tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post6025603222746670124..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: Cog statusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-13179188678768868032014-07-26T17:20:47.070+10:002014-07-26T17:20:47.070+10:00At least women get some understanding. Of course, ...At least women get some understanding. Of course, if she were talking about men we would just be patriarchial women haters trying to maintain 8ur privilege.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-78761230449298883042014-07-26T03:53:54.427+10:002014-07-26T03:53:54.427+10:00Wolf's focus on Europe is no accident. Femini...Wolf's focus on Europe is no accident. Feminists got a wakeup call recently from the massive street demonstrations against the leftwing French government's attempts to use the educational system to execute a society-wide, feminist/Marxist deconstruction of gender. Cast an eye over some photos:<br /><br />https://www.google.ca/search?q=france+demonstration+gender&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=yJfSU92IJ8bOiwKm8QE&ved=0CF0QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=921<br /><br />For feminists, the bad optics of seeing a mass of ordinary people, including large numbers of women, reject a core principle of feminist ideology is setting off alarm bells. Ms. Wolf is making sure the sisterhood realizes their team may have a major problem brewing.<br /><br />Some attempts at raising the leftwing consciousness are less subtle. Here's the Independent newspaper demonizing France's family values movement as the "politics of hatred":<br /><br /> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/frances-politics-of-hatred-move-towards-traditional-family-values-risks-being-hijacked-by-antisemites-and-homophobic-nationalists-9102851.htmlLastangonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-36271718668648129452014-07-24T09:23:39.681+10:002014-07-24T09:23:39.681+10:00That's a very interesting analysis.That's a very interesting analysis.Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449974719371426423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-29441769522360509162014-07-23T21:15:23.274+10:002014-07-23T21:15:23.274+10:00Most leftists are ignorant dupes who get swept alo...Most leftists are ignorant dupes who get swept along in leftist movements excited by the prospect of money and status which they would never be able to achieve by means of their own efforts alone. When the goals of the elites are achieved then the leftist dupes are thrown under a bus like rubbish and naturally they find this somewhat chilling. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-61693455223938306812014-07-23T20:31:52.983+10:002014-07-23T20:31:52.983+10:00It depends on how sincere they were. It's easy...It depends on how sincere they were. It's easy for the left to blame the free market and then simply put forward a redistributionist welfare state as a marker of social solidarity.<br /><br />However, it's possible for those on the left to go beyond this. Paul Kingsnorth did so a while back. He wrote about globalists that,<br /><br /><i>it is not just The Economist reading right who swell their ranks ... While the neo-liberal [ie right liberal] citizens of nowhere celebrate the birth of a global market ... another group, the liberal [ie left liberal] citizens of nowhere help them along...</i><br /><br />(See: http://ozconservative.blogspot.com.au/2005/04/melbourne-readers.html)<br /><br />It's possible for the left to critique globalism along the lines that Paul Kingsnorth has done (i.e. a defence of local communities, environmentalism, opposition to multinationals, opposition to standardisation, opposition to consumerism and materialism).<br /><br />If this were done sincerely enough, it would open up some political space.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-78903803737977285132014-07-23T18:45:36.961+10:002014-07-23T18:45:36.961+10:00Assuming some critical mass of the left suddenly f...Assuming some critical mass of the left suddenly feeling this way, I wonder what their response would be, and what they would consider as a possible solution?Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449974719371426423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-37596172507947812382014-07-23T18:34:45.460+10:002014-07-23T18:34:45.460+10:00This well demonstrates the bad will of such person...This well demonstrates the bad will of such persons as Wolf. Denying the fact that the very essence of modernity is meaninglessness, worthlessness.....I find it difficult to think of the proper words to describe it really. The best way of putting it that I can think of is to quote Kurtz from Conrad's The Heart of Darkness "the horror....the horror." She may as well claim that crocodiles aren't carnivorous or that water isn't wet. The best place for her would be a madhouse where they could do whatever can be done to get her mind right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-2467449057584073722014-07-23T17:51:17.897+10:002014-07-23T17:51:17.897+10:00Yes, so it seems. Part of her analysis is very cru...Yes, so it seems. Part of her analysis is very crude. But I find it interesting that leftists are also starting to feel the coldness of the society they helped bring about.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-6812137103652045592014-07-23T12:11:23.853+10:002014-07-23T12:11:23.853+10:00Clearly anything to the right of Naomi's value...Clearly anything to the right of Naomi's values is fascist.Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449974719371426423noreply@blogger.com