Posted on 07/24/2022 4:54:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Dan Bongino has a maxim: “Conservatives believe Leftists are basically good people with bad ideas. Leftists believe Conservatives are bad people with ideas.”
Looking at the culture war that we’re in the midst of through this lens is helpful to understanding how the Left has achieved its position of tyranny over our society. Their catastrophic decisions, along with our complicity through inaction, or at best ineffective action, are ruining our economy and institutions while undermining our freedoms at a breathtaking speed. In the time it takes for us to finally recognize one of the train wrecks for what it is and begin to act, they have moved on and planted the seeds for ten more. Why? How can we get much better at recognizing the enemy for what it is and the enemy’s tactics for what they are? It is to be expected that the enemy is working against you. That’s why they’re called the enemy! But why do so many conservatives fail to see? Why do so many say they hate socialism and communism, yet step into its booby-traps over and over again?
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a classic example of this. It is an ideology -- basically, a religion -- that teaches divisiveness; it teaches people to hate each other based on their skin color, their economic status, their employment status, their 'anything' status.
It does this through three fundamental tenets:
1. White privilege, or the idea that merely being white affords privileges and is therefore racist.
2. unconscious bias, which is a bias or prejudice that is present but not consciously held or recognized, but still makes you a racist, and
3. systemic (also called structural) racism, which includes “the oppressive racist realities that have been institutionalized and manifest in all of society’s parts
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I don’t think that the leftist tyrants have good intentions at all. I think that the left uses claims of good intentions to deceive people and to justify harmful, even evil acts.
Agreed and I think the people who the left deceive are also bad because they do not have the mental faculties to act good by being able to discern what is good or bad. Yes, that means I believe a person who is mentally defective is essentially bad.
I’ll pile on in agreement.
It’s old thinking that the Left is basically good. They are not. I’m not at all sure that they ever were — but that’s not the main point. The Democrat politicians today are evil people, many of their followers are also evil, and the rest of the followers are stupid. I cut them no slack at all.
Of course, much the same can be said for RINOs. It is, after all, a Uniparty.
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Leftists follow Satan and his model, so no, not good people.
Attacking “whiteness” is just another way to strike at Christendom, whatever is left of it. That is why African-Americans, like Clarence Thomas, who support traditional values are labeled “white.”
Rhetorically speaking, the second half of Bongino’s maxim sounds clunky; I believe it should be “Leftists believe Conservatives are bad people.”
[[“Conservatives believe Leftists are basically good people with bad ideas]]
No we don’t! Not,the conservatives that I know. Much of what the left stands for is evil, and their agenda is often about tearing the good things in life down just to benefit those who live their lives In open blatant rebellion to God. Most liberals are unregenerated people who serve the prince of this world either consciously or without actually doing so outright. There are also a lot of religious fakes who have distorted the word of God so badly that it’s not even recognizable anymore. They create a God in their own image in order to be “seen as ,religious” yet not have to give up their abominations.
Talk with liberals long enouhg, and you will often see the deep seated anger for,the things of God come out in them, while they scream and rant about how oppressive the right and Gods people are.
Their hearts are desperately wicked, despite claiming to,be religious.
Not all liberals are demon driven, some are just duped. Some are confused, some just don’t know any better. But most are not good,people by any stretch of the imagination.
Good intentions? No, this is totally by design.
1. "White privilege" is confused with the privilege that comes from being civilized and behaving in moderately socially acceptable ways. There are plenty of "white" people who aren't the least bit privileged and rightfully so. And there are plenty of people of all races and colors who are privileged in America, for example, because they are exemplars of our values.
2. Unconscious bias, "which is a bias or prejudice that is present but not consciously held or recognized." This is real and as old as humanity. There is not a man or woman alive who is not biased against another person, consciously and unconsciously, who is deemed different and therefore potentially dangerous. Once the sense of danger is replaced with familiarity and a sense of safety, the bias goes away.
3. Systemic (also called structural) racism? See above. Cultural systems incorporate "privilege" due to acceptable behavior and "bias" due to the sense that "alien" behavior means danger.
What proponents of CRT have done is recast natural human behavior as bad and then sell that idea by telling some people they are being victimized unjustly.
Now who do we know that preaches the creation of a class of "victims" to spread their ideology?
I think Leftists think conservatives are "stupid" people...the same way that high school kids think their parents and adults, in general, are stupid.
The Left is engineering a Global Famine. They good intention is to save the planet.
Hundreds of millions of Poor people across the planet will starve to death. Is that accidental or on purpose? It doesn’t matter.
This! Yes. You have perfectly captured the fundamental flaws of CRT.
The real danger of it is, it’s partially grounded in truth. Weak minded people are easily directed to the wrong conclusions.
Good point. I pray for Biden’s salvation but I no longer believe that he is simply misguided. He is as evil a man who ever lived and much like someone who is addicted drugs, he is addicted to power. He makes a free choice to select such a selfish course of action. Strangely, he sleeps at night while the people he governs are helplessly perishing. He turns away as if in a senile stupor or as if his hearing is bad. While both are probably true, he knows quite well what he is doing. He has been a power hungry but simpleminded man his whole life. He is now so firmly tied to evil that he has given himself to be used by satan in any way that satan chooses.
Every lie contains a kernal of truth.
One simple way is for let crime to get out of control and then in the full effort to solve the problem they take away the rights of law abiding citizens.
That’s what this whole crime spree gun control thing is about.
You the free person is the target.
The criminal is being used against you by those in power.
See Tagline.
“In a way, the concepts of “white privilege,” “unconscious bias,” and “systemic racism” are grounded in reality...just not quite the same way as suggested by the proponents of Critical Race Theory.
What proponents of CRT have done is recast natural human behavior as bad and then sell that idea by telling some people they are being victimized unjustly.”
And what is that “natural human behavior” and how is it justified?
It is prejudice based on reality (as most prejudices are).
Pre-judging people or animals is simply a defense mechanism based on past experience.
If I’m out walking in the savanna and spot a lion, I’ll steer as far away as I can, even though THAT particular lion may not have bad intentions. I know enough about lions that on AVERAGE they can be dangerous to my health, So in self defense I prejudge any lion, lacking any further info about that particular lion, to behave like an average lion, who typically would want to eat me.
No one would accuse me of being cruel and mean to lions by pre-judging them in that way, ie, being prejudiced against them. 99% of the people would have the same prejudice.
And so it is with the relationship between blacks and whites.
It is a fact, supported by reality all over the world over most of history, that for whatever reason, blacks on AVERAGE are not as “smart” as whites (Bell Curve?). And so it is not at all surprising, nor cruel that whites (and blacks too) tend to judge an “unknown” black to be more like the average black, lower on the intelligent scale and also more prone to violence.
So lacking any further knowledge you steer clear of them, and for good reason. Why take a chance if you don’t have to?
Of course the other side would quickly object. There are a lot of smart and non-violent blacks, how is such pre-judging fair to them?
And how should a pre-judger answer such an objection?
We are deep into CWII right now. What you see happening is how modern warfare is fought.
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