The funny nerve.

The mere fact that it was voluntarily released ought to suffice.

Goldberg’s book. He’s attempting to define Progressivism (of the historical, capital ‘p’ variety) as a literal fascist movement, so that everything liberals ever do, have ever done, or may do in the future can be identified with figures such as Mussolini and Hitler.

Meanwhile, conservatism skates free and blameless for the conditions that made Progressivism necessary — as well as for being incomparably worse regarding all the late-19th and early-20th-Century faults and enthusiasms that Jonah mentions here. See, that’s why it was called ‘Progressivism’ in the first place: Because the conservative view at the time was that children ought to be working sixty hours a week in meat-packing plants, and so forth.

In fact, we must stare in awe as Jonah accuses Margaret Sanger of “nasty racism” for her era-appropriate belief in eugenics, even while the back cover of his book, to be published in January 2008, sports a blurb by Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve.

Goddamn, Gavin, that’s some awesome commentary! Wasted on the likes of Jonah, but still, my hat is off to you. So if I’m dumbing it down properly (for my own consumption), essentially, Jonah’s great feat is in using relativistic arguments to go after liberals’ “propensity” for relativism? (And Murray is totally era-appropriate — just on our era…)

Great posting. I will be quoting you.

‘But “functionally treasonable” is also disturbingly reminiscent of the old Stalinist term “objectively fascist.” This was how people who swore their loyalty to the cause were condemned (often to death) if they deviated from the party line. Stalinists defined all dissent as “objectively” treacherous. This is not a path that conservatives should follow. When intent and individuality are separated from actions in a political context, we are entering a totalitarian realm where Ann Coulter does not really want to be.’

David Horowitz, “The Trouble with ‘Treason’” – Frontpage magazine.com July 8 2003 (http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8793)

You forgot “lick.” Our Gary is all about the tongue baths.

AFAIK, Margaret Sanger hardly engaged merely in “era appropriate” eugenics advocacy. She was a eugenicist and even people of her era realized her eugenics ideas were wrong.

OTOH, Sanger was no racist. Watch now for righty-tighties to discover Sanger’s actual views on race and civil rights and argue that “MLK and his ilk were facists posing as civil rights champions … after all, they got support from Sanger, a known racist/fascist”.

Even the slimy underdeserving cum who eat without a lick of work.

I’m sure you used “cum” and “eat” in the same sentence by accident ;-).

You hate liberals because they can admit they are gay and live fulfilling lives while you have to imagine Jack Bauer naked simply to get enough of a rubbery one to be able to force yourself to diddle the wife you can’t satisfy and who can’t satisfy you.

Go back to the bathroom to practice your wide stance with larry craig you self-hating republican closet freak.

The fact is, not yet, brother. Not yet. But we need to pre-empt their designs of evil and collaboration with our enemies. Here in the heartland, we brook no tolerance with “tolerance”. We kill America’s enemies. Dead.

You wont kill anyone. The only thing you will do is die like a bitch begging for mercy.

But any time you want, feel free to bring it on.