Posted on 03/27/2021 4:12:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Our Chinese friends are eating our lunch, and we seem to constantly be looking for ways to make it easier for them to do so.
The flagellants are practitioners of an extreme form of mortification of their own flesh by whipping it with various instruments. It was most notably a fourteenth-century movement within the Catholic Church. It served as a sort of self-inflicted penance for the practitioners-penance for sins actual and imagined.
There is a Chinese word, baizou (pronounced "bye-tsaw"), which refers insultingly to educated western people who advocate for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feelings of moral superiority. They condemn their nation's past behaviors and promote tearing down statues of their historical heroes. They advocate for minorities, illegal immigration, LGBTQ, and the environment. They are obsessed with political correctness and have no tolerance for dissenting views. Does that sound like anyone you know? It would seem an accurate translation of "baizou" would be "liberal-progressive."
The Chinese have nothing but contempt for this type of behavior and ideology. While they are undeniably heavy-handed regarding most issues, the Chinese government has its head screwed on straight regarding any of this behavior. Whether by edict or inherent national pride, it simply does not exist within their borders.
Meanwhile, the United States has officially adopted this self-loathing by electing the Biden-Harris ticket. Every day's headlines bring us more examples of our baizou government's policies, be it inviting illegals to flood our southern border or placing an individual in a cabinet position with little to recommend him (her?) other than transgenderism. While it is unlikely that Biden has a whipping belt in his closet or sleeps on the floor of his White House quarters, he has nonetheless signed on to the left's negative obsessions with our nation's past.
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Zuo not zou.
A brief flyover comment... no offense intended... but it’s begging to be said:
If you’re familiar with George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” think of Professor Lasky (“ducks and drakes” — ring a bell?), then read the following sentence...
“The flagellants are practitioners of an extreme form of mortification of their own flesh by whipping it with various instruments.”
Lasky, right?
Not being,
The U.S. HAS NOT adopted the self-loathing Woke Culture and it DID NOT elect the Biden-Harris administration.
Both are being forced upon us by those in our midst who are trying their best to ram socialism/communism/Marxism down our throats.
Though socialism/communism was most certainly encouraged by China via its influence in our colleges and universities, China is surely not the only force behind it. There is also a strong European component in the American socialist/communist movement, visible in the popularity of Bernie Sanders.
Most recently, we have surprisingly seen China separate itself from the European socialist/communist influencers in the U.S. by using the silliness of the Wokeism movement to humiliate and demean the U.S. to China's advantage--case in point, the Alaska meeting between SOS Blinken and his Chinese counterparts in which the word "baizou" was introduced into our lexicon.
Or choosing a transportation sec because he's gay and likes airports. Zero qualifications.
The Chinese own Biden; he’s their puppet.
We now live in the People’s Republic of Wokeistan. I, for one, intend to get my country back.
“Morality” has no meaning without God.
Right and wrong become meaningless without an absolute authority as to what they are (God)
Otherwise, it’s all relative and a matter of current fashion, and who has the Power of force at the moment.
In such a world, “Right” and “wrong” and “morality” will ever be shifting sands.
To not have God, is to perish ignorant.
Coining a new term.
It’s official:
President “bye-tsaw”.
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