Looking at the Left from the Left
On this blog, I will occasionally post a side project of mine...what I call “Looking at the Left from the Left: Why Liberal Ideas Don’t Make Sense from a Liberal Worldview”. The point of this project is to show why all liberal thought is deeply and inherently self contradictory, and why it is a deeply reactionary ideology, bereft of any coherent unifying belief system or logical backbone.
No logical, coherent philosophy could produce the thought pattern that a wage gap (real or imagined) is an unacceptable patriachial business world discriminating against women...but that a man who cuts out his daughter’s sexual organs is just a cultural difference we need to understand. No rational person could ever argue that a woman has the unmitigated right to an abortion, yet has no right to smoke, or eat foods made with certain ingrediants. And no intelligent person could rationally expect minority children to succeed in a “deeply racist white boy world” by “acting black” or refusing to speak english.
Even if one tries to accept all Liberal arguments as fact, it doesn’t become long until we start hitting snags. “If it is responsible for a woman to have an abortion if she cannot keep a child, then why is it good for the state to subsidize, and indeed, even incourage, such women to keep the child by having a welfare state?” “If sex is an inherently coersive act...where a man is asserting his dominance over a woman, thereby exploiting her, then why would a company like Planned Parenthod go out of it’s way to hide statutory rape, and further the sexual exploitation of girls by older men?” “If it is violation of the Seperation of Church and State to have the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge, or to have the 10 Commandments in a courtroom...then how can it be remotely Constitutional to force California school Children to take a Muslim name, recite prayers in Arabic, and play jihad?”
It is my belief that these are not minor problems with the liberal worldview, but are emblematic of a deeply irrational worldview.
Over the course of these posts (identified with a LotL or LBL before each title), when I speak about things like “seperation of Church and State”, “right to an abortion”, and other such topics, these are usually not my personal views, but its simply me arguing from a leftist perspective to show the problems with the basic liberal conclusion. Hopefully, this will stop needless arguing when I call waterboarding torture, or refer to our soldiers as killing. If there’s a real question on where I stand, feel free to send me a message, and I will clarify my actual position.
I’m certainly up to examining any topic that I’m asked to. And I’m open to any real criticism or additions to the project.
http://www.theleftfromtheleft.blogspot.com
No logical, coherent philosophy could produce the thought pattern that a wage gap (real or imagined) is an unacceptable patriachial business world discriminating against women...but that a man who cuts out his daughter’s sexual organs is just a cultural difference we need to understand. No rational person could ever argue that a woman has the unmitigated right to an abortion, yet has no right to smoke, or eat foods made with certain ingrediants. And no intelligent person could rationally expect minority children to succeed in a “deeply racist white boy world” by “acting black” or refusing to speak english.
Even if one tries to accept all Liberal arguments as fact, it doesn’t become long until we start hitting snags. “If it is responsible for a woman to have an abortion if she cannot keep a child, then why is it good for the state to subsidize, and indeed, even incourage, such women to keep the child by having a welfare state?” “If sex is an inherently coersive act...where a man is asserting his dominance over a woman, thereby exploiting her, then why would a company like Planned Parenthod go out of it’s way to hide statutory rape, and further the sexual exploitation of girls by older men?” “If it is violation of the Seperation of Church and State to have the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge, or to have the 10 Commandments in a courtroom...then how can it be remotely Constitutional to force California school Children to take a Muslim name, recite prayers in Arabic, and play jihad?”
It is my belief that these are not minor problems with the liberal worldview, but are emblematic of a deeply irrational worldview.
Over the course of these posts (identified with a LotL or LBL before each title), when I speak about things like “seperation of Church and State”, “right to an abortion”, and other such topics, these are usually not my personal views, but its simply me arguing from a leftist perspective to show the problems with the basic liberal conclusion. Hopefully, this will stop needless arguing when I call waterboarding torture, or refer to our soldiers as killing. If there’s a real question on where I stand, feel free to send me a message, and I will clarify my actual position.
I’m certainly up to examining any topic that I’m asked to. And I’m open to any real criticism or additions to the project.
http://www.theleftfromtheleft.blogspot.com
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