Surprisingly enough, this list of taboo microaggressions included many common questions and phrases seemingly devoid of any ill intent. One of the banned, supposedly offensive phrases is “America is a land of opportunity.” According to Napolitano and her politically correct cohorts, such a phrase is a form of coded, covert racism that creates a toxic campus culture.Other phrases university faculty were banned from saying include “America is a melting pot,” “I believe the most qualified person should get the job,” and “There is only one race, the human race.” Another banned phrase was “When I look at you, I don’t see color.” Colorblind professors everywhere began quivering in fear.Faculty were also banned from asking students basic small talk questions, such as “Where are you from?” and “Where were you born?” These questions can be construed as racist. According to Napolitano, banning these microaggressions from California’s universities was part of an initiative to “improve campus climate.”
What you need to see here is what happens when no actual moralities are in play, when nobody truly believes ANYTHING. A morality is a reason to live. It is a means of transforming the pains of life into meaning.
But if you reject in principle the idea that life always includes pain and difficulty, you have no reason for a morality. Not having a reason for a morality, you instead live a life of avoidance, of evading truth, of denouncing the very idea of truth, precisely because your world view is counterfactual. It is wrong.
This is the root of what I term Sybaritic Leftism, which I contrast with true Liberalism, which is a means of multiple moralities coexisting in peace. And the vacuousness of this form of Leftism leads inexorably to Cultural Sadeism. It cannot resist it. It starts out nice and playful, and becomes cold and cruel.
All the ex-hippies teaching at the University of California cut their teeth on opposing “the System”. Now they ARE the system, and they are showing they have no ideas, nothing original to live for, nothing to add, nothing interesting to say.
This is always the case. Communism–and these people are spouting Communist propaganda, using Communist methods of analysis, and proposing Communistic solutions–never adds anything any life. What joy has Fidel Castro brought Cuba? What joy did Mao bring China? They brought death, fear, famine, and the collapse of all the soft traits, like trust and openness, which alone make life worth living.
Communism is the death of human beauty, and it is what is being preached in our best universities.
And we need to be clear that these kids are being conditioned to live in little boxes, to suppress all authenticity, to conform their views to what they are taught and not the evidence of their own eyes. They are being talk to accept propaganda willingly, and to obey their elders, no matter how crazy they are.
So we really have to look at two forms of conditioning. First, the actual ideas of Communism are being taught, which reject all moralities in favor of conformity to an arbitrary dictator, and the modes of being of Communism are being taught, which are fear and bullying.
And in the process moral reasoning is lost entirely. On one day they decry rape. On the next, they decry “Islamophobia” despite the fact that Islam allows and even encourages both the rape and murder of unbelievers. And they can’t denounce ISIS, because that is a thought crime, despite the fact that most of their crimes are being committed against people who are ALSO Muslims.
As I have said often, Leftism is emotionally cartoonish. It thinks in simplistic ideas of good and bad, and has no ability to differentiate among the “others” it allegedly wants to protect. Who do you think most of the illegal aliens in America who are criminals criminalize? Other illegals, and fellow Mexicans. Almost all crimes are committed within groups. You know who would be helped if these people were deported? Mexicans living in the US.
I can only watch and hope that the sheer excesses of these anti-moral zealots will bring about a backlash. We are already seeing it in Donald Trump, who I think will most likely be the Republican nominee. And I think he will get bipartisan support, because Americans KNOW that we have many problems nobody has the balls to fix.