Posted on 08/14/2017 12:26:26 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Charlottesville is what happens when the Left empowers extremists.
In Dallas, a black nationalist activist shot and killed 5 police officers at a Black Lives Matter anti-police rally. Instead of condemning BLM, Barack Obama defended a racist hate group whose role model is Assata Shakur, a wanted black nationalist cop killer, at the funerals of the murdered officers.
The left killed civil rights and replaced it with black nationalism. The racial supremacism of black nationalism that killed those officers is everywhere. Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi are lionized as brilliant thinkers instead of hateful racists, Amazon has ordered a black nationalist secessionist fantasy from Aaron McGruder and Showtime aired ‘Guerilla,’ a miniseries glamorizing Black Panther terrorism.
But racism is a two-way street. So is violence. Extremists feed into each other.
You can’t legitimize one form of racism without legitimizing all of them. The media may advance this hypocritical position. Obama used the shameful “reverse racism” euphemism that distinguishes between black and white racism. But propaganda and spin don’t change the physics of human nature.
Either all racism is bad. Or all racism is acceptable.
Charlottesville is what happens when you normalize racism and street violence. Every normalization of extremism equally normalizes the extremism of the opposite side.
A civil society depends on a consensus. ‘Racism is bad’ is an example of such a consensus. If you normalize black nationalism, you will get more white nationalism. If you normalize leftist street violence against Trump supporters, you will also get more street violence against leftists.
Extremists want to eliminate the consensus of civil society. They want to destroy the idea that there’s any solution except violence through confrontations that show the helplessness of civil society.
That’s true of black nationalists and white nationalists, of Communists and Nazis, of Antifa and Vanguard, of the tankies and hipster Nazis of the Alt-Left and the Alt-Right. They’re a set of evil twins and when you unleash one, you unleash the other. Their real enemies aren’t each other, but everyone in the middle. The bourgeois normies who don’t want to replace society with their totalitarian nightmare.
Street violence raises the bar so that only the violent will participate in protests. If you “no platform” campus speakers, then the only speakers you get will be those willing to face bomb threats, arson, and physical assaults. If you fire people for their views, political activism becomes the province of anonymous trolls and unemployed street thugs. Extremism limits political discourse to extremists.
If Democrats really want to stop the rise of Neo-Nazi violence, there’s a very easy way. Stop normalizing black nationalism and the Alt-Left. End the racist witch hunts for white privilege. Make it clear that street violence is unacceptable and that racism is bad no matter who it comes from. Allow people you disagree with to express their views without trying to destroy their lives.
But that’s the opposite of what the Dems will do. They don’t want fewer Neo-Nazis; they want more of them. They don’t want fewer attacks like Charlottesville and Charleston. They want more of them.
The Dems have become an extremist party run by the radical left. Obama, Holder, and Lynch made common cause with black nationalist hate groups against civil society. It began when Obama defended the vile racism of Jeremiah Wright and concluded with DOJ organized race riots. DNC boss Tom Perez addresses La Raza and his deputy Keith Ellison is a veteran of the Nation of Islam.
The radical left wants to see Neo-Nazis gain prominence on the right to polarize the country. It wants to see our values and norms drowned in violence so that it has an excuse to eliminate free speech. It seeks to eliminate democracy by making the other side appear nightmarishly dangerous. It plots to impose a totalitarian system on the United States by empowering extremists to destroy the current system.
And their opposite numbers waving swastika flags want the same thing. The difference is that they don’t control the Republican Party the way that the Alt-Left and black nationalists control the Democrats.
Charlottesville is what happens when civil society fails. And those who set the terms of permissive discourse, who control the media, academia and social norms, are responsible for the failure.
Conservatives don’t have that kind of power. It’s the left that does.
Liberals, if there are any left on the left, can shut down racism and extremism. Or they can continue normalizing it until it’s mainstream and meaningless.
If you want to understand how we got to Charlottesville, the events at Evergreen State on the other side of the country are as good a place as any to start.
Evergreen’s President Bridges, the progressive who had called for safe spaces and allowed intersectional left-wing racists to terrorize his campus over their demands for racial segregation, was asked in an interview about accusations that he is a white supremacist.
Bridges replied that he doesn’t believe that he is a white supremacist. And then added, “It depends on what you mean by white supremacist.” He concedes, “I am a white person in a position of privilege.”
White privilege is how the intersectional left defines white supremacy. Any white people who aren’t allying with them to destroy Western civilization are defined as white supremacists. And even those who do, like Bridges, can always be accused of white supremacy for not destroying it hard enough.
When you spend enough time accusing everyone who doesn’t share your politics or even your race of racism, you make the term meaningless.
That’s what the left did over eight years of Obama. By the time the election rolled around, Hillary was defining all Trump voters as racists and sexists.
When you spend enough time crying wolf, eventually a real wolf appears. A real wolf showed up in Charlottesville.
The left spent eight years dismantling any meaningful definition of racism for political reasons. The practical effect of their actions was to eliminate social sanctions for actual racists.
And the real racists were happy to take advantage of the new climate.
When the left insists that everyone with white skin is part of white supremacy, that Shakespeare, Beethoven and all of Western civilization embody white supremacy, it’s echoing the actual talking points of white supremacy.
If you tell all Obama critics and Trump supporters that they’re racists often enough, some will decide that maybe they are racists.
If you tell a student who objects to racially segregated areas on campus that she is a white supremacist, she will be more likely to become one.
When you marginalize everyone to the right of you, some of the marginalized will accept the definition.
And when that happens, the left wins, the extremists win, and it becomes harder to maintain any kind of functioning civil society in which we settle conflicts through compromises rather than street violence.
Compromises are uncomfortable.
After the Civil War, the Union was preserved, but Southerners were allowed to honor their cause. It was an uncomfortable compromise, but it helped limit the violence from a conflict that had claimed the lives of 2% of the population. The Taliban campaign by black nationalists to tear down Confederate memorials was a deliberate effort at shattering a compromise that kept civil society working.
And that too led to Charlottesville.
Uncomfortable compromises are how we learn to live with each other. It means that there can be memorials of Robert E. Lee and streets named after Malcolm X. Tolerating people whose views we don’t like is one of the best ways to marginalize domestic extremists. When one set of extremists is empowered to wipe out the other, we end up with a civil war. Just ask Edmund Ruffin and John Brown.
Democrats claim a mandate from the “Right Side of History” to eliminate all the compromises. Catholic nuns must pay for abortions and birth control, Christian bakers and florists must participate in gay weddings, every white person must confess their racism, and every left-wing extremist must get their way.
That’s how you tear a society apart.
The Bill of Rights is an uncomfortable compromise. It says that we have to put up with people we don’t like. The Democrats, under the influence of the left, are rejecting that idea. But that goes both ways too.
You can have a liberal society or an illiberal one. But you can’t have a society that is selectively liberal when it comes to your bigotry, but illiberal of the bigotry of others, that believes you have the right to say anything you please without consequences, but that no one else does, that you can punch, but not be punched. That’s a totalitarian state. And the only way to realize it is through violence.
Democrats need to take an honest look at the street violence in Seattle, in Portland, in Berkeley and Charlottesville, and decide if this is what they really want. If they don’t, it’s time for them to stop normalizing left-wing extremism. If they do, then they are to blame for the next Dallas or Charlottesville.
Ahh
Just in case we don’t make it in these worn out bodies ‘till then,...
Rolf Harris - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCayqrFm0pI
Version for Neo-Nazis
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport sung by Adolf Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyasLH9GfRI
For Drug Addicts
Chipmunks Do Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpcePV9pIcs
Bit of a protest against our nation’s preference for burning our bodies.
They’re the more dangerous neo-nazis. They tell bigger lies. They want more absolute power. They’re full of a more thorough hate. They play rougher. Unite The Right is pretty bad, but really just a bunch of wankers who like to shave their heads and feel life has cheated them. The Dems are the real deal.
The Right includes those who genuinely love freedom and America. Those are the good guys. The rest whether GOP or DemocRATS are the bad guys.
Torah will end racism. Racial differences are meaningless in Torah Law. When blacks and whites see that they have the same commandments, there will be peace.
The RINOs are the worst. While they are a regional phenomenon, they also are disguised as allies, except to those who know better. It’s true that the Right includes those who genuinely love freedom, etc., and that the Left contains well-meaning but misinformed boobs. But the breach between these two subgroups seems insurmountable, thanks to continuing, escalating violence and poisonous rhetoric. Everything is FUBAR, and only the deep affection between Americans that Trump mentioned can save the day, assuming that that affection still exists.
Yes I am serious, white identity politics are but a fig leaf of legitimacy to the establishment that they abide by the constitution. In reality campus speech codes are the defacto rule by law these days.
And frankly they are a honeytrap the establishment baits and then uses in political theatre.
Mr. Trump go all in and call for a ban on white identity politics.
Without the Divine Providence of God we're done, but what else is new? America would never have existed without Him, and Divine Providence is now at work to restore our Free Constitutional Republic.
Then as now, America survives and thrives through faith in a good and righteous God. Many have become POW's of the Left in this cultural war for America's soul because they can't see past today's circumstances. But as the Founders had vision for a different future, so we by faith must have the same. We must see our goal as nothing less than the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic.
through faith and patience we inherit the promisesHebrew 6:12.
True. One big sign that chrstianity isn't true is the fact that it can't even unite its members; it is divided not only theologically, but ethnically. When "fellow chrstians" hate each other like poison, each group considering itself a new (lehavdil!) Am Yisra'el, with J*sus as an ethnic chieftain for every "holy" nation, then you know this isn't a universal religion at all.
Of course, special laws apply to certain nations--Egyptians, Moabites, Ammonites, etc. The Canaanites became so immoral that HaShem ordered their extermination. And `Amaleq is so inherently evil that it must be destroyed for G-d's will to be done.
PS: I've added you to my ping list. Hope you don't mind.
You're not out of turn. You're much further along the derekh than I am. I have a lot of problems that aren't for public discussion (it's possible I have Asperger's, as well as being a nervous wreck) which partially, along with my own unforgivable laziness, perhaps explain in party my utter lack of systematic study. What little knowledge I do have has been picked up here and there over decades. I certainly generate more heat and light, and I'm afraid that, since my learning (such as it is) is greater than my good deeds, my learning will not stand.
You are a hero. I'm just a big blow-hard.
Name one Jew who has ever kept the law besides Jesus. I’ve been a staunch pro-Israel Christian all of my adult life with a number of my closest friends being Jews. The Torah will never produce unity - either among the Jews, themselves, or the nations of the earth. The purpose of the Torah is to convince all men that they are guilty before G-d and are in dire need of forgiveness and redemption. It produces condemnation and death not righteousness and life because NONE can keep it. It’s the reason that Jeremiah prophesied that G-d Himself was going to institute a new covenant - not according to the covenant which He made with Israel when He brought them out of the land of Egypt, i.e. the Torah. In this new covenant, G-d declared through Jeremiah that He would be merciful to all of our unrighteousness and that our sins and lawless deeds He would remember no more. The reason being - He remembered them once and for all - in the body of Jesus on the cross who fulfilled not only the obedience requirements of the law but who also took all of the curse for disobedience of the law by hanging on a tree. He came at a time when capital punishment under the Jewish law was stoning but under the Roman law, it was crucifixion. This was not a coincidence. And the fact that fallible men cannot see eye to eye is not going to change until Messiah returns. Shalom my friend.
Your contention that the purpose of the Torah is to teach us that we are all sinners is merely a lie invented by chrstianity to justify creating a new religion. No one at Mt. Sinai or for the next thousand years ever understood it this way. To suddenly claim that a "new truth" has been announced to the world is to invent a new religion, which is forbidden. If the Torah does not say that its only purpose is to teach mankind that we are all sinners, then this is a false claim invented by a new religion to justify itself.
J*sus kept the Torah? "Every single law" (as some chrstians claim)? Really? Did he marry and beget children (a Torah requirement)? Did he immerse after menstruating or bring an offering after giving birth to a child, which is Torah law? He didn't? That's because there is no single human being for whom all the Torah laws apply! Some laws apply only to priests, some only to Levites, some only to men, some only to women, some only to the king, some only to children born of a forbidden union (mamzerim); all of these are Torah laws, and it is not possible for a man to immerse after menstruation or to offer a sacrifice after childbirth. It is inherently impossible for any single human being to keep all the laws because of this.
Furthermore, he earned the death penalty by blaspheming. The penalty for blasphemy is death by strangulation. And, lo and behold, even though he was put to death by the Romans rather than by the Sanhedrion, they crucified him, which just happened to result in death by strangulation. Some coincidence, huh?
And as to chrstianity bringing unity--please. You can't even believe that yourself. American Blacks hate American whites; American whites hate American Blacks. And they're both Fundamentalist Protestants!!! Where is the peace, huh? Croats hate Serbs; Serbs hate Croats. Armenians hate Georgians; Georgians hate Armenians. Every single traditionally chrstian ethnic group in the world claim that J*sus is their "kinsman redeemer." Please don't be so blatantly dishonest as to claim this conglomeration of local, tribal religions falsely claiming universality is ever going to bring peace to anyone.
One final word of advice: I know you're going to respond to this with simply more quotes from the "new testament" or Isaiah 53. You have to understand that the "new testament" is not self-evidently true, nor is the chrstian interpretation of Isaiah 53 the self-evidently correct one. To merely assume from the outset, without external proof, that the "new testament" is inspired scripture, or Isaiah 53 is predicting J*sus, is no argument at all. Kindly don't waste your time merely repeating chrstian claims. Prove them externally. But you can't. Because they're not true.
> True. One big sign that chrstianity isn’t true is the fact that it can’t even unite its members; it is divided not only theologically, but ethnically. When “fellow chrstians” hate each other like poison, each group considering itself a new (lehavdil!) Am Yisra’el, with J*sus as an ethnic chieftain for every “holy” nation, then you know this isn’t a universal religion at all.
PS: I’ve added you to my ping list. Hope you don’t mind.
I am a newbie here. I do not know what a ping list is. If you did it, I trust it is good :)
I confirm that Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy are one of the main causes of hatred between Croats and Serbs.
I have a Noahide Serbian friend. We get along just fine.
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