George Will: “Liberalism has a kind of Tourette’s Syndrome these days”

George Will: “Liberalism has a kind of Tourette’s Syndrome these days.” “It’s become a joke among young people. You go to a campus where this kind of political correctness reigns and some young person will say looks like it’s going to rain. The person looks and says, ‘you’re a racist’.” That statement’s undoubtedly racist according to the current Democrat-Media complex style guide.

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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  • http://www.cair.com/cair-blog/entry/is-sharia-compatible-with-democracy.html

    Islam is totally compatible with democracy, y'all!***

    The right to the protection of life.*
    The right to the protection of family.**
    The right to the protection of education (intellect).*
    The right to the protection of property (access to resources).*
    The right to the protection of human dignity.*
    The right to the protection of religion.**

    *As long as you're male and Muslim
    **As long as you're Muslim or willing to convert to Islam
    ***As long as you totally change everything about your country -your legal system, your traditions, your Constitutions, etc.

    • That explains this list, it's the State Dept travel warnings, & most of them are related to islam...

      http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings.html

      Type

      Date

      Location

      Warning April 15, 2014 Chad Travel Warning
      Warning April 14, 2014 Colombia Travel Warning
      Warning April 10, 2014 Sudan Travel Warning
      Warning April 4, 2014 Kenya Travel Warning
      Warning April 3, 2014 Burundi Travel Warning
      Warning March 27, 2014 Niger Travel Warning
      Warning March 21, 2014 Ukraine Travel Warning
      Warning March 21, 2014 Mali Travel Warning
      Alert March 18, 2014 Egypt Travel Alert
      Alert March 14, 2014 Russian Federation Travel Alert - Events in Ukraine
      Warning March 12, 2014 Mauritania Travel Warning
      Warning March 12, 2014 Haiti Travel Warning
      Warning March 6, 2014 Iraq Travel Warning
      Warning February 20, 2014 Afghanistan Travel Warning
      Alert February 14, 2014 Thailand Travel Alert
      Warning February 11, 2014 Saudi Arabia Travel Warning
      Warning February 7, 2014 Somalia Travel Warning
      Warning February 6, 2014 Algeria Travel Warning
      Warning February 5, 2014 Pakistan Travel Warning
      Warning February 3, 2014 Israel, The West Bank and Gaza Travel Warning
      Warning January 31, 2014 Lebanon Travel Warning
      Warning January 29, 2014 Yemen Travel Warning
      Alert January 15, 2014 South Pacific Cyclone Season
      Warning January 10, 2014 Philippines Travel Warning
      Warning January 9, 2014 Mexico Travel Warning
      Warning January 8, 2014 Nigeria Travel Warning
      Warning January 3, 2014 Republic of South Sudan Travel Warning
      Warning December 24, 2013 Honduras Travel Warning
      Warning December 12, 2013 Libya Travel Warning
      Warning November 22, 2013 Venezuela Travel Warning
      Warning November 21, 2013 Iran Travel Warning
      Warning November 19, 2013 North Korea Travel Warning
      Warning November 18, 2013 Eritrea Travel Warning
      Warning November 14, 2013 Central African Republic Travel Warning
      Warning October 24, 2013 Democratic Republic of the Congo Travel Warning
      Warning October 7, 2013 Syria Travel Warning
      Warning August 9, 2013 El Salvador Travel Warning

      ...there are some exceptions, but the majority of what is listed is about islam related violence, which is redundant.

    • It's Full of Stars!!!

      Sorry, watched the movie "2010" this weekend.

      By the end of "2010", I was rooting for the monolith...

  • I still wish people would pivot from 'liberal' to 'Progressive'. Progressives have been sullying the name of liberals for decades- trading on their name while really pushing big govt ideas. I'm not saying that they are mutually exclusive, but the biggest problems our country faces are made worse by the Progressive agenda that takes the worst of socialism with the worst in crony capitalism into something more akin to Fascism. The state takes precedence over the individual thru command-and-control (taxes and regs) of industry. That is not 'liberal' in the true sense of the word. Liberals and Progressives both see the central govt as a way to enact change. Liberals use the govt to enact change that they think they can't get any other way. Progressive use the govt to enact the changes they want with out regard the rights of individuals.

    Progressives are basically Liberals that have become drunk with power and think that they can come up with better solutions - and impose them no matter how much it impedes on individual rights.

    This is why Progressives and Establishment Republicans have such contempt for the rest of us. They have been in power so long they see the rest of as the enemy than they do each other- and even foreign actual enemies. Who does BHO treat with more disdain- the TEA Party or Putin?

    The 'racist' label is the lefts version of the reflexive insult to take attention away from the real issue when they don't have anything substantive to say.

    Obama is been very crafty in his use of race. He knows that it is most powerful if he refrains from using it and lets us apostles do his dirty work. When he does use it, he uses it tangentially- Trayvon as his son, the contrast with the views of his grandparents, or just my uttering 'birther'. He leaves the blunt attacks to people like Holder who uses it like a brownshirt batoning protesters.

    So, what was the worst racism that BHO mentioned in his speeches? I think it was being followed by frowning mall security. I'm surprised John Conyers didn't get up and race-baiter slap him. There is a man who faced fire hoses, dogs and old-timey racism. Of course, BHO never faced racism since he was a 'foreign student'. Maybe he should talk about nativism?

    • Yes, that's another peeve I'm trying to make a pet of. I often ask people to call them "leftists," not liberals, as liberal is what men like sam Adams, George Washington, and Ben Franklin were.

    • Then Conyers should also bitch slap Holder for making it sound like asking for documentation for his illegal acts was racism.

  • Ha! I've said that exactly numerous times on several of my favorite boards. Or more precisely, phrased it as a rhetorical question, What is it with you, some kind of Tourette's Syndrome?

    • Please. Parrots are smart. Much smarter than any lib I've met.Seriously, their brains don't work the same as ours. Its like trying to communicate with another species all together.