“I’m forever blasting such smug snobs for never exposing themselves to even the mildest of opposing ideas, or to individuals outside their class and cohort, except to mock them. Yet how, I asked myself, was I any better, unless I too occasionally dared to venture beyond my own ideological comfort zone?”
And when you’re finished that, there’s more.
She nails it, but why not use the correct terminology…. Progressives/leftists are Communists in denial
The UN Emma Lazarus poem was a USSR example of idealism….The Communist net affect is best compared to the Song “Hotel California” (Especially the last lines)
“You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave! ”
I see the lefties have been successful in convicting Dean DelMastro of spending his own money in Peterborough during the election. Now that the liberals have ruined one manès life over $21,000 can the MSM now concentrate on Marc Harb as well as the 7 liberal politicians arrested in Quebec, or will they continue to pursue the crime of the century committed by Mike Duffy.
Yeah like your driving down the road and some idiot on a bicycle is hogging the road and their wearing headphones while listening to the taped sounds of whale calls just blow your horn at them from 2 or 3 feet back or if your in a parking lot and see a car with a bumper sticker reading LOVE YOUR MOTHER or THE EARTH IS YOUR MOTHER and showing the earth roll up your window spit on the ground and say to them I JUST SPAT ON YOUR MOTHER
I’m surprised anyone changed their mind. The ones I deal with in BC are so convinced of their moral high ground that “they don’t need no stinkin’ facts”. On so many fronts and in so many ways I feel we are the cusp of what Mao called “the cultural revolution”. Willful stupidity on the left and faux conservatism on right that embraces willful stupidity as a product to be sold so they can fight the left’s willful stupidity.
You have to remember this is the first time many of the people in this audience had ever heard about the true nature of islam. After every terror attack leftists spring into action to defend the actions of the terrorists and say that muslims are peaceful and this does not represent the mainstream muslim culture. The MSM don’t report on the rampant misogyny or the pedophilia in islamic cultures. The real sick ones are the ones on the stage here who know the enemy well and remain steadfastly aligned with them.
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“The ones I deal with in BC are so convinced of their moral high ground that “they don’t need no stinkin’ facts”.”
I agree, and have had similar experiences. On second reading, in fact, I agree wholeheartedly with your whole comment.
Philip G. Shaw, exactly. It is a sad day when so-called leading citizens in our society quote communists as ideal.
I expect that many Germans, Swedes, Frenchmen, and other Europeans, particularly the female half of the species, are less accommodating to the 7th century mentality than they were in the past. The latte sippers of Canada will have to learn the hard way, just as the young girls of Cologne have. Then again, also, the spandex nut-less males running our institutions will also have to wake up.
Kathy scores again…love her description of the strutting-turkey Simon.
Have to admit I ignored most of Simon’s drama….couldn’t handle it.
Steyn and Farage were winners.
Sometimes facts have an effect.
People like Louise Arbour are extolled by those who hold mediocrity as a virtue. That she considers (as she clearly does in FFF’s report) child rape by the Islamist masses to be a trifle, says as much about her as it does a body of people who consider her one of the nation’s brightest spots.
The woman is a mediocre b!#ch and any Canadian who thinks that she is worth her salt is the same.
I expected Arbour and her partner to do much better in the actual debate, given the hospitable location. Instead, offering only liberal platitudes of the kind we heard so much of last Oct, they offered nothing in rebuttal to Steyn and Farage. It looked good on Arbour, not at all used to having to defend herself, this definitely wasn’t the World Kangaroo Court.
A particular low for her was trying to compare Italian immigrants and the mafia
with Islamist refugees and Jihad. Not a great night for Liberals.
Still unfortunately it is only a debate, a discussion the real winners, Arbour, Trudeau, McCallum, remain firmly in control.
sonny boy, that’s just human nature. We see the same in here on different matters. Point out some truth, like the RC church and it’s illegal and immoral acts, and bang, some one gets their pinko panties in a bunch, and nay says it, right Osumashi Kinyobe. Fact how is the trial by the Vatican of the 2 reports that outted the corruption in the Vatican, going? The Vatican can’t get a panel together to investigate the corruption within it’s walls, but it can sure prosecute the whistle bowers!!
Peter – I recently had a similar experience at an APEGA event in Calgary.
A newly graduated engineer was listening to the keynote speaker talking about the moral requirements of our profession – considering the affects upon those who are most affected. He said with a smug smile that no-one could say that about the job he was going into. I asked him what it was. Carbon capture, he noted proudly. So I asked him if he knew how a commercial greenhouse works. He knew that CO2 promotes plant growth and that added CO2 means less water and fertilizer is needed (he said he’d look into whether CO2 actually stopped convection or whether that was necessary for the functioning of the GCM to raise temperature, but I have my doubts). So I told him that the immoral dimension of his job is to deny food to the poorest people on Earth, those who live at the subsistence level. He looked startled (never having hear a dissenting opinion before?). His next sentence was “but if they’ve never experienced the benefits of the increased CO2, and they’re used to living that way, then we’re not taking anything away from them.”
I told him that that was one of the most evil things I had ever heard someone say. Once again he looked surprised. “I didn’t mean it that way.” A few of the other folks at the table were looking uncomfortable (I guess they thought it was a safe space), so I switched approaches. I asked if he thought that all cultures should be considered equal. He agreed immediately. I said “should they all be considered equally in the public square?” He said yes. I said “OK, according to some cultures, because of the colour of your skin, your hair, and your eyes you should be a slave. Will you agree with them to submit to slavery?” He said No. I asked why not. He said “all individuals get to decide on their own.” I said “no, in your culture all people get to decide on their own. In their culture, you’re a slave who gets to decide nothing. Which is more important to you: that you get to decide your fate on your own, or that all cultures are equal?”. I had to explain it a few different ways, but eventually he agreed that, in fact, not all cultures are equal because it is more important that he gets to decide on his own.
The expressions on the other students while the discussions were going on shocked me. I’m guessing critical thinking isn’t part of the curriculum. I’m also pretty sure that I made no lasting impact on him, that level of ignorance and self-assurance doesn’t learn easily.
Every time you talk, all I hear is: “katoliQs n JOOOS trk mer jrbs”.
I don’t know what it is.
Funny, NME666 never met Winston Churchill, but Winston Churchill seems to have known him: “Can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
Winston Churchill was one of the finest minds Western civilisation has produced.
NME666 is… well… NME666.
“These assholes are still the ones who run everything.” Sad and true.
I’ve been a P. Eng. for more than 35 years and I’m quite unimpressed with what’s being taught in engineering schools nowadays. I blame both the students and their professors. Few of either party have much of a practical perspective–if it can’t be simulated with software, they wouldn’t know what to do. I doubt many of them would know what to do with a set of hand tools.
Maybe I’m biased. Both my parents had their journeyman’s papers in their respective trades. I grew up in the oil industry and I worked for 3 summers in a refinery while I was an undergrad. Doing all that tends to sharpen one’s focus on what can and can’t be done and, sometimes, if it should be done.
Well, I have something complimentary to say about Ms. Arbour. She performed a major service to Canada in 2004 by resigning her seat on our Supreme Court.
Some may think that unimportant. In response I would direct you to her recent performance vs Steyn and Farage at the Munk Debate in Toronto and ask you to imagine her as one of our judges.
“- and ‘conservative’ human rights activist – Mark Steyn”
Heh.
All four were credible spokespersons for their perspectives – courts, arts, politics and culture.
Simon green shoes and Nigel blue suit were captivating to watch as both know how to entertain an audience while painting pictures with their words. Nigel grew stronger as the night wore on, and his quip about the deal with Turkey was larfworthy.
Simon made the mistake of not reading enough Steyn…full stop.
He reaped what he sowed, Bomber Harris style.
Louise Arbour was impeccable as an ‘Official’ Canadian, whose wisdom is witnessed by her many achievements and awards – as well as an ‘Official’ Feminist – “certainly of my generation”.
Beyond that, Ms. Arbour is aware of the fear that stalks certain elements of American society looking forward to the next election, and would never espouse as champions people who have a dismissable/inadmissable ideology.
Those who haven’t watched this superb tragicomedy are the poorer for it.
Winston S. would be delighted to watch this latest Steyn vignette.
Wow! Great read. Watched the debate and felt a sinking feeling of the persecuted class.
I think we’d benefit from a Prime Minister who stayed in her room until it was time to come out and enlighten the “More Fully Evolved”.
Our very own Donalda Trump.
FFF (Five Feet of Fury) For Prime Minister!
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
How many people saw the debate, something like 0.00001 % .
Many here would not know, if there was not a link few days ago. It could be said that the debate is unknown.
Isn’t it interesting how the liberal crowd (a supposition), changed their thinking, after getting an actual information that they could not get from the media cartel.
How would the world change if the world could know the truth?
The media cartel controls the information and the same people teach “journalist” wannabees. So for now and near future, there will be less and less of actual information and more and more of socialist propaganda.
Arbour continues to call us all to be more tolerant of “the Other”, but as was mentioned, she comes from a province that refuses to accept itself as Canadian, and who really thinks that the rest of Canada, especially B.C. and Alberta should pay for their bills. NME666 still has an inordinate fear of the Other; tho he seems less frightened by the horrors of radical Islam.
It’s preposterous to think of FFF as Prime Minister unti the country is ready to re-instate the death penalty.
Now that the CPC is once again the Loyal Opposition, I support the idea of FFF as placeholder/Leader of the LO until Mr. Harper returns from well earned vacation.
That is so cute! Thanks!
Who thinks if Louise Arbour sat on the Human Rights Kangaroo Court on Mark Steyn’s case he’d be legally able to participate in this debate?
From Laura Rosen Cohen’s blog post:
“But most important to her [Arbour] is that we “signal” (I believe she used that exact word) our virtue and supine position to our Islamic overlords.”
We hear this a lot from the Authorized Knowers — that we have to prove how much better our tolerant society is. But have we not spent the last thousand years proving it, over and over? We are better than they are, and anyone with eyes to see can be in no doubt of it.
I think we should start treating the superiority of civilization over barbarism not as a proposition, but as an axiom. And to start acting on that axiom as a matter of course.
From Laura Rosen Cohen’s blog post: Jim Whyte
Laura Rosen Cohen gets it right!
She proves that it is possible to overdose on Marxism.. They become walking/talking zombies babbling talking points without any real world understanding of consequence. The average IQ of a Marxist is the ability to breathe..50% are dead and the other 50% walking dead. Marxism is like the mythical Greek “Siren Songs” that lured sailors to their death..
When you kill a terrorist…they win (mental delusion) !!! Prove it
The left is doomed, what the hell can we do fix the right? I’ve let my membership lapse and thus can longer serve at my local eda. While I understand that life is complex, what I witnessed from the unite the right dinner in oct. 03 until the deserved shellacking we took in the fall is we became worse than that which we wished to replace. Kind of a civilized North Korea as far as respectful criticism went.13830
Re: Schama
I saw no need to insult inoperable tumors.