Category Archives: Progressives

Quick Takes – Collapse of Marriage, The Secular Inquisition, and Imperial Precedent

Posted on February 5, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Quick Takes – Collapse of Marriage, The Secular Inquisition, and Imperial Precedent      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 … Continue reading →

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Democracy of Now – Tyranny of the Future

Posted on February 4, 2015 by The Political Hat

     One of the stark contrasts between “Left” and “Right” is the question of tradition.  This is often simplified as “looking in the future” while “living in the now” in contrast with “being stuck in the past”.  Such simplicity makes the … Continue reading →

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Flowchart for Choosing Your Gender

Posted on February 3, 2015 by The Political Hat

     For the vast majority of people, they are either male or female based upon the presence, or lack of, dangly bits.      For the less than 1% of people (special little snowflakes included), there is this handly little flowchart.      Click on … Continue reading →

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Occupy Syllabus: A Fisking

Posted on February 3, 2015 by The Political Hat

     How dare a classical social theory class talk about classical social theorists of Western thought be mentioned, at the expense of modern theorists and foreign ideologies?      A rather pathetic whining about just such a class graced the student pages of … Continue reading →

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Urban Utopia, Whether You Like It Or Not

Posted on February 2, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Urban planners remain enamored with a centralized and compact city where the Plebes will be enriched by the culture fed them by the elites (who all have country houses, of course).      Upon what do they plan their utopias?   Failed Soviet … Continue reading →

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Islamic State is Motivated by Islam; National Socialists were Motivated by Socialism; Huffington Post Motivated by DERP

Posted on January 30, 2015 by The Political Hat

     The Islamic State calls itself Islamic.  The Islamic State declares that it is motivated by Islam.  The Islamic State declares that it wants to impose Islamic law.  To any rational person it is clear that the Islamic State is motivated … Continue reading →

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Suicide is Male Privilege

Posted on January 29, 2015 by The Political Hat

It is being taught as absolute truth that being a privileged oppressor turns people into a social misfit (presumably due to covetously being covetous) who are then driven to suicide by their own evil. Click on image for larger image.

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Social Justice is Antithetical to Privacy

Posted on January 29, 2015 by The Political Hat

     One of the core tenets of “Social Justice” is the fundamental transformation of society.  To fundamentally transform society, you must fundamentally transform human thinking and behavior.  You can’t fundamentally transform human thinking and behavior if they have the legal shield … Continue reading →

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Why Settle for One Pronoun?

Posted on January 28, 2015 by The Political Hat

     When you can have around a dozen?

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Blaming Whitey 101

Posted on January 28, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Arizona State University has finally provided that one class which was denying everyone a politically correct education: “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.”      Unsurprisingly, the course description is a hodge-podge of “critical studies” like “schools of thought” that … Continue reading →

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