Dinesh D’souza
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Dinesh D’souza
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmUzZTlmNGY3ZDM5Mjg2ZWQ3ZjVmMWVmNDhkOWU0NjU=
Is there any real difference between cultural conservatives and traditional Muslims? A leading conservative believes there is no difference at all. I tend to agree. Boy, that evil feminism sure gets around.
Am I correct in understanding this as D’sousa saying that the terrorists are striking out because the liberals had an unacceptably different cultural set, but that the conservative cultural set is not so easily distinguishable from that of the terrorists? :dubious:
That is an insult that I would never think of making against them, made by one of their own!
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Why does Dinesh D’Souza hate America? He hates us for our freedoms.
Honest question: is Dinesh D’Souza really a leading conservative? I’ve never, ever heard of him, and I pretend to be somewhat well-informed.
He’s a fairly well-known conservative author and commentator.
Ditto Giraffe. Who the hell is
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Dinesh D’Souza?
I wouldn’t say he’s a “leading” conservative, but he’s a National Review contributor who gets around on the talk shows. He’s not an unknown.
It’s a two-way street. The real reason Bush invaded Iraq had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein or WMD’s. In fact, he was actually enraged the cultural values displayed by Baghdad’s liberal elite.
Thanks, Jackmannii and Lemur866. Ignorance fought.
End hijack.
He’s the guy that writes all that marching band music, right?
Close. This one only writes in D minor though.
I haven’t heard from him much recently, but he was a familiar talking head 5-10 years ago on shows like The News Hour with Jim Leher. I could pick him out of a police line-up with one eye closed.
Hmmm, let’s see.
(1) They hate us because of our liberal values
(2) They hate us because of our freedom
Therefore (3) Liberal Values = Freedom.
Right?
D’Souza has sort of had his day.
He is especially well-known on college campuses, as much of his writing has been about the way that liberals have allegedly run down the academy. He’s opposed to things like affirmative action and other stuff that campus liberals support. He was, as a student, editor of the student paper at Dartmouth, where he gained some notoriety for his and the paper’s conservative—some said race-baiting—views.
He’s a fairly typical late twentieth century combination of cultural conservatism and free-market economics. He has faded from the public light a bit over the past five years or so, although this new book will probably bring him some new notoriety.
One thing i didn’t know about him—and that is contained in his Wikipedia article—was that he allegedly dated Ann Coulter at one time. That should tell you all you need to know about him. 
God, what an idiot.
Well, in a room full of Republicans, his dark skin might stand out. 
Well, I’m a conservative. I’ve posted here and had a few letters to the Editor published. That makes me about as much a spokesman as the quoted pundit.
What the douchebag doesn’t realize is that extremist Islamists are against capitalism in many ways. When shitheels talk about “Western corruption”, they aren’t talking about lyrics or how someone dresses in a video or what brand of soft drink is being touted. They’re talking about the freedom of a society that allows those as well as the freedom to bitch about it.
Conservatism is not a bad thing. Like liberalism isn’t a bad thing. Anything can get bastardized once you start to mix power into it. It’s all bullshit.
And the quoted “conservative” in the OP is in no way a leading conservative. Do your homework.
Um. If I were asked to name leading conservative thinkers of the last fifteen years or so, D’Souza would certainly be one who would spring readily to mind. His book The End of Racism has been particularly influential.
Would you say Thomas Sowell is a leading conservative? I’d roughly equate the two of them.
Do your homework.
Problem is, I think a point can be made about how Western decadence (caused by both libertine behavior and capitalist driven greed) can inspire grievances in the Islamic world.
Of course, you’d have a hard time seeing these points if big buckets of shit are dumped over them.
Welcome back, dude.