Sunday, March 6, 2016

Looking for a stupid leftist


RtO has been having some fun with stupid sayings by rightwingers. Commenter john gault objects that leftwingers also say stupid things.

I am sure they must, although the list he provided was all of crooks. They were not notably stupid. There’s a difference.

But fair’s fair. RtO should mock remarkably stupid quotations by leftwingers. But it is difficult to do.

I thought I had a live one in a story in The Washington Post about an assistantprofessor at liberal Oberlin who has been criticized for statements alleged to be anti-Semitic. Indeed they are, but are they leftwing?

Not really. At first glance they appear to be from the school of (alleged) left anti-Semitism in Europe, presented by its vendors as pro-Palestinian. But a look at the body of Professor Karega’s  statements reveals a different origin.

A compilation by Jewish Business News of “3 More Totally Crazy Things” Karega has spoken about includes a condemnation of Bernie Sanders as a tool of the interests, a surprising conclusion if Karega is a leftist.

She also believes storms are created by unnamed conspirators, which would put her more in the camp of plain nut.

In her social media posts (now mostly taken down, but the Internet never forgets), Karega shares and refers to other controversialists, and following those links does not lead into a morass of lefty paranoia and hate.

It leads to paranoia and hate, all right, but it’s mostly rightwing.  So far as it refers to Jews, it isn’t left anti-Semitism at all but the same old stuff I used to read in The Fiery Cross (the Ku Klux Klan newspaper) when I lived in Georgia.

This is odd, though not entirely surprising, since Karega appears to self-identify as African-American. So it goes – Frank Collin, the American nazi leader, was mischlinge.

I have doubts about Karega’s mental stability, but that’s no business of mine. The origins of political nonsense and hatred are my business, however, and clicking from site to site -- starting with Karega – may lead to a variety of veins of ore. In my case, it led to paulcraigroberts.org.

Yes, Paul Craig Roberts, described thus at an admiring website (King World News):

“He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service.”



No leftist cred there.



Fact is, he’s a notorious rightwing racist, sponsored by, among others, the white supremacist VDARE.



Strange company for an Oberlin professor to be keeping.



Well, I’ll just have to keep looking for stupid leftist commentary.






26 comments:

  1. Harry, between your bollocks and shenanigans, I think you have the field pretty well covered.

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  2. And Bernie Sanders on anything remotely involving economics is a leftist being impenetrably stupid.

    Plus BLM, which nearly always traffics in gross distortions of reality (see also, Harry Eagar and Trayvon Martin).

    And how can we forget Thermogeddanism, which is solely a creature of the left.

    Seventy-eight cents on the dollar? Leftist stupidity on parade.

    Title IX? Ditto.

    Eliminationist rhetoric is another howler, and utterly immune to reality.

    And almost everything spewing forth from non-STEM academia for, oh, the last twenty years.

    After you have not taken this list on board, because it challenges your self-fluffing notions, perhaps you can review the wit and wisdom of Laurie Penny.

    For one stop shopping of the rampaging idiocy of the left, you can hardly do better than David Thompson.

    Although, based on your performance so far, I doubt you will.

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  3. Never head of those people. I doubt anyone ever armed himself and drove across country to help them impose their ideas.

    And I am certain neither is the favorite presidential candidate of the Democratic party

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  4. OP headline: Looking for a stupid leftist

    Never head of those people.

    Since you are a journalist, I know this is may come as a surprise to you, but your never having heard of them is no barrier to their being stupid, or leftist.

    And I am certain neither is the favorite presidential candidate of the Democratic party

    Bernie Sanders is, and his economic nostrums would turn us into Venezuela. (About which you have said many stupid things.)

    And Hillary is a rapist enabler, serial liar (How stupid was it to say she came under sniper fire in Sarajevo? That's beyond Brian Williams stupid.), and should be indicted on felony charges.

    I doubt anyone ever armed himself and drove across country to help them impose their ideas.

    Why bother, when the Dept of Education will use Title IX to deprive students of due process?

    Speaking of stupid, vicious, and totalitarian.

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  5. If Bush/Cheney couldn't destroy the economy -- they came close -- I don't think a President Sanders could.

    Historically, peaceful nations have been prosperous nations.

    And stop and think who you are putting Sanders up against: Paul Craig Roberts

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  6. If Bush/Cheney couldn't destroy the economy -- they came close -- I don't think a President Sanders could.

    What, exactly, did Bush and Cheney do to destroy the economy?

    Historically, peaceful nations have been prosperous nations.

    Cuba and Venezuela are peaceful nations. How prosperous are they?

    And stop and think who you are putting Sanders up against: Paul Craig Roberts.

    Either your reading comprehension, already badly damaged enough by a career in journalism, has gone off the rails, or you are once again shifting goal posts.

    Either way, stop.

    Stay on point. Really, it isn't that hard.

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  7. Nope. Did you read the original post? I thought I had a live one, a stupid leftist, but I ended up with a racist Reaganite. Funny how that works.

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  8. Yes, I did read the OP: But fair’s fair. RtO should mock remarkably stupid quotations by leftwingers. But it is difficult to do.

    The heck it is.

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  9. You should see the ones I did not cover. Did you know the FBI is a private business? Rightwingers know this.

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  10. Your problem is that you don't see the grotesquely stupid -- and destructive -- thing progressives say.

    Seventy-eight cents on the dollar.

    Campus rape culture. In fact, practically everything that goes on in universities outside STEM departments.

    Global Warming.

    Etc.

    The difference is, whoever it is that is saying the FBI is a private business -- and since you, per your norm, refuse to link, so how are we to know? -- isn't doing any harm to anyone.

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  11. Actually, they are doing harm. They are armed terrorists, Bundyites.

    http://www.alipac.us/f9/blm-actually-sub-corporation-united-states-incorporated-301394/

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  12. What harm have they done? Deprived anyone of due process? Ostracized anybody? Gotten anyone fired?

    Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research.

    Now there is some expensive progressive stupidity, and just a tip of that iceberg.

    What's truly astonishing is that you can't find what surrounds you.

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  13. Closed public roads? Threatened to kill people? Attacked senior citizens? Stolen public property?

    Yeah, all that

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  14. Yeah, all that

    All what? I don't see any links to anything.

    (And it seems in focusing on them, you have somehow blinded yourself to Occupy [fill in the blank])

    But never mind that. Once again, you have made a bizarre assertion, then, when challenged, send the goal posts into orbit.

    But fair’s fair. RtO should mock remarkably stupid quotations by leftwingers. But it is difficult to do.

    Only if your ideological fanaticism has left you completely deaf and blind.

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  15. I hardly thought it necessary to rehearse the Malheur terrorism. If you aren't already aware of that, well . . .

    If anybody at Occupy attacked a senior citizen with a jackoff 'assault rifle,' I haven't heard of it. If it happened, I hereby label it stupid and criminal.

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  16. I hardly thought it necessary to rehearse the Malheur terrorism. If you aren't already aware of that, well . . .

    Given your track record of fallacious claims, you really do need to provide substantiation. Particularly that "terrorism" thing.

    Please, if you are going to revert to your standard prevarication, goal post shifting and self-trolling, please don't bother.

    If anybody at Occupy attacked a senior citizen with a jackoff 'assault rifle,' I haven't heard of it. If it happened, I hereby label it stupid and criminal.

    So, I guess you are okay with sexual assaults, closing public spaces, destruction of property and pushing an elderly woman down a flight of stairs?

    But fair’s fair. RtO should mock remarkably stupid quotations by leftwingers. But it is difficult to do.

    Only if your ideological fanaticism an hatred has left you completely deaf and blind.

    Which it clearly has.

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  17. 'So, I guess you are okay with sexual assaults, closing public spaces, destruction of property and pushing an elderly woman down a flight of stairs?'

    Closing public spaces can be OK, the others, no. But recall, I am after stupidity, not evil or criminality.

    Terrorism? You got it:

    http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54683a71e4b0768e168af8a5/t/56bd714f01dbaeb8c76a504c/1455255890920/ENVIRO++2016-01-10++Malheur++79-Year-Old+Bird+Watcher+Takes+Down+Oregon+Militant+With+Old+High+School+Wrestling+Move++%28LAPINE%29.pdf

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  18. I am after stupidity …

    How about starting with your own: Birdwatcher of Prey: A fake news article claimed that an elderly birdwatcher had a physical confrontation with an Oregon militant at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

    And while you are at it, review "terrorism". The word doesn't mean what you think it does.

    Oh, and it seems singularly stupid to be OK with closing public spaces when OWC does it, but not when people protesting federal overreach do so.

    To that list I provided above, let me give you even more help:

    Hillary came under sniper fire in Sarajevo.

    Hillary didn't have classified information on her server.

    Lois Lerner's hard drive failed.

    You can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor.

    Preventing Ayaan Hirsi Ali from speaking at a graduation ceremony.

    Professor Click.

    Microagression.





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  19. I kinda like the guy who said he was the only one who could beat Trump on the evening of the day when Trump beat him 6-0.

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  20. I kinda like the guy who said he was the only one who could beat Trump on the evening of the day when Trump beat him 6-0.

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  21. Stop trolling your own blog, Harry.

    RtO should mock remarkably stupid quotations by leftwingers. But it is difficult to do.

    As I have shown, it is a remarkably easy thing to do.

    That you find it difficult says far more about you than the task.

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  22. I'm waiting for you to own your stupidity...

    Chance of leftist intellectual honesty: zeeeero.

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  23. More leftist stupidity, this time brutally stupid.

    And more leftist stupidity, this time as rampant, destructive, innumeracy.

    You should try reading newspapers, there is often a great deal of information in them. Even the NYT.

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  24. Do leftists get any more stupid than this?

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