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| Sliding Back To Slavery – Kate Paulk |
| 2015-05-18 |
| Before I get to the meat of this, I should probably mention that if there's anyone in the entire universe who won't get pissed off about what I've got to say they probably don't have the capacity to understand it. It has to do with things we in the USA and most of the rest of the Western world have been taught are forbidden. And no, it's not racist. It just steps on a lot of the fences that have been built around the concept of racial bigotry so people can't accidentally be racist. Sarah's mentioned the way humans everywhere do this: if something is taboo, then a whole ring of related things also become taboo so nobody accidentally breaks the original taboo. The problem with that is that eventually you run out of taboos and wind up in the realm of "Everything that isn't permitted is forbidden" instead of where we of a more freedom-loving bent prefer to be, "Everything that isn't forbidden is permitted." Okay. So, that said, we Odds are among those fighting the slide of the USA (and with it, the rest of the Western world) back into the bad old days where anyone who wasn't in power was functionally owned by their nation/state/kingdom/whatever. I've seen the confusion over why people keep wanting "the government" to take care of things without realizing that in doing so people are giving up their freedom. The simple fact is, the USA is an outlier nation built on the backs of some truly extraordinary outliers. "Normal" humans (by this I mean "pick a random person from anywhere in Europe, Asia, or Africa") are tribal. If we were using animal terminology, we'd be either pack or herd animals, to the extent that most people (at the 90% or higher kind of range, the last time I was looking at the research) would rather remain at the bottom of the pecking order in a social/societal hierarchy than attempt to exist without one. In short, they'd rather be slaves with a more or less predictable existence than be free without any of those certainties. In the USA and the other colony nations where the percentage of people descended from colonists and willing immigrants is markedly higher than any other demographic (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc.) there is a much stronger interest in and desire for individual freedom. The entire Anglosphere tends to value individual freedom more highly than most other cultures. Now, here's the fun part... |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 and according to the left - if you are white, or male, or hetrosexual, or conservative, or successful, or married to the opposite gender - you are already guilty. Guilty! GUILTY! And fully deserving whatever punishment decreed. That may be having to work your ass off to get even what the 'protected classes' get for free (from your earnings). It may mean having to bow and scrape and apologize profusely for so-called crimes your ancestors might, or probably might not have done 150 years ago. It may mean never, ever saying 'NO' to someone of a certain protected class. the list goes on and on. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-05-18 17:05 |
| #1 13th Amendment Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. You understand, for the Left, anyone or anything that does not comply with their commands you are indeed committing a crime punishable with the penalty of slavery. As Obama/Holder DoJ has declared, simply being accused makes you guilty (ask any male student accused of inappropriate sexual misconduct on campus how that works). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-18 15:01 |