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The term “regressive left” was supposedly coined in 2012 by Maajid Nawaz to describe leftists who make shameful apologetics for Islamist religious bigotry and fanaticism, as Nawaz explains in the video below.[embedded content]The regressive left in 2016 is increasingly made up of millennials, who have been profoundly influenced by, and steeped in, the core ideas of Postmodernism, which they have no doubt learned at universities.However, many of these millennials do not consciously...

We need more of them. Here is a list of people and their work below, not all left-wing: (1) The Rubin Report Dave Rubin’s The Rubin Report examines politics in an interview format and has much criticism of the regressive left.(2) Gad Saad Gad Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist and has a YouTube channel with much commentary on the regressive left.(3) Sargon of Akkad The YouTube personality Sargon of Akkad seems to be broadly liberal but has harsh, and often controversial, criticisms...

Just look at this article here in the UK Independent by Edward Siddons, which concerns the recent sexual assaults in Germany.If we read it carefully we can see before our eyes an outstanding fault of the modern left: the bizarre conflation of culture with race.First, Siddons points out that some people on the far right are complaining that maybe the cultural attitudes of the attackers might have something to do with their crimes.But then Siddons immediately implies that this means that such...

Hysterical screaming and whining about cultural appropriation is the latest rubbish from the regressive left. It refers to the borrowing or adoption of elements of one culture by people from another. But typically – as in so much regressive left nonsense – there is a blatant double standard: apparently it is only evil White people, Western civilisation or “dominant cultures” that are to blame for this, because such “appropriation” supposedly oppresses, insults or disrespects the minority...

It is illustrated perfectly by this news story here.So a Mexican restaurant at a British university hands out sombreros to students as a “celebration of Mexican culture” (according to none other than the restaurant’s general manager). In our truly bizarre politically-correct culture, this is condemned as “racist.”This is an utter abuse of the term “racist,” and an insult to people who have genuinely experienced real racism.What is racism, if it is to have any coherent, sensible and defensible...