"woke" "conspiracy theory" "racist" "far right" .... all just meaningless epithets that are casually tossed around ... It's making meaningful discourse increasingly difficult... but it does promote grift (on all sides)
Canada was, at one time, well on the way to being a secular country.
Christianity was on the wane as the level of education increased and people grew increasingly skeptical of institutionalized religion.
Religious morality was seen to be too inhibiting and restrictive in our increasingly tolerant liberal society.
Most Canadians, including most non-secular people, accepted that religion was no longer the institution it once was.
There were exception to this drift away from religion: the Sikh and Hindu communities remained committed to their faith, as did the Jewish and Buddhist communities.
Immigration increased the Sikh and Hindu populations and the heretofore minor Muslim population began growing dramatically.
The new arrivals were just as committed to their respective religions as the local communities and formed their respective cultural silos as encouraged by the federal government.
White Canada continued on its path to tolerant secularism but this was not acceptable to the increasing numbers of people in the non-white non secular community.
Ironically, in today’s white progressive Canadian society, Christianity is largely dismissed as a hindrance to secular morality while non-Christian religions are afforded a much higher level of respect in spite of being at far greater odds with secular morality than is Christianity.
It is now deemed politically insensitive to wish a strange a Merry Christmas but it is quite acceptable for other non-secular groups to call for alterations in Canada’s laws to permit those practised by their communities to supersede them.
Such initiatives are disturbing to those who do not want a society substantially influenced by religious dictates - particularly those dedicated to unquestioned obedience and suppression.
Islamism was never an issue until its radical adherents turned to terrorism - when Canadians reacted with justifiable caution towards those promoting Islam they were quickly demonized as being ‘Islamophobic’ by progressives but events have shown their caution was very well placed.
Monolithic religion had been on its way to the scrap heap of history in Canada but it is staging a revival that is unwelcome to those who have lived briefly without its control over their lives.
Good grief, Oilly drops a catch at silly mid on. Who brokered Quatar's neighbours being kissy-kissy with them again? A clue: the same prat who thought Faucism and fast-tracking not-vaccines were a good idea.
Never mind glorified rounders. R. I. P. Raman Subba Row; ; Derek Underwood; Mike Procter; & Saeed Ahmed.
The “better system” would be to adhere to the Constitution and the Republic as it is designed. Not what ever the hell we currently have. Rule of Law. NOT Law by Rule.
Point 4., thank you STEM students for making Google and Metas hiring job easier. There are plenty computer science grads from Israel, India and Eastern Europe who thank you and have a work ethic you could never compete with.
Subramanya is surely right about trouble on both the left and the right. As for feeling politically homeless, it’s not that bad. Those of us who believe in liberty, individual rights including the individual rights of members of racial, sexual, and religious minorities, a fully secular government, strong national defense, and working with allies to defend the liberal order in the world haven’t had a political home during this century. You get used to it.
One of the things that remind a man he is getting old is seeing the great players of his boyhood die off. There were two in the last few days – first Jerry West and then Willie Mays. Bill Russell and Jim Brown went in the last couple of years. Mantle, Musial, Williams, Unitas, Aaron, Berra, and most of the rest have been gone a while. Sandy Koufax and Oscar Robertson are the only ones I can think of who are still alive, and they are very old men. And we boys who followed them and collected their cards in the 1950s and early 60s are old enough.
There is a good case for thinking Mays was the best baseball player of his generation. It probably comes down to him or Mantle (with Williams and Musial belonging to an earlier generation). I would go with the old version of Bill James, placing Mantle as better at his peak than Mays at his, but Mays better over a full career. He was really good for a really long time.
>Those of us who believe in liberty, individual rights including the individual rights of members of racial, sexual, and religious minorities, a fully secular government, strong national defense, and working with allies to defend the liberal order in the world haven’t had a political home during this century.
I'm on the same page (and frankly, frustrated with TFP's coverage of certain issues; specifically, I get the impression that because of their experience with insane activists, they believe certain alternative lifestyles exist solely because of mass hysteria and/or some sort of plot to undermine the West.) It seems like things are getting worse, though, on both sides, and if people don't stop digging in their heels we're all screwed.
Baseball: There were great white ball players, great black ball players like "Hey Say" & now there are great hispanic players. Take me out to the ball park, a game I continue to watch & love!
Der Vashingto Beobachter Post und Der Neu York Sturmer Zeitung: May they die a slow, agonizing death; Their editors & op-editorialists can go work for CNN, NPR, BBC or better yet the National Inquirer. Also there's always Pravda & Izvestia.
Trump: What's the true danger to democracy & the Republic? It's the Perversion, politicalization & weaponization of the Justice Department. The Supreme Court is denigrated, attacked & it's rulings ignored. Biden & democrats claim Trump will create a dictatorship when in reality that's what they have attempted to develop.
Writing in The Bulwark, Cathy Young argued that Ayaan’s account of the subversion of the West amounted to a “conspiracy theory”
Apologies to Ms Young if she’s a veteran, first responder, skinned her knee, had to go without her favorite Starbucks beverage, is a Mets or Jets fan, or was traumatized reading Shakespeare.
Vast majority of Americans have no knowledge of nor experience of what Ayaan was writing about.
Worse they can’t imagine a world beyond bumper stickers of “coexist” , “be nice”, “love wins”.
Waiting on Sting to release new edition of his foreign policy hit: “Hamas loves their children too”
When crossing the street is the equivalent of daring it would make sense Ms Young believes Ayaan is making up stories.
They don’t believe evil exists beyond Trump, people of faith, conservatives, and red meat eaters.
Dictators are cuddly people — father figures who love everyone. Killing fields are a hoax.
They’re quite comfortable with the poor and middle class sending their children off to defend the country. Although can’t understand why any country would need a military. Hezbollah needs 400,000 rockets to track climate change.
Their naïveté about good and evil is infantile.
Commentary wondered about the Biden admin Israel twists and turns. They cited a change after the Bush admin. Huh?
Biden cut his dentures on Vietnam era politics. So too the Clinton’s. Obama once had to cross the quad in snow and nearly slipped.
When ambassador Stevens was murdered Obama did nothing. Hillary wondered what difference it makes to care. Cowards! P***ies the lot of them.
They should never be commander in chief because they’ve never been punched in the face to know real hardships and evil exists in the world.
Cathy Young is a 61 year old Russian-American who was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United States when she was 17 years old. Born in Moscow to a Jewish family, Ekaterina Jung was 17 when her family emigrated to the United States in 1980. She became a naturalized citizen in 1987 as Catherine Alicia Young and graduated from Rutgers University in 1988. She completed her autobiography, “Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood”, published in 1989.
Young is a contributing editor at Reason. Since 2014, she has regularly contributed to Time magazine. She now also writes for The Bulwark. Young knows a lot more about Russia and Marxism and what Russian subversion is and does than either you or Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
That may be, but lies are the coin of the realm in the alternative universe the Left is pushing on us, so why should we not assume she is dealing in familiar currency?
Everything Ali wrote matched my own experience, reading and understandings.
Yuri Bezmezov described a world he lived in for a long time. And fir my own part I view delusions and lies as so alike that there is really no need to separate them.
I do value truth, which is precisely why I dislike 99.9% of your posts. You are the ultimate purveyor of untruth, lies, misinformation and non-facts in the TFP comments. If there’s anyone here that promotes conspiracy theories more than you do, I have yet to find them. Anyone who promotes The Epoch Times as a decent news source should be laughed out of the room.
That said, I read Ayaan’s response to what Cathy Young wrote, and it was 10 times better than her TFP essay. Had she written that to begin with, she would not have received the criticism that she got. Clearly, Ayaan needed an editor and a slap in the face to get her head on straight. I thank Young for having done it.
Give me ONE example of something I have said you consider wrong. Everything, I will point out at the outset, is exactly equal to nothing. Give me something specific. Indont think you can or will. Prove me wrong.
"Citizens in high-income nations are growing less satisfied with democracy. In 2019, 56 percent of voters in a group of 12 developed countries said they were dissatisfied with the way democracy was working in their country. This year, that figure was 64 percent. (And the better system would be. . . ?)"
The better system would be democracy. Too often, that's not what we're doing, especially when we censor free expression or throw the regime's opposition into prison.
We are not a democracy and never have been. We are a constitutional republic
Sadly, the democrats have gone so far left and are handing out freebies (using our tax dollars) that if we give the Democrats any more power we will become a socialist nation
A Constitutional Republic places the locus of political control in the States. It distributes power legally and as a matter of principle. The Constitution has been shredded so much in so many ways that we are very very far from the nation our Founders intended.
"woke" "conspiracy theory" "racist" "far right" .... all just meaningless epithets that are casually tossed around ... It's making meaningful discourse increasingly difficult... but it does promote grift (on all sides)
Canada was, at one time, well on the way to being a secular country.
Christianity was on the wane as the level of education increased and people grew increasingly skeptical of institutionalized religion.
Religious morality was seen to be too inhibiting and restrictive in our increasingly tolerant liberal society.
Most Canadians, including most non-secular people, accepted that religion was no longer the institution it once was.
There were exception to this drift away from religion: the Sikh and Hindu communities remained committed to their faith, as did the Jewish and Buddhist communities.
Immigration increased the Sikh and Hindu populations and the heretofore minor Muslim population began growing dramatically.
The new arrivals were just as committed to their respective religions as the local communities and formed their respective cultural silos as encouraged by the federal government.
White Canada continued on its path to tolerant secularism but this was not acceptable to the increasing numbers of people in the non-white non secular community.
Ironically, in today’s white progressive Canadian society, Christianity is largely dismissed as a hindrance to secular morality while non-Christian religions are afforded a much higher level of respect in spite of being at far greater odds with secular morality than is Christianity.
It is now deemed politically insensitive to wish a strange a Merry Christmas but it is quite acceptable for other non-secular groups to call for alterations in Canada’s laws to permit those practised by their communities to supersede them.
Such initiatives are disturbing to those who do not want a society substantially influenced by religious dictates - particularly those dedicated to unquestioned obedience and suppression.
Islamism was never an issue until its radical adherents turned to terrorism - when Canadians reacted with justifiable caution towards those promoting Islam they were quickly demonized as being ‘Islamophobic’ by progressives but events have shown their caution was very well placed.
Monolithic religion had been on its way to the scrap heap of history in Canada but it is staging a revival that is unwelcome to those who have lived briefly without its control over their lives.
So they can deface a 5,000-year-old monument but people get arrested for running over a Pride flag on the ground?
Is Stonehenge really a “monolith”? Isn’t it a “multi-lith”?
Good grief, Oilly drops a catch at silly mid on. Who brokered Quatar's neighbours being kissy-kissy with them again? A clue: the same prat who thought Faucism and fast-tracking not-vaccines were a good idea.
Never mind glorified rounders. R. I. P. Raman Subba Row; ; Derek Underwood; Mike Procter; & Saeed Ahmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-WU7RPxEw
When the day is done and the ball has spun in the umpires pocket away
And all remains in the groundsman's pains for the rest of time and a day
There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for four with the spin
On a dusty pitch with two pounds six of willow wood in the sun
When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he's gone
If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly Mid-on
And it could be Geoff and it could be John with a new ball sting in his tail
And it could be me and it could be thee and it could be the sting in the ale, sting in the ale
When an old cricketer leaves the crease, well you never know whether he's gone
If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly Mid-on
And it could be Geoff and it could be John with a new ball sting in his tail
And it could be me and it could be thee and it could be the sting in the ale, sting in the ale
When the moment comes and the gathering stands and the clock turns back to reflect
On the years of grace as those footsteps trace for the last time out of the act
Well this way of life's recollection, the hallowed strip in the haze
The fabled men and the noonday sun are much more than just yarns of their days
When an old cricketer leaves the crease, well you never know whether he's gone
If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly Mid-on
And it could be Geoff and it could be John with a new ball sting in his tail
And it could be me and it could be thee and it could be the sting in the ale, the sting in the ale
When an old cricketer leaves the crease, well you never know whether he's gone
If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly Mid-on
And it could be Geoff and it could be John with a new ball sting in his tail
And it could be me and it could be thee
“ (And the better system would be. . . ?)”
The “better system” would be to adhere to the Constitution and the Republic as it is designed. Not what ever the hell we currently have. Rule of Law. NOT Law by Rule.
Former KKK Grand Dragon David Duke is officially with the Gaza groupies/Israel-haters. Makes sense, actually.
Point 4., thank you STEM students for making Google and Metas hiring job easier. There are plenty computer science grads from Israel, India and Eastern Europe who thank you and have a work ethic you could never compete with.
This whole thing is really boring. Oh well, you can’t hit a home run every day.
The only thin worse than the WaPost is reading about how bad it is! 😅
Is anyone enjoying Oliver Wiseman curating the daily news for us? ( Bari: come back. We need you. This is horrible.)
The guy is obviously jealous he isn't the Brit putting WaPo right.
Subramanya is surely right about trouble on both the left and the right. As for feeling politically homeless, it’s not that bad. Those of us who believe in liberty, individual rights including the individual rights of members of racial, sexual, and religious minorities, a fully secular government, strong national defense, and working with allies to defend the liberal order in the world haven’t had a political home during this century. You get used to it.
One of the things that remind a man he is getting old is seeing the great players of his boyhood die off. There were two in the last few days – first Jerry West and then Willie Mays. Bill Russell and Jim Brown went in the last couple of years. Mantle, Musial, Williams, Unitas, Aaron, Berra, and most of the rest have been gone a while. Sandy Koufax and Oscar Robertson are the only ones I can think of who are still alive, and they are very old men. And we boys who followed them and collected their cards in the 1950s and early 60s are old enough.
There is a good case for thinking Mays was the best baseball player of his generation. It probably comes down to him or Mantle (with Williams and Musial belonging to an earlier generation). I would go with the old version of Bill James, placing Mantle as better at his peak than Mays at his, but Mays better over a full career. He was really good for a really long time.
Thank you.
>Those of us who believe in liberty, individual rights including the individual rights of members of racial, sexual, and religious minorities, a fully secular government, strong national defense, and working with allies to defend the liberal order in the world haven’t had a political home during this century.
I'm on the same page (and frankly, frustrated with TFP's coverage of certain issues; specifically, I get the impression that because of their experience with insane activists, they believe certain alternative lifestyles exist solely because of mass hysteria and/or some sort of plot to undermine the West.) It seems like things are getting worse, though, on both sides, and if people don't stop digging in their heels we're all screwed.
>You get used to it.
I hope I do.
Baseball: There were great white ball players, great black ball players like "Hey Say" & now there are great hispanic players. Take me out to the ball park, a game I continue to watch & love!
Der Vashingto Beobachter Post und Der Neu York Sturmer Zeitung: May they die a slow, agonizing death; Their editors & op-editorialists can go work for CNN, NPR, BBC or better yet the National Inquirer. Also there's always Pravda & Izvestia.
Trump: What's the true danger to democracy & the Republic? It's the Perversion, politicalization & weaponization of the Justice Department. The Supreme Court is denigrated, attacked & it's rulings ignored. Biden & democrats claim Trump will create a dictatorship when in reality that's what they have attempted to develop.
I’ll enjoy my crow after wiping the egg off my face
Writing in The Bulwark, Cathy Young argued that Ayaan’s account of the subversion of the West amounted to a “conspiracy theory”
Apologies to Ms Young if she’s a veteran, first responder, skinned her knee, had to go without her favorite Starbucks beverage, is a Mets or Jets fan, or was traumatized reading Shakespeare.
Vast majority of Americans have no knowledge of nor experience of what Ayaan was writing about.
Worse they can’t imagine a world beyond bumper stickers of “coexist” , “be nice”, “love wins”.
Waiting on Sting to release new edition of his foreign policy hit: “Hamas loves their children too”
When crossing the street is the equivalent of daring it would make sense Ms Young believes Ayaan is making up stories.
They don’t believe evil exists beyond Trump, people of faith, conservatives, and red meat eaters.
Dictators are cuddly people — father figures who love everyone. Killing fields are a hoax.
They’re quite comfortable with the poor and middle class sending their children off to defend the country. Although can’t understand why any country would need a military. Hezbollah needs 400,000 rockets to track climate change.
Their naïveté about good and evil is infantile.
Commentary wondered about the Biden admin Israel twists and turns. They cited a change after the Bush admin. Huh?
Biden cut his dentures on Vietnam era politics. So too the Clinton’s. Obama once had to cross the quad in snow and nearly slipped.
When ambassador Stevens was murdered Obama did nothing. Hillary wondered what difference it makes to care. Cowards! P***ies the lot of them.
They should never be commander in chief because they’ve never been punched in the face to know real hardships and evil exists in the world.
Cathy Young is a 61 year old Russian-American who was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United States when she was 17 years old. Born in Moscow to a Jewish family, Ekaterina Jung was 17 when her family emigrated to the United States in 1980. She became a naturalized citizen in 1987 as Catherine Alicia Young and graduated from Rutgers University in 1988. She completed her autobiography, “Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood”, published in 1989.
Young is a contributing editor at Reason. Since 2014, she has regularly contributed to Time magazine. She now also writes for The Bulwark. Young knows a lot more about Russia and Marxism and what Russian subversion is and does than either you or Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
That may be, but lies are the coin of the realm in the alternative universe the Left is pushing on us, so why should we not assume she is dealing in familiar currency?
Everything Ali wrote matched my own experience, reading and understandings.
Yuri Bezmezov described a world he lived in for a long time. And fir my own part I view delusions and lies as so alike that there is really no need to separate them.
“ Everything Ali wrote matched my own experience, reading and understandings.”
All the more reason to ignore what she had to say.
“I’ll enjoy my crow after wiping the egg off my face“ - Tom Maj
When a mass psychosis has taken hold the only people worth listening to are heretics. But of course this only holds true for people who value truth.
Slaves cheering for their own slavery.
And the assholes that cheer them on.
I do value truth, which is precisely why I dislike 99.9% of your posts. You are the ultimate purveyor of untruth, lies, misinformation and non-facts in the TFP comments. If there’s anyone here that promotes conspiracy theories more than you do, I have yet to find them. Anyone who promotes The Epoch Times as a decent news source should be laughed out of the room.
That said, I read Ayaan’s response to what Cathy Young wrote, and it was 10 times better than her TFP essay. Had she written that to begin with, she would not have received the criticism that she got. Clearly, Ayaan needed an editor and a slap in the face to get her head on straight. I thank Young for having done it.
I read Ayaan's rebuttal and it added nothing to the original article. It was all clarification of material that was in the original.
Young's absurd application of the dog whistle "conspiracy theory" undermined her credibility.
Give me ONE example of something I have said you consider wrong. Everything, I will point out at the outset, is exactly equal to nothing. Give me something specific. Indont think you can or will. Prove me wrong.
"Citizens in high-income nations are growing less satisfied with democracy. In 2019, 56 percent of voters in a group of 12 developed countries said they were dissatisfied with the way democracy was working in their country. This year, that figure was 64 percent. (And the better system would be. . . ?)"
The better system would be democracy. Too often, that's not what we're doing, especially when we censor free expression or throw the regime's opposition into prison.
We are not a democracy and never have been. We are a constitutional republic
Sadly, the democrats have gone so far left and are handing out freebies (using our tax dollars) that if we give the Democrats any more power we will become a socialist nation
A Constitutional Republic places the locus of political control in the States. It distributes power legally and as a matter of principle. The Constitution has been shredded so much in so many ways that we are very very far from the nation our Founders intended.