The left ruins everything

[Legion]

And the picture I posted above is subject to massive ridicule as "art," because it's not. My definition of art is If anybody can replicate it, it isn't art.

...or something.

[T. A. Gardner]

That's not racist, it's artist!

[Legion]

That's not racist, it's artist!

If you dare to disagree with a leftist about anything, you're a racist. Don't you know that?

[T. A. Gardner]

If you dare to disagree with a leftist about anything, you're a racist. Don't you know that?

They should branch out more and make calling someone one an "artist" akin to calling someone racist. That way they could create a whole new panoply of words to describe people indulged in the manufacture of art.

[Legion]

They should branch out more and make calling someone one an "artist" akin to calling someone racist.

They would if they thought it wouldn't offend so many leftists who identify as "artists".

They're all bullshit artists.

[Legion]

The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the left’s ruining of science.

This had already begun with the left’s attacks on “objectivity,” the most essential value in science — the very thing that makes science possible.

The left declares objectivity, which it now puts in quotation marks, a characteristic of white supremacy.

One example is that science departments in universities throughout America have declared their intention to hire physicists, biologists and other scientists based on gender and race, not scientific expertise.

A few years ago, all five candidates on the shortlist of applicants to the physics department of the University of California at San Diego were females, “leading one male candidate with a specialty in extra-galactic physics,” reported Heather MacDonald, “to wonder why the school had even solicited applications from Asian and white men.”

MacDonald updated her findings: “The dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, pronounced himself ‘absolutely dedicated’ to turning the engineering school into an ‘anti-racist organization.'”

A recent example was the declaration by more than 1,000 doctors and other health care providers that despite all their previous warnings against public gatherings as health risks: “As public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings (mass protests against racism) as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health.”

Yet another example of leftism overwhelming medical science is the medical profession’s denial of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine and zinc in the early days of a COVID-19 infection.

That physicians, including the Food and Drug Administration, would label a drug dangerous that has been used safely for more than half a century, and by many thousands (such as those with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus) every day for decades, is a medical and moral scandal.

The medical profession has placed politics not only ahead of science but also ahead of saving lives.

It is difficult to envision the medical profession regaining its credibility in this generation.

The number of Americans killed by the medical boards, the pharmaceutical boards, the FDA and the CDC for not allowing doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine in the early days following a patient’s diagnosis with COVID-19 and outside of a hospital setting, and the number killed by the doctors who could but would not prescribe hydroxychloroquine, is likely in the tens of thousands.

Yale University epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch said, “Because we were blocked from using it (hydroxychloroquine) in the United States to the present point, at least 100,000 people have died.”

Based on the retracted study in The Lancet, the Washington Post headlined “Hydroxychloroquine Drug Promoted by Trump as Coronavirus ‘Game-Changer’ Increasingly Linked to Deaths.”

DEMOCRAT propaganda organs posing as social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter immediately remove any citation of a scientist who mention the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine.

A fourth example is the American Psychological Association, or the APA, choosing leftism over psychology in declaring, “40 years of research (show that) traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.”

The one good thing to come out of the APA’s pathologizing masculinity is that people searching for a competent psychotherapist for themselves or their child now have an easy method by which to identify the incompetent: Simply ask the prospective therapist if he or she agrees with the APA statement. If they do, or if they merely hesitate to distance themselves from it, you know you want another therapist.


https://bernardgoldberg.com/everything-the-left-touches-it-ruins-now-add-science/

[Legion]

In early October, Bright Sheng, a professor at the University of Michigan, screened the 1965 rendition of Shakespeare’s Othello for his undergraduate class.

The film starred Laurence Olivier, who was wearing black makeup, as the titular character.

Having no concern for context or artistry, the students revolted, deeming the film (and Sheng by association) racist.

As a result, Sheng temporarily removed from the classroom, and placed under investigation.

Michigan administrators knew that Sheng had done nothing wrong.

He showed his class a movie that cannot, in any sense of the word, be considered obscene, and Sheng obviously had no intention in showing the film to incite or endorse racial prejudice.

However, in the eyes of students and many faculty members, Sheng committed an unforgivable offense—he defied the “anti-racist” moral consensus that permeated every aspect of university life.

Because of this unforgivable sin, the only “just” option—independent of the law—was to cast him into the fire.

Thankfully, Sheng was able to return to the classroom without any penalty, but this situation did not occur in a vacuum.

Around the country, and in all types of universities, the anti-racist moral consensus has become as strong as binding law.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs now function more as civil religion than academic abstractions.

They demand complete faith, underlie every opinion and action, and result in punitive action against non-believers.

Any failure to toe the line will result in some form of censorship, whether it is legal or not.

The primary philosophical source for this civil religion is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

While the founding fathers largely rejected Rousseau, educators and curriculum designers love him.

Rousseau was far from an anti-racist, but his predilection for censorship and authoritarian behavior make him a patron saint for modern social movements.

Rousseau, though often associated with liberty and democracy, notably advocated for dictatorship and censorship throughout his works. In Book IV of The Social Contract, he proclaimed that “just as the general will is declared by the law, the public judgment is declared by the censorship.”

The “censorship,” for Rousseau, was no abstraction—it was a tribunal of citizens that would declare what the public opinion is and subsequently apply it.

The shared moral opinions of society were of the utmost importance to Rousseau, and he believed that civil religion developed as a mechanism to ensure conformity to these moral norms.

Any diversion from this religion was tantamount to an abandonment of the community.

In some circumstances, this abandonment could even be considered a declaration of war.

If we view universities as miniature political communities under Rousseau’s social contract, it is no surprise that they respond to any challenge to their dogma with hostility.

Michigan is not the only instance in which a public university acted as a miniature version of Rousseau’s social contract.

In April 2021, the University of Oklahoma’s English department held an “Anti-Racist Rhetoric and Pedagogies” workshop designed to inform faculty on how to shut down dissent in the classroom without provoking administrators.

The webinar encouraged faculty to tell students, “no, you don’t have the right to say that. Stop talking right now,” if their dissent was “rooted in the oppression and denial of humanity and someone’s right to exist.”

This tradition of conformity and suppression has very little precedent in American culture.

Americans have generally viewed limitations on speech, constitutional or otherwise, as both morally repulsive and contrary to the principles that the Framers laid out in the Constitution.

Fortunately, Americans have their own philosopher to battle Rousseau and the academics who emulate his censors.

Nobody could think to accuse Thomas Paine of authoritarianism or dictatorship.

The man was as committed to democracy as they come. More importantly, Paine was an ardent defender of free thought and expression—in education and elsewhere.

For one, Paine clearly did not believe that education should be subject to any form of moral consensus, nor did he believe that government should control the process.

In fact, Paine proposed an early version of what would be later known as education savings accounts, which place the power of education in the hands of families.

While Paine never wrote a treatise on how a university should conduct itself, it is obvious that he would have sided with Sheng. “I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine,”

Paine wrote in the introduction to The Age of Reason, “He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

Nobody should have their lives ruined simply for showing a film that the capricious woke mob has suddenly deemed “racist,” and it is a good citizen’s responsibility to prevent the negative repercussions of mass hysteria.

For Paine, any institution that attempts to pursue truth, or govern others in any meaningful way, would have to recognize this right to free thought or risk becoming tyrannical. Universities—who both pursue truth and attempt to govern the students and faculty under their jurisdiction—are no different.

In their furious effort to dictate what speech is and is not acceptable, universities like Michigan and Oklahoma have embraced Rousseau’s censorship, and therefore tyranny.

If something does not change at a philosophical level, American students will be perpetually condemned to fear and intellectual suppression.

Change will not happen overnight.

Just as it took Rousseau’s descendants decades to take over the university system, it will take decades to take our universities back.

However, if brave students and faculty are willing to embrace the principles of open inquiry and free speech, as embodied by Paine, the process can both begin and accelerate.

The process will not be easy, and it will take personal and professional sacrifice. But as Thomas Paine said in 1776, “These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/12/woke-universities-are-rousseaus-children/

[American Man]

How do you define "the left"?

Are we talking about secular humanism? Because the beginning of secularism was the birth of the Renaissance in Western Europe, when people shifted from religious superstition to rational empiricism.

[Legion]

How do you define "the left"? Are we talking about secular humanism? Because the beginning of secularism was the birth of the Renaissance in Western Europe, when people shifted from religious superstition to rational empiricism.

Learn to read with comprehension and all will be made clear to you.

[Lionfish]

[Legion]

[ParachuteAdams]

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[McRocket]

The Left only destroys; it doesn’t build anything (other than government).

So...that means there are literally zero 'lefties' employed in ANY manufacturing facility in America?

Correct?

[Yakuda]

The Left only destroys; it doesn’t build anything (other than government).

In support of that observation, here is a list of many of the things the Left ruins and often destroys.

No. 1: Art.

The Left long ago conquered the art world. Consequently, since the 20th century, most modern art has been ugly, meaningless and nihilistic — the opposite of what Western art had always been.

No. 2: Music.

What the Left did to the eyes in art, it did to the ears in music. Most contemporary music is also ugly, meaningless and uninspiring. The people who like such music are almost all music critics and, of course, music professors. Most lovers of music never listen to the stuff.

No. 3: Journalism.

Journalists were once highly respected. Unless a piece was listed as “opinion,” people generally believed they were getting, to the best of a journalist’s ability, as truthful a report as possible — “just the facts.” Today, on virtually any controversial issue, they are getting opinion, not truth. The purpose of nearly every major newspaper and other “news” outlet is the same purpose Pravda had in the Soviet Union: to transmit the party line.

No. 4: Colleges and universities.

The Left has destroyed universities as places of learning devoted to seeking truth and therefore welcoming, even cultivating, diverse opinions. Virtually every left-wing idea was born at a university.

No. 5: High schools and elementary schools.

Most schools in America — private as much as public — teach children that America is systemically racist and that they are not born male or female, but at a later age will choose whether to be one or the other — or neither. And increasingly, American educational institutions deny objective truth exists, even in mathematics.

No. 6: Happiness.

You can meet happy and unhappy liberals and happy and unhappy conservatives, but you are unlikely to ever meet a happy leftist. The only question is whether the unhappy gravitate to leftism or whether leftism makes people unhappy. Both are probably true.

No. 7: The family.

People on the Left increasingly choose not to get married and not to have children — in other words, not to make families. And their welfare policies serve to disincentivize the creation of families.

No. 8: Women.

The rates of depression among young people, especially young women, are higher than ever recorded in American history. One reason is that for half a century, women have been told, as one famous feminist saw put it, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” But the fact is that the vast majority of (heterosexual) women need a man to be fulfilled, just as the vast majority of (heterosexual) men need a woman to be fulfilled.

No. 9: Childhood.

One reason young people on the Left don’t want children is that the Left doesn’t particularly like children (except as sexual prey). The teachers unions’ adamant refusal to open schools for over a year (while they still got paid) has opened many Americans’ eyes to this fact. So has the war on children’s innocence — like prematurely talking to them about sex and having schools introduce them to drag queens from the age of five.

No. 10: Black life.

Like the Democratic Party historically, the left is racist. And it is so in precisely the way the word was always used — the Left believes in black inferiority. That is why leftists advocate lowering standards for blacks. That is why they advocate policies that always result in more blacks dying at the hands of other blacks. That is why they believe the state must take care of blacks more than any other group. That is why left-wing policies, from the Great Society to today, have destroyed so much of black life, especially its family life — and they don’t care.

No. 11: Black-white relations.

Who remembers life from more than a decade ago? Black-white relations were far superior then and both groups were optimistic about relations other continuing to improve. The Left shattered that with its anti-white, “America is systemically racist” propaganda shouted from almost every major media and relentlessly pushed in almost every school and big business. The Left knows that when blacks and whites feel good about one another, the Left loses control over African-Americans.

No. 12: The military.

As the military gets more and more woke — recall the testimony of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testifying before Congress about the need to teach the military about white racism — soldier morale declines. Add to this the utterly gratuitous and cruel mandate that every member of the military get the useless Pfizer juju jabs or be discharged and you understand why military morale is in steep decline.

No. 13: Late-night television.

Americans who remember the titans of late-night comedy — Johnny Carson and Jay Leno — remember how their sole aim was to bring smiles and laughter to Americans. Few people had any inkling of the political views of either host. That is now history. The Left has destroyed late night comedy. It now consists of little more than angry rants against conservatives.

No. 14: Superman.

Superman was an iconic American hero. Thanks to the Left, he is no more. About a decade ago, Superman stood in front of the United Nations to announce he was renouncing his American citizenship to become a “citizen of the world.” And the Left has now changed his motto from “Truth, Justice, and the American way” to “Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow.”

No. 15: Free speech.

Never before has freedom of speech been threatened as it is today. As has been true since the communist revolution in Russia, everywhere the Left has gained power — from Russia in 1917 to the university and social media today — it has suppressed free speech. There is no exception.

No. 16: Sports.

Until last year, sport was a great American unifier. It was one place Americans could go and, leaving politics behind, Left and Right, DEMOCRAT and Republican could root for the same team. No longer. The Left has ruined it by radically politicizing baseball, football and basketball. The Left has relegated women to to losers by decreeing that men can compete against them in women's athletics.


https://patriotpost.us/opinion/84527-a-brief-guide-to-leftist-destruction-2021-11-30

This is spot on!!!!