************************ When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and
June 16, 2015
June 16, 2015
This is sooooo not an 8-year-old, Bush-era essay on the leftist strategy of appropriating meaning through an institutionalized “democratization” of interpretation, resulting in an inexorable overtaking of the civil society by way of identity politics and language
[with thanks, here in 2015, to geoffB for teasing this out of the archives] Late to the party I am, but still. From the AP, “Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University”: A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said. Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief