Speaking of bullies here is a world class one:
Posted on 01/15/2018 9:01:10 PM PST by FreedomPoster
Nothing scandalizes a leftist like the truth. Point out that women and men are different, that black Americans commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime, that most terrorist acts are committed by Muslims, and the Left leaps to its collective feet in openmouthed shock, like Margaret Dumont after a Groucho Marx wisecrack. This is racism! This is sexism! This is some sort of phobia! I’m shocked, shocked to find facts being spoken in polite company!
No one is really shocked, of course. This is simply a form of bullying. The Left has co-opted our good manners and our good will in order to silence our opposition to their bad policies. The idea is to make it seem impolite and immoral to mention the obvious.
The bullying is highly effective and very dangerous. In England, in the city of Rotherham, at least 1,400 non-Muslim girls, some as young as 11, were brutally raped by Muslim immigrants over a period of years in the 2000s. Police and other officials worked to keep the facts hidden because, according to multiple reports, they were afraid of being called racist. Think about that: police officers did not want to seem racist, so they stood by and let their city’s children be raped. The same thing goes on in other cities in England and throughout Europe. And in fact, some who have spoken out have had their careers curtailed by manufactured scandal. The message is clear: it’s just not nice to tell the truth. It’s just not done. Don’t do it.
Here in the states, the First Amendment has so far allowed old-fashioned American loudmouths to fight the system whenever they could find ways around our monolithic corporate media. But the Empire of Lies is quick to strike back. Google/YouTube now stands charged by multiple accusers of singling out conservative voices for censorship, “fact-checking,” and demonetization. Hidden-camera videos released by Project Veritas this week show Twitter employees conspiring to “shadow ban” conservatives on their system. On campus, intelligent conservative speakers of good will like Ben Shapiro, Charles Murray, and Cristina Hoff-Somers have faced violent protests meant to shut them up.
No person of importance on the right seeks to silence anyone on the left. The Left, on the other hand, is broadly committed to ostracizing, blacklisting, and even criminalizing right-wing speech.
Enter President Donald Trump. He is a rude and crude person. He speaks like a Queens real estate guy on a construction site. And because he does not have good manners, he thoughtlessly breaks the rules with which the Left has sought to muzzle those who disagree with them. In this regard, I frequently compare Trump to Randle Patrick McMurphy, the loudmouthed, ill-mannered roustabout from Ken Kesey’s brilliant novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy comes into an insane asylum controlled by a pleasant, smiling nightmare of a head nurse named Ratched. Nurse Ratched, while pretending to be the soul of motherly care, is actually a castrating, silencing tyrant. Her rules of good manners, supposedly fashioned for the benefit of all, are really a system of mental slavery. All of McMurphy’s salient character flaws suddenly become heroic in the context of her oppression. Only his belligerent ignorance of what constitutes good behavior can overturn the velvet strangulation of her rule.
For Nurse Ratched, read Hillary Clinton, CNN, the New York Times, Yale University, Twitter, and Google/YouTube—all the tender ministers of polite silence and enforced dishonesty. If Donald Trump’s boorishness crashes like a bull through the crystal madhouse of their leftism—well, good. It’s about time.
I don’t know exactly what Trump said in a closed-door meeting with senators at the White House this week. Unnamed sources say that he referred to some African countries and Haiti as “shitholes.” Maybe so; sounds like him. In any case, when it comes to a chance to attack Trump, our journalists don’t waste time with fact-gathering or source-identifying. Like Madonna, they just strike a pose. Various media knuckleheads have reacted to the alleged comment by calling Trump “racist,” “Nazi,” “Evil,” and a “terrorist sympathizer.”
(Personally, my first thought on hearing about the remark was: “What squirrely little tattle-tale of a weasel went running to the press with that?” But never mind. That’s just me.)
Let’s state the obvious. Some countries are shitholes. To claim that this is racist is racist. They are not shitholes because of the color of the populace but because of bad ideas, corrupt governance, false religion, and broken culture. Further, most of the problems in these countries are generated at the top. Plenty of rank-and-file immigrants from such ruined venues ultimately make good Americans—witness those who came from 1840s potato-famine Ireland, a shithole if ever there was one! It takes caution and skill to separate the good from the bad.
For these very reasons, absurd immigration procedures like chain migration, lotteries, and unvetted entries are deeply destructive. They can lead to the sort of poor choices that create a Rotherham. Trump’s suggestions—to vet immigrants for pro-American ideas and skills that will help our country—are smart and reasonable and would clearly make the system better if implemented.
So, when it comes to the Great Shithole Controversy of 2018, my feeling is: I do not care, not even a little. I’m sorry that it takes someone like Trump to break the spell of silence the Left is forever weaving around us. I wish a man like Ronald Reagan would come along and accomplish the same thing with more wit and grace. But that was another culture. History deals the cards it deals; we just play them. Trump is what we’ve got.
For all the bad language, for all the loose talk, I would rather hear a man speak as a man without fear of the Nurse Ratcheds in the press and the academy than have him neutered and gagged by a system of good manners that has been misused as a form of oppression. Better impoliteness than silence. Better crudeness than lies.
We have seen the effect of uncontrolled immigration on Europe. It is very, very bad. The fact is: some countries are shitholes. I don’t want this to become one of them.
Andrew Klavan is a novelist and City Journal contributing editor. His podcast is featured Monday through Thursday at the DailyWire.com.
Klavan also has a bunch of Klavan on Culture videos at YouTube, which is where I knew of him from. I didn't realize he was doing more written material through City Journal.
I don't mind President Trump being rude and crude, although I don't think he's gone far enough. He says CNN is fake news. I wish he would just say out loud that CNN is f*cked up news. That would be rude and crude, but honest. Honesty while crude can be refreshing against liberal toxic society.
>> in the city of Rotherham, at least 1,400 non-Muslim girls, some as young as 11, were brutally raped by Muslim immigrants
I already know the facts Klavan presents, but to read them is kinda of nauseating — excuse me while I vomit in disgust...
The U.K. is a sh!thole. Canada is turning into a sh!thole. Major media corporations in the U.S. are leading the Country into a sh!thole. And needless to say, Islam is a war plan.
Excellent summary. Exactly how I see it as well.
Okay battery dying but I had to post this.
“He speaks like a Queens real estate guy on a construction site. “
Maybe that is because what he is. Not sure where exactly in NYC is where he is from...but he spent a lot of time on construction sites.
off topic...
My Black Lab bit my thumb and I am just now stopping the bleeding. She took a tin foil container with some leftover lasagna and started to eat the foil! Getting away from her, she actually bit me.
I put her in the bathroom for a while to punish her and told my daughter to never try to take food or food containers away from her.
Now my laptop, I see, has blood spots all over it.
Need to call Cesar Millan. LOL
Julie :)
The Left never use the truth to gain power. For them it is the Alinsky method where their opponent is denigrated and bullied until they are silent. We must have resolve. There is no capitulation with them.
Ouch! Good luck. And you’ve let the Lab be the alpha. This isn’t good, and you may want to rethink this.
This is EXCELLENT!!!
Wow, do not ever let your dog be the boss of you. You are the alpha. I don’t say this to be mean. I’ve had dogs my whole life and love them. I joke about them training me to give them treats, etc, but aggression? That’s a no-go zone.
Please be careful and consult someone to train (or re-train) this dog.
Speaking of bullies here is a world class one:
Our President knows that you cannot face and solve problems if you do not make plain what those problems are. He leaves no doubt about how he sees the mess we are in. Further more, he knows you cannot deal with the social slime which now covers our society in dainty terms. As a “real” woman, I am comforted that a “real” man, one who acts as though he has the courage and insight to keep us safe, is in the White House. Let the left roar on in their madness. People are seeing who and what they are. I suspect that, even though we suspect the deep state has been up to no good for a long time, when the truth finally comes out, which it eventually will, we might be stunned at who is involved.
Me too, I love men that act like men!
Controlling the language is a big lefty thing.
2018: “high-BMI fatherless gay guy”
1950: “fat bastard faggot”
The quote I keep going back to is “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Regarding bullying, I don’t know if he originated the term “crybully”, but he certainly embraced it early, and nailed it:
Crymobs, Crybullying, and the Left’s Whiny War on Speech
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/11/crymobs-crybullying-and-lefts-whiny-war.html
Regarding Trump, Evan Sayet nailed it here:
He Fights
https://townhall.com/columnists/evansayet/2017/07/13/he-fights-n2354580
a little editing
Wow, do not ever let your leftist be the boss of you. You are the alpha. I don’t say this to be mean. I’ve had leftists my whole life and love them. I joke about them training me to give them treats, etc, but aggression? That’s a no-go zone.
Please be careful and consult someone to train (or re-train) this leftist.
Later
Andrew Klavan said they we have to play the cards we have been dealt. President Trump is obviously a high trump card, overcoming all others. At least I hope he will prevail! Read on for why I am most anxious that he does: Regarding his stance on immigration, I speak from some experience - as my screen name indicates, I have first-hand knowledge about the mindset of many adherents to Islam. Of course, the person I knew most about in this context is no longer my brother-in-law for very compelling reasons, but I hear that he is not changed at all significantly in his outlook on the world. In short, the problems President Trump alluded to are only secondarily related to plumbing issues of Third World countries: when we import foreigners from such countries, they often bring that mindset with them and seek to spread it around, even by force. It is therefore vital that we carefully vet all applicants. For example, we should not grant U. S. citizenship to members of the Palistine Liberation Organization, a terrorist sponsoring group.
good point. she generally waits for me to go first into a room, and sit and wait after we fill her food bowl but i guess the lasagna tin was too tempting. ;)
On hold with my doctor to see if I am up to date with tetanus and if he wants to prescribe ABs.
Thanks, all.
AMEN ! !
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