Posted on 10/14/2020 3:02:56 AM PDT by nikos1121
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No need to be sorry-it was a great tune, but it was funny I didn’t remember how depressing the movie was, and I thought it would be fun to watch again.
Memory does odd things...
It is an interesting subject, and bears scrutiny.
We can only judge people on what we know of them. Most of the time we know very little about people, and in my opinion, intelligent and human people give what I call “default respect”.
With default respect, you give people respect until they say or do something that negates that respect.
And even then, that isn’t the end of the process of forming an opinion.
In my estimation, there are three gradations of people who serve the cause of Leftism: Liberals, MoonBats, and Leftists.
Liberals can be approached interacted with, talked to, and have a chance to change. They hold the wrong views, but usually due to ignorance, lack of time to look at issues, emotionally driven. They are not bad people, just misinformed or mal-informed. They are Useful Idiots, but there can be hope for them. Many may be conservatives who haven’t been mugged yet.
MoonBats are Leftist cannon fodder, the Leftist Foot Soldiers. They are the spittle-lipped, bug-eyed True Believers, and man the ramparts of the Left. They are the Useful Idiots who protest as their Leftist masters drag them away to the execution or torture rooms, screaming “But I am with you! Why are you doing this?” These people cannot be talked to in general, and in general, are avoided.
Leftists are evil. Period. These people are our implacable enemies. These are the people who know all too well that the claptrap that the MoonBats and Liberals believe is hogwash. They understand that the real goal is ultimate power for them and theirs, not to improve the condition of their fellow human beings. These are people are upper level people and decision makers, commissars, party members, etc.
The reason I break them down into these three categories has a direct bearing on the process of judging people, which I do. As they judge me, as they should. Judging is a human trait, and anyone who says judging people is bad is just ignorant. We ALL judge people.
So, when I judge people, I give them default respect. When I hear someone votes Democrat, that makes me judge them, but it is not all-encompassing. If that is all I know of them, then...I make my judgement on that, but it is only a veneer. You keep an open mind.
If I know someone personally and I know they vote Democrat, that personal knowledge of them overrides the knowledge that they vote Democrat.
However, if they vote Democrat, and fully and vocally support Leftist positions and accept Leftist dogma-well, they cross the line from Liberal to MoonBat.
The point is, we can make judgements about people based on various pieces of information, but only a fool would form a final judgement based on incomplete data.
Having a friend who is a Liberal is not incompatible with the concept of judging people on their actions if you are a conservative.
Having a friend who is a MoonBat or a Leftist IS incompatible with being a conservative.
I prefer the word discernment over judgement. But that just reflects how one defines the word. Otherwise, your thesis/analysis is well formulated. You were well educated, sir.
I watch Newsmaxtv in a browser on both tv and pc. I have comcast but have yet to find it on their channel.
Well said.
I see your point completely, and thank you for the compliment.
I tend to use “judgement” because...there is this resistance by some to actually judging people. It is somehow presented as a bad and prejudicial thing.
Like shame. We aren’t supposed to make people feel ashamed (no shaming) even though there are plenty of things that people SHOULD be ashamed about.
I think that I sometimes do it as a reflexive action to the resistance to it (and sometimes...in a pig-headed and stubborn way) in much the same way that I use the phrase “homosexual” instead of “gay” and why I absolutely love listening to Nick De Paolo (at http://www.nickdip.com)
If you don’t know Nick De Paolo he is both a comedian and political commentator, and one of the rudest-mouthed, most un-politically correct, unfiltered, and downright profane comedians and commentators out there.
He is no holds barred, and even though it is his schtick (the profane Wop stereotype, he calls himself a Wop!) he does it as a deliberate specific and brutal counterattack on people who wish to confine our First Amendment rights.
He is that way by nature, but in his counterattack, he is deliberately and savagely offensive. Nothing is out of bounds. He uses the “C” word liberally, and invokes nearly every racial stereotype he can, inciting them to come after him, and...is simply immune to their criticism.
I have always viewed myself as a gentleman and believe in treating people with default respect, but with the enemies of this country at our door, I do not extend that default courtesy to those who wish to destroy my rights, and me in the process.
I believe in poking them, offending them, and skewering their sacred cows whenever I can simply because it enrages them.
If they weren’t trying to actively destroy my Constitutional rights, I would likely just ignore them. Instead, I want to poke them in the bloody eyes at every single chance I get. There are few tenets of the Left that will not encourage me to stab at them with as much deliberate hostility as I can muster, but I will admit, I don’t have the constitution to take it to the Level Nick De Paolo does...it is just too far from my base nature.
If they take offense at what I say...I am going to say more of it. And more. And more. If I can make their heads explode with their own poisonous rage...I will.
To some that makes me a bad person, and I don’t want to be that; I would 100% prefer a civil discourse. But they are only interested in a Leftist Diktat, NOT civil discourse, and if they expect that my recourse is have to meekly accept their poisonous speech and censorship without retort...that won’t happen.
They expect us to hear it from them (because they think, coming from them, it isn’t “hate speech”) but if we respond in kind, we are the worst kind of criminal and must be silenced.
You can probably tell this is a subject, our First Amendment rights, that I feel quite strongly about!
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Thoughtful post.
I’m probably conflating this with another recent discussion, but I think of ‘judgment’ as something encompassing the entirety of a person - and I think that sort of judgment belongs to God - only He knows the entirety of anyone.
Of course, we all make decisions regarding whether we want to remain in contact with someone, or whether we find it sensible to take their word or advice on anything, or to trust them.
I don’t think I’d have any interest in associating with Jill Biden, in being her personal friend; and I probably don’t trust her or her motives.
But I’ll leave judgment of the entire person up to God.
I had spent a half hour typing something in response to your gracious post, and I accidentally deleted it by closing the web page to begin a videoconference with my brother!
My brother and I talked for about an hour about the post I lost, and it boiled down to the difference between “Profiling” and “Judgement”.
When I read your post, I realized you were absolutely on to the key concept to me, that of “Judgment”. When you mentioned what I saw as “biblical judgment” I realized that yes, you were right on that...you were talking one thing, and I was talking of another.
I thought that as a human man performing judgment in a biblical sense which seems to me it must be the prerogative and domain of God, it must be a greased slide into Hell if that was what I was talking about. I am a Christian, I believe in God and Jesus Christ, and pray, but do not yet attend church. I am finding my way late in life, so my concept of this may in no way jibe with what the various churches say, so I apologize in advance.
Anyway, it made me think. And I concluded that perhaps I am “profiling”, not judging, which made me dwell on those two terms :
Profiling can be and is part of making a judgment, and is done when there is no information and you are gathering information. You begin to build a “judgement” on the fly.
I pass a house I have never seen before, and there is a “Black Lives Matter” sign in the front yard. Without knowing these people, I put them in a mental bucket, and it isn’t good one for me. I pass another house I have never seen, and it has a “God Bless our Military and Police” sign out front. I have never met them, but I put them into a different bucket, and for me, it is a good bucket.
I do this, fully knowing that I could be at a cocktail party and meet the woman who put the Black Lives Matter sign on her yard, and not knowing it was her, engage in conversation, find her charming, and affable.
And I could meet the Man who put the “God Bless our Military and Police” sign on his yard, and find him to be an obnoxious, cantankerous. jackass.
But I have found my placing of people in buckets to be largely accurate as a first step in my “profiling”.
If someone has a “Black Lives Matter” sign, it is one of three things: they are ignorant, they are emotional, or they are an Leftist. So, if I meet this woman at the cocktail party and I find out that sign is on her lawn, if I ask her about it, I can determine pretty quick which category that person falls into. Ignorant or emotional might be dealt with, but Leftists cannot be. Because if I ask that charming, attractive woman about the sign on her yard and she proudly declares she is a charter member of the local BLM movement...well, I have her pegged, and I have no problem making a judgment about a woman who knowingly aligns herself with Marxists, who murdered more people in the 20th Century and beyond than any other ideology.
If I meet that man who put the “God Bless our Military and Police” sign on his lawn, that tells me quite a bit right there. I can guess the kind of person he is. He likely believes in God, may have a connection to the military or police, and wants to support them. All positives for me. If he is a fraud, most of us can determine most people who are frauds pretty quickly.
I believe I have a valuable viewpoint of this process of interacting and making impressions of people you have never met in person. When I first came onto Free Republic, I met a bunch of people from the DC Chapter on FR and got to know them, reading all their threads about the Freeps outside Walter Reed and in Olney, not to mention the other counter protests in Washington.
Finally, when I told the people on a Walter Reed thread that I wanted to come down and participate, a well known Freeper named “kristinn” invited me down, and even said I could stay at his place so I wouldn’t have to get a hotel room. (I ended up staying with Mr. and Mrs. TroopRally, who I came to regard as very close friends, and they treated me the same)
When I came down and met in person all these people I had met online on Free Republic, it was remarkable, because I felt instant rapport with all of them. It was interesting that the impressions I got from posting on FR with them were entirely spot on.
The point is, I believe I was “profiling” rather than judging.
And I realized you always profile when you have no information. It is always pre-judgment.
Judgment is an action done after information has been gathered via profiling, and when coupled with personal interactions, gives a fairly strong degree of accuracy for me.
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