tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post7030529520470952348..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Antifa Defenders Attack Liberals and Liberalism Tooed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-15623909661030701192017-09-02T13:22:25.255-04:002017-09-02T13:22:25.255-04:00They are not liberal and they are not left. As for...They are not liberal and they are not left. As for "progressivism." It is really Nihilism. Look around. Do you like what you see?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-17884816042559026622017-09-02T13:18:56.301-04:002017-09-02T13:18:56.301-04:00Two totalitarian ideologies are responsible for 13...Two totalitarian ideologies are responsible for 130 million deaths in the 20th century. One killed 30 million , the other 100 million. You can speak nostalgically of the higher grouping and not be estranged from American society. Strange that!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-64308853754347110072017-09-02T12:48:49.010-04:002017-09-02T12:48:49.010-04:00"At this point, pretty much every conservativ..."At this point, pretty much every conservative position on abortion, homosexuality, border security, the police, affirmative action, immigration, terrorism, etc., has been labeled as hate speech by the establishment left and many in the media." The intolerant left and its media allies then condone and promote violence as the only way to check conveniently - and falsely - labeled 'hate speech' Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-70629503662470521692017-09-01T18:37:06.830-04:002017-09-01T18:37:06.830-04:00You mean the "tough" al shanker who stoo...You mean the "tough" al shanker who stood by while Reagan savaged the unions? The tough guy who went along with attacks on public education and came up with carters as an alternative? Who felt teacher accountability based on testing was kosher? He was only tough on the left and his anti communism which blended into anti progressivism was more important to him than improving education. ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-16719206244276142232017-09-01T17:59:42.095-04:002017-09-01T17:59:42.095-04:00Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. led non-...Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. led non-violent struggles. "Selma", the movie shows some of the strategizing and preparations for their march and the non-violence that was a critical part of the march's success. Also- just read that October 2, Gandhi's Birthday is the International Day of Non-Violence.<br />Another reason not to fight-http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/antifa-charlottesville-violence-fbi-242235Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-68920565834416331702017-09-01T15:15:14.312-04:002017-09-01T15:15:14.312-04:00Unlike the Straw Man you set up, to this Leftist i...Unlike the Straw Man you set up, to this Leftist it means universal health care, well-funded public education, the right to form unions, policies that put working people first, personal freedom and privacy, and a reduction in the power of law enforcement and the military-industrial complex.<br /><br />Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-83758000672846945592017-09-01T13:50:47.647-04:002017-09-01T13:50:47.647-04:00And based on Sedillo's thesis of Donald Trumps...And based on Sedillo's thesis of Donald Trumps coded liberal ideologies in his post-Charlottesville rhetoric (he was once a Democrat, lest we forget), who even knows what it means to be a liberal anymore, let alone a leftist. I think about Al Shanker (blessed be his name) in times like this, who espoused a liberalism that was staunchly anti-communist and anti-socialist, a tough liberalism nonpareil in the age of folks like Sanders. What happened to tough liberals of yore like Shanker, Kennedy, and Johnson?<br /><br />As for being a leftist, I'd venture to guess it's eerily equivalent to what it means to belong to the right: tolerance for fascist goons, a belief in free speech so long as it conforms to standards of the contingent, and an utter disrespect for the subtly and nuance of any position founded on a blend of liberal and conservative ideologies, as opposed to a slipshod amalgam of right/left ideologies. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-40322143252731654602017-09-01T12:19:47.105-04:002017-09-01T12:19:47.105-04:00Thanks for running an interesting symposium.
My c...Thanks for running an interesting symposium.<br /><br />My commitment to maintaining some semblance of equanimity in my older age inhibits me from wanting to respond to/engage in it publicly but it's been useful.<br /><br />I also no longer need to be lectured and exhorted (not by you!) about my pernicious and deluded attachment to a liberalism situated somewhere between very luke-warm capitalist and even more resistant-to-pedantry socialist versions.<br /><br />Antifa, and some of the arguments for it, penetrate my almost complete commitment to non-violence, probably because I never expected to live to see real Nazis (neo or otherwise) marching through the streets of our towns and cities and not the George Lincoln Rockwell 'I play a Nazi on TV' sorts of the 60s and 70s.<br /><br />Be well...Harris L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-55649142948281900992017-09-01T11:06:57.027-04:002017-09-01T11:06:57.027-04:00It's more than a little ironic that Chris Hedg...It's more than a little ironic that Chris Hedges, who a few years ago who a book entitled "Death of the Liberal Class," is now a "death cult liberal."<br /><br />And moi, a Leftist? Who even knows what that means anymore?Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.com