28 Feb 2017
From the Hamilton Spectator of 28 Feb 2017:
RE: Why We Railed Against Trump’s Executive Order
RE: They Produced a Frankenstein Monster
The two articles referenced show Progressivism as reduced to
farce. Here we have two ivory tower liberals exhibiting cultural snobbery
even as they preen in their own superiority.
Henry A. Giroux is an American who hates America. I
get that. I know the type. Giroux long ago exhausted his
superlatives of evil on George W. Bush. The America of Barack Obama got
no reprieve. And so when a blue-collar billionaire, the brash, coarse,
and deplorable Donald J. Trump was elected president, defeating the
Progressive’s favorite Hillary Clinton by conquering the reliably Democratic
rust belt states in the process, the vocabulary of the professor of
grievance-studies had no bile left. It was exhausted. And so we get
the same sky-is-falling turgid, faux elevated narrative for the third or fourth
time in words that, this time, are unworthy of an academic. (“They
produced the Frankenstein Monster.” Like the Mel Brooks character?)
Giroux is like cranking an old engine that has no fuel.
The president of McMaster University is another cosseted
Progressive pretending to be brave. Neither Patrick Deane nor Henry
Giroux is wondering where his next buck is coming from. Deane
demonstrated that he has no clue of the fate of conservatism on American
university campuses. He apparently has never heard of the rioting and
threatened violence that for years occurred at the mere prospect of
conservative speakers appearing on American university campuses. Student
campus clubs that have the air of conservatism about them have for years been
harassed or banished from campuses. Deane talks the game of the “free
flow of ideas, values, diversity, inclusion, and openness,” but he fails to
realize that Progressivism is a totalitarian counterfeit of the Western
Enlightenment. The ‘free flow’ of Progressivism flows only one way, and
it brooks no opposition. Free speech is for progressives only.
Violent demonstrations and disruptions in the cause of Progressivism is “free
speech.” But mere words from conservatives gets branded as hate speech,
and those evil people get what they deserve for expressing their values and
ideas, and to hell with diversity, inclusion, and openness when it comes to
conservatives. Forget classical history, the classic Progressive
‘education’ are the grievance-studies of the likes of Henry Giroux.
Well-to-do, cossetted, financially secure liberals who live
in nice neighborhoods hold the blue collar workers in America – the deplorables
– in contempt. But the votes of blue-collar America has rendered them and
their opinions irrelevant, for now. That, for the elite, is hard to bear.
But the elites had their chance. They made the lives of blue collar
America miserable with their theories, the ramifications of which the elites
were safe from. Blue collar America finally noticed.
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