Tag Archives: Social Justice

Why Does EBONY Magazine Think all Blacks are Druggie Thugs?

Posted on August 14, 2013 by The Political Hat

     EBONY Magazine are declaring that all Black individuals are gay-bashing druggie thugs.  While this isn’t what they intended to do, it is what they have ended up doing.  They are putting out four different covers of various hoodie-wearing Black male … Continue reading →

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The Fundamental Failure of Welfare

Posted on August 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the problems with the Welfare State is that it conflated Middle Class accoutrements, such as nice homes, with Middle Class values.  Simply having the accoutrements of the Middle Class will not make one Middle Class, or instill Middle … Continue reading →

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Mayor “Filthy” Filner: More Equal Than Others

Posted on August 13, 2013 by The Political Hat

     By now the well over two dozen women who have come forward to accuse current San Diego Mayor Bob “Filthy” Filner of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching, including his hunting for nookie amongst rape victims.      It has also been revealed … Continue reading →

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Welcome To The Machine: Cory Booker’s Technological Corporatism

Posted on August 12, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Soon-to-be New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is set to transcend Obama in the realm of both crony corporatist dealing and campaign technology, all at the same time.      In a puff-piece on the civil liberties hating Cory Booker, the “Old Gray … Continue reading →

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Point Me At The (Raaacist) Sky?

Posted on August 10, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the articles of faith for the hyper-racial left is that all White people are racist because “whiteness” is nothing but false and oppressive.  To this end, White people can only fight racism, and so shrive themselves of the … Continue reading →

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The Manichean Meta-Narrative

Posted on August 9, 2013 by The Political Hat

     As has been mentioned before, “It doesn’t matter how logical or sane an idea is.  If people don’t understand the narrative it embodies, the whole human experience as it were, then people won’t connect.”  If one wins the narrative, that … Continue reading →

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America’s Marxist Future?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Under Obamanomics, people have been dropping out of the workforce, which results in an artificially low unemployment rate.  The labor participation rate has been stagnant, or depressed, if you will.  What is most worrisome is that the jobs that America … Continue reading →

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It Was NEVER About Tolerance…

Posted on August 6, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The Progressive left have often screeched “tolerance” and condemned all those who do not “tolerate” their way of life and beliefs.  Of course, what they call “tolerance” has mutated over time to mean “enthusiastic affirmation.”      With their taking of power … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Pencils

Posted on August 3, 2013 by The Political Hat

     If you need an example of the damage that the modern day publik skewl system does to children, look no further than the humble pencil, and the two very different tales about it.      Various commentators over at the Ace of … Continue reading →

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The Vanguard of the War Against Western Civilization

Posted on August 2, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Roger Kimball over at PJ Media makes a succinct but incredibly accurate insight on the modern day nature of institutions of higher education: “The problem is that they are part and parcel of a concerted assault on the fundamental civilizational … Continue reading →

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