Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. Yes. They lob grenades from behind beautifully rusticated stone walls, then walk up to the loopholes to peek out at what's been blown up. After that it's a soft chair in the faculty lounge. Or maybe to the airport, for a flight to Antibes, Ionia, or the Galapagos.
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  2. Yes, yes, a thousand time yes!
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  3. I'll tell you how they did it: From the kindergartens to the graduate schools, scolding leftists took over education. The henpecked administrations and their government funders meekly co-operated every inch of the way. Once two generations had gone through schools thus ruined, the woke deed was done.
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  4. I agreed with every word of that.đź‘Ť
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  5. But the name (and adjective) was self-chosen. We only pay respect to you by calling it what you did. And now you abjure it? Why? What a mania you have for re-naming and un-naming things. Well, it's too bad. It's yours, wear it. And since bigot means one unreasonably intolerant of particular group(s) you can wear that one too.
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  6. I was astonished to find that 45 minutes had passed. Seemed somehow like about 20, and that says it all.
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  7.  @lesfox2010  I did miss the sense of one part that was essential. Where you said his content was the important part, I read it as meaning the important terrible part. (Like when after an accident someone is charged with speeding, but the important charge is vehicular manslaughter.) The initial thing about pronunciation threw me off, as it sounded like a smug woke putdown of Liddle. Best regards
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  8. By continuing to speak up you are very much doing the right thing. Do not stop now.
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  9. How does one contribute financially to Amy's legal struggle?
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  10. "Could of"?
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  11. Wow that was a refreshing talk. Maybe someday I can watch something that good on the BBC.
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  12. Beginning at 12:40 Fox gropes for a political self-evaluation and gets around to mentioning having taken a Political Compass test. (Google it and take one for what it's worth. It takes just a few minutes.)   But beware, it has a hard time labelling someone who's untidily all over the place and who finds there's something to be said for many points of view. I took it and it told me, like it told Fox, that I'm a left-wing Nazi. A less ham-handed designation would be Left Libertarian, again probably just like him. It means you don't want the rich rolling over everybody, and not the government or anybody else either, but disagree strongly with the radical decentralization or dismantling of authority. You think there should be very restrictive laws which ensure restrictions remain loose. Left Libertarians don't often think people who disagree with them are immoral or bad, they think they're unbalanced and not at all sensible. Being one may in fact mean you'd like a centrist or conservative government to take power and really raise taxes on the rich and increase regulation, all in the name, perhaps oddly, of moderation, fairness, and a certain mind-your-own-business decency. It seems to mean you are more skeptical of heroes than any generation except the current 15-to-24s, but thinking highly of the essays of George Orwell (the lapsed Marxist) seems to be very common. LL representatives struggle to access political power. Obama and Bill Clinton had some of it in them but were too cozy with Goldman Sachs to really qualify. Boris Johnson though being off type for preferring low taxes is actually not a much weaker exemplar. John Kennedy and the Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau are to some LLs inspirations from decades ago. They are the group most incensed (or are they the only group incensed?) when their opponents are shut up, have their free speech trampled on, or are in any way deplatformed. They have strong distaste for anything smacking of repression unless it's repression of repression itself on the part of fascists, communists, or religious zealots. The orientation is strongest among educated people who think they're clever and who were born between 1960 and 1980 or slightly before those dates, and is otherwise spread pretty freely across the lower-middle, middle, and upper middle classes, and the sexes. It's an odd group which refuses to do its part in the important work of dividing society and pulling it apart into shreds.
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  13. His hate is only for ignorance and hate, which makes it salutary and commendable. So don't worry. Relieve your anxiety by hugging yourself, perhaps.
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  14. So they've declared that if you're not a neo-Marxist you have mental problems. It's so patently ridiculous that the natural reaction is to simply dismiss it with a contemptuous sneer. Alas, the people saying it are actually in charge. The doors are starting to close on a tolerably sane future. Madness is to be imposed.
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  15. Yes, he made splendid use of that word in applying it to the hypocrite concerned.
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  16. It's no good to just agree with one another in spaces like this one. So I thought this man might have some practical suggestions. Did my attention wander when he actually gave some, or did he indeed suggest nothing more than to turn to religion? I want something I can use.
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  17.  @AsEasyAs_  Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did catch that. It's great as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far. You might call it passive resistance, and it will only slow down the unfolding of this disaster. We need more drastic measures, surely.
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  18. Will no one organize public demonstrations against this arrogant monstrosity? Don't they have a building with a square or sidewalk in front of it?
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  19. In this and other NCF videos the host's voice is much louder than his guest's. I wish they'd fix that.
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  20. Around 12:20 he mentions a newly-released report. Where can we find it?
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  21. National Socialism sounds nice too, doesn't it? Yet that's not what it was. It was something else and it was a very bad thing thing indeed. It turns out Wokeism likewise fails to live up to what it claims to be and is likewise a very bad thing. Mad re-namers that you are, no doubt you'll come up with something else. No matter. Bad is bad is bad, and woke by any other name would reek as badly.
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  22. So trigger means amuse and please now? Because his speech amused and pleased him and everyone else present. So far, I notice, every wokester response in this section is about words. Not ideas, not morals, not values and certainly not arguments. Just word choice. How very dull is monomania.
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  23.  @73elephants  Thank you for the gift of a marvellous new word — your last one of course — which I can put to plenty of good use, I'm afraid. (New despite it being familiar somehow. I've certainly seen it and could've spelt and pronounced it correctly if some occasion demanded it. Odd, that.)
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  24.  @maxbacon4828  My heartfelt thanks. It's hard doing this all the time with the only response leftist vitriol.
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  25. Ordinary man that I am — by which I mean warm-hearted — when I first became aware of the feminists' difficulties with the trans activists, I felt sorry for them. But I've gotten over that feeling, in favour of the realization that yes, the feminists are indeed hoist with their own petard. Could it have happened to a lovelier bunch?
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  26. "Swing towards the right over the last few years"? This is a pretty clear sign you live at the Left Pole. (Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right.) There has been a swing all right. A group from well left of centre has lurched hard far leftward. Racism, sexism, and homophobia by 2010 were all incomparably lower than ever and while they still needed much attention, the gap between rich and poor, having grown to the levels of ninety years earlier, needed attention even more urgently. Progress in wealth inequality had reversed to the point where if the same thing happened to sexism, racism, and homophobia, the universities would close admissions to women, white mobs would hang blacks from trees once more, and gays would go to prison again. But the left forgot about class, because it was now the conservatives who were poor and the liberals who had money.Thus, to liberals the class situation looked all right. Suddenly from the humanities, education, and women's studies faculties it was instead announced that sexism, racism, and homophobia were as bad as ever and were the biggest problems in the country. The wage gap had disappeared below the executive suite, in fact young women were earning more than young men, but it was declared that sexism was still rampant. Intolerance of gays reached such a low that the gay bars closed down, but homophobia was still rampant. Jobs and admissions were provided to people of colour on a large scale, but racism was as bad as ever. The pitiable young of the time, reared on Care Bears then demoralized by environmental degradation and evaporating economic opportunity, were ripe to believe the only view of humanity, life, and the world permitted in schools and academe, the neo-Marxist feminist one. They were taught that working to decrease respect and opportunity for normal white men was the sole way to be a decent human being and they took it completely to heart. Language offensive to minorities and women was rightly discouraged; offensive language and attacks against white people, men, and non-gays were at the same time normalized and came to be recognized as a sign of virtue. When Trump was elected largely in reaction to these developments, it riled the left terribly and just added momentum to its race ever more leftward. Now, they claim, anyone who criticizes them just proves what a sexist, racist, and homophobe they are. Denying you're a racist makes you one. Lifelong mainstream liberals now find the New Puritans see them as not much better than the far right. Moderates are considered counterrevolutionary. Only the ideologically correct of an approved race, sex, and sex orientation do not need to fear the litmus tests, demands for professions of loyalty to the cause, or purges from politics, professions, culture, and community. So let me guess: you were in school in 2010, and you did not swim against any tide at all. You swam with the school of fish you found yourself in and took all of its claims at face value. Just like a religious fundamentalist, there's no need to think for yourself, since what you've been taught is complete and completely right. To entertain any other thoughts would be inviting moral self-ruin. You're the first fully decent and fully enlightened generation in history, a great leap forward to something so close to moral perfection that you're entitled to just bask deservedly in your wonderfulness and wait to be imitated by all. Your achievement above all is to set the example now and for all time. But no, not for all time. Just until the pushy, self-congratulatory intolerance you're normalizing sets up the next process of vilification, this time one that'll be worked on you. Mark my words, Mr. Sakho, they'll come for you one day, inspired by the illiberal approach of this generation. Who is to do it I don't know. But it will be a punishment that fits the crime.
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