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Feb032021

Episode 288 – The 1619 Project

One thing I hate about our society, specifically on the Left, is how we are changing everything.

We have changed language. We have normalized in correct language like using “at” at the end of the sentence. We have changed definitions like how we did with the term “gender.” We have even changed the way we use pronouns referring to an individual as “they.”

We are trying to change science because of political correctness. A man wanting to be a woman means that he is a woman, no matter what his DNA says. Gender dysphoria is no longer a mental disorder. We are assigned gender, not born with it. And the world is going to end in 10 years because of weather.

But the worse thing we are doing is changing the history of the United States without adding context to the history of the world. The revision of our history is enunciating our dark moments without acknowledging our successes. The goal of this is to emphasize the failure of the United States and all its systems.

Enter the 1619 Project.

 

What is the 1619 Project?

There is a huge push to revise history within the United States. This revisionist push is not something that just happened in the last ten years. It has been around for almost a century. People like Howard Zinn have written histories that make the United States look like an imperialistic tyranny instead of a country that celebrates freedoms that have been given to us by God, not government.

In Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, a book that was touted by Matt Damon who played a genius in Good Will Hunting, blamed all evils in history on the United States. Slavery, the Native American crisis, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, the wars in the Middle East, even terrorism was all because of the imperialism of the United States. Many of Zinn’s findings were actually debunked by real historians. In fact, there is an entire book written that destroys all of Zinn’s arguments. But this doesn’t matter to the Leftists. The book is being touted as a legitimate history of the United States and has found its way into out high schools and colleges as mandatory reading.

In 2019, another document that tries to revise American history was released: The 1619 Project. According to Wikipedia.com:

The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine which “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the United States‘ national narrative”.[1] The project was first published in August 2019 for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia colony.[2] The project later included a broadsheet article, live events, and a podcast.

 

It is not a year that most Americans know as a notable date in our country’s history. Those who do are at most a tiny fraction of those who can tell you that 1776 is the year of our nation’s birth. What if, however, we were to tell you that this fact, which is taught in our schools and unanimously celebrated every Fourth of July, is wrong, and that the country’s true birth date, the moment that its defining contradictions first came into the world, was in late August of 1619? Though the exact date has been lost to history (it has come to be observed on Aug. 20), that was when a ship arrived at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia, bearing a cargo of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s very origin.

Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day. The seeds of all that were planted long before our official birth date, in 1776, when the men known as our founders formally declared independence from Britain.

The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year.  Doing so requires us to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Perhaps you need some persuading. The issue contains essays on different aspects of contemporary American life, from mass incarceration to rush-hour traffic, that have their roots in slavery and its aftermath.

Each essay takes up a modern phenomenon, familiar to all, and reveals its history. The first, by the staff writer Nikole Hannah- Jones (from whose mind this project sprang), provides the intellectual framework for the project and can be read as an introduction. Alongside the essays, you will find 17 literary works that bring to life key moments in African-American history. These works are all original compositions by contemporary black writers who were asked to choose events on a timeline of the past 400 years. The poetry and fiction they created is arranged chronologically throughout the issue, and each work is introduced by the history to which the author is responding. A word of warning: There is gruesome material in these pages, material that readers will find disturbing. That is, unfortunately, as it must be. American history cannot be told truthfully without a clear vision of how inhuman and immoral the treatment of black Americans has been. By acknowledging this shameful history, by trying hard to understand its powerful influence on the present, perhaps we can prepare ourselves for a more just future. That is the hope of this project.

The Goals of the Project

 

This is a complete rewrite of American history. Its goal is to:

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  • Become the new education tool of American history.
  • Change the way our children think about America. They will be our leaders one day. The goal is to change the culture so the future generations will change it politically. Politics is always down stream of culture.
  • Blame America for slavery. Slavery has been around forever and still exists.
  • Make it only that blacks made America what it is today and ignore what we did as a nation.
  • America is evil and must be changed. That includes eliminating our philosophy, accomplishments and successes.
  • Ignore our real history and the struggles we went through to become the successful country we are.
  • Makes racism systemic. It’s not.
  • It ignores the struggles this country went through, black and white, to get where we are today.
  • It ignores how far we’ve come.
  • Demonize an entire race; the white race. This is a document on black supremacy. This is dangerous. When you demonize a skin color, you end up with slavery, gulags and holocausts. Isn’t this what they are fighting against?
  • Ignore that whites are diverse. We are English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Russian, German and many others.
  • Ignore the sins of other civilizations including African and Muslim civilizations.

 

This is some really dangerous stuff. This is changing U.S. history in order to demonize a country, its citizens and the system:

  • Justifies cancel culture. This will kill the economy, kill innovation and kill national pride.
  • Promotes a complete change to the system of the most successful country in world history.
  • Justifies the persecution of those who don’t agree.
  • Creates race superiority.
  • Justifies policies that will hurt the economy of this country, further pushing the need for socialism. Socialism leads to tyranny.

 

Oops! It Ain’t that Accurate

 

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According to the Wall Street Journal article by Elliot Kaufman:

‘So wrong in so many ways” is how Gordon Wood, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution, characterized the New York Times’s “1619 Project.” James McPherson, dean of Civil War historians and another Pulitzer winner, said the Times presented an “unbalanced, one-sided account” that “left most of the history out.” Even more surprising than the criticism from these generally liberal historians was where the interviews appeared: on the World Socialist Web Site, run by the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Party.

A September essay for the World Socialist Web Site called the project a “racialist falsification” of history. That didn’t get much attention, but in November the interviews with the historians went viral. “I wish my books would have this kind of reaction,” Mr. Wood says in an email. “It still strikes me as amazing why the NY Times would put its authority behind a project that has such weak scholarly support.” He adds that fellow historians have privately expressed their agreement. Mr. McPherson coolly describes the project’s “implicit position that there have never been any good white people, thereby ignoring white radicals and even liberals who have supported racial equality.”

The project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is proud that it “decenters whiteness” and disdains its critics as “old, white male historians.” She tweeted of Mr. McPherson: “Who considers him preeminent? I don’t.” Her own qualifications are an undergraduate degree in history and African-American studies and a master’s in journalism. She says the project goes beyond Mr. McPherson’s expertise, the Civil War. “For the most part,” she writes in its lead essay, “black Americans fought back alone” against racism. No wonder she’d rather not talk about the Civil War.

When called out by the socialist organization, Nicole Hannah-Jones doubled-down using race as her justification:

To the Trotskyists, Ms. Hannah-Jones writes: “You all have truly revealed yourselves for the anti-black folks you really are.” She calls them “white men claiming to be socialists.” Perhaps they’re guilty of being white men, but they’re definitely socialists. Their faction, called the Workers League until 1995, was “one of the most strident and rigid Marxist groups in America” during the Cold War, says Harvey Klehr, a leading historian of American communism.

“Ours is not a patriotic, flag-waving kind of perspective,” says Thomas Mackaman, the World Socialist Web Site’s interviewer and a history professor at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He simply recognizes that the arrival of 20 slaves in 1619 wasn’t a “world-altering event.” Slavery had existed across the world for millennia, and there were already slaves elsewhere in what would become the U.S. before 1619.

But “even if you want to make slavery the central story of American history,” he says, the Times gets it backward. The American Revolution didn’t found a “slavocracy,” as Ms. Hannah-Jones puts it. Instead, in Mr. Mackaman’s telling, it “brought slavery in for questioning in a way that had never been done before” by “raising universal human equality as a fundamental principle.” Nor was protecting slavery “one of the primary reasons” the colonists declared independence, as Ms. Hannah-Jones claims. It’s no coincidence the abolitionists rapidly won votes to end slavery in five of the original 13 states, along with Vermont and the new states of the Midwest.

Ms. Hannah-Jones insists “anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country.” Mr. Mackaman calls that claim “anti-historical.” Proving it requires her to belittle the most progressive declaration of modern history: “that all men are created equal.” Ms. Hannah-Jones calls this a “lie” and claims its drafters didn’t even believe it. The abolitionists disagreed. So did Martin Luther King Jr: He saw it as a “promissory note.”

Other things that the 1619 Project gets wrong:

  • Sociologist Matthew Desmond marshals substantially discredited research to tar the whole of American capitalism as a legacy of slavery.
  • Legal activist Bryan Stevenson presents the war on drugs and broken-windows policing as successors to lynching, the Black Codes and other white “strategies of racial control.”
  • Joseph Kishore, the Socialist Equality Party’s national secretary, says the “1619 Project” is aimed at legitimizing the politics of the Democratic Party and at “dividing workers” by race.

 

Other issues about the 1619 Project come from The Atlantic, far from a right-wing publication. They did try to ease the conflict but pointed out that the conflict was started by real historians who had issue with the layman’s history created by the doocument:

Several weeks ago, the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, who had criticized the 1619 Project’s “cynicism”in a lecture in November, began quietly circulating a letter objecting to the project, and some of Hannah-Jones’s work in particular. The letter acquired four signatories—James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes, all leading scholars in their field. They sent their letter to three top Times editors and the publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, on December 4. A version of that letter was published on Friday, along with a detailed rebuttal from Jake Silverstein, the editor of the Times Magazine.

  • The letter sent to the Timessays, “We applaud all efforts to address the foundational centrality of slavery and racism to our history,” but then veers into harsh criticism of the 1619 Project. The letter refers to “matters of verifiable fact” that “cannot be described as interpretation or ‘framing’” and says the project reflected “a displacement of historical understanding by ideology.” Wilentz and his fellow signatories didn’t just dispute the Times Magazine’s interpretation of past events, but demanded corrections.

The letter is rooted in a vision of American history as a slow, uncertain march toward a more perfect union. The 1619 Project, and Hannah-Jones’s introductory essay in particular, offer a darker vision of the nation, in which Americans have made less progress than they think, and in which black people continue to struggle indefinitely for rights they may never fully realize. Inherent in that vision is a kind of pessimism, not about black struggle but about the sincerity and viability of white anti-racism. It is a harsh verdict, and one of the reasons the 1619 Project has provoked pointed criticism alongside praise.

Americans need to believe that, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, the arc of history bends toward justice. And they are rarely kind to those who question whether it does.

 

What Does This Document Ignore?

This document ignores a lot of things.

  • From a history standpoint, the Africans brought over in 1619 weren’t slaves, they were indentured servants. That sucked too. But, after a time, they were freed and given land. Some of those same blacks brought over in 1619, owned land as freeman and owned slaves. Chattel slavery did not really start until later in the century.
  • It ignores that the English Puritans and Spanish colonists did not support any type of slavery. Christopher Columbus got into trouble with Queen Isabella for sending 500 Haitian slaves back to Spain. He was arrested and the slaves were immediately freed and sent home.
  • The Founding Fathers did debate ending slavery with the new Constitution. George Washington actually freed his slaves. Slavery is mentioned in the Federalist Papers. But, because the south depended on slavery and the Union needed to remain unified, the Founding Fathers decided to deal with slavery later.
  • The abolition movement in the United States started right after the Revolutionary War and picked up steam in the early 1800s, well before the Civil War.
  • It ignores the individual and puts individuals into groups based on race. This is evil. This racist. This was done during slavery and Jim Crow. It was also done in Nazi Germany, done in Cuba by the Leftist-revered Che Guevara and is currently being done in China with the Uyghers.
  • Likewise, it groups whites as a single race and all with the same privilege. This is racist. It doesn’t acknowledge that whites also were in their own little castes within the United States. Germans, Irish and Italians are all white ethnicities but were seen as lower class compared to the northern European races. They were treated pretty badly. Jews, also white, were treated with disdain. But none of that matters, they’re all white.
  • It ignores individual’s capacity. If a black man can only get a job as a ditch digger, it is because of racial inequity. If a white man is a ditch digger, it is ignored. There is never an acknowledgement that each have their own abilities.
  • If there is systemic racism in the United States, where is it? What evidence is there? We were systemically racist before the Civil Rights Act but where is it now?
  • It ignores that times have changed and that history is flat within the United States. According to the 1619 Project, blacks have it just as bad today than they did during slavery and Jim Crow which is just ridiculous.
  • It states that all technology and feats achieved by the United States have been abled by slavery, giving blacks credit in areas that just are not true. The light bulb, electricity, space flight, the Internet, computing, cars, television, astrophysics, the plane and jets and other forms of technology are all because of slavery. None of this stuff has anything to do with slavery.
  • The document has no problem stating what America has done wrong but ignores what America has done right throughout history to fix their sins. The Civil War, Women’s Suffrage, reparations for the Japanese interned during World War II and the Civil Rights Act. These never happened and, if acknowledged as significant times in American history, would make America a country that acknowledges its sins.
  • It also brings up the rich black culture and how it affected American culture. Now this is true. Blacks have a great culture that I embrace including dance, blues and jazz music and literature. But American culture seems to be forgotten. Whites had some culture also. Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, John Wayne and Elvis might have a say about that.
  • It ignores the success that blacks have had in this country. Ophra Winfrey is worth billions of dollars. Would she have done that in another country? LeBron James, who is no genius and continually bitches about equity, is worth a billion dollars. Everyone who added to the 1619 Project has a degree is black and from Harvard or Princeton. Does it sound like these people are being oppressed? Stop it.
  • Didn’t mankind have slavery throughout its history? Weren’t the pyramids of Egypt built from slave labor? Weren’t the pyramids of Mexico and South America built on slave labor? Doesn’t China still have slave labor? Not sure? Where the hell do you think your f-ing iPhone came from?
  • Finally, why is there an equity problem in the black community? Why are blacks not earning as much as whites (or Asians)? Why are blacks jailed in disproportionate numbers than any other races including Hispanics? Because of systemic white racism? Then why aren’t there more Asians and Hispanics in jails? Why are white men still the majority in jails and prisons? And what are the examples of unjust imprisonment? None of this is answered. It’s just stated and that’s it.

 

What is the Goal of this Document?

Not sure who said it but some said, outside of 2+2=4, that math can be manipulated to show whatever you want to show. Physics, with the math in the right places, can prove that an elephant can hang off a cliff with its tail tied around a daisy. Well, so it is with history.

This is pure revisionist history. The document admits it. It is revising history to teach the truth. Problem with revisionist history is it adds what “historians” want you to know and leaves out what they want you to forget. The problems with the 1619 Project: It adds stuff that, flat out, isn’t true and leaves out most of true American history. I think it is a good idea to go through all of the history of the New World and the United States. I think U.S. history starts well before the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.

This document is to change our culture. It is to teach our children the fallacy that the United States is evil, always has been and always will be. The United States is systemically racist. The Left wants that philosophy bled into the institutions: the news media, entertainment and, especially, the education system. Once in the culture, it is a short trip to politics.

Once in politics the system can be changed.

 

What Do We Do?

The Left wants to “counter” systemic racism by, you got it, implementing systemic racism. But the racism will go in a different direction. Let’s listen to Joe Biden, who, in this statement, is promoting systemic racism:

That is promoting systemic racism. Help everyone except white people. Maybe the government will help white women.

When the government will benefit one race over another, that is systemic racism.

When the government supports the change of history to demonize a race, that is systemic racism.

When the government condemns and prosecutes white rioters at the capital building but ignores the $3 billion in damage by BLM and Antifa because of “racial justice,” that is systemic racism.

So what do we do who are concerned with this very disturbing turn of events:

  • Read the Bible and go to church. Many of our philosophies are based on the Judeo-Christian philosophy. Our rights came from God, not government. You might as well know what God said. Include your children. They will need a moral base because they are not going to get it from public school.
  • Read the Declaration of Independence. This document defines who we are as a nation. It is never changing. We are to be in 2021 that we were defined to be in 1776. Make sure your children know about it. Teach them. They won’t get it in public school.
  • Read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all the Amendments. This document is the law of the land and gives us the exact process to lead us to be what is defined in the Declaration of Independence. Know that was not defined in the Constitution is a state’s right. Abortion: Not a Constitutional right. Make sure your children know about it. Teach them. They won’t get it in public school.
  • Devour history books. Read history from all sides. I have read Howard Zinn’s The People’s History of the United States. It was crappy and filled with lies, but that’s what your children are learning in school. I like Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States because it is a far more detailed history of America, both positive and negative, and will counter the Leftist narrative on history. Talk to your children about American history. Learn what they are learning and teach them how to be critical of what they learn. They won’t get any counter arguments in public school.
  • Home schooling is not a thing for everyone. It’s just not possible. But talk to your children. Teach them. Teach them morality, religion, history, math and English. They ain’t learning it is public school. Make them read Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and JD Salinger. Their books are banned in public school.

We need to take over the culture. The only way we do it is teach our children.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-1619-project-gets-schooled-11576540494
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project

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Jul012020

Episode 185 – Race and Sex and Class…Oh, My!

Race, Sex, Creed and Class.
INTERSECTIONALITY:
Very, very BAD!

 

Taylor Swift is on a crusade against the United States government  Injustice has not struck the heart of the United States census and SJW General Swift needs to swoop in and save the world.

The United States government had the audacity to ask if the head of household is a male of female. That’s right! No, transgender, cisgender, non-binary, beastiosexual or any other of the 1800 different genders have been defined. Just male and female.

“I got my census the other day and there were two choices: male and female. And that erasure was so upsetting to me,” the “Lover” singer added.

Swift described the two-gender option as “a really brutal way of dismissing” transgender and nonbinary citizens. “We need to make sure we elect people who care about all communities.” -DailyWire

For years, Taylor Swift has stayed completely out of politics and got crap for it. I thought it was actually quite refreshing. But she received a lot of pressure from Leftist groups about her opinions. She finely caved and I no longer listen to Taylor Swift. I know she doesn’t care. I’m not exactly in her demographic. She came out as the typical dumb Millennial; as Leftist as the day is long. Her specialty seems to be LGBTQ issues but hating Trump is good enough.

This is really. dumb. The government doesn’t care about what people you are attracted too. They only care if you are male or female. If you are a male who has decided to be female, fine. Check the female box. They do not care. I am pretty sure the government does not have the other genders listed because the form would end up being 400 pages longer (it’s long enough as it is) and they do not have enough computing power to calculate the demographics of the 1800 different genders.

Not to mention, no one really cares. I do not fill out the census because I am sure there are three illegal aliens out there that are filling it out for me. That is another thing I find funny: It’s an affront not to add all the different genders but a bad thing to ask one’s immigration status (something that is actually important).

Typical. The Left always has to point out someone is a victim of something. Even check boxes can be bigoted.

But this is a perfect story to lead us into today’s topics: Identity Politics and Intersectionality.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-deeply-upset-by-gender-options-on-u-s-census

 

 

Identity Politics and Intersectionality

Introduction

I was going to deal with race in this section today because it is such a hot button topic. Black Lives Matter has been heading the protests since the death of George Floyd and you cannot listen to CNN for more than 15 minutes without hearing the words “race”, “racism”, and “white supremacist”. But, then I thought about it and realized race was not really the problem. It is Identity Politics and Intersectionality that are the problems.

Black Lives Matter (a terrorist group as far as I am concerned) whole philosophy is based on Intersectionality. In their manifesto on their website, they say:

“We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work…

“We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.

We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.” -BlackLivesMatter.com

So, they bond with women, gays, transgenders and the old against the patriarchy which is defined as white straight male led slavery. They are not all about black people. They are about all “oppressed” groups. If one can get through all of the communist crap they are peddling (terms like “collective” and “comrades” are sprinkled throughout the short essay), one can see that BLM is more than just about black lives.

This is the perfect cut over into what is really wrong with this philosophy.

 

Identity Politics

This is a philosophy that came out in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights Movement and the second wave of feminism. Though the term was not coined until much later, there were studies by professors in the late seventies and early eighties that “proved” that one’s identity (age, race, gender and creed) put one in a category of victimhood.

Identity Politics is defined as:

“The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around belief systems, programmatic manifestos, or party affiliation, identity political formations typically aim to secure the political freedom of a specific constituency marginalized within its larger context. Members of that constituency assert or reclaim ways of understanding their distinctiveness that challenge dominant oppressive characterizations, with the goal of greater self-determination.”  -(https://plato.stanford.edu, link below)

So, essentially, if you belong to a group (black, women, gay) you are a victim. When you accept that you are a victim, this will give one greater agency to discover their victimhood and go beyond it.

I know what you are thinking. Just wait for it. There is more to it then we will discuss how dumb this whole thing is.

 

Intersectionality

Identity Politics, unfortunately, does not go far enough. What if you belong to two victim groups? What if you are a black woman?

That’s where Intersectionality comes into play. The term was first used in 1989 by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights activist and legal scholar. In a paper for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Crenshaw wrote that traditional feminist ideas and antiracist policies exclude black women because they face overlapping discrimination unique to them. “Because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated,” she wrote in the paper. (Emphasis added.) (cjr.org).

It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 and defined as:

“The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage; a theoretical approach based on such a premise.”

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defined it as:

“The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups.”

The victim groups you belong to will intersect to define the victim you are and the value to society you have. And what you are owed. The less intersections (or none) the less valuable.

The Intersectionality score determines an individual’s value when it comes to: philosophy, what they deserve, temperance that they have from society and economic value.

So there you have it! Let’s review:

  • You are a white woman? You use Identity Politics to emphasize your victimhood as a woman because women couldn’t vote 100 years ago. Society owes you.
  • You are a black woman? You use Intersectionality to state you are more of a victim because you are a woman (women couldn’t vote a 100 years ago) and are black (blacks were slaves and dealt with Jim Crow laws). Society owes you more.
  • You are a Native American trans female lesbian who is Muslim? Jackpot!
  • You are a straight, white, Christian male? Screwed!

 

The Big Problems with this Philosophy

I reject this philosophy. Not just because I am a straight white male Christian, one who has no victimhood and should be dismissed, but because it is stupid. And its value system, is accepted, forces our civilization to be more stupid. But, what I will talk about later, it is dangerous. Here are five reasons this philosophy fails.

First, it excludes people, even those it champions to protect.

Straight white mail Christians are screwed. As far as intersectionality is concerned, we are the root of patriarchy and all that is evil in our civilization. Fine, whatever. The problem is that there have been some pretty smart white men in our civilization. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, DaVinci, Shakespeare, Poe, Jefferson, Washington, Locke, Twain, Franklin, Einstein, Steinbeck. Gates, Jobs, Bezos, Musk and Trump, just to name a very few.

Ok, Trump was a joke but you get where I am going.

There are also very fine white men whose philosophy and reason I would trust far more than some of the victims that Intersectionality deems for its sainthood. Names like Shapiro, Weinstein, Klavan, Harris, Crowder, Peterson, Levin, Pool, Carolla, Rowe, Bongino, Rogan Hannity, Sowell, Mahr, Rubin, Gutfeld and Crenshaw, just to name a few. OK, Dave Rubin is gay and Greg Gutfeld is kind of gay but I trust the reason of these guys over some self-proclaimed victim. But, because these are straight, white men (or, just white men) they have no say about the moral questions of our country. Ben Shapiro has no right to argue about abortion because he is a rich white male. He had something to say about that we he was confronted with that:

Nuff said.

The above debate is another big problem with Intersectionality: It discourages reasonable debate if one of the parties does not belong to a victim group or his victimhood does not match the one he is debating. It is the worst aspect of this cultist philosophy. Anyone who doesn’t agree and is not a member of a victim group is just wrong because he doesn’t understand. Evil, science and reason be damned. When a philosophy refuses to acknowledge these and will reject truth, this is not a philosophy, it is a cult. We know where all cults lead.

Another huge problem with Intersectionality and Identity Politics is that it ignores history, law, capitalism and other social factors for those groups.

We have talked about history in our last podcast. The Left has created a historical vacuum when it comes to the United States. We never escaped slavery even though we fought a Civil War that almost killed 700,000 people. We never ended racism even though we have the 15th and 16th Amendments and have passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (voted on by white men). Women were not able to vote a hundred years ago even though we went through women’s suffrage, passed sexism laws and equal rights laws in the workplace. We are still a bigoted nation against the LGBTQ movement even though we have gay marriage.

The above mentioned some of the laws that were passed that ended discrimination. But here are a couple of laws that no one talks about when they say how systemically racist, sexist and bigoted we are. Murder and lynching are illegal. If done because of an attack on a protected victim group, the hate crime statute is enacted, adding 20 extra years in prison (I hate this). Workplace harassment and discrimination is illegal and can start civil proceedings. So if women actually earned 70 cents per dollar of a male counterpart, she can sue. That goes with any minority. There have been tens-of-thousands of cases through the court system and trillions of dollars of awards. Don’t believe me, learn a newspaper. Stories are brought up daily.

But the Left does not care about history. They want it gone. For them, our history is an inconvenience. It interferes with the narrative. That is why they are trying to destroy any statue, whether it be George Washington or Jesus Christ, to eliminate any reminents of our history.

Let’s face it: If there is anything good about the United States, why tear down the system? Why not build on it? The Left does not want that. They want the system gone.

Capitalism has been demonized by the Left. But capitalism is what has been assuring equality in the workplace. The “women earn 70% of men in the workplace” is complete crap. Here’s the skinny: Capitalism only cares about results. The bottom line. I know the Left thinks this is a bad thing, but it’s not. Capitalism only cares about the bottom line. And if capitalism could save 30% on the bottom line by hiring women or blacks, it would. Capitalism is why Jackie Robinson was the first black man that played in Major League Baseball. He was a great player that could make the the Dodgers a World Series winning team. Because if the Dodgers won the World Series, they would make money. That simple.

If a company makes widgets at at the retail cost of production at $5 per unit with manufacturing, but save $.30 per unit to be manufactured by a woman or save $.50 per unit because a black woman or a black man was hired, why not hire the black man or black women?

If I am a capitalist, why pay $1 for someone if I could pay $.70 for someone else?

Because, in capitalism, companies hire based capacity and ability. And they pay based on capacity and ability. One’s race is irrelevant. Capitalism is color-blind. If I suck at my job, I lose my job or get paid less. If I’m great at my job, I get paid more or get promoted. Period

The “big bosses” don’t know if I’m black or white. They just know what I did. If capitalist companies were racist and sexist, they would lose good workers. Because those great workers would quit and find another company. Likewise, people do not get paid less based on their race or sex. If this happened, again people would leave and go to another company. Thomas Sowell, a black economist, proved this statistically more than thirty years ago.

Everyone thinks capitalism supports the rich. It doesn’t. It supports the productive and the innovative. That includes the advantaged. If one creates, they win. Period. Amazon knew it. Apple knew it. Microsoft knew it. Tesla knew it. Capitalism is not the evil the Left likes to make it out to be. Socialism, on the other hand, is evil. Stealing money and giving to others is nothing short of theft. Just because it is legal does not mean it is not theft.

Finally, this philosophy creates an “us versus them” environment. Because I do not belong in a victim group or am in a lower victim class, my views and life is irrelevant. Do you think I am going to sit easy with that? Nope, I am not and I am going to tell you. Not to mention, I am going to have very little respect for your opinion. That lack of respect will turn to anger, anger turns to hate and hate usually leads to violence.

That’s where we are heading.

 

Why this Philosophy is Dangerous

Here’s the big problem with Intersectionality and Identity Politics: it’s dangerous. Because the victim classes believe that the sins of the United States never went away, the system is still corrupt. That means that the system needs to be changed. As we have seen with the Black Lives Matter philosophy (and Antifa, for that matter) we know what they want to replace it with: Socialism. The destruction of capitalism, opportunity, freedoms, the Constitution, speech, religion; all gone. The government will control all and we will be at the mercy of its whim.

How close our we to this? Very. The Left is very close to controlling the government. If President Trump does not mellow out on the Tweeting thing, he could very well lose this election. His poll numbers are not looking great and Joe Biden’s strategy of hiding is his basement and not screwing up is working (though I think that is going to end soon).

Finally, the most dangerous aspect of this philosophy is cancel culture. In the beginning, cancel culture was actually kind of funny. People would call for the firing of Conservatives like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. Of course, by people who have never seen their shows. They cancelled things like Aunt Jamima and scream that chess is racist. That is a thing because the white pieces always go first (ugh!).

But, right before our eyes, cancel culture is morphing. Looting and domestic terrorism is cancelling businesses by destroying them. Companies like the NFL, NBA, Google, Twitter and Microsoft has bent the knee to these groups and rejected anyone who rejects the radical beliefs of Black Lives Matter. Our statues are being torn down. Our flag is being burned.

This is happening now.

But it is getting worse. People are being silenced on social media because of their beliefs. People are being doxxed and fire from their jobs, ruining their careers. People are being attacked because of the color of their hats, saying the wrong thing or just looking different. Normal, law-abiding citizens are being left unprotected because the police departments are being told to stand down and defunded. This has led to the serious injury and deaths of the innocent. Think I am exaggerating? Look up David Dorn, David McAtee, Chris Beaty, Dorean Murrell, Italia Kelly, Marquis Tousant, Patrick Underwood, Calvin Horton Jr., James Scurlock, Javar Harrell, Barry Perkins III, Jorge Gomez, Jose Gutierrez, Victor Cazares Jr. and Marvin Francois. Just to name a few. I did not mention the hundreds that are getting shot in places like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles simply because the police have been told to stand down.

This is happening now. What could happen in the future?

Could I get into trouble with the law because I say the wrong thing? Use the wrong pronoun? Pray to my God? Complain about the government? Not want to give up my gun? Be able to reason why our government is wrong? Seem far fetched? They are already doing that in countries like China, Russia, North Korea and, to a smaller extent, Germany, Canada, Japan and France. Why don’t we think it could not happen here?

Could I be arrested for my race? Being part of the “privileged class”? Because I reason, pray and see injustice? could I be imprisoned in a work camp? Lose my family, career and life because people do not like what I am saying today? It happened in countries like Russia (Soviet Union), China, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and Germany.  Why don’t we think it could not happen here?

Folks, this is the endpoint of cancel culture. It has been done before. It never ended well.

This is something I cannot get behind. This is something I will fight against.

 

https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/intersectionality.php#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIntersectionality%E2%80%9D%20was%20coined%20in%201989,overlapping%20discrimination%20unique%20to%20them
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/12/2/13718770/identity-politics
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
https://fox6now.com/2020/06/08/deadly-unrest-here-are-the-people-who-have-died-amid-george-floyd-protests-across-us/
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https://7news.com.au/sport/sydney-radio-station-asks-if-chess-is-racist-because-white-always-moves-first-c-1121419

 

 

 

 

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Jul302019

Deflection

Donald Trump has found a new target for his ire. And though I am not a huge fan of the President’s rage Tweeting, this time, I think he hit it right on the head. Let’s talk about the story and then take a look how democrats are destroying our once great cities and states.

The Story

Elijah Cummings, the democratic representative of Maryland who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, had the Acting Homeland Security Secretary, Kevin McAleenan in front of Congress to discuss the crisis on the border. Well, he didn’t actually want to discuss anything. He just started yell at him. Watch:

I don’t know how any of this can be seen as anything other than abuse. And it is all completely wrong. Kids are not crapping into foil blankets nor are women drinking out of toilets. These are all lies. What’s more, this guy shouldn’t be angry at McAleenan. He didn’t make the laws. He’s in charge of enforcing them. Congress, specifically the House of Representatives is in charge of making laws. That’s where Cummings has been serving for the last 24 years.

I am sick and tired of hearing about these poor people that break our laws being “mistreated.” Well, I know they’re not being mistreated. If they were, people would stop streaming over the border. And I am especially sick and tired of hearing the moralizing from blowhards like this. Nothing but talk, no action.

Well, it took Trump a bit to respond but he eventually did. And he hit a nerve.The media did a spectacular job answering the President. You guessed it. He’s a racist. the media compared Trump’s claim that the city is rat infested by claiming that Trump also thinks (didn’t say, mind you) Congress is infested with “brown people.” I’m not kidding, watch:

Should we really be surprised about this? Of course not. The reason is that President Trump is correct. There is no argument. Baltimore is a crap hole and Cummings is a lousy leader who has been in office for 24 years. Baltimore isn’t all of Cummings fault. He’s a congressman and most of the issues are caused by the local politicians but he has done nothing to help.

Let’s look at Baltimore. It has the second highest murder rate behind St. Louis and only trails Chicago with the total number of murders (there were 1000 murders in Baltimore last year). According to Orkin research, it has the ninth highest rat population in the country. Fifty percent live in extreme poverty and have experienced homelessness. The homeless problem is growing. This place has a lot of problems. Pointing it out does not make Trump anymore racist than him saying grass is green (though they may find a way to make that racist too).

Democratic run cities have always had problems. The top ten big cities with the worst homicide rates are: 1. St. Louis, 2. Baltimore, 3. Detroit, 4. New Orleans, 5. Kansas City, 6. Cleveland, 7. Memphis, 8. Newark, 9. Chicago and 10. Cincinnati. Mind you, this is murder rate per ca pita. Chicago has the largest number of murder at 1300 with Baltimore second with 1000 murders. All ten cities have democratic mayors and governments.

The top ten big cities with the highest homeless population are: 1. New York City, 2. Los Angeles, 3. Seattle, 4. San Diego, 5. San Jose, 6. Washington DC, 7. San Francisco, 8. Phoenix, 9. Boston and 10. Las Vegas. Nine of the ten cities are run by democrats. San Diego is the exception but it is under the control of an extremely leftist state in California.

Rat population, which indicate a large amount of pollution and potential for disease. This are also indicators of quality of life. According to Orkin to top ten rat infested (I’m sorry about my racism) big cities are: 1. Chicago, 2. Los Angeles, 3. New York, 4. Washington DC, 5. San Francisco, 6. Detroit, 7. Philadelphia, 8. Cleveland, 9. Baltimore and 10. Denver. Again, each of the top ten is run by a democratic mayor and senate.

Is this a coincidence? Absolutely not! It is democratic policies the cripple economies and promote crime.

 

Crime

For years, democrats have manipulated laws to make victims of those that are criminals. Something that was illegal at one time is not illegal anymore. Though this may lower crime rates it does nothing about crime itself and, therefore, lowers the quality of life. In California, weed is legal and this forces drug dealers, many of whom are violent, to look as though they were victimized by the racist system (most incarcerated are people of color). In San Francisco, breaking into a car or shop lifting are addressed with a citation. That’s right, you can get a ticket for breaking into a car.  The judicial system, which is also very blue, are giving light and lighter sentences for some very serious crimes. This is all based on very liberal laws.

Leftist states also have the nasty habit of demonizing the police. They are seen as racist white supremacists for arresting so many people of color. It totally escapes politicians that people of color are committing most of the crimes and that 50% of the police forces in California and New York are people of color. Sure, there are some bad apples but they are few and far between.

Finally, leftist cities and states have a nasty habit of disarming there citizens. The make it very difficult for citizens to own guns to defend themselves. This makes everyone vulnerable to crime. Notice there are no cities in Texas with a high murder rate? That’s because everyone in Texas owns a gun and most actually carry them throughout the day. Only an idiot would try to rob someone in Texas.

 

The Left and the Economy

Since most leftists are socialists or communists, it is easy to believe that they are not fans of free markets. Leftist states and cities are heavily regulated. That means it is very expensive for small business. The businesses have to get permits, face inspections, high rent, payroll taxes and follow signage laws (you know, like the ones that say, “people smoke here” and crap like that). Each of these cost money that the owner has to pay. Then they raise minimum wage to $15 and hour which causes cost of living to go up and will also create job loss. Employers also have to give benefits that are required by the state. All of this creates a toxic atmosphere for small business. When small business is hurting the economy hurts because most people are employed by small business.

Big business also has a tough time in leftist cities and states. Property taxes, payroll taxes, minimum wage laws and benefits requirements are really scaring big business from opening or staying in leftist states. The final acts, which is forcing corporations to stay out of leftist states or move out of them is the continual attack on big corporations. These politicians seem to forget that big corporations higher thousands of people. Companies like Charles Schwab, Jamba Juice, Lyft, McKesson, Pandora and even the Oakland Raiders football team have left California to avoid paying the exonerate tax rates.

 

It’s About the Collective, Not the Individual, Stupid!

Tax rates are what is killing the average person too. I’ll just talk from my experience. I pay 26% taxes and that did go down from 28% because of the Trump tax cut. Unlike what everyone tells us, I did see the cuts. Gas prices are between $3.50-$4.00 a gallon. Gas prices went up because it is summer and California has a “special blend” for summer, whatever that means. I am also required to have driver’s insurance which is also overpriced. If I get a parking ticket, my insurance goes up. I have a one bedroom apartment and I spend $1600 a month. I spend $40 a month on electricity and $120 a month on water and trash. Mind you, I live alone.

I’d love to buy a house. But the average house in California is $600,000. That’s about $2400 a month mortgage. Then I’d have to add in homeowner’s insurance, including earthquake insurance, property taxes (about $6000 a year) and pay whatever communist neighborhood group I have to pay so they can tell me I’m not allowed to get that panda bear mailbox I’ve always wanted or need an edict from God to plant a tree.

Oh, and I almost forgot about the taxes. Property tax, income tax, sales tax, gas tax, inheritance tax, tax on cooked foods, tax to get a grocery bags, tobacco tax, cell phone tax, using too much water tax, city tax and capital gains tax. Did I mention gas tax. I know I did but they doubled it last year and that doesn’t include the sales tax on top of it. We are taxed to death in this state. And now, the state wants to add $100 million a year to the budget deficit (which is $2 trillion dollars) and give illegal aliens healthcare. Nice.

 

Family

I want to thank Dan Bongino for this because I always knew it but forgot about it.

Democrats hate family. Family is the faith that mom and dad know best. Family requires a mom, dad and kids. Typically, at least in my family, that meant we needed a moral base. That moral base was is religion. For us, that religion is Catholicism. Let’s look at that for a second.

Having a mom and dad means they are, together, raising the kids. Have you ever heard of “shotgun weddings?” That’s when some guy got some gal pregnant and he had to take responsibility for the gal and the child. He did that because he believed in God and knew what was right. She did too. And she married him even if she wasn’t sure. Responsibility.

Religion is important. The man knows why he needs to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Because it’s right. Why? Because we are a monogamous animal and it would just be wrong to disappear. The Judaeo-Christian reminds us of this. It doesn’t tell us this. We already know. That same Judaeo-Christian belief system tells us to raise our children in the same way. In other words, take responsibility, That is the same responsibility Christians embrace when contemplating abortion. It’s just wrong. Kids are good. Responsibility.

So, what does the left do? Well, let’s kill the family through toxic masculinity. Let’s kill motherhood through feminism. And let’s kill the value of life through “pro-choice.”

How about we just kill responsibility. It’s easier.

 

Conclusion

This is such garbage and nothing ever gets fixed. It’s time to say the dog has fleas and not worry about the dog’s feelings. One of the things I wish Trump would do is marry his ideas with the tragedies. In other words, I think his Tweets would have a lot more impact if he told us how to fix Baltimore and, through consequence, all democratic cities. Because, here’s the thing: all democratic cities, which, in turn, means failing cities, have the same problem. That is democratic, of leftist, ideals. Those leftist ideals are socialist ideals and they have never worked. Except to keep the leftists in power.

 

 

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/49992/trump-doubles-down-baltimore-attacks-democrats-molly-prince
https://patch.com/maryland/baltimore/baltimore-most-rat-infested-cities-list-again-orkin
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-fbi-data-20180924-story.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/49986/baltimore-amanda-prestigiacomo
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-trump-is-right-baltimore-mistreated-by-elected-dems-residents-deserve-better

Despite recent violence, Chicago is far from the U.S. ‘murder capital’


https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cities-list/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/12/20/the-u-s-cities-with-the-most-homeless-people-in-2018-infographic/#21a3784e1178
https://www.orkin.com/press-room/rattiest-cities-2018

 

 

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Jul232019

The Modern Civil War

Antifa is no longer a hate group. They have now stepped over into domestic terrorism. But, for some reason, the reactions to the last couple of weeks seems to be ignored by the left and the mainstream media (which actually are the same thing). But this brings up a bigger question: are we heading to a civil war? What would one these days look like? Let’s talk about it.

 

The Escalation of Domestic Terrorism

On Friday evening, anti-ICE protesters gathered at an ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado, one that held illegal aliens. The protest was held to protest on the ICE raids that were suppose to go into affect that weekend. At first, it started out peaceful enough. But as the protest continued, another set of protesters joined the group and started trouble. The Light of Liberty organization had no intention of doing anything more than chant in protest. But the other group had something else in mind.

The other set of protesters passed through the tape that was meant to prevent them from entering the facility and replaced the US flag with a Mexican flag. They then defaced the American flag with the words “Abolish ICE” and raised the flag upside down. Take a look at the news story below.

 

A couple of things about this. I am not against allowing for flag burning. We have the right to free speech and I think it should be allowed. That doesn’t mean I support it. Anyone burns a flag in front of me better be ready for a bit of a tussle. But this situation is not exercising free speech. This occurred on government property and those flags were owned, not by ICE, but by the citizens of the United States. What these people were doing is a crime. And these radicals walked right up to a facility filled with armed guards and vandalized government property. Can you imagine the balls on these people? What would have happened if ICE decided to enforce the law and arrest these people? Unfortunately, they didn’t. They just let them blow off steam until they left.

Imagine celebrating a country whose primary export is human trafficking and its second biggest export is drugs. A country whose main commodities in human suffering. Now, imagine another country, the one who is at the crap end of the stick in this deal, has citizens that celebrate this crap hole country by raising this country’s flag, replacing their own flag. Then, desecrating our flag and raising it upside down. That’s what happened. Mexico deals in human trafficking and drugs. It is one of the most violent countries in the world, surpassing Iraq and Afghanistan. It is one of the most corrupt countries, allowing drug dealers like El Chapo escape from a high security prison and turning their backs when he is dealing drugs and killing its citizens.

It’s disgusting. But I do need to give the Light of Liberty organization credit. They saw what was happening and left because a mob they were not. I may not believe in anything the Life of Liberty organization believes in but I will party with them anytime. That is a class organization embracing their First Amendment rights.

 

Domestic Terror Attack

On Saturday, a radical anarchist and Antifa member walked up to and ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington at four in the morning. He was armed with a rifle, Molotov cocktails and flares. He started throwing the Molotov cocktails over the fence at the ICE facility. He caused some damage. But the Tacoma police department was alerted. They showed up and engaged the subject. He was shot and killed. No law enforcement officers were hurt and there was minimal damage. Well, unless it was your car that was damaged.

The domestic terrorist was 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen. He had been in a protest the day before and his attack came before another protest later in the morning. He had an arrest record, including assaulting a police officer in an Antifa protest. Apparently, while the officer was breaking a fight up, he grabbed the officer by the throat. Below is a news report about the incident.

This is not a good guy. It may seem callous but I’m glad he’s dead. But what’s disturbing about this is that Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, is becoming more violent. It was just a week and a half ago that the same Antifa protest, which included  Van Spronsen, seriously injured journalist Andy Ngo (who is Asian and gay). You may remember the video but here it is again so one can see the brutality of this group:

This was not a reactionary or spontaneous attack. Ngo heard that he was going to be a target but went anyway. He did that because that’s what journalists do. He was punched and kicked. They threw milk shakes at him, which is the new thing. One of the milk shakes was filled with liquefied cement. He suffered from a brain bleed and had to be hospitalized for several days. The police were told to stand down by the liberal mayor because he was afraid the police would escalate the tension. I guess the police were needed for Antifa to escalate the violence.

I also pointed out that Ngo was Asian and gay and I did that for a reason. Notice all the masked cowards are white. This is a big deal because, though they scream about minority rights, they have no problem attacking a minority if he goes against their belief system.

Notice I am not making fun of this? There is nothing funny about this. In fact, this is kind of scary.

 

Reaction

So far, the reaction to this domestic terrorist attack has been disgusting. There has been absolutely no mention of this attack from the leftist media. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC all ignored the story. As far as CNN, I’m not surprised. CNN has always given Antifa a pass as I have said before. And I know why they do not want to talk about this attack. When Omar Mateen attacked the Pulse nightclub, they had no problem calling out the bigoted attack on gays by an American citizen for three weeks, though Mateen was an ISIS sympathizer that had patronized the club on multiple occasions (he was a closet gay!). They could spin the Pulse nightclub terrorist attack. They can’t spin this one.

W. Kamau Bell of CNN did a documentary where he showed admiration for a viscous Antifa member. He even admired what she did and the weapons she carries. He asked her question, she answered and he never pushed back. This was a propaganda film. Needless to say, CNN got things wrong (again) and they could not report the truth for fear of showing their true colors. Take a look at a snippet of the “documentary.” I wanted to publish the entire documentary, the one I saw, but couldn’t find it. I’m not surprised. Because Willem Van Spronsen was pictured in it. He belonged to the same group that the crazy chick Bell interviewed. In fact, Van Spronsen was actually filmed in the documentary. Below is a clip of Bell interviewing one of the Antifa leaders. In this clip, Bell is amazed at the weapons this nut-job carries with her on a daily basis. Watch:

Is it a wonder why CNN won’t report on this? Listen to the language Bell uses. He he calls this chick “legendary” and he actually has nothing but respect for her. And what the hell is an anarcho-communist? They are two totally conflicting ideologies. Also, fascism is not a right-wing ideology. It is closer to communism than anything the right has. The right (not the alt-right, they are fascists) believes in free enterprise and human rights. Communism doesn’t.

But this is the hypocrisy of Bell. If Antifa was only attacking the alt-right idiots, I probably wouldn’t care. But they don’t. They attack anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Andy Ngo is an gay Asian. He’s hardly alt-right. But he’s a conservative and does not agree with the philosophy of Antifa.

Bell is a communist. He does believe in what Antifa does. So his love affair with them is not surprising. But CNN is filled with people who believe Antifa is on the right side of history. Listen to Don Lemon justify Antifa:

What an idiot! Just because I say I am six foot four doesn’t mean I’m six foot four (I’m actually short). This is the dumbest reason to justify Antifa. Chris Cuomo says the same thing. Is it a wonder why these stations do not report an instance of domestic terrorism that involved Antifa?

But what about our politicians? For sure they will condemn domestic terrorism, even the far leftists who hate ICE must say something, right? Let’s watch a journalist from Rebel Media ask the leftist members of Congress if they condemn Antifa:

Crickets. I will say that AoC did condemn the attack later when asked by the Daily Mail but it took her a while. I don’t understand why it is so hard for these people just to condemn a terrorist attack. No, that’s not true. I completely understand.

Two weeks ago, I made a rather bold statement. In fact, I wasn’t sure I should back away from the statement because it seemed a bit extreme. I called Antifa the Brown Shirts of the left. For those who don’t remember, the Brown Shirts were Hitler’s personal police force and were charged with enforcing Hitler’s policies and doing away with his enemies and detractors. I stated that Antifa was there to promote the radical beliefs of AoC and her minions in any way, including violence. The left’s rejection to condemn Antifa’s terror shows that I may not be far off in my theory.”

Antifa also had a statement about the attack. They called Van Spronsen a “comrade” and a “martyr.”  But, what is scarier, is that they have called for more action like the one Van Spronsen took. I’m not really sure how he Southern Poverty Law Center sees ICE as a hate group but refuses to acknowledge these cowardly thugs.

The future of this country could be very dark.

 

Civil War?

There has been a lot of talk about the United States heading toward another civil war. I hate to say it but it looks like that might be the case.

Our political climate does not allow for debate. We do not discuss the issues. Instead we call each other names. Indeed, some issues are very hard to find common ground. Abortion is an example of this. An anti-abortionist, such as myself, will have a hard time accepting the left’s premise that one can kill a baby to the point that the baby is in the birth canal. Likewise, a pro-abortionist will never surrender to the idea that abortion is killing a child. There is not middle ground. The two sides are way too polarized. Unfortunately, it’s not just abortion. Illegal immigration, religion, gender, medicare for all, socialism, economic equality and climate change are just a few policies where the opposite sides are so polarized that there is no discussion. As passions grow so does anger. It starts with arguing, then yelling, then mob violence and, finally, domestic terrorism against one’s “enemies.”

So, could we be heading to civil war? We might already be there. A civil war today will not be geographic like it was during the first Civil War from 1861-1865. It will be ideological. There will be more protests and those protests will get violent. People may die. There will be domestic terror attacks. People who voice opinions that counter those who are radical, whether that be on the right or left, will be attacked. The alt-left and alt-right will grow because the extreme ideas and threats of violence will attract people who want to express their ideas but also want the protections of a mob. Alt-right groups like the Proud Boys will grow and as Antifa joins these protests, the Proud Boys will also show up. Riots will commence like the one in Charlottesville and people will get hurt and die.

Good news is, this war will not affect most people who do not participate in these protests. You know, most of the people who actually have jobs. But we will have to worry about what we wear. We will have to worry about what we say in public. We might even have to worry about what we can’t control. To Antifa, being white, male, wealthy or religious is considered part of the capitalist hierarchy. No kidding. How many videos are on the Internet where someone is assaulted because he’s wearing a red hat?

Well, I don’t know what’s going to happen but I’m sure glad we have the Second Amendment.

 

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Resources:
https://usbreakingnews.net/2019/07/15/antifa-praises-martyr-who-tried-to-firebomb-ice-facility-and-urges-others-to-take-direct-action/

https://www.theblaze.com/news/terror-armed-antifa-member-attempts-to-firebomb-ice-facility-in-washington-is-killed-in-confrontation-with-police

https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-protestors-rip-down-american-flag-at-ice-facility-raise-mexico-flag-vandalize-blue-lives-matter-flag

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnn-antifa-ice-glorified

 

 

 

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Jul152019

Oops! The Left Just Got Called Out!

It has been a tough week for the fresh faces of the democratic party. The chinks in their armor are beginning to show. Alright, it is not a chink, they are beginning to implode. But we are going to look at one incident today. That is the fight between Tucker Carlson of Fox News and Ilhan Omar, the democratic congressman from Minnesota. It was a short-lived war which I thought it would be. That’s because Tucker’s monologues bring up much deeper problems that we conservatives are being forced to face and deal. These problems are not new. They have been around since the thirties.

Tucker Carson’s monologue started out positive enough. He talked about the virtues of this country. How this country is unconditionally generous with other countries especially during disasters. He also talked about the American Dream. How this country takes in more immigrants than any other country. About how these immigrants are able to assimilate and take the advantages of all of the benefits of this country and become successful. The American Dream does not care about race, gender or creed. We are all equal when it comes to the opportunities of this country.

Then he gives us an example of the American Dream. About a six year old girl who lived in the war-torn country country of Somalia. The family left Somalia and ended of in a refugee camp in Kenya. Four years later, when the little girl was ten, the family was granted asylum to the United States. The family moved to Minnesota where the father was a taxi cab driver at first but soon ended up working for the government as a postal worker. The little girl went through the education system and was very successful. She entered local politics and climbed the ranks. Finally, at the age of thirty-six, this little became one of the most watched congressman in the House of Representatives. This awesome story is that of Ilhan Omar.

But would Omar show any appreciation for a country and love the opportunities it gives a million of legal immigrants a year? Let’s listen to Tucker’s take:

https://youtu.be/OTUoS5fI6A0

Omar did not exactly appreciate being called out by Tucker did exactly what Tucker said they would do. They Tweeted that he was a racist, xenophobe and a white supremacist. Here are a couple of Omar’s Tweets:

No, that’s not what he said. He believed we needed more vetting because this country does not need immigrants that hate our country. People like this form discord and can actually hurt the country from within which can be worse than any terrorist. And Ilhan Omar is exactly what Tucker is talking about. She is an anti-Semite, hates America and is a terrorist sympathizer. This is a woman who fought for leniency for nine convicted ISIS-converted terrorists in Minnesota because they were marginalized. Heck, she said what she thought about terrorist organizations in an interview with, I believe, Al Jazeera:

 

Not exactly sure how one compares Al Qaeda and Hezbollah with the United States Army. But, whatever.

 

Notice in these Tweets, she doesn’t have anything substantial to say or an argument. She just slings insults. Also, she does not call into Fox News and try to respond or debate on air. I would bet my left arm Tucker will have her on. She just attempts to mark it as “hate speech” (whatever that is) and calls for Fox News sponsors to boycott the station. In other words, she wants her critics silenced.

See, debate is something the left does not do because they cannot do it. If they try, they will lose every time. See, here’s the thing: Tucker was not wrong about any of this. Everything he said was true and can be proven either by Tweets Omar has written or through her own words during speeches.

Let’s go back to Tucker because you know he had a response and it silenced the opposition. This clip actually references the previous clip, so you may want to fast forward through some of it.

Tucker is exactly correct. This has nothing to do with racism on the right. The right’s embrace of people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali is just one example of that. There are many others including Candace Owens (black), Dave Rubin (gay and Jewish), Ben Shapiro (Jewish) and Josefina Orozco (Hispanic and my girlfriend). All these people, except for Josie who no one knows, are hated by the left even though they meet some requirements of intersectionality and identity politics.

But I think Tucker hit on something really important. Something that he may need a book to express. At least he couldn’t express it in a six minute segment. Whether or not he meant to, I had thoughts that went way beyond his commentary. And, yes, it’s probably racist and xenophobic too.

Mikhail Khrushchev, the premier of the Soviet Union in the 1960s, said that the Soviet Union would win the Cold War against the United States without firing a single shot. Of course, he would be proven wrong but he gave away how totalitarian governments come to be. What he meant was communism would eat at the foundation of our democracy from within. If one reads the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this is no secret. Unenlightened ideas and misinformation are the enemies of our government. That is why President Trump calling the mainstream media “enemies of the people” is not exactly incorrect. Lies, identity politics, intersectionality, suppression of speech, the wiping out of our history and the indoctrination to leftist idea within our schools are the rot that is damaging the foundation of our democratic republic. It will slowly transform the United States into a leftist “utopia”. But their “utopia” involves the elite taking and holding power at any cost. The citizens are only commodities for holding that power.

Tucker was right. Omar, Talib and Ocasio-Cotez are a “hustle”. They are a small minority and are really dumb, but they are loud, extreme, young and vicious. Their ideas are poison for our country and any reasonable person, which makes up the vast majority of the country, knows it.

The problem we have is that the younger generations are leaning to the totalitarian concepts that are being pushed. The schools teach it, the media confirms it and the entertainment industry makes it an emotional cause. Judaeo Christian values and religion are being demonized and attacked. Schools are indoctrinating children, as young as preschool age, to leftist concepts instead of teaching math, science and how to reason. History is being rewritten. Laws are being ignored. The Constitution is being dismissed because it was written by racist, white men who only tried to create an unjust patriarchy.

Though this trash that is being pushed is still considered fringe, it is making its way to the mainstream. Look at the democratic debates with the 482 candidates. These “mainstream” candidates are embracing far left, nation-changing concepts. Even the candidates that are considered moderate are beginning to promote these concepts because they know they cannot win the primary if they do not.

Like in the 50’s and 60’s, we need to be aware of this attack. Though Joseph MacCarthy was insane, he was not wrong when exclaiming that there is a Red Scare. The poison we are fighting today was already there sixty years ago in our media and entertainment industry. The Red Scare, for those who do not know, was a movement led by Joseph McCarthy. Its purpose was to weed out and ruin all communist sympathizers in the country. And it did. But it also ruined a lot of people that were innocent or just did not believe in democracy or capitalism. It was much like the attack on free speech that we are experiencing today from the left. It was not a good time in our history.

We do not have to violate the Constitutional rights of people as McCarthy did. We just have to know what is happening and bravely point it out. I see bravely because one wrong word can cost one his job or get him beaten up in the streets. That is what Tucker did. He knew he would be called lots of names and there were going to be calls to shut Fox News down. He said it was going to happen. But he was right. If he were wrong, leftists would not have called him a racist, xenophobe and white supremacist.

We all need to learn from that.

 

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