Posted on 02/13/2020 2:54:07 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Normally when I publish content online, I focus on the world of work. I hope you’ll forgive this brief departure, but I think that those of us on the left need to take a long look in the mirror and have an honest conversation about what’s going on.
If you had told me 3 years ago that I would ever attend a Donald Trump rally, I would have laughed while assuring you that was never going to happen. Heck, if you had told me I would do it 3 months ago, I probably would have done the same thing. So, how did I find myself among 11,000+ Trump supporters in Manchester NH? Believe it or not, it all started with knitting. You might not think of the knitting world as a particularly political community, but you’d be wrong. Many knitters are particularly active in social justice communities and love to discuss the revolutionary role that knitters have played in our culture.
As a casual knitter, I never really paid attention to this. I knit as a way to relax and escape the drama of real life, not to further engage with it, but for anyone who is active in the knitting world on Instagram, it became almost impossible to avoid it. It started about a year ago when roving gangs of online social justice warriors started going after anyone who was not lockstep in their ideology. People were bullied and mobbed by hundreds of people for such offenses as publishing an article expressing excitement about going on a trip to India, posting a video saying they were leaving IG because they were uncomfortable, and posting a poem asking for kindness. Katherine Jepsen Moore has documented the full stories extensively and the BBC recently covered it as well
(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...
In her book, she describes being a Lebanese Christian in the early Seventies, and growing up hating jews, believing they drank the blood of arab children and just about every other slander and stereotype that could be applied to the Jews in Israel. All this fed to her like mother's milk by both Arabs and Christians in Lebanon as she grew up. When her mother was injured during the civil war in 1975, out of desperation to save her, she somehow got her mother admitted to an Israeli hospital across the border. She was astonished to see in practice how humane and generous they were to her and her mother, aliens, Christians, and Lebanese. They saved her life, gave them food, clothes, shelter, and even money, and she came to see everything she had been told about Israel was a slanderous lie. I would like to think the woman mentioned in that article above may come to those same conclusions after attending a Trump rally.
I had no idea that knitters were SJW lefties for the most part. very interesting.
This is one of the reasons I love FR...I am wordy by nature (I can’t even text someone without writing out the entire sentence in a grammatically correct way) but...
I can do that on here, and I get the benefit of seeing someone condense my thoughts into a succinct, short post!
Brevity...brevity!
It has been a trenchant and influential observation in my life that one of the hardest things to do is to get people to admit they were wrong and to genuinely change their minds.
Even for me, that is true, but I do try.
On the Left, they discourage that and punish people trying to find the truth.
Well thought out and accurate comment. Thank you!
refreshing read!!!! Going to take up knitting!!
I read the entire thing. It’s awesome! Thanks for posting it.
Great article...Thanks for posting it...
But this fool will still pull the blue handle in the voting booth!
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You may be right. But I still think you may be placing a meaning to something that wasn't there. I guess we'll never completely know.
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Your comment is appreciated!
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Because a large percentage of them don't know much of anything of what happened during those eras of the Dumbocratic Party.
I'm 73 and remember a lot of those days, but the history/civics books certainly are not honestly educating anyone any longer.
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"The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" --- Charlotte T. Iserbyt ....... a long excellent book.
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What did your first mother-in-law write? Anything scintillating?
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I would say he exaggerates like the salesmen huckster and New Yorker he is. We get it. He doesn’t just flat out lie telling you things you know are 180 degrees out from the truth.
We on the Right do disagree about things sometimes. We have more nationalist and more libertarian branches. BUT we are not the purity obsessed humorless neo Puritans eager to instantly brandish anybody who disagrees with us about anything as some kind of evil racist Nazi. Its the Left that does that.
She sounds like a knit wit
I’ve been putting OAN on in the living room (my 75 year old democrat dad lives with me), and I then get up and go fold my laundry, or something in the other room, just so he (and my daughters) end up listening to it.
blame wiki
BTTT!!!!!
“Too bad the Cheap Labor Express Globalist Republican Party is such a shi++y alternative. The Republicans should be kicking butt and taking names but it’s not, ASK YOURSELF WHY.”
I am convinced that both parties sit in a backroom together, laughing their butts off at us, working on nothing more than keeping us divided....... Lighting their cigars off the dollar bills of our productivity.
Well, she once wrote a multipage novelette to our Bishop regarding an incident with one of the member’s kids that had been recruited to paint her garage door. And not to her satisfaction mind you. She referred to the incident as ‘a festering excrudescence’.
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