Liberal Taliban.
Posted on 08/16/2017 10:51:32 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
'These are tactics that are well-known. You start by tearing down statues and burning books, and eventually you go after people.'
Federalist senior correspondent John Daniel Davidson joined Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to explain why the Left’s impulse to tear down Confederate monuments is totalitarian. Davidson noted that leftists calling for the destruction of statues memorializing Confederate figures has been going on for quite some time.
“I remember two years ago we had the 150th anniversary of the Confederate surrender and you had people in the mainstream media at that time calling for the desecration of Confederate graves,” Davidson said. “Not just tearing down statues but digging up remains, removing them. You know, bulldozing over cemeteries — and this iconoclastic impulse is native to the Left. This is what China’s cultural revolution was all about. If you want to see where tearing down statues by mobs will get you, look at pictures of China’s cultural revolution where they tore down statues, temples.”
“This is not about the Confederacy,” he continued. “This is not about the Civil War. This is about political power and it’s about a small group of people on the Left trying to exert outside influence on American politics by following in the footsteps of Mao, of the armed thugs in Weimar Republic, of the Taliban. These are tactics that are well-known. You start by tearing down statues, and burning books, and eventually you go after people.”
“This is what happens with identity politics,” he said. “If you push identity politics, eventually you get around to identity politics for white people, which is a dangerous thing in a country that has a huge white majority. You know, this is why the Left has been sowing these seeds of what’s been happening for a long time. Are they surprised eventually some white people are going to say, ‘Yeah, let’s do identity politics,’ and we have white identity politics. It’s all poisonous garbage.”
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John Daniel Davidson - someone who ‘gets it’....
+1
See Post #18
ISIS and Liberals - two peas in a pod...
Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.
Serenity
I do suppose that is true, but it comes from a place of fear. Fear that it can no longer be stopped and if one complies, ...well, death is a few more days away. I think it actually is fear of being killed or socially destroyed by these revolutionaries. They are trying to keep the peace today, when they should be trying to keep the peace for tomorrow’s children.
I knew when Trump took office we’d have this ‘fight,’ I pray everyday God gives Trump/Pence the wisdom to lead us through it ...May God Save the Republic.
Lincoln had to enact emergency powers, those same powers enacted today ...can one even contemplate the reaction? they already think Trump is some totalitarian dictator in the make... Yes, we are in deep, deep trouble.
Exactly what it is, cultural revolution. Mind control. Abolish the past.
Of course in Mao's case you had the "great leap forward," where aged intellectuals from the coast were forcibly removed to the boondocks and deliberately worked to death in the fields.
America's Trump haters are still in the learning stages of how to abuse others. We will ignore this at our most severe peril.
Liberal Taliban.
I always wondered what people were thinking, just before those revolutions took place, just before the rise of Hitler, etc.
I guess today we’re learning.
What I truly find stunning though, is they don’t see that they are what they are claiming to hate?
As realization of what is about to happen peculates to the surface of the average American psyche, events will begin to move much more swiftly.
-PJ
Conservative states should vow to raise 2 confederate statues for every one that is torn down. People should start decorating their front yards with statues of Robert E Lee etc.
We need more statues!! Build them, raise them!
We entered it long ago. Some are just now recognizing what is happening. You can't politically indoctrinate a couple of generations of students without consequences.
BUMP
Yes, that’s exactly what it’s like and Revolutionary Communist Party (Mao worshippers) are in force at many protests.
How many people are aware that thousands of other free blacks in the South were, themselves, slave owners?
The first slave owner in America was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson who came to the American colonies in August, 1619 after being sold into slavery by an enemy African tribe to Arab slave traders who in turn sold Johnson as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company in the American colonies. After completing his indenture in 1623, he was regarded as a "free negro" and subsequently became a slave owner himself after acquiring a large plot of farmland of his own.
It is not clear if Anthony Johnson also kept his white indentured servants as slaves, but it is clear that many of his indentured servants were white!
The following are must-reads.
ANTHONY JOHNSON
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
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Did You Know the First Legal Slave Owner in America Was a Black Man?
Jim Hoft May 5th, 2017 11:32 pm
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/did-you-know-the-first-legal-slave-owner-in-america-was-black/
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Ergo the moral of this story is that The father of legalized slavery in America was a black man.
So while the activists are busy tearing down Confederate statues all over the South in protest of their being a reminder of the slavery issues of the past, maybe when these cultural Marxist hypocrites get to Washington D.C. somebody ought to tear down the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in protest of white slaves/"indentured servants" held by black slaveowners of the past.
The great irony is that the Left perpetuates slavery in the welfare ghettos it has created, in the inner-city schools it has perpetuated, and in the identity politics it practices. Welcome to the modern plantation.
Fools and cowards, just hoping the crocodile eats them last.
The productive people moved away, leaving their monuments behind. It's like the Planet of the Apes where the apes inhabit the ruins of a once great society.
LBJ "lies a-mold'ring in the grave" but his evil goes marching on.
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