Why the Left Will Not Admit the Threat of Radical Islam

[Danny Weltman]

I learn so much interesting stuff about how much I hate when I read what
other people think about me. I had no idea I harbored so much bile in my
heart or that one of my best analogues in literature was Mephistopheles.
It's really an eye opener. Maybe with enough time and help from the Right,
I can divest myself of my hate of Westerners, Americans, Christians, and
the Enlightenment and join the Right in hating Islam. Until then I guess
I'll have to rest content with being a reactionary. At least now I know how
it feels to be called one!

Danny

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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