Tag: social-justice

Matthew Boose, Black Grievance Politics Is Destroying Civilization

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By Matthew Boose Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect. Arguably, the greatest indictment of leftism is its preference for the vagrant and the criminal over the law-abiding citizen and victim. In politics, there are all kinds of disagreements about the role and scope of the state, but the one thing the state must do is protect the innocent. Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect. Yet racial idolaters on the…

Henry Giroux, Fascist Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: Confronting the Domestication of the Unimaginable

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BY HENRY GIROUX Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it has been faced. History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals. – James Baldwin The long shadow of domestic fascism, defined as a project of racial and cultural cleansing, is with us once again. Americans have seen the ghosts of fascism before in acts of savage colonialism and dispossession, in an era of slavery…

Heather Mac Donald, The Corruption of Medicine

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Heather Mac Donald Guardians of the profession discard merit in order to alter the demographics of their field. The post–George Floyd racial reckoning has hit the field of medicine like an earthquake. Medical education, medical research, and standards of competence have been upended by two related hypotheses: that systemic racism is responsible both for racial disparities in the demographics of the medical profession and for racial disparities in health outcomes. Questioning those hypotheses is professionally suicidal. Vast sums of public and private research funding are being redirected from basic science…