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Democrats Against Reason and Enlightenment

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Did you know that Stanford accepted a kid into its freshman class whose application essay was nothing but the phrase “Black Lives Matter” repeated 100 times? This is the product of an elite culture that values virtue-signaling over reason: Schlichter:

But it is progressives’ total rejection of the norm of reason that is the real problem. It’s actually a wholesale rejection of the Enlightenment by those who babble loudest about being enlightened. Facts, evidence, logic – they have determined that these are horrendous obstacles to the imposition of their progressive dictatorship, and they are trying their best to stamp them out. In the place of offering Fact A and Fact B as the reasons to accept Conclusion C, they instead offer Hack Cliché A to lead to Pre-determined Conclusion B – as in “Be Silent and Obey Us.”

A conservative might argue, “Studies and experience show that the government giving free money to people tends to make them less likely to work and causes disintegrating family structures, leading to more poverty.” To which a progressive would respond, “You racist!”

Or a conservative might argue, “History has shown that military weakness and strategic indecision emboldens dictators.” To which a progressive would respond, “You racist!”

Or a conservative might argue, “Cheeseburgers are better with bacon because bacon is awesome.” To which a progressive would respond, “You racist! Plus I’m differently-abled due to lactose intolerance and also bacon offends our Muslim friends. So you’re ableist and Islamophobic too.”

Responding to reasoned points with personal attacks is not an argument. It’s throwing tantrum in the hope your opponent will simply grow frustrated and give up.

Goes a long way toward explaining why we can’t have honest, intelligent debate about policy. How can you have a reasoned debate with people who just want to attack the First Lady’s picture and get excited because one of Trump’s aides got taken off the National Security Council? How can you discuss logic and facts with people who just want to virtue-signal and chirp idiotic cliches like “building bridges not walls?“

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  2. There are those, who are many depending on who’s taking tally, who believe that the other party in our naturally occurring two-party system is a good thing because the Democrats, as opposed to the Republicans (where conservatives are found) provide some sort of check & balance upon the GOP or the Right in general. I’m not one of these believers, for the very lucid fact that the Democrats’ agenda has always, in its many different agendas been a promotion of authoritarianism & enslavement of the populace. I’ve never seen any indication that there can be dialogue with our version of the Left. When they’re out of gas, out of power their lies increase & their mantra inevitably becomes, “Let’s compromise”. As if compromise is a good thing, or a moderate thing, or a reasonable thing. It’s not. When something is compromised, it’s corrupted & it has always been a subsidiary intention of the Left to compromise the Right, which embodies the principles of our republic.

  3. What this really tells us is that the written submission on an application was never important. The school was going to admit whoever they wanted to no matter what it said. This kid just openly rubbed their noses in it and they didn’t even blink..

  4. Well, really…it is Stanford after all. If you’re not a high achiever or the progeny of an alum, you’re not going to get in anyway no matter what carp you write on your essay. (Though I imagine if you claim to being a member of your school’s White Nationalist Club, it might merit a second look.)

  5. The kid identifies as a “Bangladeshi Muslim” but, to date, has made no effort to flee the racist hellhole that is the US for the open sewer paradise-on-earth that is Bangladesh (or any other majority-Muslim country). Odd.

    Leland and Jane Stanford must be spinning in their graves.

  6. I am done. I don’t want to have a discussion with the bigoted Fascist Leftists. I am also done ignoring their idiocy. I just wish we could deport them all. I think we should start pushing the idea of Leftists building a perfect society on Mars.