Why the Left Will Not Admit the Threat of Radical Islam

[Robert Mahnke]

This business about the how the left is reactionary was my favorite bit:

*Leftists are fundamentally negative and oppositional.*  In* Faust*, Goethe
refers to Mephistopheles as *Der Geist der stets verneint*, the spirit that
always negates.  That is the spirit of the Left: destructive, nay-saying,
reactionary.   So leftists take the side of Islamists because the latter
oppose traditional American values despite the deadly threat Islamists pose
to their own values.  Compare Robert Tracinski
<http://thefederalist.com/2015/05/19/why-does-the-left-kowtow-to-islam/>:

The left is fundamentally reactionary. It is a reaction against capitalism
and against America. The left are defined by what they are against, or more
accurately who they hate. So they are drawn to sympathy toward Islam
because it is not-us: non-Western, non-American, neither Christian nor a
product of the Enlightenment. And I guess that’s what the two ideologies
have in common: they are both reactions against the supposed evils of the
West. Which explains why leftists tend to find themselves uncomfortable and
look for excuses to retreat when they are called upon to defend the West
against this rival group of reactionaries.

If that resonates with you in some way, I guess maybe the rest of it will
make sense too.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Pfff... this is ludicrous, asinine, sputtering cant.
>
> Zero philosophical or even political value.
>
> J
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2015/05/why-the-left-will-not-admit-the-threat-of-radical-islam-revised-and-expanded.html
> >
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