…I apologize for that last comment, I had realized I mistook it and wish I hadn’t posted it, but it was late and it just rubbed me the wrong way. Next time I’ll count to ten. I really appreciated the comment and should have taken it for it’s intent, instead of interpreting it in a way that I could be offended by it. That’s a trick used by victim groups all the time and here I did it myself. No offense was intended and I read offense into the message. Jeff Goldstein at protein wisdom has written more eloquently about this topic in the past in case you are interested in an excellent perspective of the PC phenomenon. He’s a former professor of linguistics and now a full time blogger/stay at home dad.
Please keep on posting comments without regard to offending, I thought my skin was a bit thicker.

I was poking a bit of fun at ourselves and at the same time acknowledging that we can admit, like adults, when we were mistaken in our youth and grow up and learn from the experience. I think that takes a lot of honesty and courage.

Have. No. Merit.

I was politely asked to write about a topic. I did. No group therapy was involved. If a topic interests me I’ll write if I have the time. I’ve had to go to group therapy in the course of a wrongfully adjudicated child abuse decision and it’s not like this post. Not even close.

Hits it on the head. I read an excellent post at Ace of Spades that expounds on this; that it’s easier to agree with the left e.g. Noam Chompsky PHD, and get the equivalent of a degree in humanities or whatever, than to actually go through the rigors of earning the degree itself. You could add “mouth breathing, knuckle dragging, bible humping right wingnuts” to PK’s “Mean spirited” to get the complete picture. Common sense has absolutely no meaning to these people.

As Reagan said: People who are young and conservative have no heart while those who are old and liberal have no brains. This applied to himself.

For me, the realization that leftism was not the philosophy for me came about the moment I spotted the sophistric and intellectually dishonest tactics they used and the lack of consideration for my own issues as a white male.

I can understand most people for wanting to be democrats as part of the “gimme” party: Get special rights or victim privileges because you belong to a special interest group. It’s like watching smash-and-grab rioting during Katrina: You may condemn them but you understand them. At least what they’re doing makes sense.

What was bizarre to me was the self-hatred and loathing of the white guilt upper and middle class white male leftist and even for that matter, their wives. Women, to their credit, are slowly realizing that leftism is taking more away from them than it gives. Men also realize this but it took them about the same period of time which is incredible. Isn’t this a no brainer?

So we really need to analyze what makes men buy into white guilt and hyper chivalry combined with the notion of sexism being wrong. Is it driven by insecurity to get laid and accepted? I have noticed that working class men don’t feel a need to buy into such nonsense maybe because they don’t worry that they won’t get invited to an embassy party because of it. Is it to feel intellectually smug and superior to “mean spirited” right wingers? I know a lot of men like this and this appears to drive them.