Tag Archives: Social Justice

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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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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#OrcLivesMatter

Posted on July 14, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Nothing is immune to Social Justice, it seems, with more “geeky” hobbies and pastimes often getting hardest hit, particularly since “geeks” and “nerds” tend to have more formal education from Leftist-dominated institutions. This has been the case, also, with Dungeons … Continue reading →

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Cancel Culture Is About Imposing Privilege And Power

Posted on July 13, 2020 by The Political Hat

     It has been noted that “cancel culture” (or as George Orwell might put it, “unpersoning”) is arbitrary and capricious since there are no generally understood rules of what is or is not acceptable, which is especially pernicious when not only … Continue reading →

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Firing Line Friday: How Does It Go with the Black Movement?

Posted on July 10, 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”.      Racial animus has long been a topic of debate. A discussion with Huey P. Newton, along with Patricia … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – When All Lives Don’t Matter: Non-Woke Dean’s Lives Don’t Matter; Hate-filled Cambridge Professor’s Life Does Matter; White Lives Don’t Matter

Posted on July 9, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: All lives matter… except for THEM!      First, a little mood music: … Continue reading →

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When Everything Is Racist All Anti-Racism Is Arbitrary And Capricious

Posted on July 8, 2020 by The Political Hat

     The usual rejoinder to “when everything is ______” is usually “than nothing is”. However in reality, the actual response is far more insidious. In reality, when everything is racist, just as when everything is a crime, actual enforcement based on … Continue reading →

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