Between Knowledge And Experience

[PoliticalChic]

1. There is that witticism "There are the folks who know, and the folks who don’t know, but you belong to the third group: the ones who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know."

Perhaps it can be compared to Reagan's brilliant observation:
“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”

No matter the basis or degree of disagreement, here is the reason: there is no such thing as objectivity....we believe what we believe based on the input to our experience, perhaps some generalization about a limited number of experiences, but more likely, what we have read or been told.



2. Which brings me to today's article in Britannica.com.

Matthew Shepard, in full Matthew Wayne Shepard, (born December 1, 1976, Casper, Wyoming, U.S.—died October 12, 1998, Fort Collins, Colorado), American college student who was severely beaten because of his sexual orientation and was left to die in 1998. He was discovered and hospitalized, though he succumbed to his injuries. His death, which was evidence of the physical danger that homosexuals still sometimes faced in the United States, played a key role in the 2009 passage of legislation that expanded federal hate crime law to include violence committed because of the sexual orientation of the victim.


3. There were a number of hoaxes aimed at advancing the cause of homosexuality, and the most poignant was the death of Matthew Shepard. According to the story found in the press, a young man was beaten to death because he was gay, and hung, crucified, on a barbed wire fence.
Mr. Shepard may have been murdered as stated above, or not, but his death was certainly useful to the Left, to Militant Secularism, to advance a cause that the a particular element of society deems important.
The point here is that there is another view of Mr. Shepard's epic, one which is pretty much hidden by those who control the dissemination of information in this society.



4. "Stephen Jimenez didn’t set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.
Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.
But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear. And it calls into question everything you think you know about the life and death of one of the leading icons of our age. Matthew Shepard, college student. Killed, at 21, for being gay.

Or was he?

Jimenez’s “The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard,” challenges every cultural myth surrounding Shepard’s short life and unspeakable death. After some 13 years of digging, including interviews with more than 100 sources, including Shepard’s killers, Jimenez makes a radioactive suggestion:
The grisly murder was no hate crime.

Shepard’s tragic and untimely demise may not have been fueled by his sexual orientation, but by drugs. For Shepard had likely agreed to trade methamphetamines for sex. And it killed him."
‘Uncomfortable truth’ in Matthew Shepard’s death


" Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, now doing life for murder, were not homophobes, .... McKinney likely had been Shepard’s gay or bisexual lover." Ibid.

" In 2004, theABC Newsnews program20/20aired a report quoting claims by McKinney, Henderson, and Kristen Price, the prosecutor and a lead investigator, that the murder had not been motivated by Shepard's sexuality but rather was primarily a drug-related robbery that had turned violent."
"New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder". ABC News Internet Ventures. November 26, 2004.



5. I don't know whether Mr. Shepard was killed because of his sexual proclivity, or because of illegal drug sales.....but I do know this:
Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist theoretician and founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsci’s motto is that of liberals today: “that all life is "political."

 

[Gdjjr]

Good post- may I, though, interject- murder is hateful. Violence, unless in self defense is hateful- Empty Suits come up with some weird crap to justify their existence to their psuedo-intellectual compatriots and make themselves feel important-

 

[PoliticalChic]

Good post- may I, though, interject- murder is hateful. Violence, unless in self defense is hateful- Empty Suits come up with some weird crap to justify their existence to their psuedo-intellectual compatriots and make themselves feel important-

I am certainly not pro-murder.....starting with the unborn, and onward from there.

The point of the OP is that, all too often, we are fed a doctored account designed to advance a political perspective.

Britannica is just one of the myriad publications that begin on the Left, and advance the Left's narrative.



We are no longer the sort of society that seeks truth, knowledge.....simply reassurance.

On Wednesday, June 6, 1928 the Oxford English Dictionary was completed. In The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester discusses the English of the time as follows:

“The English establishment of the day might be rightly derided at this remove as having been class-ridden and imperialist, bombastic and blimpish, racist and insouciant- but it was marked undeniably also by a sweeping erudition and confidence, and it was peopled by men and women who felt they were able to know all, to understand much, and in consequence to radiate the wisdom of deep learning.”

That cannot be said of our culture.

 

[Moonglow]

Reagan-that guy who illegally gave Iran money, missiles and fighter jet parts for the release of hostages and to curry favor, and it was all illegal and against the law?

 

[miketx]

I cannot understand why we have to pass a law about murdering queers. Murder is murder.

 

[Gdjjr]

We are no longer the sort of society that seeks truth, knowledge.....simply reassurance.

AMEN!

 

[Gdjjr]

I cannot understand why we have to pass a law about murdering queers. Murder is murder.

Do you vote for Empty Suits? Empty Suits condescend to low common denominators- squeaky wheels get greased- they make laws to make criminal behavior criminal they also make laws to make non-criminal activity (no harm, no foul behavior) criminal- it is what they do- it makes them look good to dumb asses.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I cannot understand why we have to pass a law about murdering queers. Murder is murder.

Excellent point.

The same point should be made about "hate crimes."

The term 'crime' needs no modifier.

 

[Muhammed]

I recall this case. One faggot meth head prostitute and his trick beat another faggot meth head prostitute to death with a .357 magnum. Then Hollywood, the fake news media and Democrat politicians create a false narrative that a couple of homophobe good 'ol boys went out fag hunting one night for sport and murdered some poor innocent kid because he was gay.

Then the Democrats used that big lie as an excuse to declare war on straight white males and pass thought crime legislation.

 

[jwoodie]

"There are the folks who know, and the folks who don’t know, but you belong to the third group: the ones who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know."

This is also known as profound ignorance, which describes most bumper-sticker "progressives."

 

[PoliticalChic]

"There are the folks who know, and the folks who don’t know, but you belong to the third group: the ones who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know."

This is also known as profound ignorance, which describes most bumper-sticker "progressives."

Even more than 'profound'.....
"The deniers first deceive themselves that they are sincere in their adherence to falsehoods. Thus they cannot be faulted for acting on genuinely held views. But in truth, they have cultivated an ignorance of the facts, what Thomas Aquinas called ignorantia affectata. An ignorance so useful that one protects it at all costs, in order to continue using it in one’s own self interest. This ignorance is not exculpatory, but inculpatory. Forgive them not, for they know full well what they do.' RICHARD BADALAMENTE


It is jaw-dropping.

Biden refuses to say whether he'd pack the court....and the media and the Democrat voters let him get away with "I won't say, because then you'd write about it."

WHAT?????

Isn't that the point of an election campaign.....to let voters know what you stand for????

This is insane.

 

[Gdjjr]

This is insane.

Einstein is credited with saying; doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is-

That can be laid at the feet of Republicans as well- or denying the evidence about 9/11- or laying claim to a moral high ground to inflict a will on another- it's not Party specific.

 

[PoliticalChic]

This is insane.

Einstein is credited with saying; doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is-

That can be laid at the feet of Republicans as well- or denying the evidence about 9/11- or laying claim to a moral high ground to inflict a will on another- it's not Party specific.

There are only two parties that have the potential to win a national election.
It is either cowardly or deeply lazy not to perform due diligence, and choose the party better for the country, or for your personal interests.


A few facts that should help you make perform your civil duty:

The Founders, classical liberals, conservatives
a. individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.


Fascists, Nazis, Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Communists
b. the collective, command and control regulation of private industry, and overarching government that can order every aspect of the private citizen's life....right down to control of his thoughts and speech.


None of the totalitarian forms of political plague have the slightest concern for human life: not communism (gulags), not Nazism (concentration camps), not Liberalism (abortion), not Progressivism (eugenics), not socialism (theft), not fascism (murder).
They only differ in the final outcome: slavery, serfdom, or death.


And this:
The Democrat Party is now running on full-blown anti-white racism, socialism, infanticide, opposition to free speech, substituting illegal alien voters for the American citizenry, support for rioters, arsonists, murderers, and anarchists, and anti-Semitism… the knuckle-dragging, atavistic pagan party.


Now stop equivocating.