thoughts in and out of season
The situation with the prom in Canada shows what I meant a couple of days ago when I called Article 1 of the Dutch constitution (no discrimination on any grounds by anyone ever) fanatical. In theory you’re allowed to believe that sexual customs that support the traditional family are a good thing, but if you … More ...
Liberal tolerance marches on: “Judge rules Catholic school must allow gay student to take boyfriend to prom”.
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I wonder if this would be possible for other people, to set up Google news or whatever to do a standard search that turns up items of special interest to right-wingers and lists them on a page … More ...
The British press never ceases to disgust. Here’s the Times on the Fortuyn assassination, “Deadly Ideas: Fortuyn’s killing robs European politics of its innocence”[!]
I especially liked their comment that the killing
… More ...will link the violence that has hovered on the fringes of right-wing politics with the ugliness of racial conflict and the emotive
In Holland one of the targets of a sustained international hate campaign has been murdered.
It doesn’t take much to become a target in Europe these days. Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch sociology professor, fashion plate and former Marxist, who wanted to maintain public acceptance in Holland of his own flagrant homosexuality, was a “far-right leader”… More ...
They certainly know how to fight internet racism in Scandinavia. In Norway they jail you for operating a web site on a foreign server, and in Sweden they make operators of online forums criminally liable for what people say on them.
Don’t know how bad the comments were, but it may not matter—Le Pen was … More ...
An article on “racial profiling” in medicine. For some reason this sort of thing has become terribly controversial. Even in medicine the will to deny the obvious is becoming stronger and more open.
Another problem with antiracism ideology—you simply can’t talk about what actually happens, because the ideology only works if white people and their attitudes are the only problem. That’s obviously not so, though. How long can the pretense be kept up, and what happens when the lid comes off?
Current notions of shocking comments, courtesy of Prince Philip.
The proposed EU definition of racism and xenophobia as involving “the belief in race, color, descent, religion, or belief, national or ethnic region, as a factor determining aversion to individuals or groups” logically criminalizes any expression of ethnic, national or religious attachment. After all, if I love France and the French, then whether people are … More ...