Dan Bernstein is back with a vengeance. Just last year, the sports radio show host was fired after a tirade against critics that led to his threatening to doxx people on social media and asking “want your kids involved?” He later apologized, but is now again in the news with another vicious attack. This week, Bernstein denounced Chicago Cubs infielder Matt Shaw for going to the funeral of Charlie Kirk, who was the victim of a political assassination. Bernstein called anyone attending the funeral effective Nazis and mocked Shaw for his expressions of faith in connection to Kirk.
I rarely respond to the hatemongers who seek attention by out-trolling competitors in this age of rage. However, as a lifelong Cubs fan (and the person conclusively shown to have ended the Billy Goat curse), I wanted to respond to this diatribe.
Bernstein’s meltdown has all of the classic elements of liberal rage, including calling anyone with opposing views a fascist or racist. There is a race to the bottom as figures like Jennifer Welch out-hate the competition, even attacking the widow of Kirk. In “an age of rage,” the loudest lunatic is king.
Figures like Welch traffic in hate to feed rage addictions.
Nevertheless, the competition can be stiff, particularly in running out of people or things to call fascist or racist.
Bernstein is now not just attacking Kirk and anyone who attended the funeral or a rally. The idea is to curry favor with the enraged left while intimidating anyone who holds views different from your own. Bernstein went into a full rave on his podcast, declaring:
“Matt Shaw is telling you something,. I don’t want to hear any mealy-mouthed explanations when he’s asked about it. I don’t want him to say, ‘Oh, well, I’m just his friend, or this is just because of my faith.’ Don’t give me any of that bulls—. Own it. Own it. That’s all I ask. Embrace it. Be proud of it, Matt Shaw. That’s all I ask is don’t try to say this isn’t what this is.
If you want to go to a gathering that tells me clearly that you are proud to be among hatemongers, homophobes, fascists, racists, flag-waving proud racists. If these are your people and this is your thing, and you want to be at this proudly Nazi-adjacent pep rally, go ahead. Go ahead. Have a day, man. Have a week. Whatever blows your hair back.
And if you have been given permission to associate the Cubs brand, all things Chicago Cubs, with this lineup of horrible, horrible people, all standing proudly on the wrong side of history, go ahead. Just don’t pretend you’re not. Don’t try to ameliorate it. Don’t try to soften it. Stick that chin out like it is in the picture, you and your Cubby Blue, and own it.”
This is all in response to a person going to a funeral and speaking about his shared Christian faith with Kirk (who was also a Cubs fan).
The hatred of the left for Kirk was and is pathological. I learned that Kirk was killed as I was about to discuss my book on free speech and rage in Prague. I was devastated but not surprised.
The left despised Charlie because he shattered their pretense of tolerance. He worked on college campuses, considered the bastion of liberal orthodoxy. He simply invited people to debate him on these issues. The response was often violent or profane. The whole point of orthodoxy is that there is only one correct answer and it is compliance, not conversation, that is demanded.
After Kirk’s murder, there was a brief period during which people muttered about how violence is never the answer. Then the rage returned like a tsunami of hate. Many, including on my campus, said that Charlie “asked for it” and rationalized Tyler Robinson’s actions.
Yet, Bernstein may win the race to the bottom. He is attacking someone for mourning the murder who has “permission to associate with the Cubs brand.”
Like many on the rage scale, Bernstein does not tolerate opposing views or criticism well. When people mocked his posting of a large catch on a fishing trip, Bernstein went berserk, telling one critic, “Wanna fight? I’m a bad enemy, f***er.”
When a critic continued to attack him, he labeled the person as MAGA and reportedly raised his children as possible targets of his wrath in a series of tweets:
“Want your kids involved?”
“Up to you’, then, ‘Just say “I’m sorry for being a d**k,” and I’ll stop”
“I guess your cowardly silence is ‘I’m sorry for being a dick.’ Cool. You MAGA worms are so lame.”
Eventually, Windy City radio station 670 The Score wanted nothing more to do with Bernstein.
He now has a podcast where rage can thrive unimpeded.
As a Chicagoan, I have little doubt that Bernstein will have great success in injecting this type of hate directly into the veins of many in the city.
As for Shaw, he should know that there are plenty of us wearing Cubbie Blue who value not just his playing but his principles. He is a decent young man who has shared his faith with fans as a strength in his life.
In comparison, Danny Bernstein is a fired radio host who could not handle criticism after bragging about “a helluva fight” with a northern pike.
Consider the bright side. The team had a strong season and is picking up some good pitchers for 2026. You could be headed for the playoffs when Danny Bernstein will still be slinking back to his podcast.
Threatening a persons children is abhorrent. In this criticism I include a Democratic who was recently elected as attorney general of a blue state who said that he wanted to see Charlie Kirks Children dying in their mother’s arms after having been shot. At least Bernstein has sought medical help. Has the newly elected Attorney General realized his problem and spoken to a psychiatrist about his problem. Nope.
A drunk while driving illegal alien driving at 80 mph killed a twenty year old girl.
This is what he has to say about Democratic leaders in Illinois. After Katie’s death, Trump and his administration reached out with compassion and acknowledged our loss. Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) has not acknowledged her death at all. No phone call. No letter. No condolences. Nothing — from him or any statewide official who championed the policies that helped enable this tragedy.
They will tell you time and time again that they are the party of compassion. Pritzker didn’t want to get the blood on his hands on his cell phone.
Even his most delusional defenders must have finally seen what a coward Dan Bernstein was/is when he threatened kids.
“Want your kids involved?”
“Up to you’, then, ‘Just say “I’m sorry for being a d**k,” and I’ll stop”
“I guess your cowardly silence is ‘I’m sorry for being a dick.’ Cool. You MAGA worms are so lame.”
I’m just looking forward to the day when he meets a “MAGA” person in person and receives the retribution he so richly deserves.
Impotent bullies like Bernstein are a dime a dozen, and they rarely go through a whole lifetime without Karma running over their dogma.
Here we go again, I don’t know how or why the professor seems be unaware of the irony when he wrote this column. Sure one guy was raging and ranting about something he’s obviously upset about. Clearly he did no agree with Charlie Kirk or this Cubs fan attending his funeral. So what? Everyone from the right, left, middle, Libertarian, Republican, Democrat, you name it. Everyone rages. It’s not exclusive to the left as Professor Turley falsely wants to assert to his MAGA readers. I get that it is part of his job as a Fox News contributor and legal analyst. He’s paid to be biased I get it.
Professor Turley like the rest of the MAGA-verse lives in a world of active denial while constantly raging and being given mounds of ques to keep on raging against the left. He is constantly baiting the MAGA gullible, those on the right by only chastising and emphasizing the “rage” of the left. While ironically ignoring the rage of the right he keeps feeding. Mention President Biden, Hunter, his son, Hillary, Comey, Elias, Swalwell, etc, etc, and the right goes into a rage rhetoric bonanza on this blog. From the hilariously nutty to the almost scary crazy. All while Professor Turley blithely or should I say in blissful ignorance is feeding the rage on the right. He’s standing with his back to a wall of hypocrisy the size of El Capitan from the right while pointing his finger at the left’s sometimes valid rage as if it were a problem that only happens on the left.
As for Charlie Kirk, he was indeed racist at times. Bigoted at times and yes he did always go to this “bastions” of the left to challenge them on issues. It’s easy to bait young college students into debating them and making content to “prove” how ignorant the left is. Until he has to debate real debaters like students in Oxford or professors who have put him in his place.
Professor Turley’s false claim that higher education’s “orthodoxy” is about only letting left-wing viewpoints is designed to paint the right as a victim of unbending adherence to left-leaning views. It’s a complete crock. Recently a student at Oklahoma University played a victim of trans professor for failing her because she wrote an awful essay and blamed the professor as anti-Christian. Even ChatGPT gave her essay a failing grade. The right loves to manufacture victimhood to “prove” the left is against their points of view or conservatives. These antics only make them look worse and Professor Turley enables these things to continue the rage of the right. The irony and rancid hypocrisy are astounding.
X, your everybody does argument doesn’t hold water. I challenge you to name just one assassination of a politicly active Democrat by a conservative. Just saying it without providing any substantiation doesn’t count. I cannot remember even one time when you have provided a source to explain your thinking. The challenge stands. Just one source. What say you? I anticipate silence.
X is an AI bot. He has no ability to think so he uses AI to generate these “posts”.
Thinkitthrough, again? You don’t think things through man.
I didn’t say anything about political assassination. We are talking about rage. Charlie Kirk did engage in the rage game by baiting green college students around the country. He made outlandish comments and sometimes racist and bigoted comments that would make others seethe with rage. That was his intention because it garnered him more attention and exposure. His TPUSA debates on school campuses were not only forums for debates, but also a means to produce click bait for those on the right enthusiastic with glee with views of “leftists” getting owned. That was the strategy. Kirk engaged in what some call rage economy these days.
Professor Turley loves to point out the rage rhetoric and blame the left for it while ignoring the fact that he feeds the right their own rage. Mention Biden, Hillary, Obama, transgender rights, same sex marriage, or George Floyd and the right goes into fits of rage and anger, just like those on the left. Turley is either being deliberately ignorant or he is truly just another political hack stoking hate and rage by feeding those on the right what they want to hear and rage about.
Once again X answers my post. I asked him to provide a source for to substantiate any of his posts and he continues to not support the thoughts that are proven only in his own head. I issued a challenge. The challenge still stands X. Blather does not count.
Thinkitthrough, you offered a deflection. Not a challenge. I’m addressing the Professor’s issue with rage rhetoric. Not assassinations. You can look up sources all on your own. Nothing stops you from doing that.
Does the right engage in rage rhetoric, comments, and statements?
We can meassure the problem with rage rhetoric by meassuring the frequency of political assassinations.
YOU Lose.
“Does the right engage in rage rhetoric”
Certainly – but by frequency and degree the problem is on the left.
It has not always been that way. But it is now.
Politically the left is the problem.
Politically the left is bat $hit crazy.
, comments, and statements?
“I didn’t say anything about political assassination.”
Correct – but you do not control the arguments of others.
You made this stupid argument that the political rage problem is primarily on the right.
And yet assassination – is the highest expression of political rage.
Luigi Mangione,
Tyler Robinson.
Thomas Crooke.
Ryan Routh
All of these and more are on the left.
Two dead National Guardsmen.
Law enforcement facing violence from the left every day.
You do not like Trump’s policies – Protest at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.
Law enforcement is doing its job.
The J6 protestors took their case EXACTLY where it belonged – to a congress certifying the election.
“We are talking about rage.”
Absolutely – YOUR rage.
“Charlie Kirk did engage in the rage game by baiting green college students around the country.”
Not this stupid argument again
So some guy who never got a college degree is nearly universally wiping the floor with Everything from College freshman at presitigous universities – do you know what the SAT score required to get into an IVY is ? Through to masters and PHd studnets as well as professors.
How many college professors do we have examples of who did not “use their words” but threw a hissy fit – throwing tables and in one instance chasing someone to their home with a machette.
While he was alive – if you though College students were so “green” – you could have come to a kirk event and challenged him.
Kirk did not wpie the floor with thumb sucking freshmen. He did so with ALL commers – including 300+ students at Oxford union.
I provided you with the video and the transcruipt.
“He made outlandish comments and sometimes racist and bigoted comments that would make others seethe with rage.”
No for the most part he did NOT make outlandish comments.
He made comments that were perfectly rational – that even today most people still accept and that have been the status quo for hundreds of years.
The left is the outlandish side.
No his remarks were not racist or biggoted. For a long time he traveled with Candice Owen – who made most of the same arguments.
Ownes and portions of the right have split over Israel. Owens is correct over the massive power weilded by the Israel lobby,
But that does not alter the fact that Hamas is a terrorist organization and the Palestinians have no one to blame but themselves for their plight.
Regardless Kirk was neither a racist nor a bigot.
Reality is neither racist nor bigoted. the fact that it does not work as you wish is not racism or bigotry.
But even if Kirk was racist and biggoted – so what ?
If he was an outright grand dragon in the KKK – debate the issues and defeat him with logic and reason.
Name calling is not argument.
It is certainly not a justification for political assassination.
“That was his intention because it garnered him more attention and exposure.”
Back to the mind reading again.
Regardless if he was out for attention – so what ?
If he was bear bating you – so what ?
Make your arguments – prove your case with logic and reason – not insults, idiotic efforts at mind reading or a bullet.
“His TPUSA debates on school campuses were not only forums for debates, but also a means to produce click bait for those on the right enthusiastic with glee with views of “leftists” getting owned. That was the strategy.”
So your argument is that Kirk (and Trump) read your bibble – Alinsky’s rules for radicals nd neat you at your own game.
Worse still – Kirk came right into your castle and made fools of you.
While there are errors in your claims – many of the places Kirk debated WERE forumns for debate, Further TPUSA events were announced ahead of time – left wing nuts had lots of time to prepare and they KNOW that Kirk was going to give them equal time.
Absolutely TPUSA made effective use of left wing nuts making fools of themselves.
But unlike You and the MSM they did not need to selectively edit to make people appear to say something radically different than they did.
“Kirk engaged in what some call rage economy these days.”
Possibly – but it is not an economy, and it is more the equivalent of letting those of you on the left hang yourselves.
Absolutely Kirk came to campus to win debates. But he did not seek to win the debates to get Youtube clicks.
He sought to win hearts and minds – to at the very least get students to question the left wing nut lunatic dogma they were being fed.
And he was successful at it and that is where YOUR rage at him came from.
s to the right to MAGA – Kirk did not fill anyone other than the left with Rage, To the right he gave hope and the clarity that even in an unfair fight that with the oportunity to speak the truth would prevail – atleast some of the time.
That the left was intellectually weak.
Kirk did not foment rage on the right – he brought laughter. People laughed at YOU – the left.
And laughter is the most potent weapon. Trump too knows that – and it is part of why he is very effective.
He knows how to get people to laugh at you. He knows how to get people to laugh with him, and he knows how to laugh at himself when appriately.
That is really important – There is little rage from the right – because the world increasingly sees you as fools.
You do not need to do violance at someone who has made a fool of themselves – the damages is already done and far worse than killing them.
“Professor Turley loves to point out the rage rhetoric and blame the left for it while ignoring the fact that he feeds the right their own rage.”
But there is not all that much rage at the left – some righteous anger, some commitment to overcome your stupidity and lots of laughter.
People who are laughing at you do not assassinate you.
“Mention Biden, Hillary, Obama, transgender rights, same sex marriage, or George Floyd and the right goes into fits of rage and anger,”
Pretty much not.
Outside of a tiny fringe almost no one cares about same sex marraige anymore.
Near the extreme among evangelicals – their churches are free to only marry men to women, and free to treat homosexuality as a sin.
Gay marraige does not infringe on anyone’s rights – whether you agree or not.
Gay marraige is a dead issue and aside from a tiny fringe on the right no one is trying to revive it politically.
As to Trans rights – there is no such thing. There are no trans rights, no gay rights, no minority rights.
There is just human rights.
Most everyone is fine with affording minorities, women, gays trans the same rights as everyone else.
The problem with the Trans issue for the left – is you are not seeking equal rights. you are seeking special rights.
If you wish to entirely eliminate womens sports – that is one thing – have mean and women compete – that is equal rights.
But we have decided that in SOME areas that we can have “separate but equal” – we can have womens sports, and men are not allowed.
MTF trans people seeking to participate in exclusively womens domains are violating the rights of women.
They seek to do something that they have no right to do.
Mostly people do not care if you wish to dressup in womens cloths. Nor do even most of the most conservative religions seek to interfere in the consensual activities you engage in your own home. The religious right can call what you do a sin and move own.
Pope Francis did an excellent job of addressing this – people sin. There is nothing special about this sin. And the church is for sinners.
“Mention Biden”
And we feel sad – he his pathetic and you subject him to essentially torture.
What we care about is the misconduct of those ACTING in Biden’s name.
“Hillary”
Should be an embarrasment to you.
Most of us just do not wish to hear from her again.
Regardless she is useful in pointing out YOUR corrupt and fraudulent nature.
“Obama” – He is a failed president – there is little need to attack him – his flaws are self evident – his signature accomplishment has proven a huge failure. The country is united – our healthcare system is a disaster. And that is a mess YOU own.
Republicans did not foist Obamacare on the nation.
“George Floyd” – the right is not full of rage that some poor drug addict Overdosed himself.
They are upset that those of you on the left burned the country down over a false narrative.
Thinkitthrough,
Plus, everyone rages including those on the right….all the time. It’s evident on this blog.
What makes this column strikingly hypocritical of Turley, is how he completely ignores the long drawn out raging and wailing from President Trump on his almost daily truth social rants. Because when he goes on a rage filled rant his followers tune in and expound and spread it throughout the MAGA-verse. But Turley kindly ignores it while he rages over the rage of the left as it were the only thing happening on the planet.
Everyone probably not – many sure.
To an equal degree – nope.
With equal justification – nope.
Your argument is like saying that The Nazis were not the villians in WWII – because both sides killed people.
Both sides fought
Both sides committed war crimes.
“I get it.” georgies newest copycat phrase. No one owns these words or phrases but you can be you will see it in georgie’s posts a day or two after someone says it. Why do I care? because it is further support for the fact that georgie and his criticisms are fashioned from INSPIRATION not intelligence.
So, in other words, you have nothing to contribute except to whine and complain.
No one’s complaining or whining, george. We’re laughing at you.
Did someone say wine? I wanna get hammered…
“So, in other words, you have nothing to contribute except to whine and complain.”
What have you contributed ?
When have you offered anything that was not a lie ?
You want to pretend that there is parity with the right.
Were those who were angry about the KKK wrong ?
There is no parity between good and evil.
The left has chosen lies and evil.
It is not relevant whether there are bad people on the right or good people on the left.
What is relevant is that the left is lying and trying to impose failure on the rest of us by force.
X, George Costanza aka Mr Opposite makes more of a full of himself every day. X, why can’t you say that the guy is a jerk with obvious mental issues? Why can’t you say the left needs to stop the insane hatred? You have a real issue that needs attending to.
Hillbobby, you mean to say, “why can’t you conform to my expectations and views”?
Turley’s gripe about this guy is only relevant to him because he insulted the Cubs and Charlie Kirk. I merely pointed out the irony and hypocrisy of his position and as I have always said, he’s fair game.
I put out my opposing view and point out the ridiculously ironic claims he makes about the left. You gripe about my posts because they are rarely complimentary about Turley. So what? It’s free speech and Turley is always gloating about the virtues of free speech and the importance of opposing points of view no matter how inflammatory or annoying they are. Right?
Why can’t you say the right needs to stop the hatred of the left? See how hard that is? I don’t see you chastising those on the blog making hateful comments about those on the left. There are plenty of hateful comments about the left. Derision, insults, false accusations, etc. Do you openly condemn them? Call for respect, civility? Nope. But you want those on the left to do what you would refuse to do about the right. That kind of hypocrisy is why your protestations can’t be taken seriously.
FYI, I condemned the Charlie Kirk assassination and those celebrating it when it happened. Did you chastise or condemn the over-the-top accusations from the right?
“Hillbobby, you mean to say, “why can’t you conform to my expectations and views”?”
Back to mind reading.
“Turley’s gripe about this guy is only relevant to him because he insulted the Cubs and Charlie Kirk. I merely pointed out the irony and hypocrisy of his position and as I have always said, he’s fair game.”
There you are off in lala land.
Turley’s gripe is this guy is so blind with hatred that he is targeting peoples children.
Does the fact that he is on the left matter ? Absolutely ?
Why – because this is endemic on the left.
There is no parity here.
Your What-aboutism would be useful if there had been multiple assassination attempts on Obama
What aboutism is relevant when there is near parity and it exposes real hypocracy.
We do not have that.
“I put out my opposing view and point out the ridiculously ironic claims he makes about the left.”
Turley’s claims regarding the left are inarguably correct.
I would note – contra your statement about – you are trying -= badly to argue there is parity – outside the left people are not stupid.
You have lost that argument.
“You gripe about my posts because they are rarely complimentary about Turley. ”
Mostly we enjoy laughing at you.
But we are entitled to gripe about repeatedly proven liars.
“So what? It’s free speech and Turley is always gloating about the virtues of free speech and the importance of opposing points of view no matter how inflammatory or annoying they are. Right?”
Correct – your free to make the stupid remarks you make everyday and the rest of us are free to point out how much of a liar and fool you are.
Free Speech.
You seem to think that Free speech means you can spray lies and nonsense, and no one can call you out as a liar.
“Why can’t you say the right needs to stop the hatred of the left? ”
Because all hatred is not equal – hatting the KKK is not just acceptable it is rational, Hating Nazis, hating fascists,
Even the left grasps that -= they fail to grasp that THEY are as morally bankrupt as the KKK, Nazi’s and fascists.
In many instances they are the litteral intellectual heirs of the KKK, the Nazi’s and Fascists.
“See how hard that is? ”
Not hard at all. Your nuts and a liar.
“I don’t see you chastising those on the blog making hateful comments about those on the left.”
Correct – hating the morally bankrupt, the liars, the corrupt is not a sin it is a virtue.
Your disconnected from reality.
Regardless, with extremely rare exceptions the right is not all that hatefilled.
Kirk was having fun before he was assassinated.
Trump is having fun.
Yes, you have filled alot of people with self righteous rage, and then we go home and enjoy time with our families.
What we do not do is go out and threaten your family or assassinate you.
” There are plenty of hateful comments about the left. Derision, insults, false accusations, etc. Do you openly condemn them? ”
No – because they are true and justified.
We condem people who lie
we praise people who speak truth.
“Call for respect, civility? Nope. ”
Correct – respect and civility are earned – you have not earned them.
“But you want those on the left to do what you would refuse to do about the right. ”
Correct – most everyone disrepects liars and those who use threats of violence worse still to family and worse still – then actually do them.
“That kind of hypocrisy is why your protestations can’t be taken seriously.”
Only when your thoughts are shallow.
“I condemned the Charlie Kirk assassination and those celebrating it when it happened.”
And then you pissed on his grave and defended others who did.
“Did you chastise or condemn the over-the-top accusations from the right?”
What over the top accusations ?
The violence today is from the left.
“Everyone from the right, left, middle, Libertarian, Republican, Democrat, you name it. Everyone rages. ”
True, but not in the same frequency and not in the same way.
X you are constantly trying to pretend when you are caught with your pants down lying or engaging in other misconduct – that everyone does it.
But they do not.
Everyone does not threaten other peoples children.
And no one moral stands behind that.
Everyone does not murder people they do not like.
And no one moral stands behind that.
I call you a liar – all the time.
That is an insult.
I do so BECAUSE that is all you do. Lie.
I point out lie after lie and then call you a liar.
I am not filled with rage at you.
I likely would not go for coffee with you – not because I wont associate with people on the left.
But because your an unpleasant person.
I have engaged in exchanges with myriads of those on the left – some of them I respect greatly for their contributions.
Some I would even call friends.
Some I actually support. I am a contributor to Brian Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute.
I used to get money to the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center. I have had discussions about the law with Prof. Trine.
And many many more people on the left.
I have no problem working with or associating with people I disagree with on political issues.
I have large numbers of them as friends.
But no one I associate with Left or right would threaten other peoples family.
No one I associate with left or right thinks that insulting people is a legitimat argument.
I very nearly got into Annapolis, They wanted me, but my vision was outside of waverable limits.
But I have adhered to the academy code of conduct.
I do not lie, I do not steal, I do not cheat, and I do not tolerate those who do.
That is without regard for ideology.
I am no longer a member of the ACLU – because they ceased unconditionally defending free speech and often appeared as Amici against Free speech.
I no longer support Southern Poverty Law center as they have been exposed as racist themselves.
Nor do I trust them because they have been caught in many lies.
Everything is not equal. Rage is actually sometimes justified – our revolution was successful because of rage at the british.
But that rage had a real foundation in the abuse of our rights and in misconduct.
Being enraged at people who engage in political assassination or support those who do – is justified.
Being enraged at those who lied – often under oath – to the public and to the courts about the collusion delusion or the Hunter Biden laptop – is justified.
Being enraged because the people in an election you tried to rig still voted against you and voted to thwart your abuse of their rights – that is not justified.
If you want respect.
Stop lying.
Stop stealing.
Stop Cheating.
Stop tolerating those who do.
Worse still stop excusing them, defending them, or repeating their lies.
John Say, “True, but not in the same frequency and not in the same way.”
Not true. You just want to pin everything on the left. You make it clear you detest the left and anything associated with it.
But lying? No. You’re no stranger to lying either. You excuse others lies as well. Don’t pretend you are better than everyone else.
“I do not lie,…”
That’s a lie itself. Everybody lies John. Even you.
“Not true. You just want to pin everything on the left.”
No I want to assign blame where it belongs.
The modern left STRONGLY resembles the MacCarthy era extreme right.
At various different times different groups have been the greatest threat.
I am with Truman – his worst mistake was creating the CIA – for much of its history it was dominated by the right and behaved very badly.
Today it is dominated by the left and behaves very badly.
The historic conduct of the FBI is quite similar.
At various times different parts of the political spectrm have been filled with rage and engaged in political violence.
And quite often what appeared to be political violence was just nut jobs.
But TODAY the problem is ON THE LEFT.
The left has ALWAYS been disconnected from reality – Turley is slowly getting red pilled by the left – but even he has a way to go.
For 50 years Milton Friedman was doing much the same as Charlie Kirk except he was dealing with liberals like Turley – and he still took them to the cleaners. Whether it is falsely named liberals of the past who have little in common with the left today, or nut job progressives of today.
Your ideology rests on a warped version of reality and human nature and therefore does not work.
Maybe in 1000 years it will be possible to change someone sex chromosomes if they chose – but it is not today.
Absolutely a man can act like a women – they have been doing that for thousands of years. But they can not be one.
It takes more blind faith to believe a man can become a woman than to believe in god.
Your shilling a religion – and a bad one that does not work.
“You make it clear you detest the left and anything associated with it.”
Correct – I detest liars. I detest Nazi’s I detest people who seek to take liberty or property from others.
Therefore I detest the left.
“But lying? No. You’re no stranger to lying either.”
Then you would have no trouble demonstrating that.
To the TINY extent that you have actually tried – you have FAILED MISERABLY.
But mostly you just double down on lies and hurl more insults as if that accomplishes anything.
You are a laughing stock.
“You excuse others lies as well.”
I do not excuse anything – I just do not treat all things the same.
Using lies to destroy the US healthcare system is alot worse than promising to bring peace to the mideast on day one and ultimately taking many months.
Maybe I should be more accurate – I dest FRAUDS.
As you said – everyone lies – but not all lies are the same.
Some lies do REAL Harm – such as those of the left.
The lies that got Biden elected did real harm – millions of people died in Eastern Europe because Biden was president.
While Putin is ultimately responsible – Trump is correct – that would not have happened if he was president.
Biden’s presidency brought massive coruption – while the Fraud in MN right now is an embarrassment for Tampn Tim and Ilhn Omar,
This is not a problem limited to the Somali community in MN. We are seeing similar fraud in many other places.
That is YOUR fault.
The bigger our govenrment the more fraud we will have – but wasting Trillions of dollars assures massive fraud.
Absolutely some on the right engage in Fraud. Musk in a Rogan interview said of the fraud he found pretty much all was political and only about 5% involved republicans. But the most difficult opposition to end it that he faced came from those few republicans.
Regardless it will ALWAYS be true that the party of bigger government the party that wants more money in government will be far more deeply involved in fraud. That is just a fundimental fact of human nature.
“Don’t pretend you are better than everyone else.”
Don;t pretend you know what I think or feel.
You rant pretending that everyone lies that your not unique, and then prove yourself wrong.
““I do not lie,…”
That’s a lie itself. Everybody lies John. Even you.”
Not with respect to this conversation it is not.
We have been through this dozens of times.
It is not difficult to be right ALL the time on the internet – just check what you post first.
You do not, and you get caught.
Though increasingly – most of us just assume you are lying again.
That is the price you pay for repeatedly being caught in lies.
Am I better than everyone else ? Nope.
Am I more credible that you ? Without any doubt.
But this is not about me.
I am not the one shoveling schiff everyday.
That is you.
If you wonder why people do not trust you, do not respect, you, do not beleive you.
Read your own posts.
You rant about Turely.
What has Prof. Turley posted that is FALSE ?
Prof. Turley have no violated the Honor code – but YOU have.
You do not like his choice of events. So What ?
You want him to skew his critiques of the enemies of free speech or those who engage in unfounded rage to those on the right. So what.
Quit providing him so many bad examples.
Regardless Turley is as justified in focusing exclusively on the left as you are of focusing exclusively on the right.
But that is NOT what he has done. There are just fewer examples of the right violating peoples rights than the left.
Prof. Turley has occasionally provided legal advice at Odds with my own arguments. His arguments have been good.
SOMETIMES he has persuaded me. But sometimes not. Ultimately the Supreme court has decided.
Turley has an excellent record of predicting the Supreme court – but mine has been better.
Turley still suffers from trusting experts on the left who have been wrong nearly always. I don;t.
Regardless, your attacks on Turley are foolish.
To the extent Turley is biased he still to heavily influenced by the left.
But that is slowly changing.
YOU are changing.
You can not fool all of the people all of the time.
“Mention President Biden”
Few in this country – left or right want to hear about President Biden again.
He was a disasterous president – and he was not even competent enough to be held responsible for his own presidency.
To the extent that the Biden administration continues to matter – it is because of its failures and the Blame for those does not rest with Biden – but with the left wing nut children actully running the government.
Today Biden only comes up from the right to counter idiotic claims by the left.
“Hunter, his son,”
No one cares about Hunter – except as the but of a joke – and evidence of the corruption of Democrats.
“Hillary”
Hillary only matters to the extent that she continues to keep herself in the public eye and to the extent that those of you on the left refuse to remove the board from your own eyes before trying to remove the gnat from others.
“Comey” The entire country – left and right should loath Comey. Anyone with a code of honor would not want to have anything to do with him.
And the left adopting him as a cause is proof of lunacy. James Comey is one of the more morally bankrupt people to ever serve at ranks in govenrment and he is a sanctimonious hypocrit.
The only reason idiots like you are defending him is because His self serving lies and political corruption screwed Trump slightly more often than Democrats.
“Elias” – Elias is a private actor. a major attorney and political power broker. I disagree with him politically.
But he is little different from similar people on the right.
“Swalwell” is a moron.
There are occasional morons on both sides of the aisle – though that is getting worse for democrats.
Adopting an ideology that has no connection to reality tends to undermine critical thinkind.
“a rage rhetoric bonanza on this blog.”
There is no such rage rhetoric bonanza on this blog.
Most of the actual rage here comes from the left – from you and those like you who can not make a rational argument.
“From the hilariously nutty to the almost scary crazy. All while Professor Turley blithely or should I say in blissful ignorance is feeding the rage on the right. ”
Look arround you. Who is shooting police officers ? Political Oponents ? Who is defending Criminals ?
You are free to protest all you want – but the rest of us DO actually NOTICE your protests.
We notice that you stand behind terrorists. You stand behind the very worst people in the most racist, mysoginist, homophobic religion on earth.
If Israel were Actual NAZIs – which they are not – Hamas and islamic terrorists would be worse.
How well do you think the american revolution would have gone it the minutemen raped loyalists and beheaded their children ?
You are absolutely free to excercise your free speech rights. – And the rest of us are free to find you repulsicve because of what you protest for.
Is the rage of the left “sometimes valid” rarely to never – but that is not what matters.
The rest of us are going to judge you – and we are absolutely entitled to do so, on the basis of your choices, your actions, whether and how often your rage is justified.
Your idea of justifiable rage is railing that you are no longer empowered to steal from others,. that you can no longer infirnge on the rights of americans.
Please tell us all When the rage of the left has been valid ?
“As for Charlie Kirk, he was indeed racist at times.”
Because you say so ? He is far less racist than you are the left are.
If you make decisions based on race – or worse demand that others make decisions based on Race – YOU are racist.
” Bigoted at times”
ROFL
You can not help yourself – do you have an actual argument ?
Was Kirk WRONG ? If so – argue that.
When you can not make an argument and all you have is ludicrous allegations of racism and bigotry you are pathetic,
and everyone sees it.
“yes he did always go to this “bastions” of the left to challenge them on issues.”
Most consider that courageous.
” It’s easy to bait young college students into debating them and making content to “prove” how ignorant the left is.”
ROFL
Isn’t college supposed to be where we find the best and the brightest ? Kirk did not graduate from College – what makes him more able than any college student ?
If you do not like the short clips of selected left wing morons being decimated by him – you can find vidoe of the entirety of each of his college events – hours of left wing nuts debating him and being decimated.
Anyone was free to come to a TP event – not just freshman – but political science majors, graduate students, PHD’s professors,
And all of them had lots of oportunity to study his past performances and be fully prepared.
While Kirk had to debate Each with only the facts – no knowledge of their skills or the arguments they would bring.
KIrk was doing what generations of libertarians and conserviatives have done – taking on all comers on the topics of their chosing.
Kirk was little different that Milton Friedman in this respect.
While I often Marvel at Friedman – the FACT is tht debating left wing nuts is EASY.
Because your ideology is deeply flawed – Freidman was unmattched as dismembering the left – his intellect was stellar.
But most anyone can do it. It is quite simple – because the ideology of the left is a self contradictory disaster that among other things is incompatible wtih human nature.
” Until he has to debate real debaters like students in Oxford or professors who have put him in his place.”
Here is KIrk vs 300 left wing nuts at Oxford Union – the whole almost 2 hr debate.
PLease show me where they put him in his place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqSNEiLTeY
And here is the transcript of the debate.
https://singjupost.com/transcript-charlie-kirk-at-the-oxford-union-20th-of-may-2025-a-debate/
There have been innumerable of these left/right oxford debates.
Even musicions such as Winston Marchall have decimated left wing nuts like Nancy Pelosi at Oxford Union
KIrk has come to oxford and wiped trhe floor with the left.
As has Ben Shapiro,
Steve Bannon.
Konstantin Kission
Jordan Peterson
Sebatian Gorka
Are just of few of those who have bested left wing nuts at Oxford Union.
You can go to Oxford unions youtube channel
The entirety of those debates is available.
‘Professor Turley’s false claim that higher education’s “orthodoxy” is about only letting left-wing viewpoints is designed to paint the right as a victim of unbending adherence to left-leaning views. It’s a complete crock.”
X – I really do not give a schiff about your false naratives and other nonsense.
There is inarguably insufficient intellectual diversity in colleges to day – and the left supresses that diversity – even on the left.
There are more people on the left who have been excoriated by those on the left for minor heresies.
This is harmful. It would be harmful to academia if it were entirely conservative.
The left rants about diversity – but far and away the most important form of diversity is intellectual diversity.
Nothing is more dangerous that the total unquestioned domanance of a single ideology.
I am deeply concerned about the left’s self destructing – a right unchallenged is certain to make mistakes and to become more corrupt.
While today the left is more corrupt that the right – as Lord Acton noted – Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
I do not give a schiff about Trump today – he is the least corrupt and least corruptable president possibly that we have ever had.
You can not buy a multibillionaire.
What Trump wants is crystal clear – he wants to be remembered as a great person. He wants a place in history with Thatcher and Reagan, if possible he wants to overshaddow them.
He is 79 – he does NOT want more money. He wants to be remembered as the person who made america great again.
Who brought peace to the middle east, ended the war in Ukraine. Reset US foreign policy.
Ended socialism in the US, and in Venezuela and other parts of south amerca.
Who brought prosperity to the US.
He is absolutely a “disruptor” – you do not make big changes without shaking things up.
He is about 1000 times smarter than you are. He is clearly smarter than Turley and most of the so called intellectuals in this country and the world – right and left including many I greately respect.
How can you tell he is an intellectual giant – because he succeeds greatly when everyone says he is going to fail.
Because he disrupts things AND succeeds.
I do not know if he will reach the greatness he seeks.
But I KNOW that is what is driving him – and anyone who is not a moron knows it too.
That does not mean that he is always right or that everything he does turns to gold.
But it does mean that the stones you keep throwing at him fall miles short.
You do not understand Trump or what drives him and that leaves you impotant against him.
But it is not surprising you do not understand Trump.
You do not understand MAGA,
You do not understand the right.
You do not understand the left.
And you do not understand yourself.
You do not live in reality and that clouds your vision on everything.
“Recently a student at Oklahoma University played a victim of trans professor for failing her because she wrote an awful essay and blamed the professor as anti-Christian. ”
X – I linked the essay. I do not entirely agree with it, but it is still a good essay.
Regardless it was scored with a zero – Sorry – you completely lose that argument. A zero is for people who do not turn in the assignment.
Not for a well written essay that directly addresses the topic.
It is irrelevant what she argued – if she had ACTUALLY argued white supremacy or fascism – that would not receive a zero score.
If she had done so with skill – that could actually get an A.
Regardless, the issue at question is NOT the quality of the students work – complete garbage subitted on toilet paper can not objectively be scored as a zero.
The issue is that the score is purely a reflection of the professors political bias.
Had she received B – which is about what her essay deserves – there would be no issue.
Had she received a C – it still would be difficult to prove political bias on the part of the proffessor.
Even a D would have resulted in outcry, but would have resulted in subjective battles over the essay.
But a Zero is merely proof of massive and stupid bias on the part of the professor.
This is not about the student at all. It is not about playing the victim.
It is about whether this professor is not so biased as to be disqualified from Teaching.
It is also not about whether the professor is trans.
While Beliving that you are something different from your biological sex is a delusion and a mental health problem.
There are plenty of professors with mental heath issues.
Nor does being Trans disqualify you from anything except those particular domains that we have reserved for biological men.
Just as being white disqualifies you from attending a private black college.
“Even ChatGPT gave her essay a failing grade.”
AI is no better than the training it receives, and the prompts it is provided – Regardless, you have made a claim – but you are not trusted
You make calse claims all the time.
“The right loves to manufacture victimhood to “prove” the left is against their points of view or conservatives. ”
Yet your own example is NOT about “victimhood” – it is about clear political bias by a professor.
The student is not a victim – I would bet she will do incredibly well.
I would bet that she fully expected this from this professor. If you had wished to claim that she had bear baited a left wing professor – you are likely right. She is not playing the victim, she is more likely a future Charlie Kirk.
Someone willing to go into the lions den.
If you think this will hurt her – you are a moron.
She will use this – not to demonstrate her “victimhood” – but to prove the LEFTS stupidity and Bias and her skill at exposing it.
“These antics only make them look worse”
But it is not an antic. She produced a decent paper that was on point and directly challenged the ideology and values of the professor.
That is not an “antic” – it is precisely what we would hope for in college.
It is what Einstein did repeatedly. Even as a freshmen college student. He challenged his professors, he defied orthodoxy.
He proposed what not just his professors, but all of academia thought were absurd.
Einstein took on the entire world of physics and won.
This student is no einstein – but she is with near certainty a budding charlie Kirk.
What you call an antic will likely prove successful for he.
It will give her a start – exposure and if she can continue to perform she will far outshine the idiot professor whose
stupidity gave her. She is not a victim. Ultimately it is the professor that is the victim – a victim of his own stupidity.
He got played and he lost.
There is an investigation into his grading. He may survive that. But this student – bear baited him – and he fell for it.
He has already lost – the only question is how badly.
She has already won, the question is whether she will be able to continue to demonstrate the skills she did in bear baiting him.
One conflict like this can give you oportunity. But success requires delivering over and over, and it requires doing so in different ways.
This particular tactic will only work once for her.
“Professor Turley enables these things to continue the rage of the right.”
Nothing wrong with chastizing stupid left wing nut professors for obviousl political bias.
The student is not the victim here – the professor is – and he did that to himself.
If I were to bet – this student knew exactly what she was doing.
“The irony and rancid hypocrisy are astounding.”
And yet it is not.
The core of your claims as always is I am offended that my irrational view of the world has no real support.
Kirk did well at Oxford union – as he did everywhere – which is why he was assassinated – and the whole world knows that.
You could not silence him with reason – so you did so with a bullet.
This profesor could have gotten away with acting on his political biases – he could have really screwed this student by giving her a C or a D,
But he gave her a ZERO and massively overplayed his hand and made his political bias transparent.
Good grief John Say, that you can you say more with less?
“What has Prof. Turley posted that is FALSE ?
Prof. Turley have no violated the Honor code – but YOU have.”
What honor code? Where is it written?
Turley has posted a lot of false claims in past articles. Posting misleading narratives, and disingenuous use of context, etc.
He’s fair game for criticism and pointing his misleading narratives out.
The right loves to play the victim card to gain sympathy and manufacture outrage. It’s been a staple of the right for years. Pretending it doesn’t happen is akin to lying.
By the way, yes. The student. From the Oklahoma University did turn in an awful essay. It did not meet the instructor’s requirements and she decided to blame her poor work on teacher bias and an anti-Christian attitude. Her mother is well known for manufacturing outrage for TPUSA.
“What honor code? Where is it written?”
Try reading, there are many honor codes – but nearly all are some veriation on
I will not lie
I will not steal
I will not cheat
I will not tolerate those who do.
I beleive left wing nuts have removed that from the military academies – replacing it with toothless platitudes.
But that used to be the honor cor of all the military accademies.
How about the Ten Commandments for starters John.
“Turley has posted a lot of false claims in past articles. Posting misleading narratives, and disingenuous use of context, etc.”
You have claimed that Turley lied repeatedly and you always respond with meaningless remarks like this.
You have made the accusation that Turley lies – the burden of proof is on you.
You have not even tried to meet it.
I have accused you of lying – the burden of proof is on me – I have provided proof many times over.
But right here and now ONE example that you lie – is that you have accused Turley and others including myself of lying. you have done so when you are obviously wrong. And you have failed to provide the least example.
You are a liar and a fraud and you have no decency.
“He’s fair game for criticism”
Absolutely – you are even free to lie about him.
Your freedom to lie does not make your lies true.
Turley is on occasion wrong – we all are. I have seen no evidence that he has lied
“and pointing his misleading narratives out.”
We have heard your “Misleading naratives” claim repetedly – before and today.
From your own remarks that means that he does not make the arguments you wish him to make.
That your angry because he criticises the left more than the right – that is not a misleading narative.
It is a consequence of the left engaging in more rage rhetoric – particularly unjustifiable rage rhetoric, the left lying more and the left resorting to violence more.
“The right loves to play the victim card to gain sympathy and manufacture outrage.”
Back to this idiocy that you know the motives and intentions and feelings of others.
You don’t.
And No the right does not play the victim card – that is nearly exclusively a left wing nut game.
Nor do they mostly engage in appeals for sympathy.
You are CONSTANTLY attacking Trump and the right – except when left wing nuts like this OK professor step in schiff you rarely accuse the right of playing for sympathy, appeals to emotions, or playing the victim – because that is not what Trump or the right do.
What thye do is attack your stupidity and pi$$ all over you – and then YOU play the victim. and YOU seek sympathy.
Your posts drown in “Orange Man mean to me” nonsense.
Trump and the right are absolutely mean to fools, and liars and entitled left wing nuts.
You want to accuse the right of being mean to you – you want to accuse me of being mean to you.
Absolutely.
It is mean to call a liar a liar.
It is also true.
“It’s been a staple of the right for years.”
Absoltuely – being mean to liars and fools has been a staple of he right for years.
“Pretending it doesn’t happen is akin to lying.”
No one is pretending that does not happen.
But again you have LIED when claiming the right constantly plays the victim card or constantly appeals to emotion.
Rarely – yes, but mostly the right goes RIGHT at you – they are in your face, they mostly attack you rationally for YOUR lies and misconduct.
“The student. From the Oklahoma University did turn in an awful essay. It did not meet the instructor’s requirements”
X – I posted a link to the essay you have clearly not read it.
There are parts I do not agree with – but it is responsive to the question asked, it is crafted significantly better than the norm today.
The major flaw in the essay both for me and this professor is that I do not share the point of view of the student.
But that is not the basis for cutting a grade.
“she decided to blame her poor work on teacher bias and an anti-Christian attitude.”
No she did not – a far better argument is that she baited a trap and the proffessor went for it hook line and sinker.
“Her mother is well known for manufacturing outrage for TPUSA.”
Typical of you – make vague allegations about someone you inteject into the story without providing evidence that are also irrelevant.
I bet she voted for Trump too – not relevant.
The huge problem you have is the professor massively overstepped.
You can get MAYBE get away with down grading a B essay to a C or D – but no actual essay gets zero credit – except when YOU have been triggered and do something stupid.
But as is typical you left wing nuts overplay your hand and PROVE you are biased and stupid.
By overdoing it the professor and YOU make it clear that it is political bias not reality that is driving you.
The following clip is relevant because it is so you.
ABC reports that the IDF killed an 8yr old at an aid station based on a frequently discredited journalists “eye witness” account.
ABC has emails from the mother sayinng that she was told by IDF that her son was not killed and she ebeleives them.
ABC is notifed that the son is alive and doing well in IDF hands and will be returned to his mother.
The child is returned to his mother
ABC leaves the false report up.
Attaches a note that “allegedly” he is alive.
They do not correct the actual false story on air or on the web.
I am wrong – this is not you – ABC is LESS of a liar than you are.
This guy dan sounds like a… typical democrat…extreme TDS behavior is a requirement in the club.
The TDS virus is engineered and manufactured in democrat political labs. TDS afflicted is the next ‘protected identity’ and will be covered by universal medicaid. Perfect because democrats excel at creating a problem then taxing you to fix it.
The TDS is getting to the level of pre-war. Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch has a full page color ad demonstrating the full extent of the rage and hatred. Hope the link works for you all.
https://richmond.com/eedition/page_8ff0132a-387f-5be3-8c10-f483c8e6ba12.html
Unusually fiery post. Loved it!
Great column professor! I never heard of this guy before, but he is the epitome of TDS hate and rage. Be better than this guy and all those like him.
OT: Hate from the left keeps piling up, but instead of solving problems, the left foists violence all over the world.
Gunmen kill at least 11, wound 29 in terror attack on Jewish holiday event in Australia
Hundreds had gathered at popular beach for the event called “Chanukah by the Sea” marking the start of the eight-day Hanukkah festival.
Continue: https://justthenews.com/government/security/gunmen-kill-least-11-wound-29-terror-track-jewish-holiday-event-australia?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Any chance it will get the same coverage as a similar attack that killed 11 trans, black, gay or Muslim innocents? Jewish people are the only people that can be excluded from college events, classes and libraries, the only people that can be forced to hide their identity in London.
I have to agree with Dollar Bill. We saw some of this hate and rage when George W Bush was president but it was more sporadic and would occasionally turn our heads but has grown in intensity since.
Far be it from me to defend Cubs fans since I am a dyed in the wool Braves fan but the Cubs people are nice and many of my Illinois relatives love their Cubs. Their love is misplaced from my point of view but generally harmless and I am a fan of going to Wrigley Field just because of the history and the Ivy.
Bernstein is insane. This has nothing to do with the Cubs and all to do with Bernstein and his sickness. He is virtually a female version of Rosie O’Donnell. Maybe they can find him a flat in Dublin . Please get him off the airwaves so he does not poison the minds of the innocent.
And, by virtue of this column, Turley has probably immediately increased Bernstein’s audience by at least a factor of ten. Marginal media wannabes should line up to find some way to offend the Professor enough to get similar free marketing…
Are any of your replies ever on topic?
As we used to say as kids, “Who died and left him boss?” In addition to rage, Bernstein’s comments are literally dripping with ignorance and intolerance.
And may Bernstein slither into the black hole of obscurity where he belongs.
As a child and as an adult, I never lived in a world draped in hate. Why? I do not understand. I always knew GOD since I was cognizant, and LOVE was the sea from which I found myself to shore. I often wonder what is the causation of this. Is it prenatal? Is it post natal? How do we arrive cloaked in an obsession that is associated with self loathing, rejection, etc. In other words, thw world of darkness? GOD spoke to me and gave me an angel throughout my personal life. Wish you had one too.
Dan Bernstein has always been a smug, self-righteous POS.
I would call Score management to make them aware of the constant anti-Christian comments and digs. They really did not care. so whenever he was on, the station changed to AM 1000. They seem to be doing a far better job of stick to sports now.
If I want political commentary I will listen to other stations. If I want religious commentary, I will flip to other stations.
The arrogant pompous attitude of may sports commentators, producers and programmers….typically anti-Christian, is a great turn off to many of their listeners
ESPN might want to take note.
The problem is this, Professor. Those you describe, as having liberal rage are actually the fascists, and there is nothing wrong with calling them that. I know you don’t want to do it and you don’t have to. But unfortunately, people believe these guys, particularly when their sole meteor sause is from the left.
As a Chicagoan, I have little doubt that Bernstein will have great success in injecting this type of hate directly into the veins of many in the city.
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Just look at some of the comments on this site.
Nothing but 7/24 hate.
There is no worse group of intolerant fascists than leftists in America. They are truly the children of their national socialist forebears.
Even if Christianity were removed from Kirk’s appeal or résumé, and the focus returned to purely human foundations, he would still be a target of the left. At a fundamental level, Kirk opposed hate, offering love and peace as its replacements. The left recognized this as his true danger and responded by reshaping its narrative in ways that are anathema to their power ambitions.
It is worth noting the five worst aspects of hate:
1. Dehumanization — Hate reduces other people to objects or enemies rather than recognizing them as full human beings.
2. Psychological self-poisoning — Over time, hate can contribute to anxiety, depression, obsessive thinking, and a diminished ability to experience peace or joy.
3. Breakdown of relationships and communities — Hate fractures families, friendships, and entire communities by turning differences into battle lines instead of opportunities for understanding or cooperation.
4. Escalation into violence and injustice — When acted upon, hate can lead to harassment, abuse, hate crimes, and, at its extremes, large-scale atrocities such as ethnic cleansing or genocide.
5. Blindness to truth and growth — Hate encourages rigid beliefs and stereotypes, causing people to ignore evidence or experiences that might challenge or deepen their understanding.
Excellent analysis. When rabid hatred rules a person’s thoughts and feelings, that person becomes bitter and unable to enjoy life. Some symptoms of rabid hatred include an aversion to facts that may not fit his / her worldview, an aversion to anyone trying to share such facts, and an excessive use of name-calling and profanity in place of reasoned discussion.
Gdonaldallen, you did well and succeeded by honoring Kirk, framing him as a principled humanist whose greatest threat to his opponents was not ideology, but his unwavering commitment to love, peace, and the dignity of every person while exposing hate as a corrosive force.
Kirk was not a humanist S. Meyer. He’s a Christian ideologue. Learn the difference.
Kirk was a humanist Christian with a deep belief in God, believing God is the highest authority. Because of that, he strove for humanity, ethics, justice, and human flourishing. What do we get from you? A person who should be kept away from children and is so detached from reality that very few pretend his words are true.
SM – Kirk would not have called himself a humanist. Evangelical christians use the label humanist for athiests.
They look at it as putting man above god.
Kirk would be with John Adams – you can not have morality without god.
I am not sure I agree – with either Adams or Kirk, but I would agree that without belief in a god, morality is very difficult to achieve.
Eliminate god and you are left with utilitarianism. While I frequently make utilitarian arguments – and I BELEIVE that it is likely that utilitarianism perfectly applied leads to the sane results – including the same morality. Utilitarianism is easily abused.
I am not anti-utilitarian – just skeptical that utilitariansm is not easily abused and incomplete.
There are moral positions I hold and moral arguments that I make that I THINK can be supported through utilitarianism but I am not sure. And if they could not I would not abandon them.
John, I think you misstate the question. Whether Kirk or many evangelicals would call Kirk a humanist is not the question. The error is that a humanist can place God above man. Kirk and some evangelicals may not accept the term, but there is a tradition of Christian humanism, which is grounded in the belief that human dignity comes from God. Whether or not Kirk would want to associate himself with that term is a separate question from what I said.
As always you over play your hand – humanist – no.
Ideologue – no.
Christian yes.
Only left wing nuts think that is an insult.
Unfortunately, there are thousands of Danny Bernsteins out there, maybe millions. Perhaps the professor’s upcoming book will explain why this is. It didn’t use to be the case in this country. Very sad.
Unfortunately there seem to be millions and they all display varying symptoms of TDS. Rage is the correct noun used to describe America’s Left these days. A temporary cessation in the Communization of America should not qualify for such rage. But they want it ALL and they want it NOW!
I don’t believe for one second this rage over Trump, I.e TDS will go away after Trump is out of the WH. This madness will target someone or group to refuel their rage and hatred. I try to avoid these people as much as possible
Dollar Bill,
Well said. Why would anyone want these kind of people in their lives? Such negativity.