Why the Left Will Not Admit the Threat of Radical Islam

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > I know you are too smart for that, deep down.

To say something like this requires that you are more intelligent than 
the person you're talking about.

I don't know if this is here the case.






On 11.01.2016 20:54, David Morris wrote:
> "Leftists" is the new dirty word, it seems.
>
> Kai?  Are you now a "Rightists?" (Is that a word?) You have made 
> ideological bed-fellows with some very wing-nutty types. I know you 
> are too smart for that, deep down.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Danny Weltman 
> <danny.weltman at gmail.com <mailto:danny.weltman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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 <mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de>> wrote:
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>             >
>             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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