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If You Haven’t Yet Read 1984, Do It Now While You Still Can
Michelle Obama's Mirror ^ | 3-10-2016 | MOTUS

Posted on 03/10/2016 7:42:15 AM PST by NOBO2012

Political Correctness has jumped the shark; it has officially turned into brainwashing:

Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained documents from the United States Department of the Army revealing that in April 2015, 400 soldiers in the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia, were subjected to a “white privilege” briefing, including a PowerPoint presentation instructing the attendees: “Our society attaches privilege to being white and male and heterosexual …”

soldier-praying

Previously reported in passing, only one slide from the “unsanctioned” presentation had been released. Thanks once again to Judicial Watch, their FOIA request obtained the entire PowerPoint presentation which included indoctrination power points such as:

“Our society attaches privilege to being white and male and heterosexual …”

Screen Capture #156“Say what!??”

“Race privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans.”

barack-obama-michelle-obama-sxsw-2016-000You only wish that was true.

“The trouble we’re in can’t be solved unless the “privileged” make the problem of privilege their problem and do something about it.”

12-donald-trump-ted-cruz.w529.h352I think that’s what a lot of people will have in mind next November.

If you haven’t yet read 1984, do it now while you still can.

maybe obama misunderstood 1984

Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; obama; tedcruz; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 03/10/2016 7:42:15 AM PST by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

The inverse of “white privilege” is universal victimhood.


2 posted on 03/10/2016 7:44:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: All

Another “must” read: “Anthem” by Ayn Rand....


3 posted on 03/10/2016 7:45:48 AM PST by JBW1949
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To: NOBO2012

One of the more prophetic things to me in 1984 is the accuracy of the effect of that kind of society on women.


4 posted on 03/10/2016 7:47:21 AM PST by strings6459
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To: JBW1949

I am SICK AND TIRED of being blamed for everything that is wrong in the world, just because I’m white, work hard, earn a good living and have more than others.


5 posted on 03/10/2016 7:50:49 AM PST by southernindymom
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To: NOBO2012

Orwell will not be banned under the leftists. The problem is, they think it’s a manual rather than a warning.


6 posted on 03/10/2016 7:54:06 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: southernindymom
I’m white, work hard, earn a good living and have more than others.

That's exactly why you're so hated by those on the left.

7 posted on 03/10/2016 7:55:36 AM PST by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: southernindymom

Ridiculous, isn’t it???


8 posted on 03/10/2016 7:55:54 AM PST by JBW1949
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To: NOBO2012

I can’t say I’m sure what WHITE PRIVILEGE even means. We’re supposed to get with the program every time some imbecile comes up with a new term? Sure don’t know why the idiot obozo comes into office promising to be a president for ALL OF AMERICA and all of a sudden, WHITES are the enemy to everyone NOT WHITE!!! Odd how that happened! STUPID and RIDICULOUS!


9 posted on 03/10/2016 7:59:32 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
E. Pluribus Unum:" The inverse of “white privilege” is universal victimhood."

and the fact that you are "entitled" to financial restitution for issues that are 160 years old, or more than four generations ago.

10 posted on 03/10/2016 8:01:57 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: NOBO2012
The basic idea of "white privilege" and "microagressions" is that even if a white person is not racist, they really are racist.

With white privilege YOU are racist because of the actions of other people. Cops don't watch you as hard, etc. With microagressions, YOU are racist because of the sensitivities of other people. So if you let a black person speak first in a meeting, your racist because you are putting him on the spot of having to start things off but if you don;t let a black person speak first you are racist because it shows you secretly don't trust him to do it. It's all about whatever random feeling they decide to attach to it. In fairness, the whole sexual harassment thing that began in the 90s set the stage for this by making every male afraid in most interactions with women in the workplace because of how they might take something you say, innocent or not, and their ability to wreck your career on the basis of those feelings. This is just the logical extension of that.

Bottom line, we're all horrible people if we're white.

11 posted on 03/10/2016 8:05:35 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Politics: from the greek "poly" [many] and the english "ticks" [blood sucking parasites])
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To: NOBO2012
It's no secret that both George Orwell & H G Wells were both extremely prophetic.
One writes about altering historical facts to make the past conform to the ever-changing (politically correct) party line while the other write about Morlocks, ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night to prey on the (unarmed) Eloi.

12 posted on 03/10/2016 8:08:07 AM PST by Larry381 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: JBW1949

I read both books as a teenager. I liked “Anthem” but did not think it was possible. Now, about half of it has been incorporated.

When I finished “1984” the ending was so shattering (Room 101) that I didn’t really sleep that night.

I also was able to buy a radio dramatization (about 1956), CBS, of the novel. It was good.


13 posted on 03/10/2016 8:09:50 AM PST by odawg
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To: Thank You Rush

This campaign may be evil and malicious, but there is a pernicious outline and intent to all of it. It is a manifestation of dialectical materialism. That is one of the most important arrows in the quiver of the cultural marxists and the marxist community organizer in the white house, as they seek to destroy this constitutional republic.


14 posted on 03/10/2016 8:10:12 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: All

Intelligent people saw 1984 as a warning, Democrats saw it as a users’ manual.


15 posted on 03/10/2016 8:13:27 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: NOBO2012
I think 1984 was required reading for my U of IA comm skills course. I really got engrossed in it. Along with it I read Down and Out in London and Paris, something at the top of the world, and I skipped one about growing up in New Guinea, possibly by Margaret Mead.

Maybe I should read 1984 again, but I see how much of it has proven prophetic. I never cared to read Animal Farm or any other books where animals are personified.

16 posted on 03/10/2016 8:14:07 AM PST by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: Thank You Rush

Have you read Orwell’s 1984? If you have, surely you know that “WHITE PRIVILEGE” is Newspeak for disadvantages placed on non-elite whites.


17 posted on 03/10/2016 8:15:18 AM PST by Prolixus (Proud to be on Hillary's "Enemies List")
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To: pepsi_junkie

I’m white and I’m privileged.

I’m privileged because the leftists in the Federal gov’t are specifically targeting me for their welfare plantations and abortion mills.

Black male lives don’t matter.

I didn’t say that. The Federal government has been saying that for 3 generations.

Black men don’t need to work. Uncle Daddy will feed their children.

Black men don’t need to be fathers. Uncle Daddy will nurture their children.

Black men have no useful purpose except to kill each other or go to jail. Tell me that’s not the designed result of the welfare system.

White privilege? Oh my, yes! As a white male, I’m incredibly privileged not to be so directly targeted as black men are by this government.

Thank God.

1984? We’ve always been at war against white privilege. Sure, we have.


18 posted on 03/10/2016 8:17:10 AM PST by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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To: Larry381
Aldous Huxley was pretty sharp too.
19 posted on 03/10/2016 8:18:09 AM PST by Prolixus (Proud to be on Hillary's "Enemies List")
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To: NOBO2012

Just try and find the ORIGINAL 1984 book. The original book!


20 posted on 03/10/2016 8:34:31 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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