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The Red Pill Never Lies

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | Comments Off on The Red Pill Never Lies

 

Rollo Tomassi has a post about how our culture increasingly encourages female promiscuity; women’s irresponsible behavior is called “empowerment,” and and men are expected to accept the consequences. In a feminine-primary social order, as Rollo calls it, male preferences are considered irrelevant at best, harmful at worst, but quite generally wrong in every case. Whatever a woman wants is inherently right, and men are judged failures if they fail to perform according to her preferences. Women’s behavior is immune to criticism (so long as she doesn’t vote Republican) whereas men’s behavior is endlessly criticized; you could fill an entire library with feminist books devoted to condemning men.

What is remarkable, in reading Rollo’s work, is how he calls attention to things which should be obvious — the evidence in support of his argument is everywhere, once we start looking for it — but which is seemingly invisible to most people. Third Wave feminists have been shouting louder and louder in recent years about how oppressed they are, but the reality is almost exactly the mirror-reverse. Why are young feminists so angry? In part, it’s because a basic goal of feminism is to make women angry, to inspire them with revolutionary rage. In terms of their own lives, however, women are angry because feminism inspires expectations about the rewards of “empowerment” that are unrealistic.

Never at any time in human history have women had so many opportunities, but never have so many women spent so much time complaining about how miserable they are. The explanation of this seemingly inexplicable phenomenon is obvious, once you start looking at it from a Red Pill perspective. To quote the late Stan Lee: “With great power there must also come — great responsibility!”

What happens when society devotes so much energy to the “empowerment” of women, teaching girls an utterly one-sided worldview, and sending them off into adult life with swollen egos and unrealistic expectations? She is taught to disregard male opinons, to consider male companionship worthless, and to reject male judgment as “sexist.” To fulfill her mission of “empowerment,” the feminist must be entirely independent of men, to view them only as useful for hedonistic pleasure or as providers of resources. (“Alpha f–ks, Beta bucks,” as the saying goes.) The “empowered” young woman has been taught to reject the possibility that a man — any man — might actually possess greater knowledge or skill than she does. The feminist believes herself omniscient and omnipotent, endowed with infinite ability, and any failure in her life is explained as a result of patriarchal oppression. In other words, the “empowered” woman is never truly responsible. If she is unhappy or unsuccessful, men are always to blame.

This is a surefire formula for insanity, and when I hear young men complain about how many crazy women they encounter, I believe them.

Well, there have been new developments in the Mackenzie Lueck story, so I must cut short this philosophical discussion, but I just wanted to urge readers to consult Rollo Tomassi’s work. He’s onto something, and more people should be paying attention to his insights.

UPDATE: “Friends Decry the Slut-Shaming of Mackenzie Lueck: ‘It’s Just Not Fair!’”



 

Category: The Red Pill

In The Mailbox: 07.01.19

Posted on | July 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ali Alexander Isn’t Alone – Kamala Harris’ Ties To The African American Experience Are Mostly Nonexistent
Twitchy: Looks Like AOC Got Busted For Lying About Her “Horrifying” Experience At A CBP Detention Center
Louder With Crowder: Dear Media – Your Failure To Condemn Antifa Proves Donald Trump Is Right About You

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Dear Janet – You Embody The Whole Feminist Problem
American Greatness: Journalist Andy Ngo In Hospital With Brain Bleed After Being Attacked By Antifa
American Power: RIP Angels Pitcher Tyler Skaggs
American Thinker: Democrats Officially The Party Of Derangement
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Democrats Who Praised Obama’s Long Visit To Cuba Blast Trump’s Step Into North Korea
BattleSwarm: The Twitter Primary Post-Debate Update, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp Of The Saints: The Disgusting Assault On @MrAndyNgo
CDR Salamander: Countering China In The South China Sea With Hunter Stires On Midrats, also, Vice Adm. Thomas Moore Goes Salamander On Corrosion
Da Tech Guy: A Slice Of CA Voter Fraud Pie, also, Shoplifters, Come To Chicago & Cook County
Don Surber: They Can’t Spin History At The DMZ
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries (#700!), also, It’s A Medical Device
First Street Journal: Elizabeth Warren & Health Care
The Geller Report: Left-Wing Savages Bash Old Man’s Skull In Weekend Of Democrat-Inspired Riot, also, Exodus From Londonistan Hits Record High As Over 300,000 Leave Capitol City Last Year
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Note On The First & Second Amendments
Hollywood In Toto: Saul‘s Micheal McKean Shares Double Blast of Twitter Hate
Joe For America: Former CIA Officer Says Those Who Planned Coup Against Trump About To Be Indicted
JustOneMinute: Dow Poised To, Well, Pounce
Legal Insurrection: “Mayor Pete” Gets $25 Million 2Q Campaign Haul, But There’s No Joy In South Bend, also, Andy Ngo Update – Ted Cruz Calls Out Portland Mayor For Abandoning Streets To Antifa
The PanAm Post: Why 92% Of Left-Wing Activists Live With Their Parents
Power Line: A Fascist Attack In Portland, also, Loose Threads In The Curious Case
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio Threatens Trump With “Veto Proof” Huawei Ban Bill
Shot In The Dark: An Exercise In Imagination
STUMP: Geeking Out – Improving Public Pension Dataviz
The Political Hat: Europe’s War On Plastic Straws
This Ain’t Hell: Followup To Marine Jarheads Biker Group Accident, also, Female Vets Harassed At VA
Victory Girls: Ellis Island Descendants Are Bigots? Thanks, AOC, also, The Left Has An Antifa Problem
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Rules Against Trump In Border Wall Cases
Weasel Zippers: Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Defends Putting Kids In “Cages”, also, Manhattan Chick-Fil-A Vandalized During Pride Event
Mark Steyn: Westward The Women, also, Happy Dominion Day!

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Category: Linkagery

Is Barrett Brown Back on the Junk?

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Is Barrett Brown Back on the Junk?

 

Judging from his disheveled appearance and incoherent manner in a recent YouTube video, I think it’s entirely possible that Barrett Brown has returned to his heroin habit. He’s definitely returned to his idée fixe — the “Team Themis” conspiracy theory he spent so much time babbling about before his epic September 2012 YouTube meltdown, when he threatened an FBI agent and eventually ended up in federal prison.

Having gone months without giving any thought whatsoever to Barrett Brown, I was startled when my brother called me late Monday to inform me that the former spokesman for Anonymous had shown up in the comments of my post about Portland’s Antifa terrorists:

Hey there, Stacy!
Did you happen to know that the Neal Rauhauser fellow you and Pat Frey decided to tie me to despite my efforts to assist Frey was working for both Infragard and the FBI? In fact, for the same FBI handler that ran Jennifer Emick, Daniel Borsuk?
Did you happen to know of this, Stacy? Because it kind of seems like you were cooperating pretty hard with the FBI and Emick to smooth the way into prison for me, and no bond, etc. And that does sound like the sort of cowardly thing that a neo-confederate man-child mediocrity would pull against someone whom he was never comfortable actually linking to when trying to refute him. Sounds like a Sons of Confederate Veterans move.
Want to see those documents, and the call I had with the agent this morning?
Go back and read the articles you had Emick write here, and the ones you wrote about me before I got back out and you shut right the fuck back up again. Then look at Neal here checking in with Emick’s scummy FBI handler. You’re not even a snitch; you’re a greasy little police informant disinformation artist.
That’s how you’ll be remembered, Stacy.

What, exactly, is he ranting about? It was not a secret that Neal Rauhauser frequently communicated with the FBI — Neal boasted about it, and many people believed he was being “protected” by the FBI because of his value as an informant. Was Neal “working for . . . the FBI”? Was he on their payroll? Considering the vast sums Neal owed in unpaid child-support, I would consider it highly unlikely the feds would hire him, even if they could possibly get him a security clearance, which of course they couldn’t. And screen-shot copies of emails as “evidence” of such a relationship? As if this kind of “evidence” couldn’t be forged?

This last time I paid any attention to Barrett was in November 2016 (“Notoriously Crazy Felon Barrett Brown Has Been Released From Federal Prison”) at which time I wrote this:

This “investigative journalist” bullshit is the hero-martyr narrative Barrett’s paranoid anarchist fanboys want to believe, in the same way some people want to believe Jim Garrison’s crackpot conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, but it simply is not true.
Brown was an opportunistic famewhore who got in over his head trying to cash in on the “Anonymous” criminal hacking spree of 2010-2011. He appointed himself the unofficial spokesman for Anonymous, fooled quite a few clueless mainstream journalists into taking him seriously, hustled a book deal for himself and a co-author and then . . .
Oh, it’s a long, sad story.

You can read the rest of that. As to why Barrett decided to drop in on the comments here, my guess is he’s lonely and wants attention. But who knows what goes on in the mind of a madman?



 

Category: Barrett Brown

Portland Antifa Terrorist Has Previously Been Arrested for Similar Crime

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Portland Antifa Terrorist Has Previously Been Arrested for Similar Crime

According to Gateway Pundit, Joseph Christian Evans has been identified as the Antifa terrorist who used a metal pipe to attack Adam Kelly during a weekend protest, leaving Kelly with severe scalp lacerations. Evans had previously been arrested “on charges of recklessly endangering another person and unlawful use of a weapon” at a protest last August: “Why isn’t Joseph Christian Evans in prison?” Of course, it’s because Portland is a Democrat-controlled city whose mayor supports terroristic violence against law-abiding citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.

Meanwhile, Portland Police have asked for the public’s help in identifying other Antifa terrorists, but really, what’s the point if they’re just going to turn them loose on the streets to commit more violence?

Bonus: Ace of Spades calls Jonah Goldberg a “fat, sweaty failure” for his weak response to Antifa terrorism.



 

Category: Crime, Oregon, Terrorism

LGBT Ideology as Pathological Narcissism

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Now that “Pride Month” is over, perhaps it’s again safe to say that homosexuality is not a virtue. That’s what “gay pride” is really about — gay people asserting that they are superior to straights, and expecting the rest of us to applaud their courage in being proudly gay. Those who refuse to celebrate homosexuality are among the “deplorables” because we are not “inclusive,” but a devotion to Inclusion and Diversity as the highest moral ideals must inevitably lead to conflict, and the inclusion of “T” in the Rainbow Acronym Coalition has proven to be problematic, as the Gender Studies majors might say. Making sexual behavior the basis of a political movement, as part of the general Democrat Party program of organizing support by identity-politics categories, has always generated a certain amount of controversy, but for many years liberal journalists were able to suppress such controversies by portraying critics of the LGBT community as evil right-wing bigots who should be ignored.

The Gods of the Copybook Headings haven’t gone out of business, however, and it was therefore predictable that many people who are entirely sympathetic to the cause of gay rights — including no small number of homosexuals — would become disillusioned by what happened once their ideology was imposed on society by the force of law. The Internet has provided the mechanism whereby people can express dissenting views that the mainstream media would prefer to ignore, which is why we know that lesbian feminists are particularly enraged by the “activism” of transgender militants, many of whom are heterosexual males pursuing sick fantasies inspired by pornography. Lesbians obviously have no interest in associating with men indulging a perverse fetish, but when they voiced their objection to the “inclusion” of such men, these lesbians found themselves demonized as “TERFs” (trans exclusive radical feminists). And this demonization was coming from within the gay community and their “progressive” allies!

Well, who could have predicted this, other than everyone familiar with the history of the radical Left? The Reign of Terror in France ended with Robespierre himself going to the guillotine, you know, and Trotsky, who led the Red Army to victory, was assassinated by Stalin’s henchman. So when members of the gay community found themselves being vilified for their sexual preference — i.e., women attracted to women, who refuse to date men pretending to be women — this was deeply ironic, but it shouldn’t have been particularly surprising. Nevertheless, even those of us who understood there was no real limit to the madness of the Left were shocked by the fanaticism of the transgender radicals who brandished baseball bats as a threat to “TERFs.”

 

Here we encounter Third Wave feminist theory (the gender binary is socially constructed by the heterosexual matrix, to summarize Judith Butler’s influential 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity) rotating full-circle to destroy the definition of “woman” and, in the process, destroying the meaning of homosexuality. If a man can “identify” as a woman, and then declare himself/“herself” to be a lesbian, how is it possible for any Third Wave feminist to say no? Thus we reach the absurdity of Justin “Riley” Dennis — a man over six feet tall, pretending to be a woman — denouncing anyone’s refusal to have sex with him/“her” as “discriminatory.”

 

Under the new “progressive” dictatorship of our transgender overlords, it is your duty to date Riley Dennis, if he/“she” finds you attractive. His/“her” use of civil-rights rhetoric is not accidental, of course. If disapproval of LGBT behavior is a form of “hate” akin to racism, then your refusal to engage in sexual activity with a member of the LGBT community is an expression of prejudice, because you are denying them their “right” to any partner they may prefer. Of course, this ideology condemns all heterosexual men who aren’t interested in dating “women” with penises, but it also results in lesbians being attacked for preferring actual women to make-believe erzatz substitutes like Riley. Meanwhile, transgender ideology is deployed to persuade unhappy young women that their difficulty in finding happiness means that they are actually men, a problem that can be solved by injecting themselves with testosterone and getting their breasts amputated, like Amanda “Miles” McKenna.

Amanda McKenna in 2014 (left); ‘Miles’ McKenna after surgery and hormones (right).

If Amanda felt like a miserable failure as a woman, what makes her think she’ll be happy and successful as a synthetic imitation of a man? However, because LGBT ideology is based on a belief in superiority, Amanda/“Miles” believes she/“he” is actually a better man than any genetic male could ever hope to be, and any woman who wouldn’t want to date “Miles” is therefore guilty of the hateful prejudice of transphobia.

Heterosexuality is wrong and normal people are inferior — that’s the underlying belief expressed by the rhetoric of LGBT “pride.”

However sympathetic you might be toward the unfortunate victims of this belief system, you cannot ignore the destructive impact that the ideology of gay supremacy has inflicted on innocent people who had the misfortune of becoming collateral damage in the LGBT revolution. Rod Dreher calls attention to Christine Benvenuto, who married a man named Jay Ladin who, after more than 20 years of marriage and three children, decided that he was actually a woman named “Joy”:

It was hard to understand the sudden dramatic change in a state of being he now claimed was lifelong. I tried to convince Tom that he was not a woman. When that failed, I tried to convince him that, for our children’s sake, he could believe he was a woman and still choose to live as a man.
For his part, Tom’s perspective was that if I loved him, I would accept that a transsexual has to do what a transsexual has to do – and sacrifice my own identity accordingly. When he wasn’t telling me that the person I thought I had known had never existed at all, he’d say it was a sign of my limitations that I couldn’t grasp the idea of same person, different package.
“After all,” he said blithely, “the changes I’m making are pretty superficial.”
“If they’re so superficial, why do you have to turn all our lives upside down for them?”
He didn’t seem the same. He didn’t act the same. His values seemed to change along with his personality. . . .
All at once there was the pathos of witnessing a middle-aged man – the husband I loved and had admired – taking pleasure in gazing at the woman he evidently saw when he looked at himself in the mirror. His satisfaction with himself. His in-my-face “I’m going to do this and you have no choice but to accept it” attitude towards me. . . .
From his cheerleaders I learned that in the new political correctness, female solidarity is out. A man in a dress is in. Among women who consider themselves feminists, a man who declares himself a transsexual trumps another woman any day. One of Tom’s supporters would eventually sum up this perspective most explicitly: “He’s a transsexual. Anything he does is what he needs to do.”

This excerpt of Benvenuto’s 2012 book, Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On, highlights the unmistakable element of narcissism in transgender behavior. Cynthia Yockey has discussed this phenomenon in the context of autogynephilia, a psychiatric disorder in which a man “falls in love” with the image of himself as a woman. How does this happen? From perverted fantasies, usually beginning around puberty, when the boy dresses up in women’s clothes (typically “borrowed” from his sister or mother), becomes aroused by the reflected image of his “female” self in the mirror, and masturbates to orgasm as this imaginary persona. This is a self-inflicted mental illness, and it is insulting to demand that we celebrate such deviant behavior.

Pathological narcissism is not “courage,” and should not be applauded.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

Rule 5 Sunday: Cheryl Ann Tweedy

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I seem to getting into a rut of British pop stars, but as long as they’re good looking, who cares, right? This week, it’s Cheryl An Tweedy, also known as Cheryl Cole, who debuted as a member of reality-TV girl group Girls Aloud in 2002 before going solo in 2009. She’s been a judge and mentor on both the UK and US versions of The X Factor, and has also done modeling; she’s been on the cover of Elle and Harper’s Bazaar as well as fronting for cosmetics giant L’Oreal from 2009-2018. Here she is looking stylish in a leather jacket.

Dangerous curves?

Leading off on this hot summer night, it’s Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #664, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Tech Obsession Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Bacon Time adds Rule 5 Fifties Flashback (NSFW).

EBL gets her kicks with Hope Hicks, Maude Apatow, Irina Demick, Copenhagen, Tulsi Gabbard, Marianne Williamson, Kamala Harris, Ivanka Trump, and Shaila Kapoor.

A View From The Beach delivers with Blood and Treasure – Sophia Pernas, The FinalStraw, Really, Fish Pic Friday, D.C. Dolphins Get Names, It Must Be Tanlines Thursday Again, MDDNR Issues Warnings on Summer Striper Handling, Maybe I’m Not Drinking Enough Coffee?, Circular Study Finds Oyster Restoration Good for Fish, Crabs, Some Hot and Sticky Russiagate, Tuesday Morning Wake Up, Is Somebody Farting on Mars?, “Baltimore Skyline”, Russiagate: The Third Dossier or the Third Scope Memo?, People Are Still Eating What They Like, and Scrounging Around for More Russiagate.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Elizabeth Taylor, and at Dustbury, it’s Eva Longoria and Stacy Keibler.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Democrats May Be Better Off Leaving Their Faith Unstated

Posted on | June 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

“We Americans have always been a religious people, a member of my staff tells me.”–Kristen Wiig as Nancy Pelosi, 11Nov2006 (at 1:57)

Chris Coons has a fascinating piece up at The Atlantic:

First, it hides away the deep, passionate, and formative faith backgrounds of so many Democrats who are seeking or serving in office. At our weekly Senate prayer breakfasts, for example, I’m consistently inspired and moved by the words of my colleagues whose faith is fundamental to their life and their work, but who rarely talk about it publicly.

Faith is a singular, internal thing. By way of reference, I’m of the Baptist ilk, not that that label matters fig #1.
Politics are plural, and external. We want to know that our leaders have some sort of moral compass, without fretting too heavily about the brand. I’ve voted for a Mormon, for all I don’t subscribe to their Christology.
Even though the closest thing to a moral code we can find in politics is the Bill of Rights we badly want to know that our leaders are aware that there is some level of supernatural accountability for their megalomania. Hopefully it will keep them in check.
Now, when a political figure ventures into a Christian context, it seems fair to engage at that level. Coons quotes Sherrod Brown as saying (emphasis mine):

“Let me dig a bit deeper to explain how I see the world and the sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity. At gatherings like this, we Democrats seldom talk about our faith … Here’s what Jesus said: ‘When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was thirsty, you gave me drink. When I was a stranger, you welcomed me. What you did for those who seemed less important, you did for me.’ Let our country—our nation’s citizens, our Democratic Party, my fellow elected officials all over the country—let them all cast their eyes toward the heartland, to the industrial Midwest, to our Great Lakes state. Let them hear what we say. Let them see what we do.” ?

First, that whole “sister/brotherhood of man” claptrap is nowhere in the Gospel. There are some calling themselves Christian who exhibit Universalist tendencies. Let us commend to them a closer reading of the Word as written.
But more importantly, the whole “we do” thing is a subtler tweaking of the New Testament. James tells us that faith and works are as tightly bound as velocity and position in a motion problem. But those works are our personal, no-kidding acts for tangible people, not the “we gave at the office” evasion of someone loving their neighbor by government proxy. If we could legislated salvation, the Pharisees would have won, and the crucifixion was just an especially bad visit to Portland.
We need to be very careful how we use Scripture in a political context, and less is certainly more:

Mat 7:21-23
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Category: Uncategorized

‘Godless Commies!’

Posted on | June 30, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Ed Driscoll last week called attention to an essay by Harry Stein about the continuing relevance of Eugene Lyons’s 1941 book The Red Decade because of its eerie parallels to the Stalinist tendencies of the 21st-century Left. A complete and cynical dishonesty was one of the hallmarks of Stalin-era Communism, as the Soviet regime engaged in grossly false propaganda to defend its power and conceal its bloody crimes.

One of the reasons younger people — and by “younger,” I mean, under 40 — are so vulnerable to leftist “progressive” propaganda is because they aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War. Today’s 35-year-old was in kindergarten when the Berlin Wall fell, and thus has no personal memory of what it was like to live during the decades when we were faced with the possibility of annihilation by Soviet aggression. The permanent sense of terror inspired by the menace of Communism, a godless creed of murderous hatred, was so deeply embedded into American culture during my youth that my children (the oldest of which was born some six months before the fall of the Berlin Wall) can scarcely understand what it was like. When my oldest was a teenager, I was driving her and her friend to a Christian music festival and, to pass the time, began talking about politics and history. I tried to explain to them how, growing up in a Baptist church in Georgia, I was horrified by stories of how Christians were persecuted in the Soviet Union, in Red China and wherever else Communist regimes came to power. The worldview of Communism — “historical materialism,” or “dialectical materialism” — was based explicitly in atheism, and Communists everywhere were determined to destroy Christianity. Imagine what it would be like to live in a dictatorship where you could go to prison for possessing a Bible!

“Godless commies!” I yelled, as we rolled along the highway, and the vehemence of my expression rather startled my daughter and her friend.

To deny the existence of God is, as Nietzsche foresaw, to deny that there is any eternal law. The categories of “good” and “evil” are meaningless to the atheist, so that the most basic of moral maxims — “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not kill,” etc. — meant nothing to the godless Commies, whose only ideas of right and wrong were summarized by Lenin’s frightening question: “Who? Whom?” Anything that advanced the “dictatorship of the proletariat” was justified, including deliberate deceit and cold-blooded murder, so that the Communists claimed unquestioned authority to lie, steal and kill on behalf of their revolution, and none of their victims had any claim to justice.

Eugene Lyons’s book The Red Decade has a subtitle: “The Stalinist Penetration Of America.” And this was perhaps the most frightening aspect of the Communist menace, that there were many thousands of Americans who supported that wicked ideology, including so-called “fellow travelers” who worked to undermine our resistance to Communism. Not only had Soviet spies and agents of influence found their way into positions within our government, but pro-Soviet subversives were also employed in academia, in Hollywood, and in journalism, promoting deadly Marxist-Leninist ideas. Because their ideology justified deception, Communists were dishonest about who they were, what they did and what they believed. The Rosenbergs, for example, denied being either members of the Communist Party or Soviet spies, and instead falsely claimed to be victims of anti-Semitism, thus defaming those who investigated and prosecuted them for their crimes. These lies were then promoted by pro-Soviet propagandists in the media who lied about their own Communist sympathies, pretending instead to be “liberals” concerned with “civil rights.” The fact that there were no “civil rights” under Soviet rule — anyone could be arrested and executed at the whim of Beria’s secret police — exposed the hypocrisy of “liberal” apologists for Communism who, of course, made a great show of pretending that they weren’t actually Stalinist stooges, instead blaming anti-Communist “hysteria” for any suspicion directed against them.

The habitual dishonesty of Communists contributed to a climate of paranoia. When eminent public officials like Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White were exposed as part of the Communist conspiracy against our country, having long concealed their betrayal, this raised the obvious question of how many more secret Communists might still be hidden within the government. And when these Communist agents proclaimed their innocence, and “liberal” journalists argued in their defense, despite all evidence of their guilt, this raised the question of whether any liberal could be trusted to honestly protect the national interest.

Bob Belvedere at The Camp of the Saints explores Harry Stein’s essay, making several useful points, including the fact that the education system is now controlled by socialists who indoctrinate children with crypto-Marxist ideology, teaching them to hate God and to hate America, too.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!


 

Category: Education, History
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