John, once again you hit the nail on the head. In our Republic the only criteria must be the merit of the individual. Misplaced compassion is toxic. Leave that to charities and churches.
There is another group in this. The radical feminists are their own special interest group that spews hate against 65% of the population.
Many like to graph the population on a linear scale. In fact it is a giant cube composed of many cubes that have a polarity to attract or reject other cubes. This will eventually cause the large cube to fracture. That process in our nation is already in advanced stages.
The race/racist question/situation seen from all sides. It had to be said, John, and you've said it quite well. And yes, "If we backslide into those old ideas again because Democrats think it may benefit them electorally and a few sociopathic conservative influencers realize that relatively small groups of rabid haters can have an outsized impact online, it will be terrible for the country. These ideas, like the people pushing them, deserve to be unambiguously rejected." Indeed.
I nearly always agree with your positions on the topics you cover regarding American culture, but this time, I don't. I did contribute to Shiloh Hendrix's GiveSendGo but not because I hate blacks or any other race. I don't approve of her calling the child a racist epitaph, but I can understand where she's coming from in her response to the Somali who confronted her. She lives in MN, Ilhan Omar country. She appears to be in the white underclass. Of course I can't read her mind, but I suspect her outrage was due to being frustrated, angry, emotionally discouraged and had already or, at that moment, reached her capacity to tolerate the racism of blacks against whites. I contributed because her emotional outburst put her in danger, and she will very likely have to move far away from where she is now. I doubt very much that she will buy an expensive house and fancy car, and as far as I know, the Anthony family, while loudly proclaiming that they fear for their lives have anything at all to fear.
Are you sure the child is autistic? Are you sure what we are being told about the black side of the story is factually correct? Because I'm not. I was outraged at the behavior of the Anthony kid's family and the money that was raised, rewarding the killing of a white boy. Pitting blacks and other minorities against whites has reached a tipping point that tolerance is not going to fix. Backlash is inevitable.
Conservatives are well-known for our willingness to be nice, to try to get along. What is that getting us? Nothing good. I've never personally had a bad experience with anyone of a different race, but I believe that's because I have never lived in the inner-city of large metropolitan cities. The best regulated and harmonious communities are homogeneous, but Americans have been forced to live as though that isn't true.
Since the 60's the racial diversity of this country has turned into a hotbed of dissension because of blacks being brainwashed into believing they are the butt of discrimination by whites, long after discrimination was well on the wane. The same thing is being done with the Muslim population, most of whom refuse to assimilate, and Leftist Democrats are at the bottom of the problem.
I've had it with my race being reviled because of skin color, when I've never been racist against anyone, and I won't start now. I'm certainly not a hater. But, I will stand with my tribe if it comes to that. This business of certain words being unsayable is part of the problem, too. I'm tired of it. I'm sorry if you believe I'm part of the problem.
Reading your justification of a grown woman calling a five year old child a racial slur is wild to me. Picture it the other way around, what if a black, muslim or hispanic mother had yelled at and insulted a 5 yr old child who is allegedly autistic? The saddest part is that you are playing right into their hands. The racists on the left are empowered by your attitude, by your giving a pass to an overt racist and identifying her with conservatives.
The feminists demanded power. They wanted the same seat that white males had dominated. The got to the competition and discovered two inconveniences.
One - white males are smarter and work harder with respect to the dog-eat-dog world of economic competition.
Two - it was not as fun and satisfying to enter that world as the feminists imagined.
Instead of then altering course to simply support choice for women, to maintain their power dominance agenda like the CCP, feminists came up with the fake scholarship toxic mind virus of Critical Theory as a tool for radical reform to change the system giving preference to those not capable as, or not as interested to work as hard as, white males.
Bye bye meritocracy, hello race, gender and sexual orientation preference.
The leftist cabal has promulgated a victim grievance mindset into the population. It is like a warm fuzzy blanket for those unsatisfied with their station in life, and that are unwilling to do the hard and long work to advance it.
The danger of this has been made apparent by the celebrity making of these murderers of white males.
There would appear to be two tracks of remedy.
One - Punch a feminist. Sounds nasty, but these bitches and witches escape accountability for fomenting deadly violence. Them being threatened this way would help encourage them to stop. Now, this does not necessarily mean a physical punch, although maybe. The way I would punch is to never hire or promote one of these violent fems in my business. And for verbal punching, just lay on the names to humiliate them. To hell with political correctness.
Two - Support Trump extracting everything critical theory and woke from the government and education system.
I’ll give you an example of a real hate crime: Any teacher, black or white, who tells a kid that they are screwed because of their skin color. Any parent who tells a child “everybody” hates you. You don’t have a chance, the world is against you. The country you were born in is systematically racist and will work to make your life a misery. Imagine yourself an 8 or 9 year old black kid and hearing that all the time. On the other hand, imagine being a white kid the same age and hearing you’re part of ruination of an entire group of people because of your skin color. Those are hate crimes. People who commit these crimes should be jailed.
John, you are right on with this column. This is one of those issues that people can and will call you names for even bringing it up because it runs counter to their feelings. I have long appreciated Clarence Thomas for repeating "the way to end discrimination in America is to stop discriminating," but the race hustlers will never let it go. They know you can bypass thought if you can go for emotion. Throw in the "goodies/freebies" and it's a tough thing to stop. I've mentioned this in other contexts, but my hope is the Conservatives have a guardrail that protects many from descending into anti-semitism and that is Christ Jesus. How do you hate Jews or Israel when the holder of the key to eternal life was a Jewish man? Thank you for speaking truth about this terrible tactic of the Left, a group characterized by division, lies, and a deep hatred of Christianity and western culture.
John, once again you hit the nail on the head. In our Republic the only criteria must be the merit of the individual. Misplaced compassion is toxic. Leave that to charities and churches.
There is another group in this. The radical feminists are their own special interest group that spews hate against 65% of the population.
Many like to graph the population on a linear scale. In fact it is a giant cube composed of many cubes that have a polarity to attract or reject other cubes. This will eventually cause the large cube to fracture. That process in our nation is already in advanced stages.
The race/racist question/situation seen from all sides. It had to be said, John, and you've said it quite well. And yes, "If we backslide into those old ideas again because Democrats think it may benefit them electorally and a few sociopathic conservative influencers realize that relatively small groups of rabid haters can have an outsized impact online, it will be terrible for the country. These ideas, like the people pushing them, deserve to be unambiguously rejected." Indeed.
I nearly always agree with your positions on the topics you cover regarding American culture, but this time, I don't. I did contribute to Shiloh Hendrix's GiveSendGo but not because I hate blacks or any other race. I don't approve of her calling the child a racist epitaph, but I can understand where she's coming from in her response to the Somali who confronted her. She lives in MN, Ilhan Omar country. She appears to be in the white underclass. Of course I can't read her mind, but I suspect her outrage was due to being frustrated, angry, emotionally discouraged and had already or, at that moment, reached her capacity to tolerate the racism of blacks against whites. I contributed because her emotional outburst put her in danger, and she will very likely have to move far away from where she is now. I doubt very much that she will buy an expensive house and fancy car, and as far as I know, the Anthony family, while loudly proclaiming that they fear for their lives have anything at all to fear.
Are you sure the child is autistic? Are you sure what we are being told about the black side of the story is factually correct? Because I'm not. I was outraged at the behavior of the Anthony kid's family and the money that was raised, rewarding the killing of a white boy. Pitting blacks and other minorities against whites has reached a tipping point that tolerance is not going to fix. Backlash is inevitable.
Conservatives are well-known for our willingness to be nice, to try to get along. What is that getting us? Nothing good. I've never personally had a bad experience with anyone of a different race, but I believe that's because I have never lived in the inner-city of large metropolitan cities. The best regulated and harmonious communities are homogeneous, but Americans have been forced to live as though that isn't true.
Since the 60's the racial diversity of this country has turned into a hotbed of dissension because of blacks being brainwashed into believing they are the butt of discrimination by whites, long after discrimination was well on the wane. The same thing is being done with the Muslim population, most of whom refuse to assimilate, and Leftist Democrats are at the bottom of the problem.
I've had it with my race being reviled because of skin color, when I've never been racist against anyone, and I won't start now. I'm certainly not a hater. But, I will stand with my tribe if it comes to that. This business of certain words being unsayable is part of the problem, too. I'm tired of it. I'm sorry if you believe I'm part of the problem.
Reading your justification of a grown woman calling a five year old child a racial slur is wild to me. Picture it the other way around, what if a black, muslim or hispanic mother had yelled at and insulted a 5 yr old child who is allegedly autistic? The saddest part is that you are playing right into their hands. The racists on the left are empowered by your attitude, by your giving a pass to an overt racist and identifying her with conservatives.
The feminists demanded power. They wanted the same seat that white males had dominated. The got to the competition and discovered two inconveniences.
One - white males are smarter and work harder with respect to the dog-eat-dog world of economic competition.
Two - it was not as fun and satisfying to enter that world as the feminists imagined.
Instead of then altering course to simply support choice for women, to maintain their power dominance agenda like the CCP, feminists came up with the fake scholarship toxic mind virus of Critical Theory as a tool for radical reform to change the system giving preference to those not capable as, or not as interested to work as hard as, white males.
Bye bye meritocracy, hello race, gender and sexual orientation preference.
The leftist cabal has promulgated a victim grievance mindset into the population. It is like a warm fuzzy blanket for those unsatisfied with their station in life, and that are unwilling to do the hard and long work to advance it.
The danger of this has been made apparent by the celebrity making of these murderers of white males.
There would appear to be two tracks of remedy.
One - Punch a feminist. Sounds nasty, but these bitches and witches escape accountability for fomenting deadly violence. Them being threatened this way would help encourage them to stop. Now, this does not necessarily mean a physical punch, although maybe. The way I would punch is to never hire or promote one of these violent fems in my business. And for verbal punching, just lay on the names to humiliate them. To hell with political correctness.
Two - Support Trump extracting everything critical theory and woke from the government and education system.
I think both are needed.
I’ll give you an example of a real hate crime: Any teacher, black or white, who tells a kid that they are screwed because of their skin color. Any parent who tells a child “everybody” hates you. You don’t have a chance, the world is against you. The country you were born in is systematically racist and will work to make your life a misery. Imagine yourself an 8 or 9 year old black kid and hearing that all the time. On the other hand, imagine being a white kid the same age and hearing you’re part of ruination of an entire group of people because of your skin color. Those are hate crimes. People who commit these crimes should be jailed.
Very well said.
John, you are right on with this column. This is one of those issues that people can and will call you names for even bringing it up because it runs counter to their feelings. I have long appreciated Clarence Thomas for repeating "the way to end discrimination in America is to stop discriminating," but the race hustlers will never let it go. They know you can bypass thought if you can go for emotion. Throw in the "goodies/freebies" and it's a tough thing to stop. I've mentioned this in other contexts, but my hope is the Conservatives have a guardrail that protects many from descending into anti-semitism and that is Christ Jesus. How do you hate Jews or Israel when the holder of the key to eternal life was a Jewish man? Thank you for speaking truth about this terrible tactic of the Left, a group characterized by division, lies, and a deep hatred of Christianity and western culture.