Think Like We Do, or You’re Unworthy

Townhall.com ^ | January 22, 2021 | Jeff Davidson

[Kaslin]

The recent spate of Democrat politicians and pundits calling for the "re-education" of Trump voters is chilling and reminds me of an incident I experienced in 2019.

As a professional speaker, only once I have been disinvited to speak in my 36-year career, while otherwise delivering 1,056 presentations to a virtual who's who of prominent organizations, often for exceedingly high speaker fees. The dis-invitation, months after the original invitation, occurred in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In February 2019, after hearing a general call for speakers, I forwarded my speaking credentials and suggested a topic to the group's meeting planner.

On the Frontier

The "Group," self-proclaimed as being on the frontier of spirituality and fellowship, meets monthly featuring a retained speaker on some theme related to spirituality. I have been an 11-year audience member of the presentations they provide and thus felt assured that my presentation, "Maintaining Spiritual Balance in a World of Rapid Change," would interest their members. The meeting arranger, who I'll call "Julie," agreed.

Over many weeks, Julie and I discussed the presentation description, the sub-topics to be covered, and pitching the idea to the board of directors. Finally, we nailed it. The board approved the date, ultimately set for October 3, 2019.

I Write a Lot

As an author, I've had 67 mainstream books published on work-life balance, harmony, integration, and on a few related topics. In all, I've had 4,300 articles published. I am currently a columnist for eight publications, primarily in the business and professional services arena.

I am a non-affiliated voter and write intermittently about social issues. In February 2019, I wrote how some Hollywood filmmakers produce movies as GOP hit pieces. I focused on the movie Vice, starring Christian Bale in the title role. The movie was very loosely based on the life experiences of former U.S. Vice President, Dick Cheney.

An Unabashed Hit Piece

So much was inaccurate about Vice that I could've written a book-length review. While I am no Cheney fan, the presumptions made in Vice about what Cheney was thinking, or said, in private are beyond the pale.

The script of Vice implied that Cheney wanted to attack Iraq without cause, had advanced knowledge of the 9-11 attacks, and was complicit in the conspiracy (i.e. had Americans murdered). And that wasn't even 10 percent of the movie's distortions.

Sometime in April 2019, one of the Group's board members read my article, with strong disapproval. The article had nothing to do, of course, with my presentation on maintaining spiritual balance in a rapidly changing world. In fact, at no time in my 36-year career or in my 1,056 previous presentations have I ever uttered a single political sentence or sentiment.

This did not matter. The Group, which lauds itself as progressive and tolerant, held a board discussion and decided that I would not be a worthy presenter. Instead, they scheduled a speaker billed as, "A mystic, spiritual counselor, channel, and healer."

A Tearful Call

In late April, Julie left me a message to call her. When I returned the call, she became tearful as she explained to me that the Group doesn't deal in political issues. That's not entirely true: Each of their presentations going back at least 11 years, in one way or another, espouses liberal and progressive views. That is beside the point – I knew what she meant.

I told her, "No problem, the article I wrote is an observation that I made about Hollywood. My presentation to the group in October has nothing to do with that, nor would I be uttering a single word of my political or social views." My words had no effect. Julie, even more tearful, explained that the Board's decision was final. I was dis-invited to speak... And gee, I had already agreed months before to donate back to them their modest speaker fee.

This Group, which prides itself as being a bastion of diversity and human potential, revealed their hand, as have so many other groups like them. See things from their worldview, or be disinvited. Think as they think, or be regarded as unworthy. Offer a dynamite presentation for the October program, but have an article in a monthly community newspaper four counties away, and you're out. This intolerance pervades the Left, and virtually everyone on the Right is now realizing it.

[ETL]

Obama's Weather Underground buddies, Bill Ayers & wife Bernardine Dohrn, & the anti-Trump movement

various sources | Jan 20, 2021

If it were up to AOC and the other members of the communist wing of the DemonRat Party, they’d do what Obama’s pals in the Weather Underground wanted to do...

Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the 1960-70s Weather Underground’s post-revolution governing plans for the United States...

Larry Grathwohl:

“I asked, ‘well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?’ and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say ‘eliminate,’ I mean ‘kill.’ Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious.”

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“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments.
Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at”

—Bill Ayers, co-founder of the communist-revolutionary Weather Underground, 1970 — quoted in The New York Times, September 11, 2001
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“Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people/capitalists], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!”

-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders
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“It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming ‘community organizer,’ had his political coming out party in 1995.

Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World - where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working ‘only to educate’ - both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers.”

Article: The Company He Keeps: Meet Obama’s circle:
The same old America-hating Left
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online, April 11, 2008
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“As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam.

Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he ‘left the room to cry.’

—American Thinker, September 16, 2008

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“They’re certainly friendly” -quote from ‘Obama’s chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago’s political tribes), David Axelrod,’ on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.

—Politico

[ETL]

BLM co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, says in interview she and co-founder, Alicia Garza, are inspired by Mao Zedong

Meanwhile, Mao Zedong, via his so-called “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution”, is reported to have killed close to 70 million people!

Below, from Time Magazine, February 26, 2018

“[Patrisse] Cullors [CO-FOUNDER “BLACK LIVES MATTER”] weaves her intellectual influences into this narrative, from black feminist writers like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.

Reading those social philosophers “provided a new understanding around what our economies could look like,” she says.

Aric Jenkins | Time Magazine | February 26, 2018
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“I went through a year-long organising programme at the National School for Strategic Organising (NSSO), and it was led by the Labour Community Strategy Centre.

We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao...”

-—Patrisse Cullors, co-founder Black Lives Matter

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Profile: Mao Zedong (aka Mao tse-Tung)

“Mao Zedong was the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976.

Mao is arguably the greatest mass murderer in history, eclipsing even the murderous Joesph Stalin in this regard.

Some 70 million Chinese, along with countless Tibetans, Mongolians, Manchus, Koreans, Hmong, Uyghurs, and other nationalities, perished at his hands during his long and brutal reign.”

DiscoverTheNetworks com

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Bill Ayers, and his co-terrorist, revolutionary communist wife, Bernardine Dohrn.
Both were leaders of the Weather Underground.

[ClearCase_guy]

I see this relating to the monuments issue. There is a nearby thread about the re-naming of Camp Pendleton, named after a Confederate war hero. It is s simple historic fact that we had a civil war and people fought on both sides and were recognized for their contributions on each side. But now the Progressives have decided to “disappear” anyone whom they perceive as being “on the wrong side”. They have no tolerance at all for anyone who fails to toe the Party line.

[snarkytart]

Mao would have put the african negros in a ditch and shot them in their head.

these are very homogeneous cultures.

[snarkytart]

Don’t forget that these violent communists used the black to push communism as an “equal” society. the reality when the propaganda wasn’t in full spin is quite the opposite.

[Gen.Blather]

I am retired now, but my final full time employment with a major military contactor was with General Dynamics. They had a newsletter which often read like a communist newspaper. We had diversity training, wherein a contractor specialist in diversity trained in house trainers. I went to that companies website and would not have been surprised if they had coopted material straight from Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. One of the monthly “inspirational” posters they supplied showed a circle of handless, footless gumby characters dancing in a circle. All character colors were represented except Caucasian. There was even a purple character. The script read, “Strength and Unity through Diversity.”

I related that to so I could provide background for this. I had a conversation with a black employee regarding Muslims in America. He had been in Kuwait. In the course of the conversation we discussed female genital mutilation. I said that if they become citizens here then they should be forbidden to do that. He reacted by straightening up and widening his eyes, saying, “But that’s their culture. You can’t outlaw that.” At no time did we have raised voices.” I needed to leave so I said something along the lines of well, let’s agree to disagree.

Shortly after, the manager of HR came to my cubicle. This is highly unusual. Normally managers at his level summon us commoners to their office. He leaned forward and whispered that the guy I had the conversation with had reported me for “incorrect political thinking.” I laughed, thinking he was joking. He assured me he wasn’t and recommended I never speak to that man again.

Another incident was when I gave a departing female employee a roast. I had the script reviewed by two senior employees. It was hilarious and even the other patrons in the restaurant laughed uproariously. I was reported for harassment even though the woman leaving told them she was not harassed. That didn’t matter as the actual definition in the policy manual was, if an uninvolved third party heard it and thought it might be harassment, then, it was. The woman who reported me, who, by the way was laughing along with everyone else, said, she didn’t want to be a “condoner.” That word was part of our diversity training and I had never heard it before or since.

I am grateful not to have to work in such an oppressive environment any longer.

[ClearCase_guy]

I wish I knew a solution to that. Corporations have become major tools of repression. HR departments are like political officers from Stalinist Russia.

[dfwgator]

So much was inaccurate about Vice that I could've written a book-length review. While I am no Cheney fan, the presumptions made in Vice about what Cheney was thinking, or said, in private are beyond the pale.

Oh well. Now they no one to defend them now.

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m firing all the leftists in my life.

Cancel culture, doncha know.