When David Horowitz asks why the numberless Womens’ Studies Departments in the US are busy assailing white patriarchy but aren’t discussing Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel or Taslima Nasrin’s Dwikhandito,
it’s not McCarthy’ism, it’s being politically incorrect. It’s tough to be an equal opportunity basher of ideology. Look at Chris Hitchens, who is an outspoken atheist and among the few journalists to rip the facade off the fake of Calcutta Agnes Boiaxhu. But his brother Pete Hitchens is a nominal Christian and unlike his brother is opposed to the war in Iraq! In fact Chris Hitchens’s fellow members of the Four Horsemen, Dawkins, Dennet, and Sam Harris are all anti-war but equally contemptuous of all religion. So we take them as they come. Opinions and then facts and theories are important and are to be liked or rejected. People? I am not so sure.

Its called MacCarthyism. He’s a whack-job on the scale as Ann Coulter. When Obama becomes Prez, these idiots will jizz themselves at having to look up to a black man for leadership.

David Horiowitz is a whack-job himself. Period. That’s your way of coping with unpalatable reality. As smarmy as Horowitz’s apologia for slavery is, his account of the some of the whacky professors of the US academy is commendable. Take for instance deep intellects such as miriam cooke (Duke, apologist for shariah), or Amiri Baraka, master of incoherent verse. There isn’t much to choose as nutcases go between a Jonah Goldberg and a Norman Finkelstein or a Bettina Apthekar and an Anne Coulter.

David Horiowitz is a whack-job himself. Period.

Is she being funny here?

I started having Sammy and Rosie_style visions of the UK… but it didn’t seem that apocalyptic to me when I was over at Easter. Sorry, Mel!

I do suspect that over here, it would collapse earlier than it has in the US, as the UK has rather less of the kind of economic and military power that let the US temporarily get away with that kind of Gramscian indifference to objective reality.

Mistreatment of the Qur’an which they denied turning out to be largely true.

Bush admitting that the intelligence on Iraq was incorrect.

Where does that leave Mel and Harry’s Place’s moralisitic arguments!

Lobby Groups are a disaster for justice and social wellbeing. They allow money to be used to purchase influence.

Phillips is too sily to realise that as your polar opposite lobby gets organised and has more money then it will at some point kick your arse.

Phillips is advocating this from a position she sees of power where her viewpoint has power. I’d liek to see her in a a decade when this influence may be on the wane.

Next she’ll be asking for Evnagelicals to come over

your own virtual ghetto is part of that happening.

There was an interesting article in the East London Advertiser about housing which is being discussed on the BNP site http://www.bnp.org.uk. One of the think tanks that Phillips is talking about, the Young Foundation, is mentioned by the BNP.

What a lot of liberal critics of the foundation are saying is that it is simply an agency of New Labour and while seemingly independent turns out documents which endorse New Labour policies and having looked at the foundation’s site and talked to people in the East End I think that the accusations are true.

It is interesting that Phillips mentions Gramsci as he is also a favourite of Nick Griffin. Gramsci believes that revolutions or radical changes in society can only be achieved when the culture of a society has been changed so that radical change is acceptable.

Phillips is the stalking horse of the radical right and unfortunately for the left they have left themselves wide open for the kind of attack that the neo cons have made so successfully in America. The intellectual running there has been neo con for years and an Obama victory would not change it. We are about to see the same thing here.

When it happens all of the quangos that will find themselves wound up will have only themselves to blame. Watch this space and do check out the BNP articles.

That is probably the best description of MP’s methods one could find.

I feel as though Jordan has just told society that it needs to put its chest away.

Eh? Surely the only people with a genuine strangehold are Gordon Brown’s inner circle at Number 10?

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