Modern “progressive”: I believe in free speech, too. But only if you agree with everything I say. Otherwise, you will be silenced. One way or the other you will be silenced.
Exhibit #1:
Posted on 05/16/2024 9:35:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It’s a standing joke in my family that I love Keanu Reeves. It started in my 30s when I loved how he looked, but over the years, it’s morphed into respect for a man who works in a filthy industry but seems to have retained a strong moral compass and avoids all of Hollywood’s worst trends. It says something about the man that the Hamas lovers have come after him.
One of the hallmarks of totalitarians is “hit lists.” Indeed, if you’re at all familiar with Giovannino Guareschi’s delightful Don Camillo books from the 1950s, which describe a small Italian village divided between communists and Catholics, you know that one of the stories describes how the communist mayor, Peppone, tries to protect Father Don Camillo, who’s been put on a list when a rumor goes around that the Communists have won the national elections. Because this is Guareschi, the story is both amusing and imbued with a deep humanism, but the underlying point is the same: leftists make kill lists.
When I was in Vietnam, in Hue, which was the heart of where the Tet Offensive was fought, our guide told us that once the Americans pulled out, the Viet Cong took their list and began the slaughter. An older man, it was clear from how he spoke that he remembered those days.
That’s why it shouldn’t be any surprise that the Hamas folks have been making lists. A list emerged last week on which people could get answers to whether “your fav author [is] a zionist.” The list is color-coded, telling people whether the person is “Pro-Israel/Zionist,” trying to remain balanced, silent on the subject, “It’s complicated,” or “Pro-Palestine/Anti-Zionist.” The list includes dead writers as well as the living.
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You can bet that the FBI is too busy arresting concerned parents to look into this.
I need the authors that are being targeted so that I can select my summer reading. Take the list and make them all best sellers. Or better yet buy 10 books off the list and donate them to your public library ( that bastion of diversity of thought /s).
Keanu Reeves should be at the very end of the list of people the faggoty Hamas idiots go after. He’ll kill them dead. He is no joke.
No surprise
It is what the left does
Jihadis are an overly-sensitive lot, aren’t they?
Their beef with Reeves is that he once got training from a former IDF guy. What is he supposed to do, un-learn?
The list was posted on Reddit. I clicked on the link and the account has already been suspended.
Modern “progressive”: I believe in free speech, too. But only if you agree with everything I say. Otherwise, you will be silenced. One way or the other you will be silenced.
Exhibit #1:
Especially if they killed his dog first
isn’t there a saying that goes “The pencil is mightier than the sword”?
“seems to have retained a strong moral compass and avoids all of Hollywood’s worst trends.”
He seems to have learned quite a bit from watching his best friend(River Phoenix) die from an overdose right in front of him.
Close:
“the PEN is mightier than the sword”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839.
I think the complete quote is: "In the hand of the Baba Yaga, the pencil is mightier than the sword."
That’s hollywood fiction, but when I was in 5th grade, I witnessed a cow-like female try to stab an elderly teacher with a pencil. Fortunately, the attack failed and the female was never seen again (reform school, no doubt).
Social jihad
You can bet that the FBI is too busy arresting concerned parents to look into this.
I suspect the FEEBS are actively assisting in locating the targets.
dang! MUST I mark every veiled sarcastic remark AS sarcasm? John wick used a pencil because he DIDN’T HAVE A SWORD! or a pen.
I remember reading some pulp fiction novel back in the early 80s, "Fighting Ninja of Death" or something. The hero dispatched a villain with a pencil held in his fist, between the two middle fingers. I've always wondered if the John Wick creators read the same book.
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