Progressives (Liberals)

But, that's just a thing that is below Blatham's notice. He can't be bothered to look down upon the proletariat and see what they do.

But, that's just a thing that is below Blatham's notice. He can't be bothered to look down upon the proletariat and see what they do.

Acyn Torabi
@Acyn
· 7h
Franklin Graham says people are dying of the Coronavirus because man has sinned against god. He goes on to say the pandemic is happening because the world has turned its back on god.

Thor Benson
@thor_benson
10h
Me: *Wearing a mask*

Cashier: Good job staying safe. Strange times!

Me: Haha. Yeah. Empty the register.

Joe Rogan would vote for President Trump over Joe Biden: 'I don’t think he can handle anything'

Rogan, who previously endorsed Biden’s primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, would apparently prefer President Trump to serve a second term than vote for Biden.

“I can’t vote for that guy,” Rogan said of the Democratic presidential primary front-runner. “I’d rather vote for Trump than him. I don’t think he can handle anything.”

“If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can't do that,” Rogan said.

“The pressure of being the president of the United States is something that no one has ever prepared for,” he said. “The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough.”

Of course as soon as it became apparent that Hitchens wasn't enamored of, and enthralled by, Michael Moore's propoganda, he was "cancelled" by the left.

Nor did I ever hear anyone refer to the contrarian as "Hitch, the Snitch". After all a "snitch" is an informer so it wouldn't have made any sense.

Hitch the Snitch

[A]s a Judas and a snitch, Hitchens has made the big time. He trotted along to Congress and swore out an affidavit that he and his wife, Carol Blue, had lunch with White House aide Sidney Blumenthal last March 19 and that Blumenthal had described Monica Lewinsky as a stalker.

Since Blumenthal had just claimed in his deposition to the House impeachment managers that he had no idea how this linking of the White House stalker stories had started, Hitchens’ affidavit was about as flat a statement as anyone could want that Blumenthal has perjured himself, thus exposing himself to a sentence of up to five years in prison.

Last spring,when it looked as though Blumenthal was going to be subpoenaed by prosecutor Starr for his journalistic contacts, Hitchens blared his readiness to stand shoulder to shoulder with his comrade: “…together we have soldiered against the neoconservative ratbags,” Hitchens wrote in The Nation last spring.

This brings us to Hitchens’ snitch psychology, and the years of psychic preparation that launched him into the affidavit against his friend Blumenthal. A good many years ago we were discussing the German Baader-Meinhof gang. “If one of them came to my front door seeking shelter,”Hitchens cried, “I would call the police in an instant and turn him in!”

Orwell, in the dawn days of the cold war and not long before his own death, compiled a snitch list of Commies and fellow travelers and turned them over to Cynthia Kirwan, a woman for whom he’d had the hots and who worked for the British secret police.

Orwell is Hitchens’ idol, and he lost no time in defending Orwell’s snitch list in Vanity Fair and The Nation.

Hitchens says he simply couldn’t let the Clinton White House get away with denials that they had been in the business of slandering women dangerous to them, like Monica, or Kathleen Willey.

Hitchens has always liked to have it both ways, identifying himself as a man of the left while, in fact being, as was his hero Orwell particularly towards the end of his life, a man of the right.

We think Hitchens has done something utterly despicable. Hitchens always could cobble up a moral posture out of the most unpromising material.

HITCH THE SNITCH

Christopher Hitchens came to mind. This is not usually a pleasurable experience. The last time I agreed with Mr. Hitchens, who passed away four years ago, was in 1998. That was before Hitchens "found his purpose," verbosely lusting for war with the Islamic world.

Hitchens took his argument to an indefensible place, a place that presaged his political future as someone who tied his skill with the written word to the needs of the American state. This earned Hitchens the nickname he carried in many circles until his death, ""Hitch the Snitch."

Maybe you just don't hear so good, ever think of that?

As you admit, it predates Fahrenheit 9/11

Counterpunch has made its reputation as being "lefter-than-left" and regularly criticizes liberals and anyone not deemed to be following its line — but not everyone on the left attends to it that carefully...Most people aren't that doctrinaire and would find no difficulty dismissing some ideas they might read on Counterpunch while accepting others....And most people on "the left" ignore the Socialist Worker's Party as well. It's just a Trotskyist faction and only represents a small space on the leftist spectrum.

This week's column by Christopher Hitchens in The Nation, a magazine of the political left, will be his last. His departure ends a 20-year relationship that has grown increasingly rancorous over the last few years.

Mr. Hitchens writes: ''When I began work for The Nation over two decades ago, Victor Navasky described the magazine as a debating ground between liberals and radicals, which was, I thought, well judged. In the past few weeks, though, I have come to realize that the magazine itself takes a side in this argument, and is becoming the voice and the echo chamber of those who truly believe that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden."

I bet Herbie Marcuse is another one of your sanctified heroes, eh?

Habermas called him a "Heidegger-Marxist".

But I sincerely doubt that hightor or anyone else here supports the utopia of an "empire of freedom" (Marx) as a socialist form of society like Marcuse did all his life.

The Left and ‘Discriminating Tolerance' The new cultural politics seeks to shut down debate and close minds.

With the rise of the new intolerance, American public life appears to be trying to exemplify Henry Adams’s claim that politics is “the systematic organization of hatreds.” A vast theoretical and rhetorical infrastructure supports contemporary rage chic.

If we hope to understand and eventually defuse the politics of polarized anger, looking to the intellectual sources of this anger is a key step. Herbert Marcuse — academic, political revolutionary, and psychological theorist — holds an important place in the genealogy of outrage culture.

He became one of the leading gurus of the New Left, the angry and at times violent Sixties radicals who were in many ways the progenitors of the current “progressive” power elite. Prominent New Leftists associated with Marcuse included the radical academic Angela Davis, and Michael Lerner, a former SDS member whose “politics of meaning” became a Hillary Clinton catchphrase during the Nineties. Marcuse’s students (and students of his students) can be found throughout American higher education today.

If the agents of the new intolerance ever get around to “deproblematizing,” as they would put it, Mount Rushmore, they might consider adding the visage of Herbert Marcuse to the crags of the Black Hills. Much of modern “political correctness” is really a New Left cultural politics that has made an uneasy peace with material prosperity.

A founding document of the new intolerance, Marcuse’s 50-year-old essay “Repressive Tolerance” levies a radical attack on the conventions of liberal democratic civilization. From Marcuse’s perspective, Western society as a whole is thoroughly corrupted. Marcuse argued that, because of the radical repressiveness of Western society, a tolerance for all viewpoints actually contributed to social oppression. Freedom of speech simply could not be tolerated.

Unlike many of his disciples, Marcuse was frank about what this intolerance would mean: ‘Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.’