tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post3732345883102830115..comments2024-03-29T05:22:26.118-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: The essential role of false presmise for the modern LeftDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-88324548333572909242021-07-07T14:50:47.678-04:002021-07-07T14:50:47.678-04:00I submit it's all part and parcel of the "...I submit it's all part and parcel of the "strong delusion" St. Paul talked about in 2 Thessalonians. If Satan governs the "spirit of the age," then he could well delude those who follow it. Being a Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, etc. per se is no defense, in and and by itself.Joseph D'Hippolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571554907399914529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-15009133712359088092021-07-07T07:31:18.972-04:002021-07-07T07:31:18.972-04:00I'll be honest, I never cared for him as a fil...I'll be honest, I never cared for him as a film critic, though sometimes he had good points about movies. He was too post-modern for me. I used to find him a person who debated in good faith, even when we disagreed. Like so many who swing left, however, he became more and more intolerable, resorting to rhetorical doge and parry and even accusation rather than debating in good faith. It's hardly unique to the Left, but it seems almost a requirement for those on the Left. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-46832762636294169892021-07-07T07:29:25.070-04:002021-07-07T07:29:25.070-04:00It's been years since we were assured that the...It's been years since we were assured that the Left/Press would look into the disastrous levels of black on black violence in America. Back in Ferguson, we were told that would be dealt with down the road, in two weeks. Years later, I have yet to see any serious national debate about it. That suggests, to my amateur mind, that black lives matter insofar as they can be exploited for greater agendas and narratives. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-54536891380566793322021-07-07T01:49:36.940-04:002021-07-07T01:49:36.940-04:00Steven Greydanus is a second-rate film critic masq...Steven Greydanus is a second-rate film critic masquerading as a political commentator. He thinks he can succeed by kowtowing to the Catholic Left by parroting their pieties a la The Illustrious Mr. Shea. Neither of those "august" personalities realize that to be a *good* political commentator, you actually need to think instead of spew rhetorical excrement.<br /><br />Then again, if you're lazy or unintelligent, rhetorical excrement is all you have. Right, Mark?Joseph D'Hippolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571554907399914529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-24396942535918254872021-07-06T19:45:02.928-04:002021-07-06T19:45:02.928-04:00I'm familiar with Jane the Actuary and I think...I'm familiar with Jane the Actuary and I think she used to blog herself. I would wager she was being ironic. Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-25300155626981273892021-07-06T19:13:03.822-04:002021-07-06T19:13:03.822-04:00... patently obvious.
I really hate the way capt...... patently obvious.<br /><br /> I really hate the way captcha images are formatted on this site; one can never see both the bit you're looking for, and the "submit" button, without grabbing a frame-only scroll bar.Arkanabar T'verrick Ilarsadinhttps://arkanabar.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-72370918789869569622021-07-06T19:10:44.408-04:002021-07-06T19:10:44.408-04:00In my experience, nobody has ever pushed back agai...In my experience, nobody has ever pushed back against Jane the Actuary's rule of thumb definition, that systemic racism exists anywhere disparities in outcome can be observed along racial lines.<br /><br />That this completely ignores confounding factors and alternate explanations makes the intellectual bankruptcy inherent in the concept.Arkanabar T'verrick Ilarsadinhttps://arkanabar.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-63719139951407668962021-07-06T08:01:40.707-04:002021-07-06T08:01:40.707-04:00"Systemic racism" is sociological phlogi... "Systemic racism" is sociological phlogiston. It does not exist. There are off-the-books inter-cultural antagonisms, but they're not an important determinant of household income flows except in eccentric segments of the economy. There's also official discrimination enforced by courts, politicians and administrative agencies. It is consequential in the public sector, higher education, and in corporate and philanthropic professional-managerial employments. The people injured that are not people about whom cretins like Greydanus pretend to care. What a shallow poseur the man is. Buddy, you're late to the party by about 60 years. <br /><br />The black population suffers to a peculiar degree from some social problems. They are of two sorts: (1) things common-and-garden public policy cannot do jack about and should not attempt to do much about and (2) matters which can be addressed, but only with the use of policy instruments people like Greydanus have deemed unacceptable <i>a priori</i>. <br /><br />Black lives actually matter only to people to which Greydanus is indifferent or hostile. <br /><br />Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com