Audio Blog Episode 3: James Keena, author of 2084: American Apocalypse
Author: Forum for Healthcare Freedom
A primary care physician by training, my passion is researching and writing about the importance restoring patient centered care, supporting independent private physicians, promoting free-market solutions and seeking sustainable fiscal policy in healthcare.
“Cancel” the Democratic Party? | James Keena
If the goal of the Cancel Culture is to expunge the roots and the manifestations of historical and modern racism in America, their first and foremost target should be the Democratic Party, which has been the primary instigator of racism in America for the past century and a half.
And yet the Cancel Culture looks the other way. I wonder why.
Watch “Coleman Hughes: The Empirical Problems with Systemic Racism” on YouTube
Coleman Hughes takes us back to the origins of the term “systemic racism” and why it is so nebulous as to be nearly impossible to identify; and even if transiently verifiable, it is of very little value in making policy.
He makes a clear case that group guilt is a deplorable label and is the ultimate unfortunate outcome of group stereotypes applied to individuals.
World-Leading Infectious Disease Expert Explains Why Government Lockdowns Should End – Foundation for Economic Education
The Era of Moral Thuggery | Law & Liberty | Theodore Dalrymple
As a strange illustration of one of the three supposed laws of dialectical materialism—the interpenetration of opposites—racists and modern anti-racists are united by the importance they ascribe to race, though they are divided by their explanation of why race should be so important. The racists believe that it’s because of biology and the anti-racists believe it’s because of socially-sanctioned racism.
They are united too in their totalitarian (or at least bullying) tendencies, though in this respect the modern anti-racists are now more dangerous, not because they are worse people than the racists, but because racism as a doctrine is mostly, if not entirely, discredited. Racism is truly opposed not by anti-racists, but by non-racists, that is, people who do not judge or behave towards others according to their race.
…As under the totalitarians, positive and public assent to and enthusiasm for certain propositions are required. Failure in this regard is a symptom or sign of being an enemy of the people.
The demonstrations in London (and elsewhere) are illustrative of two contemporary cultural traits. The first is the importance ascribed to opinion as an exclusive, or at least large, component of virtue; the second is the vehemence of expression as the marker of sincerity.
…Actual good conduct, which requires some effort, restraint, and even self-sacrifice, has correspondingly become less important in earning a reputation for goodness. Holding a placard, chanting a slogan, expressing an opinion, is enough.
In short, the more you feel, as measured by the vehemence with which you express it, the better person you are, and the safer from criticism.
It seems, then, that we have entered an era of what might be called moral thuggery. It is, as ever, important not to exaggerate: we do not live in the worst of times, we do not fear the midnight knock on the door if we express a heterodox idea. But there are substantial numbers of people who, in the name of their own moral outrage and sense of righteousness, would like to impose, or at least would not object to the imposition of, a regime in which people did fear that midnight knock. We cannot assume that everyone yearns to let others breathe free.
Watch “Flatten the Fear Commercial” on YouTube
It’s Time…over due actually!
David Webb – The U.S. is Not Institutionally Racist | The Oxford Union Debates
Watch “Why the Lockdown Should Last Longer” on YouTube
Another instant classic! JP nails it again. Watch and share before our overseers remove the video (for our own good).
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