Posted on 11/18/2018 6:20:20 AM PST by Kaslin
Liberals love “virtue signaling,” the self-righteous act of letting everyone around them know they think they’re better than they are. When an old neighbor of mine found out what I did for a living, one of those “Hate Has No Home Here” signs suddenly popped up on their front lawn, for example. We never really spoke again, which was fine with me, so I didn’t find out what “hate” they thought had homes on the rest of the street. But I can imagine in their minds it was whatever kind of “hate” that was fashionable to be against at any given moment.
That is the mentality that leads Democrats to insist, loudly and often, that “it’s time the nation has a serious conversation” about whatever they’re claiming is the most important thing at that time.
Weirdly, they never actually have that conversation, on any topic. At least not with anyone who has a different perspective from them. MSNBC and CNN panels are constantly going off on race, gender, economics, everything, but they tend to result in a hallelujah chorus, with each person agreeing with the other, but taking it up a notch. “So and so is racist,” is followed by agreement and declaring someone or something else to be racist as well, and on it goes.
These are never serious discussions, nor are they debates. They’re the weaponization of emotional issues designed to manipulate people, usually to vote.
But there are some serious topics we should discuss, so let’s have at one, their favorite – racism.
The left has effectively weaponized that word for a couple of generations now. It’s worked for them. Racism is a horrible thing; no one wants to be called a racist. Not wanting to be called a racist hasn’t stopped Democrats from calling nearly everyone in the country one, at some point in the last few years.
If you opposed Barack Obama on anything, you were called a racist. There was no discussion of why you opposed him, or the issues on which you opposed him, they simply ascribed a motive to you and moved on.
The problem with calling everyone and everything racist is real racism, which still exists, gets ignored. When real racism is called out, that call is lost in the noise of the choir. People who need attention don’t get it because the people who want attention have sucked all the oxygen out of the room. In other words, liberals are hurting the people they claim to want to help.
Of course, they don’t really want to help anyone but themselves. Concern, as much as it exists, is for themselves and no one else.
But if we’re really going to have a serious conversation about race we should start with how little racism still exists. If we’re being honest, that is.
Democrats and the media preach that racism is everywhere, that our entire system of “built on racism,” that our country is “fundamentally racist.” This is a lie.
Racism certainly was prevalent in our country’s past, but we’ve mostly moved beyond it. So much so that the left has had to redefine what it is in order to maintain their weapon’s effectiveness. They created “microaggressions” and “bias incidences” to keep people afraid. And make no mistake, keeping people afraid is the goal.
How far have we come? As I write in my book, in 1920 there were 4 million members of the KKK, the granddaddy of all racist organizations. That was at a time when there were only 106 million people living in the country, almost 4 percent. Now, with a population approaching 330 million, the liberal’s own Southern Poverty Law Center estimates there are only between 5000 and 8000 of those pigs left. In 2016 the WNBA celebrated record attendance, averaging 7655 people per game. That means, if you take the average in the estimated range of klan members, 6500, there were more than a thousand people at any given game of the nation’s least popular professional sport than members of the KKK in the country.
That is amazing progress for any nation in 100 years, and should be a point of pride. Instead, it’s ignored and lied about. Every negative interaction between people of different races that can be pained as about race, is. Facts have no place in the discussion, it’s a straight emotional appeal. Emotion overrides logic.
I could go on, talk about the racist statements this week from Michelle Obama (which I covered in my podcast on Tuesday), MSNBC, or the entire liberal media and elected Democrats about the election results in Florida and Georgia, but what’s the point? Liberals don’t care and will do what they’ve always done – ignore it and lie.
It is long past time we had serious discussions in this country about a great many topics – race, gender, Social Security, and health care are but a few. And while the Democrats’ ability to manipulate so many people necessitates we take them seriously, it’s impossible to have a serious discussion with people who aren’t serious.
Liberalism is a lazy person’s way of pretending they care.
Very well said.
they are the masters of the defense of the indefensible.
‘logic” escapes them-
I had thought about putting out a sign that says, ‘Socialist Hate has no home here”.
The only “serious conversation about race” would be for white folks to admit they hate and suck and should be marginalized, if not killed.
we cant have a serious coversation until we can agree on what the definition of is is - the progessive’s snarky abuse of language guarantees no progress except in draining you of your energy.
The left has been successful at strangling our language to the point where “disagreement” really means “hate.” I have called a few liberals out in this nonsense in recent years, but I know I haven’t put a dent in it. Of course, the fact that I’ve pointed out the stupidity of it makes me a “hater.”
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
George Washington Carver.
It took me 15 minutes to find this quote. Used to be the first one to pop up.
Progressives (leftists/liberals/socialists/communists/Democrats) cannot allow real conversations — those may include truths, data, history and/or logic that falsify their claims.
They are NOT to be disagreed with.
And they are NOT to lose elections.
Proggies are adult children, stuck in perpetual adolescence. They hold utopian, unrealistic, immature ideals. They hiss at adults that dare correct their illusions and errant behaviors. They throw tantrums when facing unwanted truth. Their humor is 8th grade bathroom material.
President Trump is a strong, smart amd masculine father figure, a true alpha male. So many proggies are single mommie victims, totally unfamiliar with real men during childhood, that one like Trump is otally alien to them. They spit at him, but I bet they secretly wish they had a dad like him. He creates widespread cognizant dissonance.
you cant converse seriously with delusional people who live in a fantasy world of global warming, homosexuality, disarmament, abortion, etc.
hence comminist braiwashing/mind control and the global communist conspiracy
Bfl
Mid 90s, next in line at the Con Ed office on 125 St. NYC (Harlem)
Young white girl behind me.
Two Af-Am women in turbans and robes enter and start to head toward the window while talking to each other.
Young girl says, “Excuse me, but there’s a line here.” She is ignored.
Soto voce,I toss over my shoulder, “That concept is not recognized here.”
“Well, I’M not racist!” Little Missey says to me, a little louder this time.
Two heads snap around in unison upon hearing the magic word.
The window becomes vacant, I approach to do my business and hear in the background, “HE was being a racist by saying...mumble mumble...”
I complete my transaction, turn and start to leave and see the two Af-Am women have Miss Goody Two Shoes surrounded, berating, pointing and snaping fingers at her while she is trying to point at me saying. “HE’S the racist.”
I gave her a wink and a smile as I exited.
I still smile every time I think of this incident.
Excellent line! My tagline ain't bad either.
I’m on a mostly leftist web site called QUORA.COM.
2/3 of the leftists on that site are into labeling and virtue signaling. But 1/3 seem to want serious discussion of issues.
Of the smaller number of conservatives and Trump Populists on that site the same ratio exists. 2/3 of the Conservatives and Trump Populists are an embarrassment with their juvenile name calling.
If you want a serious discussion, go on QUORA.COM and have a serious discussion.
How can you have a conversation when someone like Megyn Kelly get fired for ASKING whether it’s acceptable to dress in blackface on Halloween to HONOR a black person?
Conversations are impossible when one side is silenced.
Well, not counting Islam.
They don’t want to have a conversation. They want to have a monologue.
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