01) Roger Scruton: The Identity Crisis of Western Democracies
“Sir Roger Vernon Scruton is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.
In recent years he teached courses in Buckingham University, Oxford University and University of St. Andrews.
In this video he talks about the identity crisis of western democracies and the political elite control of ordinary people about immigration and representative democracy.
Complete video quoted under fair use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjPkQ5mgflo“
“Sarah Morehead, Recovering From Religion joins Thom. Americans are leaving their religions in record droves! But what does life after faith look like for these post-religious Americans?”
01) You Have The ‘Religious Liberty’ To Suck Baby Dicks
“Published on Jun 13, 2015
New York is preparing to reconsider its ruling about oral suction circumcision, a tradition that has been linked to deadly cases of infant herpes, in an effort to resolve a dispute with the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Officials from the city’s board of health agreed this week to open a public discussion about a proposal that would rescind a rule requiring consent forms for the procedure, in what has been an attempt by Mayor Bill de Blasio to balance public health prerogatives with concerns about freedom of religion…
Well, hey…if you’re up for being cruel to your infant son, and you’ve got a Rabbi…two otherwise extremely illegal activities – cutting off a non-consenting child’s body part and sucking on his penis – are entirely A-Okay!…It’s legal, and you cannot be prosecuted for it…
…Holy freaking shit, how gross, disgusting and inhumane…And it’s protected activity in the USA!…
People wonder why this world and it’s vile hypocrisies, have driven me so far past the breaking point, that I cannot even take it’s moral outrages seriously anymore…
Yes…I’ve been aware of this practice for many years…It leaves me perplexed…and somewhat speechless…Which is saying a lot, for me.
I am intrigued, that there remains some legal path to sucking a child’s penis…even if a bloody, wounded one…
…I think it should absolutely be done away with…But I’m still intrigued that, in a world where everyone is crying an ocean over any minor boy’s penis being sucked…you’ve got this brazen monstrosity going on, mocking the very persecution of those of us who would love a boy…And it’s accepted because, “that’s the way it’s always been”…
…What a crock of shit!
…And what an absolute Judas this society is…How absolutely bankrupt of integrity and ethics.
So long as you can hurt and scar the child, in a ritualistic setting, you can walk away free…Don’t ever come near those same body parts, in the name and intention of love…
…Then they’ll do really bad things to you…
So many people fantasize this to be “a godly country”…”righteous, good and chosen”…
…They lose their bearings and all sanity, from encountering an old nobody like me, discussing such “terrible” things as human rights, social harmony, and matters of objective love and decency…
…Meanwhile, their beloved pride fires missiles, drops bombs, invades and occupies…shooting, blowing up other human beings…leaving the internal entrails of children strewn about the streets…the playgrounds…the beds they laid asleep in…
…But, “I” am the danger…
…Do I really have to expound further, on why I don’t take moral outrage seriously?
The “moral outrage”, is nothing more than phobia, and dogmatic ideology…
…Most people don’t give a flying fart, about the concrete inhumanities going on in this world…
…They need someone like a boy’s cocksucker, to have a mental breakdown over…That’s the quick and easy outrage…It costs them nothing…they can demand that someone else [ie: lawmakers] deal with it…and they’ll never be in harms way, from actually going somewhere where true treachery is occurring.
01) How Political Correctness Limits the Free Exchange of Ideas on Campus (THE SAAD TRUTH_129)
“Published on Feb 2, 2016
I cover the language police, the rejection of intellectual diversity, identity politics, micro-aggressions, trigger warnings, safe spaces, cultural appropriation, among other topics.
This is a recording of an invited lecture organized by the Institute for Liberal Studies and hosted at the University of Ottawa.
Notes:
1) Typos and other possible errors in the transcription of questions and comments in the Q&A portion of the clip do not originate from me!
2) The original Q&A period contained a greater number of questions and audience statements but the clip’s editor made the editorial decision of which to keep and which to delete.
3) The original clip was of a much higher resolution but I had to transform it to ensure a quicker upload on YouTube.
4) At two points in my lecture (toward the end), I refer to a formatting error with the numbering of items (on the particular slides). However, you’ll note that the numbering on the slides in question is shown correctly in the clip. This is because I was reading off my Powerpoint slides during the lecture (which yielded formatting errors between my Mac and the computer in the lecture hall) however the slides shown in the clip stem from the pdf versions of the original slides (i.e., no formatting errors).”
01) YouTube’s new rules on extremism really just placates advertisers
“YouTube’s Adpocalpyse is very much real, and part of that stemmed from a few ads running on extremist videos on the site. Now YouTube has enacted a new plan that looks like it will censor those type of videos from ever gaining traction, but in reality the problem is so small that this is just to placate advertisers to come back.
01) Roger Scruton: The Identity Crisis of Western Democracies
