University of Chicago history professor, Rachel Fulton Brown has been criticized and even harassed for a blog post she published on June 5, 2015 titled “Three Cheers for White Men.” (https://tinyurl.com/yyu6a4sq)
Her post explained that “white men,” the racist and inflammatory term used by Leftists to denote — in a derogatory way — Western culture, were responsible for such things as chivalry, women’s rights, and free speech.
We spoke with Professor Brown at a meeting of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship at Western University in London, Ontario on May 4th, 2019.
Comments Off on 607 – Why social ISm and capital ISN’T
May092019
Socialism’s growing appeal is often difficult to understand, particularly given capitalism’s demonstrated social, economic, and political superiority. However, the resistance to capitalism may have its roots in something far deeper than a failure to recognize its virtues and benefits.
Sad to say, most people have no clear idea of what capitalism and socialism actually are. Bathed in the contradictions of living in a mixed economy, many attribute the successes of capitalism to socialism, and socialism’s failures to capitalism. In the absence of an objective understanding of each ‘ism,’ this suggests a psychological or emotional association that is the source of their bias.
As always, the first rule in the art of political persuasion is ‘define or be defined.’ By allowing the ‘socialist’ Left to define the terms of the discussion, the ‘capitalist’ Right has been placed in an almost insurmountable disadvantage.
Consider that with their simple positioning of the words ‘socialism’ against ‘capitalism,’ socialists have already won a critical part of the debate. After all, the two ‘isms’ have little to do with each other, since ‘social’ and ‘capital’ are incompatible concepts.Continue reading »
Comments Off on The Easter Worshipers vs The State Worshipers – The Danielle Metz Show 060
May082019
Audio only. As heard on WBCQ
Identity politics seems to have reached its limit when Christians become victims.
In the wake of the Easter Sri Lanka church bombings by Islamic jihadists the tweets of condolences by high-ranking Democrats led by Barack Obama have given us a brief glimpse into their ideology and their psyches.
Rather than identify the targets of the bombing as Christians, as they clearly were, Barack Obama tweeted an offering of prayer to the “tourists” and “Easter worshippers” affected by the bombings. Hillary Clinton and many other prominent “Obama worshipers” quickly and dutifully followed suit tweeting out their response to the death of the followers of this new-found religion of “Easter worshiping.”
The word “Christians” must have stuck in their throats as they typed out their condolences. Rather than admit the obvious, that peaceful Christians were the victims and jihadist Muslims were the terrorists, these leading Leftists decided to rebrand an entire religion and in doing so revealed their own religious bias as “State worshipers.”
Salim Mansur, Professor Emeritus at Western University, is currently campaigning to become the Conservative candidate in the riding of London North Centre and in this presentation he responds to a letter he received from a citizen in that riding on questions of migration, immigration, and multiculturalism.
Salim, has been a frequent contributor to Just Right Media.
Comments Off on Israeli Elections – What Comes Next: A conversation with Gerald Steinberg and Salim Mansur
May022019
President of NGO Watch, Gerald Steinberg sits down with Professor Salim Mansur to discuss the outcome of the recent 2019 Israeli elections, Russia, Putin, Trump, and the Middle East.
Comments Off on 606 – Socialism – The unknowable ideal
May022019
The growing appeal of socialism, particularly among the young, is both alarming and exceedingly dangerous.
The experience of socialism as manifested in countries outside the Western nations is generally alien to most Westerners, given their more capitalistic histories. The horror stories of mass starvation and genocide historically perpetrated in the name of socialism are rarely attributed to the nature of socialism itself, but to something otherwise dysfunctional within the particular culture.
Persistent is the false belief that destructive and failed variants of socialism simply weren’t socialism to begin with, and were instead some form of communism or fascism. The failed attempts at implementing socialism just weren’t done properly, argue socialists.
To distance themselves from the unavoidable and systemic evils of socialism, modern socialists have created the anti-concepts of ‘social democrat’ and ‘social democracy.’ If democracy has an Achilles’ heel that will lead to its own destruction, it is these ridiculous notions of ‘social democracy,’ and ‘social Democrats,’ both euphemisms for socialism and socialists. True democracy and socialism are simply incompatible, both in theory (as discovered through philosophy) and in practice (as repeatedly witnessed in history).Continue reading »
Comments Off on 605 – Unlocking the mystery of consciousness
Apr252019
It is ironic that the nature of consciousness still remains a ‘mystery’ in our age of science and technology. After all, these fields themselves required ‘conscious’ focus and effort to become credibly established. Yet, attempts to study consciousness on a scientific, medical, or technological basis only ‘prove’ that these fields of discipline are not up to the task.
Indeed, evidence suggests that many people do not even want to know or understand the real nature of their conscious being, since the answers are not always comforting, particularly when compared to long held beliefs that consciousness can somehow exist without physical form.
Some recent news headlines we examine tell the story: “Scientists spur brain activity in dead pigs” / “Does consciousness continue after the brain dies?” / and “Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?”
To understand the nature of consciousness, we find ourselves forced to rely on the disciplines of philosophy and psychology, for science and medicine have never been able to quantitatively measure or pinpoint anything capable of being studied that we call ‘consciousness.’Continue reading »
