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a most excellent read, on the direction our culture is going. Lock and load guys, the ride is going to be bumpy. link to story Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% and Martin O’Malley came face to face with the tragic state of American progressivism last week, when an 11,000-strong rally of progressive activists was disrupted by #BlackLivesMatter protesters.
Activists marched into the room chanting protest songs before taking the stage in front of a bemused O’Malley to demand concrete commitments on police violence.
Never mind that O’Malley and Sanders are, among presidential candidates, by far the most sympathetic to the concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement: because they’re white, they cannot be trusted, and deserve to have whatever they’re talking about shoved off the agenda by thugs with placards.
It may sound racist and bizarre to be suspicious of candidates like Sanders and O’Malley on the basis of their ethnicity alone, but when you consider the primacy of identity politics in the progressive movement today, it really isn’t that surprising.
Since the 1970s, social psychologists have been aware that emphasising differences between groups leads to mistrust and hostility. In a series of landmark experiments, the psychologist Henri Tajfel found that even wearing different-coloured shirts was enough for groups to begin displaying signs of mistrust.
So guess what happens when you tell everyone that their worth, their ability, their right to speak on certain subjects and – shudder – their “privilege” is based on what they were born with, rather than any choices they’ve made or who they are?
It’s possible that feminists mistrust the likes of O’Malley and Sanders because they’re male. Or gay progressives mistrust them because they’re straight. Or trans activists mistrust them because they’re cis.
This is what the future of progressivism looks like: blacks fighting gays fighting lesbians fighting trans fighting everyone else. It’s the iron law of victimhood-driven identity politics. Someone has to win, and everyone else has to lose.
Identity politics is universally attractive because it enables failures and weaknesses to be spun as the products of oppression and historical injustice. But for legacy castes, it can be humiliating and deeply unfair. Take MTV’s White People, for instance: an hour of television designed to produce discomfort in those with the wrong skin colour. Lots more, and very detailed. Worth looking up and reading it.
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In a way, I welcome it. Wars can be cleansing.
Islam is a terrorist organization.
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We are being Balkanized and people are falling for it. I'm convinced that gunfire is going to be the only solution. The question is the time.
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Do you really need a 3rd party goading you to make you want to harm minorities?
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
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Sam, you and I have been seeing this here for a long time. Get everybody hatin' on everybody else.
Meanwhile, somebody's in the hen house stealin' the eggs.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Yes, a most excellent read, Sam. Thanks for posting.
and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) d.v. Musings on TDS
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I don't want to harm White People , they are now the minorities
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Minority Wars: Setting everyone against everyone That's just the "diversity" the liberals preach. That's their goal. They think they are going to win. ...and they may.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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We are being Balkanized and people are falling for it. I'm convinced that gunfire is going to be the only solution. The question is the time. Divide et impera
Me solum relinquatis
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Yah but in the meantime ALL them Leftist splinter groups will vote for whoever the Democrat is in 2016.
OTOH we'll be obsessing and dividing over stuff like the Confederate flag issue and similar Democrat ploys, so that enough of us get PO'd at whoever the Republican nominee is and sit it out so we end up with President Hillary.....
Simple really.
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