I just love this little cartoon. So often they take themselves just
so-ooo seriously. The attitude is that anyone who disagrees with anything they say, well, they just
must be stupid, or, more likely they're just
evil. Isn't that right, Federal Liberal MP Carolyn Parish? Which is funny, because as best as I've heard it, radical libs don't actually believe in evil.
It's only one of many examples of Liberal incoherence.
Too often they remind me of silly little debate I heard as an undergraduate. A passionate young feminist was very forcefully arguing that there "were no absolutes, that's a given, we all know that." And she looks around top see if anyone -
anyone - dared to disagree. And then she realized she her own claim was an absolute. It being the
so PC 1990s, no one dared to say anything, although there must have been someone in the room who grasped that she was making a very old and fundamental mistake.
Caught on her own harpoon, she went on to say that logic was just a form of western sexism and that the truth was beyond words and logic, but she knew what it was. She was working on it, understand?
Her point and her credibility had just gone up in flames. I didn't know enough philosophy at the time to say it, but this is an ancient teaching point. It goes back to the very beginnings of philosophy and religion and there is a clear answer if you are not so Liberal your brains have fallen out. When you make the "no absolutes" claim you cut off the branch you are standing on.
This fallacy still is used as a proof of the existence of God in some circles. You know, the kind of circles where proofs, history and truth are still valued.
I doubt you'll see much of it on a university campus today.
When I see this little dog relieving himself on the word Liberal, I just smile, and I wonder how many Liberals can't laugh at their own follies because their ginch is too tight. "Social justice is no laughing matter," they'll scream. And before anyone jumps on me, I'll concede that Conservatives goof too. The difference is that they don't think they can and must solve everything in the world from the ground up. They know humans are goofy little fallible creatures. And so they are often better able to smile and laugh. Their expectations are on a human scale.
I just love this little cartoon. So often they take themselves just so-ooo seriously. The attitude is that anyone who disagrees with anything they say, well, they just must be stupid, or, more likely they're just evil. Isn't that right, Federal Liberal MP Carolyn Parish? Which is funny, because as best as I've heard it, radical libs don't actually believe in evil.
It's only one of many examples of Liberal incoherence.
Too often they remind me of silly little debate I heard as an undergraduate. A passionate young feminist was very forcefully arguing that there "were no absolutes, that's a given, we all know that." And she looks around top see if anyone - anyone - dared to disagree. And then she realized she her own claim was an absolute. It being the so PC 1990s, no one dared to say anything, although there must have been someone in the room who grasped that she was making a very old and fundamental mistake.
Caught on her own harpoon, she went on to say that logic was just a form of western sexism and that the truth was beyond words and logic, but she knew what it was. She was working on it, understand?
Her point and her credibility had just gone up in flames. I didn't know enough philosophy at the time to say it, but this is an ancient teaching point. It goes back to the very beginnings of philosophy and religion and there is a clear answer if you are not so Liberal your brains have fallen out. When you make the "no absolutes" claim you cut off the branch you are standing on.
This fallacy still is used as a proof of the existence of God in some circles. You know, the kind of circles where proofs, history and truth are still valued.
I doubt you'll see much of it on a university campus today.
When I see this little dog relieving himself on the word Liberal, I just smile, and I wonder how many Liberals can't laugh at their own follies because their ginch is too tight. "Social justice is no laughing matter," they'll scream. And before anyone jumps on me, I'll concede that Conservatives goof too. The difference is that they don't think they can and must solve everything in the world from the ground up. They know humans are goofy little fallible creatures. And so they are often better able to smile and laugh. Their expectations are on a human scale.
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