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Posted 13 December 2015 - 09:28 AM

The viciousness of political correctness.

When a non-PC speaks, or is read, or watched – as he invades PC discourse - the politically correct can feel their life draining away, can sense the world receding, can perceive the delusional world crumbling, the void yawning.

Hence the viciousness, the panicked attack using anything to hand which might work: ad hominem inventions (immediately believed as facts), fantasied motivations, lies of any and every kind and even violence

effective dissent must be shouted-down, mocked, vilified, shut-up; the politically correct must switch-off, turn-away, gabble and gossip to drown or silence the hostile discourse


http://thoughtprison-pc.blogspot.com/

 

 

PC hysteria over the notion of temporary ban of Muslim entry to US:

 

"Xenophobe, racist, bigot —  fascist demagogue and compared to Hitler and Mussolini."

 

 

 

http://www.unz.com/p...hment-unhinged/


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Posted 11 March 2016 - 02:17 PM

The University of Missouri reports a near-25% drop in student enrollment following its unrest. 

 

We saw a wimpy establishment that permitted “Black Lives Matter” activists to take over the campus &  hurl phony charges of racism at the school’s establishment. We saw the university administrators cave to their demands like a bad souffle. In the wake of those protests, the university president was forced to resign.

 

Parents and students saw the same overpriced tuition, bloated administrative budgets, useless majors and inflated salaries that plague all universities.

 

 

http://www.investors...ssing-students/


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Posted 17 April 2016 - 06:55 PM

It started with the far left radicals and professors calling for jailing (or killing) "skeptics" -- 

NOW it's (ALL dems.) 20+ states attorneys general and the US AG Lynch......

 

"Attorney General: We are looking

at Prosecuting Climate Change Deniers"

 

 

"1984" has arrived -- civil war to come.


Edited by *JB*, 17 April 2016 - 06:56 PM.

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Posted 17 April 2016 - 08:53 PM

It started with the far left radicals and professors calling for jailing (or killing) "skeptics" -- 

NOW it's (ALL dems.) 20+ states attorneys general and the US AG Lynch......

 

"Attorney General: We are looking

at Prosecuting Climate Change Deniers"

 

 

"1984" has arrived -- civil war to come.

 

Don't really want to deal with this since when you see a headline like that here, one instantly knows there's just probably is just enough sand on this beach (like one grain) to get the right-wing bloggers going absolutely batty.  But took a Bing look at the quote above and discovered the gumballs of bull from the usual wackos have already pushed rationality down at least three pages.

 

Once again as any GPS voice would say you have reached your destination, the thought prison ahead on the right.

 

Despite the First Amendment (which the guys trot out every time except the times someone disagrees with them), there is obviously precedent for this from the tobacco industry's decades of lies until it became painfully obvious the cost they inflicted on public health.  Eventually the evidence the carbon pollution behind climate-change science is a lot like such smoke from cigarettes (already China is admitting its people sometimes can't breath) so prosecution may be indeed be down the road but except for Exxon-Mobil where the compelling evidence is already loosed the reality is it's not quite here yet.

 

(As Paul Krugman once noted it is "just so tiring" clawing back to reality after a deluge of diatribe like this is released.)

 

But for a more rational discussion of that grain of sand one can always take a glance at some publication of left and usually find that, despite the usual bubble on the right, the sky is not falling on either side of the political divide.  In this case (three pages down on a Bing search:

 

MOTHER JONES - No, We Should Not Arrest Climate Deniers


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Posted 26 April 2016 - 09:48 AM

 

"Attorney General: We are looking

at Prosecuting Climate Change Deniers"

 

 

 

 

They know they're losing the debate.

 

 

Meteorologist Anthony Watts reviews documentary film "Climate Hustle":

 

'The film’s strength is its wickedly effective use of slapstick humor, and making use of the words and deeds of alarmists to make you laugh at them.'

'You can’t help but come away laughing.'

 

'Monday May 2nd will be an historic night, since there’s never been a skeptic film like this before.'

 

'It will make you laugh, and that’s the purpose of this film, to make people laugh at the ridiculous claims that have been created about global warming/climate change. Morano does this, and does it well. That’s the power behind this film.'

 

'Morano doesn’t need to spin anything, because when you just look at the claims, counterclaims, the contradictions, and the outright failures of the predictions about sea ice, boiling oceans, species extinction, heat waves, rising sea levels, worsening weather, and dozens of other things, you can’t help but come away laughing.'

 

https://wattsupwitht...k-from-tonight/

 


 


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Posted 13 May 2016 - 05:05 PM

It started with the far left radicals and professors calling for jailing (or killing) "skeptics" -- 

NOW it's (ALL dems.) 20+ states attorneys general and the US AG Lynch......

 

"Attorney General: We are looking

at Prosecuting Climate Change Deniers"

 

 

"1984" has arrived -- civil war to come.

 

George Mason University Must Release Documents Calling for Prosecution of Climate Policy Political Opponents

 

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) prevailed in a Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) lawsuit against George Mason University (GMU). The VFOIA request sought public records showing how the “RICO-20” group of academics, using public funding, organized their call for a federal racketeering investigation of “corporations and other entities” who disagreed with them on climate policy.

 

“This victory puts on notice those academics who have increasingly inserted themselves into politics, that they cannot use taxpayer-funded positions to go after those who disagree with them and expect to hide it,” said Chris Horner, CEI fellow and co-plaintiff. 

 

https://wattsupwitht...be-made-public/


Edited by stocks, 13 May 2016 - 05:06 PM.

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Posted 15 May 2016 - 07:53 AM

Facebook and Twitter are run by hyper-progressive plutocrats.

 

Old media kingpins like Murdoch are simply being replaced by new media elites like Zuckerberg and Dorsey. And the new boss is very much the same as the old boss.

 

The change from social media as a democratic, people-powered tool of free-flowing information to another top-down system in which elites feed pre-approved information to the masses happened gradually. Destroying the dream of liberated information in one fell swoop would have created too much uproar. Instead, Facebook decided to poison it slowly.

 

The CEOs who preside over Facebook and Twitter aren’t quite like Rupert Murdoch, after all. They’re the product of zealous millennial progressivism, coupled with a strong dose of San Francisco identity politics and wrapped in the kind of insulation from the affairs of ordinary citizens that only vast wealth can provide.

 

http://www.breitbart...d-media-elites/

 

 

 


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Posted 24 May 2016 - 11:06 AM

"Attorney General: We are looking

at Prosecuting Climate Change Deniers"

 

 

Environmentalism isn’t a hippie with a cardboard sign. It’s multinational corporations and big banks. It’s environmental consultants padding the bill for every government project.

 

Big Green is escalating its crackdown on climate science. If you are going to falsely claim that 99.99% of scientists agree with you, the best way to ensure that is by criminalizing scientific dissent.

 

The agenda was blatantly on parade right from the start at a press conference of attorney generals under the banner of “AG’s United for Clean Power”. Imagine a group of attorney generals banding together under the name “AG’s United for Pepsi” to sue Coca Cola. That’s exactly what this was. The attorney generals were announcing that they are targeting one industry on behalf of a rival industry. -
 
 Gore’s Inconvenient Truth ecohoax flick was financed by the head of the Capricorn Investment Group. Al Gore invests in Green Energy and then runs campaigns urging government Green investments. - 
 
The impetus for this particular campaign appears to have come from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund which announced in 2014 that it was “divesting” from fossil fuels and switching to Big Green investments. Then the Rockefellers hosted a major push targeting Exxon and calling for divestment and a carbon tax. A few months earlier, Al Gore had been warning investors at the Paris Climate Conference to abandon traditional energy investments and join Big Green or lose all their money. The profiteering and the conflicts of interest are obvious. 
 
 
 
 
 

 


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