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Unleashing the Power of Mockery on Annoying Social Justice Warriors
Townhall.com ^ | September 21, 2017 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 09/21/2017 5:30:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

In a culture where humorless leftists scolds seek to impose their rule upon us normals by sucking every drop of joy out of life, it is the conservative smartass who is the true subversive. Don’t look to Hollywood’s allegedly edgy comics to zing the zeitgeist – hacky proggy stand-ups and interchangeable liberal late-night hosts are the opposite of rebels, with their dreadfully generic opinions and lockstep jokes designed to get the herd of trained seals that makes up their fish-breathed audience beating their flippers. No, if you want someone who snarks truth to power instead of speaking consensus coastal truth to the powerless, you gotta step to the right.

And Lisa de Pasquale is one of these conserva-revolutionaries, a young woman who is in equal parts funny and fearless. She has a new book dropping, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, and it does exactly what today’s embattled conservatives need to do – it goes full bull in the progressive china shop.

Lisa is a friend, and her publisher also published my book Conservative Insurgency, so feel free to exercise your natural and proper suspicion that this is mere logrolling and check out the preview before you fork over your money. As I teach my kids, trust no one (This is a family theme – Judge Mom's advice to me after she swore me into the California Bar was “Everybody lies.”). Felonia von Pantsuit might think the central message of 1984 was “Mindlessly obey the ruling caste,” but the undeniable fact is that our institutions have failed us, and no one presuming to speak from authority deserves your unthinking, reflexive trust. Sarcasm and cynicism are not merely appropriate responses to decades of lies and failure by those posing as our betters; they are torches we can now use to burn down the whole rotten edifice of progressive cultural tyranny.

Lisa is all about the arson. With The SJW Handbook, she turns her flamethrower on that most annoying manifestation of liberalism's intellectual bankruptcy and infatuation with tyranny, the Social Justice Warrior. Lisa sums up their twisted world-view thusly: “Every day we see people driving their cars, going to their jobs, spending time with their friends and families. They are oblivious to how they contribute to the problems in America.”

You need to understand that SJWs are the leads in a giant personal psychodrama they want to suck us all into. But they aren’t traditional heroes – they’re far too goofy. Think of SJWs as the nerds in Revenge of the Nerds, except these nerds aren’t sympathetic fringies. They’re malignant manipulators who act like the jocks and want to make the rest of us as miserably friendless and loveless as they are. Instead of giving their victims wedgies, the babbling bullies of the left want to whine us into submission.

These suburban-born aspiring Red Guards aim to lead their own Cultural Revolution from safe havens within academia and deep in the fetid bowels of the internet, but they'd just be yet another group of hapless leftist losers except that they discovered how to exploit a key vulnerability. They learned they can rely upon the dedication to reason and essential decency of normal people to protect them from what should be the painful consequences of their actions. SJWs succeed for one reason, and one reason only – too few people simply burst into laughter when these mayo-loving white people with dreads and daddy issues announce that today they identify as black, or that prominent Jewish conservatives are “Nazis,” or that some women have penises.

SJWs deserve nothing but contempt and the merciless ridicule that goes with it. Yet, sadly, we Americans are usually reflexively too polite to deliver the verbal beatdowns these dorks deserve. Because we are genuinely nice people, we generally assume that other people are acting in good faith even when what they are saying is manifestly idiotic. We tend to think, “Hmmmm, that sounds really insane, but I should give this person the benefit of the doubt and react in a polite manner when she bursts into tears because, she says, my not accepting that men can menstruate is a hate crime.”

What we should think, and say, is “You’re stupid, so stop talking and finish filling my latte order, weirdo.”

SJWs prey on that default presumption of good faith, knowing that normals will assume SJWs sincerely mean whatever idiocy they spew. But the truth is that all this nonsense about microaggressions and such is just a way to impose their fussy control over us. The remedy, as these Millennial morons might say, is for us normals to “get woke” to the SJW okie-doke, and to recognize that their whole deal is to silence us by socially criminalizing anything we say, do, and believe.

Lisa is having none of their nonsense. A long-time veteran of the conservative movement (for years she organized and ran CPAC, the Woodstock for people who yearn to see Mike Pence up close or watch Ted Cruz do an acoustic set), Lisa gets it. But she also gets life – her book Finding Mr. Righteous was an eye-opening and, at times, agonizingly honest look at a young woman's journey in modern America, specifically the conservative world. She knows how to write about people with a particular identity without making it about that identity, so she's the perfect choice to go after nimrods who are nothing but their chosen identity.

And Lisa gets medieval on them.

The SJW Handbook is just that, a faux guide to how to be a crying, bitter baby demanding that mommy and daddy submit to his, her or xir's increasingly ridiculous commands. And by writing it, Lisa provides a template for us to do what we all need to do all the time – see through their lies and strip them of their power by ruthlessly mocking these proto-fascist geebos until they flee back to their safe spaces.

As Lisa writes, “If you’re new to fighting, your best option is the sucker punch.” The SJWs have brilliantly provoked a battle within the Octagon, except the only weapon allowed is the one they excel at using, whiny words (They would so not dig a real fight on us normals’ terms). Sure, they sometimes throw on masks, gather into groups, and start some actual violence, but that only happens on the rare occasions where they vastly outnumber their opponents and the cops are ordered to retreat. When there’s push-back, they fold. It’s all a pose; they aren’t really about violence beyond trying to score with woke sophomorettes by wearing shirts memorializing Cuban butchers. The SJW’s weapons are words, and they depend on our default courtesy to make us respectfully listen to whatever stupid thing they have to say.

That needs to stop. Lisa’s book is a welcome diss track that should motivate us all to provide the proper response to these campus communists and academic anarchists the next time they start flapping their quinoa holes: “Hey jerks, I got your revolution right here.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: radicals; sjw; socialism; theleft
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To: Kaslin

the TV show “Portlandia” seems to be doing this pretty well. So much to mock, so little time...


21 posted on 09/21/2017 7:44:47 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: Kaslin

I love this guy.

L


22 posted on 09/21/2017 7:45:29 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

BTT


23 posted on 09/21/2017 7:55:20 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Kaslin

Macro - ridicule and unrelenting smashing is the order of the day . If you value civil society and freedom , that is your only choice .


24 posted on 09/21/2017 9:44:05 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Mockery is the highest form of flattery.

Or something like that.

25 posted on 09/21/2017 10:51:25 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

Mockery...
Win FRiends and Influence people!


26 posted on 09/21/2017 11:07:05 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: bagster

“They have no idea what real oppression is.”

I met a women who escaped from Cuba after Castro. She had an interesting perspective on what is going on in this country today, which pretty much mirrored my own.

As the Revolution started the people just sorta sat there and thought no big deal. Batista was no saint and a crapitalist (My words, not hers for crony capitalist.) so the lobsters in the pot were getting warm and comfy.

They thought no way will this lunatic take over, next they know they are in a civil war.

She sees history repeating itself with us right now. Obama was Batista (communist warming the pot) and now the left is hard core and she feel we inevitably, eventually we will end up in a civil war.

I’m not sure she is wrong. She may be spot on.

“They are ignorant and weak. We are strong and capable”

That doesn’t mean they won’t win. It’s not just the Sheeple, it’s the power hungry herders (i.e. ruling elite) and their minions (the MSM) we have to fight against.


27 posted on 09/21/2017 3:40:11 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2
Wow Lizma. Thanks for taking the time to share that.

She sees history repeating itself with us right now. Obama was Batista (communist warming the pot) and now the left is hard core and she feel we inevitably, eventually we will end up in a civil war.

Because we on our side our civilized, we sometimes believe that the ugly things that have happened in history cannot happen again. Not here. Not now. We are too sophisticated for that. Too reasonable.

I used to live that comfortable way of thinking. And for many decades in America, that has been true. But humans do not change. People are still motivated by basic desires and needs and have the same pettiness.

Looking around, I've come to realize that there is a large segment of our population, with more coming, that does not have the learned way of thinking that Americans have always had. It took hundreds of years for Americans to become fully American. Then we stopped teaching basic Americanism to our children. We began importing legions who have never even HEARD what it was to be an American.

We see the results on our streets, in our schools, and in our halls of represention.

I think your woman friend is right. We are heading for huge conflict one way or another. And pur weakness has allowed it to happen, in fact even encouraged it. I see this all happening around me and feel helpless to stop it. No one man can stop psycho-history, as Harry Seldon would put it.

It does give me comfort to realize that there are others who see it too, so well met my friend. Again, thank you for taking the time to respond in such a well written manner.

28 posted on 09/21/2017 7:05:43 PM PDT by bagster
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To: bagster
She got to me. Stunned me a bit. A firm reminder that history repeats itself.

I don't think it's weakness, I think it's a sense of trust. An assumption that I would do the right and moral choice so will the other people I meet and deal with. My friends and I are finding the older we get the more that "sense" lets us down.

Now weakness of the elected Repubs, absolutely!

My grandfather's family were peasant farmers in Russia/Ukraine. They went through the Bolshevik Revolution. While screaming "For the People! For the children!" The Bolsheviks took all their food and livestock including my Grandpa's white stallion he helped birth and raised. (50 years later he was still p.o.ed!)

Grew up on Grandpa's knee learning about the horrors of big governments annnd how big unions have been corrupted. (He was a steel mill worker, who saw the union people push away from productivity to laziness.) He would tell me about how the American Steel industry was doomed to fail. He was right. He shaped much of my political views.

Then I discovered "Firing Line" cuz I liked Buckley's accent! I was 10. (My dad thought I was weirdest middle schooler on the planet but secretly loved it.) That and Grandpa sealed my political fate! LOL .

29 posted on 09/22/2017 4:06:28 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2
Some people come to this country from oppressive, backward cultures. Some of them appreciate the freedom from oppression that exists in their new country, America. Some people, like certain Mexicans and Moslems I could name, don't, and seek to recreate the culture from whence they came.

I'm glad that you're people are of the former type, Lizma. It makes me happy and proud when people understand and accept what America is all about.

Its also good that you skipped the early hippie phase that some of us go through on the way to clarity.

Don't be too hard on ol' Gramps. I'm still pissed off about a painting my ex-wife snatched.

30 posted on 09/22/2017 4:18:39 PM PDT by bagster
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31 posted on 09/22/2017 4:19:09 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: lizma2
I don't think it's weakness, I think it's a sense of trust.

It's human nature to assume other people think the same as we do. Trusting others to behave and react as we would. We often times mistake that as trust.

It has to be learned to not think that way. Experience can sometimes teach us this, but not always. I do consider this a form of weakness, or call it naivete if you like. Either way, it is a failing and can cause harm to be done to you.

32 posted on 09/22/2017 4:26:33 PM PDT by bagster
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