{"id":56542,"date":"2025-04-08T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=56542"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:38:57","slug":"qotd-the-sad-plight-of-the-modern-day-radical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/04\/08\/qotd-the-sad-plight-of-the-modern-day-radical\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The sad plight of the modern day “radical”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many are opposed to faith, family, industrious habits, common decency and public order. The “radical” will not be able to articulate reasons for his bitter opposition, but one look at his face should make everything clear. Here in Parkdale, we have a lot of Leftists. Perhaps they had unhappy childhoods. I hope gentle reader will not think me a bigot, but I have noticed that they are almost all white people.<\/p>\n

Whatever the cause, they cannot “smoak a jest”, recognize other forms of humour, or distinguish the parts of speech. This makes them appear batty (in the old sense, when it would have attracted institutional attention). They are frequently convulsed with anger, then sullen when they have exhausted themselves. Alas, they cannot be left in normal company, for they will immediately and raucously demand a “safe space”, and then not go away. They will accuse the normal person of “racism”, “fascism”, “sexism”, and “microaggressions”. Their spittle represents a health hazard.<\/p>\n

It is hard to know what to do with these people, in the absence of the traditional arrangements. When world markets open again, we could sell them into slavery. But in the meantime, I suppose, we must keep them in group homes, ideally under armed guard. Maybe feed them okra; surely there is a surplus, and I’m told it has calming properties.<\/p>\n

But that’s just me, always looking for solutions.<\/p>\n

David Warren, “Keeping one’s peace”, Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2020-04-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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