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This memory-sustained analogy seems to work so well—kept the Left up and running for over 40 years. But there is a hole in that memory, for anyone who has ever been a victim of school bullying knows that bullies cannot be kept at bay, much less reformed into good children, by flower power.
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From recent events: Iran’s Ahmadinejad (shr"y) sticks his tongue at every deadline the UN sets him, and the UN, in turn, just sets a new deadline, and invites him to more talks, negotiations, incentive packages and the like. When the UN is really, really angry, it pulls out all its big guns and whips Iran with a… strongly-worded resolution. This is truly the modern, 1960’s-influenced classroom writ large, politically, globally.
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It is not necessarily the case that the cries of “oppression” and “injustice” on the Muslims’ part are fake; they may well be real, out of the heart, yet, like the cries of the school bully upon being prevented from beating up other kids, are not something that civilized society should shed tears about. They truly speak about “oppression”, which means resistance to Islamic rule over the whole world, and truly strive for “peace”, which means the cessation of all such resistance, just as the bully’s idea of “peace” is all the kids complying to his demands, giving him their lunch money on demand, and so on.
In full on Our Children Are The Guarantors »
- Obama, Americans ‘lazy’ And Now ‘stupid’?
So earlier this week we have (despite pathetic denials by the DNC) Obama calling us lazy (note link is no less than HuffPo, not exactly the National review).And now….Obama To Aussie Students: Our Kids are Behindby Keith Koffler on November 17, 2011,...
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Copenhagen: School bans fathers from meeting to appease Muslim Misogyny From Atlas Shrugs: The Muslims are in now in control. When you have a school meeting to discuss bullying with parents and ban the fathers because Muslim women's husbands...
- California School Textbook: Jihad Is Good
From Yid With Lid: A history textbook used in Sacramento and other schools in California teaches that Jihad is a good thing, it only means doing good works for God. Gee I never thought of putting Jihad and walking an old lady across the street in the...
- Reform At Will (not)
“Reform”. For those who are not into the dhimmi mindset, for those who do not believe terrorism is “resistance against Western imperialism”, for those who recognize that we are the ones who are up against an imperialistic ideology, called Islam,...
- Thoughts On Tribalism And Change
Thanks to X Dhimmi for making me aware of this piece over at ShrinkWrapped http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/2006/12/thoughts_about_.html I have also given much thought to the way we in the West arrived at our present rule sets. Separation of church...
Green Energy
Those Who Forget Even Their Personal History
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This memory-sustained analogy seems to work so well—kept the Left up and running for over 40 years. But there is a hole in that memory, for anyone who has ever been a victim of school bullying knows that bullies cannot be kept at bay, much less reformed into good children, by flower power.
[...]
From recent events: Iran’s Ahmadinejad (shr"y) sticks his tongue at every deadline the UN sets him, and the UN, in turn, just sets a new deadline, and invites him to more talks, negotiations, incentive packages and the like. When the UN is really, really angry, it pulls out all its big guns and whips Iran with a… strongly-worded resolution. This is truly the modern, 1960’s-influenced classroom writ large, politically, globally.
[...]
It is not necessarily the case that the cries of “oppression” and “injustice” on the Muslims’ part are fake; they may well be real, out of the heart, yet, like the cries of the school bully upon being prevented from beating up other kids, are not something that civilized society should shed tears about. They truly speak about “oppression”, which means resistance to Islamic rule over the whole world, and truly strive for “peace”, which means the cessation of all such resistance, just as the bully’s idea of “peace” is all the kids complying to his demands, giving him their lunch money on demand, and so on.
In full on Our Children Are The Guarantors »
- Obama, Americans ‘lazy’ And Now ‘stupid’?
So earlier this week we have (despite pathetic denials by the DNC) Obama calling us lazy (note link is no less than HuffPo, not exactly the National review).And now….Obama To Aussie Students: Our Kids are Behindby Keith Koffler on November 17, 2011,...
-
Copenhagen: School bans fathers from meeting to appease Muslim Misogyny From Atlas Shrugs: The Muslims are in now in control. When you have a school meeting to discuss bullying with parents and ban the fathers because Muslim women's husbands...
- California School Textbook: Jihad Is Good
From Yid With Lid: A history textbook used in Sacramento and other schools in California teaches that Jihad is a good thing, it only means doing good works for God. Gee I never thought of putting Jihad and walking an old lady across the street in the...
- Reform At Will (not)
“Reform”. For those who are not into the dhimmi mindset, for those who do not believe terrorism is “resistance against Western imperialism”, for those who recognize that we are the ones who are up against an imperialistic ideology, called Islam,...
- Thoughts On Tribalism And Change
Thanks to X Dhimmi for making me aware of this piece over at ShrinkWrapped http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/2006/12/thoughts_about_.html I have also given much thought to the way we in the West arrived at our present rule sets. Separation of church...