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kgasmart's avatar

The Lemoine piece is perfect, in that it tells us how the left can reject empirical evidence if it's "racist." Noticing that African migrants commit the most crimes - anecdotally and statistically - is "racist," therefore it cannot be true, even if it is.

This tells us so much about the leftist mindset, even the Biden situation. Intellectually they know Biden is old and feeble and hardly in command of his own faculties let alone the country; but because Trump is a unique "threat to democracy," none of these things can be true. Biden is instead virile, "the best Biden yet" as Joe Scarborough said; in complete command in every sense. And if you say it's not true, no matter how much empirical evidence you have, you're wrong.

For the left, the ideology comes first; facts come second, if ever.

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Many years ago, I was in a class where we read The Brothers Karamazov. A young woman in this class commenting on something Father Zosima says- it’s so Eastern! This was a seminar set up . So I said yes it is, Eastern , Orthodox. In other words it’s the Christian tradition, you don’t realize that do you. Spiritual depth is seen by so many in our culture as the possession of people who come from outside it.And let me add it’s completely accessible within Catholicism. I have considerable respect for Buddhism and Hinduism- none for New Ageism where you mash up these traditions with Wicca ,Occultism , White Peoples fantasies about Native Americans, Scientology, Satanism and who knows what else.

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