Monthly Archives: July 2020

The Underground Railroad Is Now Racist

Posted on July 23, 2020 by The Political Hat

     A mural at the Vermont Law School which depicts the underground railroad and both Black and White individuals helping said slave, including Frederic Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown has been deemed racist and oppressive. “‘The depictions of the … Continue reading →

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The Hitlerite Playbook

Posted on July 23, 2020 by The Political Hat

     To many people, the temper-tantrums in Portland and Seattle, as well as rioting elsewhere, the danger of the Left is presumed to be of a Jacobin nature of open revolt and tearing down, and more akin to the French, Russian, … Continue reading →

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When Intolerance of Tolerance Becomes Tolerance of Intolerance Against the Designated Evil Race

Posted on July 22, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Being open to the artistic works of people regardless of the race of said people is inclusive and diversity-minded… or at least is supposed to be provided that the race of said people is not “White”. Indeed even considering accepting … Continue reading →

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Stalin Clapping Test For The 21st Century

Posted on July 21, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recounted in “The Gulag Archipelago” of an audience applauding Josef Stalin who kept on applauding for over ten minutes to the point where some people’s hands started bleeding, until one brave person became the first to stop and … Continue reading →

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Social Justice: The Presumption of Guilt

Posted on July 21, 2020 by The Political Hat

     One of the core tenets of the Social Justice faith is a manichean worldview of demonic perpetual oppressors and saintly perpetually oppressed; this requires a presumption of guilt based on race (or some other kyrirarchical aspect) which can not be … Continue reading →

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The Canceling Of America And The Rough Woke Future Slouching To Be Born

Posted on July 20, 2020 by The Political Hat

     From the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror with its obsessive desire to toss old units of measurement and replace them with with such follies as metric time and a new calendar untethered to the past that starts at … Continue reading →

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News of the Week (July 19th, 2020)

Posted on July 19, 2020 by The Political Hat

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Firing Line Friday: The Revisionist Historians

Posted on July 17, 2020 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      With the call by some to redefine American history as one of inherent evil, by #BlackLivesMatter, the “1619 … Continue reading →

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Reddit Approval of Racial Hatred

Posted on July 16, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Reddit recently updated its statement on “Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability” which is about justifying its recent massive ban of popular subreddits like r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse, by banning “hate” against “[m]arginalized or vulnerable groups” including “victims of a … Continue reading →

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Concerning The “Forced Trajectory Project”

Posted on July 15, 2020 by The Political Hat

     While some cities’ and counties’ leadership is fully on board with the woke demand of “defunding the police” or otherwise more honestly wanting to abolish the police altogether, others are worried of losing their phoney-baloney jobs and would have to … Continue reading →

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