Category Archives: Progressives

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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Mandatory Wokeness In Academia

Posted on July 7, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Ah Academia, what was once (and in many ways still is) the repository of civilization and society’s achievements is increasingly the faunt of poison that is slowly killing America (and Western Civilization, more broadly).      We have already seen how college … Continue reading →

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George Floyd As The Queen Of Diamonds

Posted on July 6, 2020 by The Political Hat

     One of the gravest errors of much of the conservative movement was to see a disconnect between the Gramscian marched institutions and the “normalcy” of society, at least as they experienced it. With that came the foolish idea that “it … Continue reading →

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When The Revolution Comes?

Posted on July 2, 2020 by The Political Hat

     There are some people who seem to be curious contradictions. They are absolutely histrionic over America being lost an the eternal doom that would bring, yet somehow chalk this up to either some identified conspiracy or simply an example of … Continue reading →

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Totalitarian Salutes

Posted on July 1, 2020 by The Political Hat

       Just as “Black Lives Matter” has become a woke shibboleth, the raised fist salute of defiance, with origins of the terroristic Wobblies and other hard Left ideologies, like Communism, has become the signifier of support for totalitarianism, much as … Continue reading →

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Whither Columbia?

Posted on June 30, 2020 by The Political Hat

     ‘Tis an interesting confluence in the year 2020, where statues of Columbus, et al., are being torn down because of “racism”, including by the California state Senate which ironically voted to endorse racial discrimination by removing the prohibition of the … Continue reading →

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Venezuela, A Pariah Of Oppression

Posted on June 29, 2020 by The Political Hat

     Actual socialism doesn’t work, not even in Venezuela, so they’ve embraced… money laundering, schemes to get around sanctions, graft, and criminal cartels!   Yet they still have gas shortages.      While some nations like the U.S. are standing up against Venezuela’s … Continue reading →

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