The next few weeks expect my presence here to be a tad sparse as I am entering the end of my school's term and therefore exams and essays galore. So, here are some links to other articles and columns to hold you over.
Cathy Young's "You Can't Whitewash the Alt-Right's Bigotry": A brilliant dissection of the what the alt-right is, how it got started, and why it's bad. The best sum-up line of hers I can find: "This is a movement that counters the toxic culture of the left with a toxic brew of its own: a mix of old bigotries and new identity and victimhood politics adapted for the straight white male."
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Charles C.W. Cooke's "‘He Can Change’: The New York Post Endorses Carol’s Boyfriend": A funny parody of the New York Post's endorsement of Donald Trump where they endorse Carol's decision to stay with her boyfriend. The first paragraph: "Carol’s boyfriend is a mercurial figure — a potentially nice guy, but unreliable, dangerous, and married to someone else. Exactly who he is can be hard to make out amid his capriciousness, his lying, and his occasional descents into violence." It gets better from there.
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Jonah Goldberg's "TV, Abortion, and the Contradictions of Liberalism": Jonah on a recent Big Bang Theory episode where Bernadette and Howard exclaim how they "made a person" pointing out that TV can be quite conservative at times and "And so it is with abortion. With the exception of Maude (an awful left-wing 1970s TV show) and some “edgy” HBO series, there have been no major sitcoms in which a character has had an abortion."
Arthur C. Brooks' "Bipartisanship Isn’t for Wimps, After All": A good read from the author of excellent book The Conservative Heart talks about the importance of reaching across partisan lines. Arthur Brooks is also president of AEI, the American Enterprise Institute, a fairly important conservative think tank that is the home of Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the Factual Feminist, Christina Hoff Sommers. An excerpt: "You can’t single-handedly change the country, but you can change yourself. By declaring your independence from the bitterness washing over our nation, you can strike a small blow for greater national unity."
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Cathy Young's "You Can't Whitewash the Alt-Right's Bigotry": A brilliant dissection of the what the alt-right is, how it got started, and why it's bad. The best sum-up line of hers I can find: "This is a movement that counters the toxic culture of the left with a toxic brew of its own: a mix of old bigotries and new identity and victimhood politics adapted for the straight white male."
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Charles C.W. Cooke's "‘He Can Change’: The New York Post Endorses Carol’s Boyfriend": A funny parody of the New York Post's endorsement of Donald Trump where they endorse Carol's decision to stay with her boyfriend. The first paragraph: "Carol’s boyfriend is a mercurial figure — a potentially nice guy, but unreliable, dangerous, and married to someone else. Exactly who he is can be hard to make out amid his capriciousness, his lying, and his occasional descents into violence." It gets better from there.
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Jonah Goldberg's "TV, Abortion, and the Contradictions of Liberalism": Jonah on a recent Big Bang Theory episode where Bernadette and Howard exclaim how they "made a person" pointing out that TV can be quite conservative at times and "And so it is with abortion. With the exception of Maude (an awful left-wing 1970s TV show) and some “edgy” HBO series, there have been no major sitcoms in which a character has had an abortion."
Arthur C. Brooks' "Bipartisanship Isn’t for Wimps, After All": A good read from the author of excellent book The Conservative Heart talks about the importance of reaching across partisan lines. Arthur Brooks is also president of AEI, the American Enterprise Institute, a fairly important conservative think tank that is the home of Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the Factual Feminist, Christina Hoff Sommers. An excerpt: "You can’t single-handedly change the country, but you can change yourself. By declaring your independence from the bitterness washing over our nation, you can strike a small blow for greater national unity."
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2 comments:
Interesting article on the Alt-Right kit. I think she's missing some depth in terms of where these people really came from and when they entered the ranks of conservatives, but it is an excellent dissection of who they really are. As we've said here many times, they are racist white socialists.
P.S. Good luck with school!
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