Posted on 04/02/2015 7:13:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
Like most people, I like pizza. I also like bacon on my pizza sometimes.
My old neighborhood in Baltimore had five pizza places in fairly close proximity, but one was better than the others, both in price and taste. So, after a night of adult beverages with friends, we’d inevitably end up in one of them, generally the one most convenient to where we were. Sometimes that was the one with the better pizza.
One time we were in there and my friends and I were in a “pizza with bacon” mood, but there was a problem: This place didn’t have bacon as a topping option.
They hadn’t sold out … that wasn’t the issue. The issue was they didn’t offer bacon at all. The place is owned by people who are Muslim, and they don’t offer pork in any form. Their pepperoni is beef, as is their sausage. They didn’t even offer turkey bacon.
We immediately rallied our friends, wrote up protest signs, called the mayor and media, screamed slogans about how my right to the pizza we wanted the way we wanted was being trampled, and filed suit against the place with the help of the ACLU.
Of course we did nothing of the sort. We ordered one with other toppings, and the next time we were out and had a hankering for pizza with bacon, we went to one of the other places.
It’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s close to what should happen when a gay couple walks into a florist, bakery or whatever owned by a devoutly religious person whose beliefs don’t permit them to provide a service for a gay wedding.
Normal people, gay or straight, would hear the objection, probably would be upset, and would leave thinking, “Glad we found that out now because I don’t want to give my money to someone who doesn’t want to serve me.” But we aren’t dealing with normal people here; we’re dealing with activists.
Activists on the progressive left have no decency; they have only an agenda. If they have to trample the rights of others, particularly Christians, all the better.
It would be one thing if there were only one place from which to get a cake or flowers, but there are dozens. That doesn’t matter to activist progressives – that ANY exist that do not conform to their will is too many. So we end up where we are today.
The state of Indiana is under attack from progressives not because of its Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but because the governor is a Republican considering a run for president. If it were the principle, this uninformed army would be protesting in every state with a RFRA and non-stop in Washington demanding the federal version be repealed. They aren’t, and that’s not by accident.
Selective outrage, generally fake and drummed up with the help of ignorant and willing participants in the media, is the hallmark of the left.
You can have binders full of women’s resumes and be mocked as a monster and a misogynist. Or, if you’re part of the progressive tribe, you can drop your pants and demand favors, get those favors from an intern, or rape a woman and it’s all good.
To hell with that!
Rationalizing with the left is like negotiating with terrorists. You can’t do it. They both have the same objective – your destruction. It’s about time conservatives start treating them the way they treat everyone else.
It’s all or nothing with ISIS, Al Qaeda and the progressive left; stray from their orthodoxy and you have to be destroyed. Time to return the favor.
Don’t waste your time arguing with them. You’ll find more logical consistency and honesty in an old shoe than you will an activist progressive. But the mindless minions, those who sign petitions and think they’re saving the world or post the dumb memes on Facebook about evil Republicans … they are getable.
No, you won’t be able to educate them to come around to logic – if 18+ years of life hasn’t instilled them with common sense, it simply isn’t getting into their heads. But they are Pavlovian in their reactions, and that you can use.
Comedy Central announced its choice to replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show – a guy named Trevor Noah. No one knew who he was when it was announced, but he’s supposedly some sort of comedian. More than that, though, he’s someone with a long track record of posting racist, sexist, anti-Semitic “jokes” online.
This isn’t just Fox News talking. It’s leftists. It’s Slate. It’s The Washington Post. It’s almost every progressive outlet. He’s made “fat chick” jokes. He’s made “racially insensitive” jokes. He’s made a lot of anti-Jewish jokes. Comedians, even unfunny ones like Noah, used to be able to do that, but not anymore.
The progressive hyper-sensitive mass of ignoramuses conditioned to take offense at a shift in the breeze can’t turn it off. Pavlov’s dogs never got past the sound of a bell, and these monsters can’t let perceived slights slide even when their masters want them to. Exploit that. Exploit the hell out of it.
These progressive zombies have protested speakers on college campuses who agree with them because they didn’t agree with them strongly enough or on every single point. They are ready to be outraged at things. Many of them seem to need the outrage.
Find stories about Mr. Noah. Post them on your and your progressive friends’ Facebook pages. Tweet them. Retweet them. Comment on them. Keep that fire burning in them. Call for Noah’s firing.
Noah may be a nice man (you’d think he’d have to have something going for him because “funny” ain’t it), but he’s a progressive, and progressives will eat their own if they aren’t pure enough. And, most importantly, the politics of absolutism and personal destruction for anyone who strays from the thought plantation and breaks from progressive orthodoxy is the left’s monster – turn it on them.
And engage in it yourselves. Demand Comedy Central fire Trevor Noah. I know it’s not our nature, but our nature isn’t winning the war.
These are the liberal progressives’ rules, and they’ve been goose-stepping to them against conservatives unchallenged for too long. Make them live by them too.
Progressive love to impose their will on the American people, but rarely do they live by those rules. Al Gore lectures on the problems with your carbon footprint, then hops on his private jet to fly to his enormous mansion. Noah isn’t Gore, but you have to start somewhere. And start we must if we’re ever going to get the fascism to stop.
That’ll be the day.
They live by the concept: Do as I say, not as I do.
Excellent analogy. I would never walk into a business and expect a Muslim to serve me bacon, or a Jew to serve me a cheeseburger, if doing so would violate their religious beliefs.
We have a Muslim owned pizza joint in the neighborhood. They make an excellent pizza. The sausage and pepperoni are of course beef products. The establishment had been neighborhood deli, and when the current owners purchased it, the first thing they did was surrender the liquor license. They are great neighbors.
I don't get it.
Don't expect a progressive to use common sense, because they don't have any
[ ...or a Jew to serve me a cheeseburger...
I don’t get it. ]
An orthodox Jew cannot mix meat and cheese in the same dish.
The laws were made to harass Christians, not headchoppers.
So they should orchestrate a campaign to have every baker in Colorado produce a cake with scripture condemning homosexuality.
Those that refuse should be sued. Those that do produce a cake should be checked for foreign substances.
The Daily Show is not a show in need of a new host- The Daily show WAS JON STEWART (Liebowitz)
Replace him and there is no show. It will be worse than the original cast of SNL leaving.
John Stewart was a flaming libtard, but he was funny at it. You often wondered how he could be so blind as to the idiocies of liberalism, but at least you got a laugh when he was insulting your intelligence.
This new guy has disaster already written all over him. The “hands up don’t shoot” meme didn’t even go over well on TV (judging by the groans).
The discussion would be better if the subject was closer to the real topic. The “Gay Bakery” debate is not that a bakery does not make cakes, but gays demand they do. The argument is that the bakery makes cakes for everyone except gays, and the gays want the cakes that the baker makes for everyone else.
Different argument.
No one will be more outraged and surprised than the Left when they are obliged to live - and preferably die - by their own rules of engagement. By foreclosing all of the civilized avenues of discussion and debate, they have left us only one way to stop them.
This is very similar to Nazi Germany. Very few Germans were Nazi’s, but those few people were able to convince a lot of other people that jews were bad and should be shunned, vilified, expelled, put of business. No one said anything, no one came to their defense, for various reasons. Apathy, fear, didn’t want the Nazi’s to come after them and put them out of business, etc. Nazi’s continued to force people, through intimidation, to stay out of what they were doing.
Did I miss anything?
Maybe some brave KKK members can try to get a black owned business to cater one of their rallys.
I didn't get it because my wife is Jewish and would crawl over broken glass for one of my homemade cheeseburgers. She also loves my BBQ ribs...so, what the heck do I know?
The issue is not religion. It is PROPERTY RIGHTS; private property ownership and business ownership. The free market is there to provide options. Don’t like it if you are not served, for whatever reason, go elsewhere. The other business you choose will be happy.
Under a genuine free market, business and property owners may run their business as they wish and property rights are protected.
This is a good article and thank you for posting.
What the author is sugggesting is that the same alinskyite tactics that have been used by the left be turned and used against them. Afterall the left is now the establishment.
I like. Goose. Gander. Sauce.
You are welcome and you are correct
You are very welcome
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