Entries Tagged 'extreme self-criticism' ↓
February 10th, 2008 — Enlightenment values, abject appeasement, anglosphere, anti-totalitarianism, dazed and confused, democracy, deranged detachment, extreme political correctness, extreme self-criticism, global culture war, global political correctness, liberal "thinking", media
The Daily Mail attacks the British Olympic Association for its ourtrageous coddling of the Chinese with a vivid reminder of Britain’s shame and dishonor in the run-up to World War II:
National disgrace: In a picture from a German archive never before published in Britain, the England football team give Nazi salutes in Berlin in 1938 [e.a.]
Here are the facts, from the Mail:
British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China’s appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
The controversial clause has been inserted into athletes’ contracts for the first time and forbids them from making any political comment about countries staging the Olympic Games.
It is contained in a 32-page document that will be presented to all those who reach the qualifying standard and are chosen for the team.
From the moment they sign up, the competitors – likely to include the Queen’s granddaughter Zara Phillips and world record holder Paula Radcliffe – will be effectively gagged from commenting on China’s politics, human rights abuses or illegal occupation of Tibet.
Here’s the argument against, from David Mellor, also writing in the Mail:
The Chinese have no right to a free ride this summer. And it isn’t just because China isn’t a democracy or that basic human rights and fundamental freedoms are denied to its citizens.
China is a menace to the civilised world for many other reasons, ranging from its support for renegade regimes such as the government of Sudan, who used Chinese weaponry to commit the Darfur massacres, to its shameless emergence as the number one polluter.
The Chinese deserve as much criticism over their contributions to global warming as over their suppression of human rights.
Long live the British tabloid media!
December 30th, 2007 — I'm speechless, Israel bashing, Jews, anti-semitism, anti-tribalism, cluelessness, dazed and confused, extreme political correctness, extreme self-criticism, huh?, idiots, liberal "thinking", moral cretinism, nonsense, politics makes strange bedfellows
Philip Weiss discovers anti-democratic extremism.
I was shocked by Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Any fool knew it was coming, that is the not the point. It was the pure evil infamy of it. They hate democracy. Who hates democracy? Well, some elements of radical Islam. When David Axelrod of Obama’s campaign yesterday hinted that Hillary Clinton was somehow responsible because she voted for the Iraq War, I thought, Don’t be an idiot. …
After the Cold War, Susan Sontag famously said that the National Review was more reliable than the Nation on the Soviet Union. This time around the left must show that it is more reliable than the Weekly Standard and the New Republic about “the war on terror”. We are winning this ideological battle because we have not overstated the threat, and they have, and we do not ignore the fact that the Palestinian situation is a red flag across the Muslim world. Yet we can’t forget: there are forces of darkness out there.
The sewer rats in his comments section are none too pleased about Weiss’s revelation:
For his cheerleading of those other blamers of the Jews, Weiss made a Top Ten Moonbats of 2007 list:
Weiss has become an “Israel Lobby” fundamentalist. In his eyes, to question the scholarship of Walt and Mearsheimer is to question truth. Every page of their book is gospel. Any negative review of their work is automatically dismissed as a “smear,” and every day that passes without an expose of the “Israel Lobby” on “60 Minutes” or the cover of Time magazine is further evidence of Jewish control over the media.
This mild critique doesn’t do Weiss justice. He has to be read to be believed. I’ll give you all the pleasure of finding out for yourselves, but I won’t provide another link.
