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| 2017-06-01 |
| h/t Instapundit It is imperative we begin emulating the left in its tactics. A couple of years ago, I suggested a completely different strategy: I wanted to pursue a kinder path. I wanted an end to the speech wars and social media mobs and boycotts and all the rest of it. But that path has been tried, and it has failed. Passive resistance -- moral resistance -- can only work when dealing with opponents with morality and honor, or who, at least, see you as more than subhuman. ...watch this video of the Empowered Mob demanding more firings at Evergreen college last week, and tell me the path of merely condemning mob lunacy is having any effect at all. The Empowered, Privileged Mob demanded -- demanded! -- that white people absent themselves from their space, and this is what happened to those who said, "No, that's racist, and teaching class is my job." ...Leftist students cannot be taught anything -- they now routinely scream at professors (you know, the people they're allegedly paying to learn from) that they must SHUT UP AND LISTEN. They come to the university already knowing all there is to know, and in fact are only present to teach their professors; one wonders, then, why it isn't the students being paid, and the professors paying tuition to learn their collective, shouty, expletive-filled wisdom. ...If you're a sadist, and an insecure individual with little credit to his name, you can build yourself up into a Social Justice War-Fighter by constantly attacking others and making them miserable and afraid. ...Do they ever actually suffer for their own choices? Do they ever experience a setback larger than just not getting their way, this week? No. And it's time for that to change. If a sadistic, insecure, submediocre individual enjoys tormenting those he deems enemies, like a child who enjoys pulling the wings off flies, he will not stop -- ever -- unless he is made to feel the same pain himself. We intended that by passively resisting, they would see us as showing moral courage and would learn from us that ceaseless violence and bullying and collectivized political campaigns run against everyday citizens pursuing no public office are wrong. But they didn't learn that. What our self-restraint has taught them is quite the opposite--when we refuse to fight back, they take that as signalling that deep down, we know they're right and that we are the monsters, and thus, our refusal to engage them in the fight they've started does not prove our moral rightness, but instead our moral corruption. We think: We are showing them a better way by acting in a manner that is morally superior. They infer: They are submitting to us as if they are our inferiors, therefore they must know that they are in fact our inferiors. The most important thing to understand about the left: whether it's Ghetto youts rioting in the streets, or professors in the most prestigious universities; they are dumb barbs who neither understand, nor like, the civilization that we've build - they just want to loot it. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 And it only took "Ace" a couple of years to figure out what's been obvious to any one with brains from the get-go. Your "Troo Conservative Leadership" ladies and gentlemen. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-06-01 18:47 |
| #3 Evergreen College - Alma Mater and Home of the annual Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfastâ„¢ |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-06-01 07:21 |
| #2 Leftists are narcissists. They do not think they have to reciprocate. Therefore they loot. However, reciprocation is the fount of civilization. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-06-01 05:38 |
| #1 The link to video doesn't work, so here it is |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-01 03:56 |