"This is the power of leftist ideology."
< ------ UNREASON [is the power of LEFTIST ideology].
Quote:.....This is the power of leftist ideology.
Facts will not be considered if they tend to undermine prevailing views.....
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/02/mosques-learning-curve-needed/#comment-527802So, so true. !!!
Political LEFTISTS can afford to ignore the truth, whenever it contradicts LEFTIST/Marxist ideology.
This is because the LEFTIST can demonstrate [
to his own psyche] [with his
HUMANIST arguments] that his LEFTIST ideology, is
more moral than the ideology of those who do not agree with his position/opinion.
/sarc off
HUMANIST arguments = =
Politically Correct arguments.
.
Neither contradicting
Reason, nor any contradicting
truth, have any place [i.e. cannot be tolerated!] in the 'universe' of the LEFTIST/Marxist ideologue.
ideologue = = a dogmatic or uncompromising adherent of an ideology..
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
- George Orwell
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell [even if this quote is mis-attributed to Orwell, the pursuit of truth remains a great virtue]
"It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not merely to appeal to outside opinion, but to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your adversary."
- George Orwell
"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
- George Orwell
"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality."
- George Orwell
"I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty."
- George Orwell, to his friend John Middleton Murry, a wartime pacifist
"Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word. What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side."
- George Orwell
ideology vs. truth
"To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable.
It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like."
- George Orwell
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
- Herbert Spencer
"There are two ways to be fooled [deceived].
One way is to believe what is not true.
The other is to refuse to accept what is true."
- Soren Kierkegaard
Speaking to the blind and fundamental [extremist!] error, of those who worship, within the temple of Political Correctness....
"If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."
- J.S. Mill - English philosopher - on people who try to silence opinions with which they disagree
On life as a political dissident.....
"If you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark; you can't blame the world for being unfair if you start on the path of the rebel."
- Liu Xiaobo - he wrote in 1992
The insanity generated by blind adherence to political-correctness demands that we protect Muslim hate speech while condemning anyone who dares to criticize it.
'Ron'
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11987/us-mosques-muslims-incitement.
philosophy = = the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. a set of theories of a particular philosopher.