory, particularly in the areas of post­colonial, race/ethnic, gender, and queer studies”.

Not to be considered passe, Olivia Oliver-Hopkins, who also signed the letter opposing Ramsay, lists her research area as ­“examining the significance of the southern imaginary in modern American horror film through the lens of queer theory”.

PS....the irony is that these will be the first 'useful idiots' to be annihilated by the totalitarian regime should Australians be foolish enough to embrace their ideology.

SNOWFLAKE DERANGEMENT

Thirty percent of all American children grow up with only one parent and yet the leftists are whinging like brain damaged galahs about illegal immigrant children being separated from their parents. 

However a basic research of the data reveals that 90% of these 'children' ARRIVED in America without their parents.....whaaaaaat?

Oh, and the picture doing the twitter sewercircuit of children in wire cages was from the OBAMA era! whaaaaaaat?

It's all just a beat up, fake news, a nothing-burger in the words of a fake news expert.

Trump derangement syndrome on full alert. 

Snowflake blizzard. 

LYING PAYS

Telling the truth about issues just doesn't cut the mustard these days. Politics is better served with lies and power is what's truly important[sarc], just ask Nietzsche:

• Arthur Phillip did not employ cannons and landing craft to shell and storm the shore (hence there was NO 'invasion').
• So far, hold onto your britches, catastrophic climate change has greened the planet.
• Pacific islands are not sinking. The Pacific nation of Tuvalu, for example, “long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels—is actually growing in size” – Nature Communications, February 2018.
• Each year millions of people flee or try to flee to countries whose culture is — or was — based on Judeo-Christian values; there is no reverse fleeing.
• Immigrants who have knocked on the door and been let in are nowhere near the same as interlopers who sneakily break in.
• Unemployed white people living in the opioid-afflicted Rust Belt in the United States are not privileged.
• Capitalism has brought untold riches and lifted swathes of humanity out of poverty.
• Trump’s mannerisms when confronted by a report from Serge Kovaleski of the NYT – whose right arm is partially withered – were no different from the same convulsive mannerisms he has used on numbers of occasions to express befuddlement. This has been well documented by those who don’t hate Trump.

I choose not to mention the state of the Great Barrier Reef, except to say that relatively speaking its death throes put the length of Jimmy Cagney’s death scenes in the shade. It has been forever dying to my memory. Think about it. Would the budget have allocated half a billion dollars to protect a healthy, robust and resilient reef? Hardly likely