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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 12:58am on 2006-01-28 under ,

I'm honestly confused -- is this abuse of language (five yards, replay the down), an aspect of ideology I just wasn't aware of having been addressed in the Manifesto, or a relatively recently coined "term of art" in political theory that doesn't mean quite what it sounds like to a lay ear?

How is same-sex marriage "cultural Marxism"?

(Or is this just another case of a speaker who grabs the first "ism or ology that's considered bad" that comes to mind to apply to anything he disagrees with, with disregard to (or ignorance of) whether it's relevant?) Okay, obviously I've got a guess, but I don't know for sure that I haven't overlooked something I oughta know. Educate me.


And just to follow up on what I posted a few hours ago: the rapid police response was because two blocks west (just about where Pratt & Lombard combine and become Frederick Ave.) is some sort of stepped-up-enforcement zone with cameras and stuff. It was a triple shooting, none fatal (thank goodness), covered on two local television stations 23:00 news programs -- I'm not sure whether the on-scene reporting was because it was a demonstration of the "saturation policing" or because two of the victims are children.

Hmm. Apparently the area two blocks away is thoroughly patrolled by uniformed and painclothes officers, but they can't spare a squad car to hop over two blocks to stop a burglary in progress being described in realtime on a 911 call? I'm really not sure whether to be pleased that the police are trying so hard on "known trouble spots", or to be even more disturbed that they don't come such a short distance when needed, now that I know how close many of thm are.

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posted by [identity profile] maugorn.livejournal.com at 06:28am on 2006-01-28
The take I bring from the original statement, is that "Cultural Marxism" is meant to be a derogatory take on the notion that all cultural values have some sort of equal weight. It's a common Rightist expansion of cross cultural sensitivity that such things head inevitably towards a political and cultural landscape where "anything goes", and the undesireability of such an extreme is applied to the case at hand (like gay marriage)

The thinking is that if we adopt this kind of liberal thinking, soon there will be no more right and wrong, and nobody's values will be respected anymore, not even those who would stand against true atrocities. If gay marriage is allowed, they say, what's next, "multiple marriages"? "pedophilia"? "rape"? "condoning theft or murder"?

A permissive society, in their minds leads directly to anarchy, and as such, needs to be reigned in and the fools who espouse it, exposed as decadent frauds on a par with the misguided Marxists who fell for the lies of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.

But that's just MY take on it. What do I know?
 
posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 06:35am on 2006-01-28
Whose Constitution is Weyrich talking about? I'll eat my hat if he knows Thing One about ours, and yours doesn't apply here...

Please, keep your pundits off our electoral process!
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 07:33am on 2006-01-28
Please, keep your pundits off our electoral process!

Hah. We can't even keep them off of ours!
 
posted by [identity profile] donnad.livejournal.com at 01:19pm on 2006-01-28
Dglenn, you need to move out of that neighborhood, to someplace safer with less crime. Good grief, I worry about you all the time when I hear of things like this happening.
 
posted by [identity profile] dacuteturtle.livejournal.com at 01:32pm on 2006-01-28
Let me explain Right lingo. (I've been reading Free Republic lately).

Liberal = communist, marxist, socialist
Democrat = communist, marxist, socialist
Progressive = communist, marxist, socialist
= communist, marxist, socialst

 
posted by (anonymous) at 02:21pm on 2006-01-28
You're quite right. He's very confused. Cultural Marxism is a living wage, universal health care, affordable child care, good public schools... that kind if thing. He just has a bug up his ass about human rights for homosexuals and women that is causing him to splutter nonsense.
 
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