And he actually ADMITS this ??!! — Dachshund

Thorongil is a post-structuralist Trostskyite. This often puts him at odds with Agustino who is more of a Derridean structural-Marxist.

Yeah, not buying it. This is just bad trolling.

What the literal fuck am I reading? Don't we have standards in this forum? Because I'm confident @Dachshund isn't meeting them.

Banned

Thanks

I certainly approve but... Benkei didn't even get to finish his popcorn!

Banned — jamalrob

Good call.

Banned — jamalrob

Saw that coming.

become fashionable for students at many American universities to hoist Soviet era "Hammer and Sickle" banners on campus and paste or paint up revolutionary slogans from Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book". Why on earth would young people in the West do something as offensive and mindless as this? — Dachshund

Largely because the Soviet Union flag and Mao's Little Red Book are sufficiently antiquated that they have become graphics which can be associated with "resistance' or 'rebellion" whether the connection makes any sense or not.

Damn. He discovered the thriving hive of postmodern lefty neo-Marxist socialist gender feminism that we are (might have left off a few adjectives there). With Thorongil as our leader of course. Off to the gulag he went.

Just by way of a footnote to this thread:

a weapon of cultural Marxism and its growing prevalence in the West — Dachshund

The entry on 'cultural marxism' in Rational Wiki begins as follows:

Cultural Marxism generally refers to one of two things:

First — extremely rarely — "Cultural Marxism" refers to an obscure critique of popular culture by the Frankfurt School, framing culture as being imposed by a capitalist culture industry and consumed passively by the masses.

Second — in common usage in the wild — "Cultural Marxism" is a snarl word used to paint anyone with progressive tendencies as a secret Communist. The term alludes to a conspiracy theory in which sinister left-wingers have infiltrated media, academia, and science and are engaged in a decades-long plot to undermine Western culture. Some variants of the conspiracy alleges that basically all of modern social liberalism is, in fact, a Communist front group.

This conspiracy theory hinges on the idea that the Frankfurt School wasn't just an arcane strain of academic criticism.[note 1] Instead, the Frankfurt School was behind an ongoing Marxist plot to destroy the capitalist West from within, spreading its tentacles throughout academia and indoctrinating students to hate patriotism & freedom. Thus, rock'n'roll, Sixties counterculture, the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, homosexuality,[1] modern feminism, and in general all the "decay" in the West since the 1950s are allegedly products of the Frankfurt school.[2] It's also the work of the Jews.[3][4]

The conspiracist usage originated in Nazi Germany, where Kulturbolschewismus ("Cultural Bolshevism") was used to abuse political opponents. In particular, Jews purportedly were secretly orchestrating the spread of Communism (Jewish BolshevismWikipedia's W.svg) as well as promoting sexual & gender permissiveness ("sexual Bolshevism").[5]

If anyone rants about "Cultural Marxists taking over culture!", feel free to remind them that they're literally spouting Nazi propaganda updated for the modern era.

what I do know is it has ( as Pinker suggests) become fashionable for students at many American universities to hoist Soviet era "Hammer and Sickle" banners on campus and paste or paint up revolutionary slogans from Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book". — Dachshund

Evidence? What percentage of students? Studies? Surveys?

The per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese over the last decade matches almost exactly the rise in the number of civil engineering doctorates awarded. Why? Is it because cheese makes people cleverer? Or is it, just possibly, because engineering is becoming more popular as more opportunities open up to working class students, as does eating imported goods like mozzarella? — Pseudonym

You've got it backwards. As a civil engineer, I can assure we're the least intelligent of the engineers (other than industrial). I think you may have proven that mozzarella makes people less clever.

It clearly seems, at present, to be a bigger,more worrisome phenomenon than the presence of a small minority of students who are affiliated with hard right , neo-nazi, white nationalist/supremacist type organizations . — Dachshund

Evidence?

Same for the discredited policy of "Affirmative Action" that did a monumental amount of harm to untold millions of individuals in the US alone. — Dachshund

Evidence?

That entry was clearly written by a butthurt leftist. No doubt. :lol:

@jamalrob @Baden Mods, rejoice. I won't protest the banning of Dachshund the "Burkean conservative." :wink:

Gender feminism is a TOTALLY different ball of wax to the so-called" first wave" of EQUITY ( or LIBERAL) FEMINISM that eventually enabled people like your mother to work in banks and realised the 19th Amendment in the US in 1920 (though personally I agree with Kant that allowing womens' suffrage was an act of sheer madness). GF is A TOTALLY different beast, so don't conflate the two movements. — Dachshund

I went back and looked. Is there anywhere you or anyone has defined what "gender feminism" is.

I agree with Kant that allowing womens' suffrage was an act of sheer madness).
— Dachshund

Yes. There you have it. — unenlightened

Doesn't leave much more to say, does it? I'm a bit shocked he would write it out loud. Now we can crucify him for being politically incorrect.

He's gone to the great troll kingdom in the sky. He will not respond.

Your closet socialism is safe with us. ;)

He's gone to the great troll kingdom in the sky. He will not respond. — Thorongil

Boy. He kinda flipped out on us, didn't he. I kept thinking to myself after he said women shouldn't vote - how come Baden hasn't banned his ass yet. I came late to this party and missed all the fun.

Someone else took care of his ass for me. :point: :fire:

You know, the irony is that I have no problem with certain forms of socialism, like market socialism or socialism defined as the cooperative ownership of the enterprise.

Someone else took care of his ass for me. — Baden

Yeah, but, to me, you personify all that is good, all that is evil, about moderating.

:halo: :naughty:

as does eating imported goods like mozzarella — Pseudonym

Imported? What do you think all those cheese plants in Wisconsin are for?

Damn right. I got given a Cheesehead T-shirt by my now-relatives in Wisconsin. (I don't actually wear it, but still....)

Wisconsin state license plate motto: EAT CHEESE OR DIE

Imported? What do you think all those cheese plants in Wisconsin are for? — Bitter Crank

Sorry, I'm from England, we would never do anything as impolite as making somebody else's cheese! And now I hear () that engineers aren't that smart after all. This mystery just gets deeper and deeper. I'm beginning to suspect the Lizard-men at the centre of the earth.