Identity Politics
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Something that honour and democracy have in common is that they don’t work on a supranational scale. The largest possible democracy takes place at the level of the nation-state: beyond that, as the experience of the EU shows, there is only unaccountable bureaucracyJanuary 19, 2019
19 mins
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Postmodernist theory, with its emphasis on subjectivity and relativism, became the mechanism—more by happenstance than good planning—by which Marxism's anti-bourgeois hostility reconciled itself with the anti-bourgeois sentiment of bohemianism. From there it was a short step to PC gags and censorshipJanuary 16, 2019
21 mins
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That only white people can be guilty of racism is preposterous. Most people are aware of non-white people vilifying other ethnic groups in racial terms. Why is this not racism? Why should the perpetrators not be held as accountable? Doesn’t it imply an inability to take responsibility -- a racist presumption if ever there was one?January 14, 2019
31 mins
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It is by no means inexplicable that classic liberalism, which pioneered the idea of the free individual, should by a process of rational critique mutate into an ideology that inhibits free expression if it undermines 'progress', peace, harmony and the mitigation of suffering and self-pityJuly 10, 2018
12 mins
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It’s late October. The Coalition for Marriage has a problem […]November 30, 2017
12 mins
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To cite but one example, churches are encouraged to hang paintings from Aboriginal mythology which parishioners cannot decipher. Perhaps that innocence is for the better, as many might find the promotion of animist mythology in a place of Christian worship not merely odd but unsettlingApril 2, 2017
13 mins
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The totalitarianism of PC rectitude reveals itself any time a member of an ascribed tribe defers to conscience and thereby labels themselves an 'identity traitor'. The antidote is a colour-blind alliance predicated on enlightened patriotism and Western civilisationMarch 22, 2017
13 mins
