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Category Archives: Conservatives
The Left Is Horrified By Revenge
Dennis Prager points out that all punishment contains revenge. People on the right are not as horrified by revenge as people on the left because the right wants to strongly punish norm violators. Other distinguishing features of the right include … Continue reading
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The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention
Prior to reading this book, I was unaware of any major players in human rights who were right-wing. Here are some highlights from this 2016 book by Marco Duranti: Conservative Europeanists invoked international human rights norms for different purposes. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
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Harm Reduction
Wikipedia notes: “The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should be limited only to prevent harm to other individuals.” I’ve loved some of my cars and I’ve felt like they were an extension of me. Any harm to … Continue reading
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The Role of Identity in Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression
In his work in progress, Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia, Rony Guldmann writes: * Notwithstanding their ostensible egalitarianism and pragmatism, the liberal elites are committed to their own particular brand of identity politics, … Continue reading
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Conspiracies & Hero Systems
When your hero system is far removed from those who hold power, you’re going to look like you believe in crazy conspiracies. Rony Guldmann writes in his work-in-progress Conservative Claims Of Cultural Oppression: * The conservative magazine Chronicles explains: Once … Continue reading
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Slate: How the Right Won the Hawk Tuah Girl – This is a huge, huge problem for Democrats
Luke Winkie writes for Slate July 3, 2024: …you tend to wield the internet for the pursuit of pleasure and nothing else—then you will be perceived to be right wing. And frankly, that is not a sustainable electoral model. The … Continue reading
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How Did Conservatives Spot Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline Years Before The Liberal Elites?
For the past five years, liberal elites (with few exceptions) tried to do everything they could to make it socially unacceptable to declare that Joe Biden was senile. “On what basis?” they’d challenge conservatives, and then pour on the scorn. … Continue reading
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Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia (Transgender Edition)
01:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia (Transgender Edition), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15428403:00 Philosopher Rony Guldmann, https://ronyguldmann.com/38:00 Hero systems, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14653448:00 Liberal and conservative reactions to gay identity1:02:00 The rise of Christian nationalism1:08:00 The buffered identity purports to … Continue reading
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Why Is The Right So Dumb?
Nathan Cofnas writes: The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranks the world’s universities based on objective criteria such as the number of publications they produce in Nature and Science and how many of their alumni have won Nobel Prizes … Continue reading
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Decoding The Republican Brain (8-8-23)
01:00 The Republican Brain, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14972404:00 People Often Base Their Worldview On Bogus Facts, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14951043:00 HP: Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14967244:00 Steve Sailer: Richard Hanania’s “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate … Continue reading
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