The Ghost of Robespierre | The Z Blog

This is the natural end of all radicalism. It is why it appeals to the hive minded. The anti-racists would merrily round up white people and kill them, not for any crimes they committed, but as a form of human sacrifice. That is what the regular executions in Paris became during the Terror. They were purification ceremonies, not punishments for the guilty, but purity was always just one more head in the basket away. It’s the inevitable end of all mass movements when there is no limiting principle.

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Transgender Conformity by Katherine Kersten | Articles | First Things

What’s behind the transgender movement, a cultural tsunami so powerful it can tear apart even so traditional an institution as Nova Classical Academy? Transgender ideology advances under the banner of progress and enlightened thinking. Yet its fundamental claim—that a human being can change his or her sex—“is starkly, nakedly false,” according to Dr. Paul McHugh, who served for twenty-six years as psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins pioneered sex-change surgery, but abandoned it in the 1970s after research revealed that it did not improve the mental health of patients.

Source: Transgender Conformity by Katherine Kersten | Articles | First Things

Ace of Spades HQ

Cognitive behavioral therapy tries to teach people to short-circuit/disrupt/desensitize that triggering circumstance until it no longer triggers them (or at least triggers them less) and thus they keep the cascade of bad brain chemicals from gushing too much.

Lukianov’s amazing insight was that just as cognitive behavioral techniques could be used to desensitize someone to an emotional trigger, so could an evil form of the techniques be used to hypersenisitize someone to an emotional trigger.

What you’re seeing on college campuses, on social media, and in society generally is the triumph of these evil forms of malevolent cognitive behavioral conditioning to encourage people not to keep their wits about them and stand strong in the face of adversity, but to collapse into a twitchy puddle of panic and mental disarray if they so much as see a word they don’t like.

And thus colleges which once produced some of the boys who stormed Normandy are now producing Adult Babies who need Play-Doh recovery rooms if they hear that American Sniper is being screened at the rec center.

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How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic

Childhood itself has changed greatly during the past generation. Many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers can remember riding their bicycles around their hometowns, unchaperoned by adults, by the time they were 8 or 9 years old. In the hours after school, kids were expected to occupy themselves, getting into minor scrapes and learning from their experiences. But “free range” childhood became less common in the 1980s.

Source: How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic

More of that Famous Leftist ProgNazi Tolerance on Display | Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

So, in that sense, the Brownshirts in their dying spasms, might actually have done the nation a favor. They’re not only making Trump voters feel really, really good about their choice, they’re making ever more sure that they and their fascist, violent hordes won’t ever get within two time zones of the levers of power again. At least not for the foreseeable future.

Source: More of that Famous Leftist ProgNazi Tolerance on Display | Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

Articles: Censoring Language as Offensive Violates the Constitution

But like many other liberal power-enabling concepts, those perpetrating it intend to repeat it so often that it becomes accepted by a majority of Americans. But it cannot survive constitutional scrutiny for the simple reason that in order to accept the censorship authority of person A, one has to disqualify the censorship authority of person B. Simply put, this implies that one person’s feeling of being offended has value, and everyone else’s doesn’t.

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Beyond the Margin of Lawyer :: SteynOnline

What happens on Election Day is that the Democrats lose and then decide it was because of “unusually long lines” in “minority neighborhoods.” What “minority neighborhoods” means is electoral districts run by Democrats: in Ohio in 2004 as in Florida in 2000, the “problems” all occur in counties where the Dems run the system.

Source: Beyond the Margin of Lawyer :: SteynOnline