Dear Poirot,

There's an interesting website that you and others
may enjoy reading. Its an article written by Jason
Wilson for The Guardian on "cultural Marxism," which
otb consistently bleats about. It seems that the
term "cultural Marxism" is most commonly encountered
as a snarl word decrying anything right-wingers don't
like.

Jason Wilson explains that "cultural Marxism" is a
uniting theory for right-wingers who love to play the
victim. Wilson tells us that the culture war that so
defines current debates between the left and right sides
of politics has its history in the barmy theory of
"cultural Marxism."

Wilson asks what do The Australian's columnist Nick Cater,
video hat group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter Anders
Breivik and random blokes on YouTube have in common?
We can include otb in that group.

Apart from anything else, they have all invoked the spectre of
"cultural Marxism" to account for things they disapprove of
things like Islamic immigration communities, feminism,
migrants, multiculturalism, Black Armband History, and of
course Emily Listers, the Greens, Labor, Leftist Progressives,
Adam Goodes, and, er, Opposition Leader - Bill Shorten, et al.

What are they talking about? Wilson tells us that the tale
varies in the telling, but the theory of cultural Marxism is
integral to the fantasy life of the contemporary right.
It depends on a crazy-mirror history, which glancingly reflects
things that really happened, only to distort them in the most
bizarre ways ...

It begins in the 1910s and 1920s. When the socialist revolution
failed to materialise beyond the Soviet Union...

Read more at:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/cultural-marxism-a-uniting-theory-for-rightwingers-who-love-to-play-the-victim

Fox,

LOL, predictably you would cherry-pick a shameless lightweight submitting dumbed-down infotainment for 'Useful Idiots' to confirm their own opinions.

<January 31, 2015
The Guardian's Jason Wilson on Cultural Marxism
By Paul Austin Murphy

The Guardian employing a Leftist academic and sociologist to deny the cultural and political power of Marxist theorists and institutional professionals is like getting the police to investigate police corruption or getting the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) to write a report on the Islamist penetration of British society.

Jason Wilson's article - published last week - is titled 'Cultural Marxism: a uniting theory for right-wingers who love to play the victim'. Its subtitle reads:

“The culture war that so defines current debates between the left and right sides of politics has its history in the barmy theory of 'cultural Marxism'.”..

Recent Guardian articles by Jason Wilson's include:

'Charlie Hebdo could be published in Australia' (which argues against free speech on issues of “religion or religious identity”)

'#illridewithyou: do Australia's rightwingers hate it because they don't know their own readers?' (which is about “right-wing racism against Muslims” in Australia) and

'The right has won control of the English-speaking world' (whose title is self-explanatory).

Basically, all Wilson's articles seem to be about how unremittingly evil the Right is and how the Left should “w[i]n control of the English-speaking world” (which, apparently, has been won by the Right). This is ironic considering the fact that the subject matter being discussed here is cultural Marxism and its cultural and political power in, well, the English-speaking world (as well as beyond).

Basically, then, Jason Wilson is protecting his own political and ideological fiefdom..>

It goes on, but Jason doesn't improve.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/the_emguardiansem_jason_wilson_on_cultural_marxism.html

Hi BANJO...

Your remarks are absolutely, right on the money ! What continues to concern me;

Why is an unnatural sexual act (sodomy) between two male persons, seem to receive even more public affirmation, therefore allowing the Gay community to now demand it be solemnised, in the form of an orthodox and traditional marriage ? Are we all too fearful even afraid (ostensibly because of 'political correctness'), to say what's really in our hearts and minds on this issue ?

Am I homophobic ? I don't know ? But as recently as the early 1970's, homosexual males were still being locked up for the crime of sodomy in a public place. Obviously in the intervening forty odd years, there's been a massive shift in public morality and acceptability, and now it's even an offence to denigrate or discriminate, a homosexual person - as it should be, given our current community mores.

What happens in the bedrooms of adults, is nobody's business. However, as we're now living in such an advanced, enlightened and promiscuous society, I wonder what next will be scrutinized by the guardians of public sexual morality ? Perhaps a regulated trial, of sexual intercourse with animals ?

You reckon I'm joking ? Most coppers can relate the names of several of Sydney's well known practitioners of this curious form of sexual behaviour (bestiality) !

otb,

You state -
"Predictably you would cherry-pick a shameless lightweight
submitting dumbed-down infotainment for 'Useful idiots' to
confirm their own opinions."

Let's look at the "shameless lightweight," that you
describe - shall we.

Here are the facts:

1)Jason Wilson - a writer and scholar based in Portland, Oregon,
USA. He was a visiting fellow at the Swinburne University's
Institute for Social Research and then a lecturer in
Journalism and Communication at the University of Canberra.

Now lets look at your choice of "heavyweight."

2) Paul Austin Murphy (PAM) - who according to the web is a
"very small-time and ultra bitchy British blogger associated
with the political hard-right who has apparent delusions of
becoming England's answer to Daniel Pipes. His favourite subjects
appear to be the following: how virtually all Muslims want to
establish a totalitarian state, how far-leftists are actually
influential and want to do the same and how they're all working
together to accomplish this. He shoehorns everything to
communism (prefers Stalin or cultural Marxism) or Islam."

"He looks down on anyone who isn't as paranoid as he is about
Muslims. He even views David Cameron as being gullible
for allowing Muslims to be high-ranking Tories.
No, really."

He's published his "writings" in "American Thinker"
and "Counter-Jihad."

I rest my case.

mikk,

I would like to be legally recognised as the mother of my children. Sure I am recognised as the father, but that doesn't have the same connotations.

Why should I be denied the word mother just because I am Male.

Sure, as a parent I have nearly all the rights as women do (apart from abortion), but I want the word Mother. I want the government to recognise the motherly relationship I have with my kids.

Calling me a father sends the message that men are not the same. It is divisive and discriminatory.

If your rights are not for everyone then they are not rights they are just privileges.

Why do women deserve the right to be mothers but not men?

Fox,

Your cherry-picked Jason is fact-free, vacuous.

It is all narrative and outrageously embellished, theatrical. Superficial, fairy floss for the 'Useful Idiots' to confirm their own opinions.

Cherry-pick another, get that Google going!