Salon's blatant hypocrisy

This is why I question the intelligence of Leftists:

 

Yep. Liberals are fighting against Christianity and with fundamentalist Islam. The same thing happens on this board. Its a kinship with the same values. I wouldn't be surprised years down the road if a liberal is dumping a Christian head first over a highrise building for voting the wrong way.

 

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It's definitely one of the more inconsistent aspects of the left.

The politically correct part of the left is about as hypocritical as the feminist part.

 

No surprise really. Question is the hypocrisy is there without a doubt now come 2016 what are folks going to do about it? The democrats have pretty much shot themselves in the foot by allowing liberal radicals to hijack the party. I know many independents like myself do not see how we will be considering democrats to support with our votes.

 

I see what you mean, that did give me a chuckle though. It is called having a political agenda. There is no core values there, just an agenda that needs pushing. But if you thought Salon was going to be honest, you should have known better.

 

It's called irony.

 

There is zero surprise here, it's Salon, they should of stuck to cutting hair.

 

"Yep. Liberals are fighting against FUNDAMENTALIST Christianity and fundamentalist Islam. The same thing happens on this board. Its a kinship with the same values."

 

As much as hate to interrupt a good right wing circle jerk but you do realized these tweets are from two different people advertising their two different articles correct? Do you really believe everyone who writes for Salon.com has the same beliefs? Also the article in question by Chauncy Devega is spoof piece to make fun of all the conservatives that decry how the muslim leaders do accept responsibility for muslim terrorism.

 

Salon might as well start hanging hammers and sickles all over their site.

Their disgusting cultural marxism makes me sick.

 

I didn't check the article to know it was a spoof piece so thanks for informing me.

As far as holding the same view, I do think it hypocritical if a Leftist rag promoted an established view only for it to change tact when it came to a different group of people.

Not all writers have the same opinion, but that's why Salon has editors to choose which articles are suitable for their site's theme.

 

its not hypocrisy at all, if salon had said all white people on planet earth need too answer for charleston then it would be, but you don't hear people saying that do you? you do hear people saying the actions of a few thousand muslims needs to be blamed on the 1.5 billion muslims black white asian and hispanic worlwide. white AMERICANS aren't a race or a religion

 

That is fine. Salon is a San Fransisco based company that loses between $3-$4M a year. It represents the cultural marxism of the guy who writes the check every year to keep them afloat. No more. No less.

 

People aren't straight white christian men. What a (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) crime.

You self-pitying "Western Culture" types wouldn't know an actual problem if it broke your leg.

 

The projection here is astounding.

Salon is culturally marxist, there isnt any getting around. Everything white, straight men do is analyzed to make sure its inclusive, self-deprecating and politically correct enough. They practice minority worship - the black man can do no wrong, women are implied to be the superior sex, not using an transsexual's preferred pronouns is like saying the n-word, and denying that rape culture exists is equated with denying gravity.

They and their ilk use the classic proletariat-bourgeiosie thing, without those specific phrases, with straight white men being the evil bourgeios opprossors. Critical theory at its finest: who you are is not as important is your demographic group.

 

Cultural Marxism is nothing more than a trumped up conspiracy theory.

 

its more of a modern spin on Hitler's propaganda about cultural Bolshevism, than a conspiracy theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism

 

Here's the thing: Straight white christian men actually are the ruling class. They have life on easy mode compared to anyone else of the same economic status. Analyzing society while taking that into account is actually a pretty sensible thing to do.

 

When I say Cultural Marxism, I'm referring to Critical Theory. I call it that because that's what it is: Marxist theory extended to cultural and social studies. The name "Critical theory" is basically a PR thing, because calling something Marxist doesn't win you many points these days. That or the Frankfurt School guys that came up with it were so full of themselves they thought this was THE "critical" theory - ie Marxist cultural criticism, and any other methodology was wrong, so there was no need to specify that is was Marxist.

 

I have been an FDR Liberal all of my life. These modern liberals are not liberals, not the traditional liberal that stood up for working people and the middle class. These liberals are just like the GOP, as they are neoliberals, who do not represent or care for working people, nor the middle class. Instead they are a group of social warriors, dunderheads, who are myopic in their views and just plain idiotic. They care for deviants, instead of working people. They see a racist behind every tree. I am ashamed of them, and everyone who is an old time liberal knows liberalism died, when the democratic party deserted working americans, under Clinton, and then substituted this social warrior meme, which includes removing religion from America, for religion stands in the way of the immorality that they demand to celebrate.

 

Never said we didn't (though to be completely honest, I don't see why white men being in 'charge' is a problem exactly), just don't (*)(*)(*)(*) on me for it. Don't try to treat me like I am in any way responsible for past wrongs done to minorities. And FFS the worst has got to be when I'm slandered as being a bigot not because I am one, but because I don't agree with things like affirmative action, the existence of rape culture, or most other modern "social justice" (I prefer the term "social revenge" as I find it more accurate these days) issues (not all). As if not agreeing on these things automatically means that I must hate women/minorities/etc.

I get called a racist when I say Islam is a load of impossible, laughable, barbaric garbage that no logical person should take seriously, for example. That's not racist. It's antitheist, but it's not racist.

And always the talk about "feeling" marginalized, "feeling" ostracized, "feeling" offended - whenever I say something someone doesn't like, they say I'm being insensitive to women's/trans'/Muslims'/whatever's cultural experiences and I no one should listen to me because I hurt someone's feelings. No one ever explains why I should give a (*)(*)(*)(*) about their feelings, they just take it as a given that we should only say things everyone else will like.

 

Liberalism ideologically demands acceptance that people don't all want to be the same or think the same. Left and right wing politics taps into people's desires to tell other people to live the same way they do. Depending on the country, liberalism is always finding itself being attacked from within by either left or right wing ideologues who want to take advantage of liberalism's acceptance of their opinions' existence and right to be expressed in order to spread their message, mobilize campaigns and ultimately create illiberal policy. It is the duty of we few who stand for freedom to stop them - unfortunately, we also do a really bad job of it, because we're also prone to "Seeing their point", because we're logical people and aren't narrow minded, and thus let them get away with it.

 

I prefer to stand up for both working class people and "deviants," but I would agree that neoliberalism is a problem. Granted, that term usually refers more to selling out the working class for the sake of corporations rather than anything to do with social policy.

Both liberals and libertarians don't want to remove religion from our culture, but they would prefer to keep it out of government. Conservatives and populists tend to fall prey to religious fundamentalism.

 

More of the tired old "you don't have it as bad as group X so you should shut up" crap.

By the same standard, gays in America "don't have it as bad as gays in Iran", so they should just shut up about inequality - lol