tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post5233523347842861769..comments2024-03-26T10:03:51.827+13:00Comments on Karl du Fresne: The self-righteous rage of the LeftKarl du Fresnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-45135811881049169922017-07-28T13:03:46.003+12:002017-07-28T13:03:46.003+12:00What an inane diatribe against a straw man enemy. ...What an inane diatribe against a straw man enemy. You have grouped all people who don't agree with you into an enemy "the left" and tried to show that are organised into some sort of global hegemony. If this is the way you really think, you should see a therapist.<br /><br />What is this groups doctrine? Can you point it out? No? That is because this group does not have one, because the group does not exist. You have created an enemy that you can deride for your own personal glee.<br /><br />For instance "Post-modernism has the enormous advantage that it can’t be challenged on a rational basis, since it rejects reason and logic as tools of white privilege.". So you equate any form of leftist thinking with postmodernism when the two are only linked tenuously. Rethink your entire idea. Sure there some left leaning people are deniers of truth, reason and logic, but the same could be said for the far right supporters of Trump, for instance, who constantly deny truth, reason or logic. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html<br /><br />As an example, "the left", by and large, accept human induced climate change based on scientific evidence. They use truth, reason and logic to accept man is changing our climate. The far right deny the truth, are completely illogical and ignore the science. If postmodernism, as you say, is only the domain of "the left" then it would be "the left" who deny AGW and the right who support it. Is this the case?<br /><br />There is no "leftist fundamentalism". There are disaffected people who are showing their dissatisfaction with the current right leaning world governments. When there are predominantly left leaning governments, surprise surprise, the right come out in droves as they are then the disaffected. It appears you want to ignore this and illustrate that it is only ever left wing anarchist groups which ever use violence or social/economic disruption as a form of protest. <br /><br />So lets just forget about all the right wing climate change denying farmers who clogged up Wellington streets in protest of an emissions tax. Lets just ignore people like Eric Rudolph/Timothy McVeigh/ or the Charlston Church shootings, perpetrated by those who clearly had far right beliefs. Or the violence at the right wing Trump rallies which Trump helps to incite by encourage violence against those that don't agree with him. These don't exist as "... we never hear of conservative protesters resorting to such aggressive acts of intolerance". There is an entire wikipedia page that refutes your assertions by listing all of the violence perpetrated by the far right! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism<br /><br />I recommend you reanalyse your entire thinking on the matter. You have become guilty of exactly what you accuse others of being guilty of - ignoring truth, reason or logic.Brentleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07046785600632872808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-3923115427902508372017-07-25T09:53:02.124+12:002017-07-25T09:53:02.124+12:00I guess your definition of leftist fundamentalism ...I guess your definition of leftist fundamentalism is different from mine.Karl du Fresnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-52358217044083953002017-07-24T20:58:14.696+12:002017-07-24T20:58:14.696+12:00"post-modernism, which dismisses reason and t..."post-modernism, which dismisses reason and truth as artificial constructs that serve the interests of ruling elites." <br /><br />You'll never find a better explanation for TRUMP. Turns out Debord and Baudrillard and Foucault were right, after all. <br /><br /><br />"Being a generally moderate society, New Zealand has yet to be exposed to the worst excesses of leftist fundamentalism, "<br /><br />Oh please: 1868. 1879. 1912. 1917. 1932. 1951. 1981. 1982. 1984. 1999. <br /><br />kjxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17186392533175224810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-1201294175749281972017-07-23T01:39:22.358+12:002017-07-23T01:39:22.358+12:00The Free expression people in USA have been largel...The Free expression people in USA have been largely advising allowance to the the Media and the regressives to their inevitable self implosion. But that is measured with the belief of some that they are at the beginning of a civil war over there.<br /><br />After the Manchester horror, there have been low key references to 'Private Enterprise'. <br />This is all low key of course, because You tube, Facebook and twitter do not favour suggestions of violence from other than the left.paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-18315106776974947722017-07-23T01:36:11.283+12:002017-07-23T01:36:11.283+12:00The Free expression people in USA have been largel...The Free expression people in USA have been largely advising allowance to the the Media and the regressives to their inevitable self implosion. But that is measured with the belief of some that they are at the beginning of a civil war over there.<br /><br />After the Manchester horror, there have been low key references to 'Private Enterprise'. <br />This is all low key of course, because You tube, Facebook and twitter do not favour suggestions of violence from other than the left.paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-37412726591759090742017-07-22T13:18:32.312+12:002017-07-22T13:18:32.312+12:00"Post-modernism has the enormous advantage th..."Post-modernism has the enormous advantage that it can’t be challenged on a rational basis, since it rejects reason and logic as tools of white privilege." <br /><br />A couple of comments. <br />1 - I will use reason and logic as long as I draw breath, and just because some braindead lefties say that those things are "tools of white privilege" does not make it so! <br />Opinion does not equal FACT. <br /><br />2 - Post-modernism (and leftism) are both utter bollocks. <br /><br />Reason and logic have existed since the age of the great Greek philosophers. They are tools which can be used by *anyone*.<br />The same goes for mathematics and music. <br /><br />To infer otherwise is to be raaaaaaaa-cist! (Hypocrisy has never bothered lefties). <br /><br />If reason and logic are "tools of white privilege", then in the same vein it can be said that "ignorance and stupidity are tools of the braindead Left". <br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07786935427427629740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-9142309542813222682017-07-17T11:58:56.300+12:002017-07-17T11:58:56.300+12:00A very acute analysis of what we are seeing around...A very acute analysis of what we are seeing around the world and serves to alert many of us to be wary of supporting some of the groups. One of the questions might be though, are not many of the violent rioters really only hoods looking for a cause?<br />Another first class column from Karl.<br />Paul RPaul R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14967011788833857095noreply@blogger.com