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Is Israel committing genocide against the Palestinian’s? They might be. But even though I haven’t looked into the matter at all, I highly doubt it.
What? I haven’t done any homework, and I’m confident the Israelis are only visiting the everyday horrors of war on to the Palestinians and not genocide? How can I be so irresponsible? The Israelis could very well be shipping train loads of Palestinians to the Gaza equivalent of Auschwitz right now!
Nah. The Israelis only want to kill Hamas and not the Palestinian civilians that Hamas uses as human shields. And I’ll stand by that conviction because the people hurling the genocide accusation against Israel—our Woke Overlords and their Woke Minions—are the worst definers of words in the history of mankind. Consider the following:
What Is a Woman?
Up until ten years ago, everyone knew what a woman was. It was an adult human who was born with a vagina. But now our Woke Overlords and their Woke Minions have no idea what the hell a woman is. As far as they’re concerned, an adult human born with a vagina is a woman, and an adult human born with a penis who puts on a dress is a woman too.
What Is Violence?
Violence used to be straightforward. You committed violence if you used an object or substance to make malevolent contact with another person’s body or property. If I punched you in the face, I committed violence. But now, according to our Woke Overlords and their Woke Minions, words are also “violence.” So if I say or write anything that offends Woke sensibilities, regardless of how measured and objectively true those words happen to be, I’ve committed “violence.”
What Is Book Banning?
To a normal person, book banning is when the government outlaws a book and punishes anyone who publishes it or possesses it. But that’s not what book banning means to our Woke Overlords and their Woke Minions. “Book banning” is when a school board decides that a book liked by our Woke Overlords isn’t appropriate for school-age children and it must be excluded from the school libraries it oversees. So when school boards decide to exclude books that promote pornography, transgenderism, and anti-white propaganda, that’s “book banning.” When school boards decide to exclude books disliked by our Woke Overlords—such as Huckleberry Finn, The Bell Curve, and Johnny the Walrus—that’s responsible oversight.
What is Systemic Racism?
Systemic racism used to mean one thing. It was when the government reduced a particular race or ethnicity to second-class citizenship because that race or ethnicity supposedly had a genetic defect that made them unsuited to full citizenship. In other words, systemic racism existed when racial or ethnic discrimination was a lawful and socially acceptable feature of society, not a bug. A great example of this is America from post Reconstruction to the end of The Great Society Era (roughly 1878 to 1970). It was legal and socially acceptable to discriminate against black Americans, and this discrimination was justified on the falsehood that blacks were mentally inferior to non-blacks.
Now systemic racism means something different. “Systemic racism” is whenever a race or ethnicity exalted by our Woke Overlords is overrepresented in bad things and underrepresented in good things. Black Americans, for example, are overrepresented in fatal police encounters. And because black Americans are exalted by our Woke Overlords, this overrepresentation is the result of only one thing: “systemic racism.” It doesn’t matter that black Americans are overrepresented in criminal activity and when you control for arrests, black Americans are killed by the police at virtually the same rate as white and Hispanic Americans (12.79 per 100,000 arrests vs. 12.44 and 12.45 respectively). Logic and evidence need not apply. The police are “racist,” and they routinely amuse themselves by “hunting” black Americans.
Quick aside: From a Woke perspective, I understand why our Woke Overlords had to corrupt the meaning of systemic racism. If they hadn’t corrupted it, they would be the bad guys. After all, our Woke Overlords despise the white race, and they are doing everything in their power, on the grounds that whites are morally inferior to non-whites, to legally and socially reduce white Americans to second-class citizens. And our Woke Overlords can’t be the bad guys. So they created a systemic racism loophole. System racism isn’t systemic racism if the race or ethnicity suffering the systemic racism has “power.” And whites have “power.” So it’s perfectly okay to treat them like crap.
What Is a Fascist?
I believe in paycheck freedom. The combined tax bite of all levels of government should be no more than 25 percent of a citizen’s income. I believe in freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to bear arms, and the right to peacefully assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances. I also believe in due process of the law—even for men accused of sexual assault by women. And I also believe in equal protection of the law—even for white people who grew up with a lot of money. Everybody—whether one belongs to a historically marginalized group or a historically exalted group—should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards.
By any objective measure, those beliefs are diametrically opposed to the beliefs championed by both the Italian and German varieties of fascism that existed in the first half of the 20th Century. But because I believe that socialism is nothing more than Woke-approved slavery, and because I believe that DEI is nothing more than Woke-approved Jim Crow, I’m a “fascist.”
Final Thoughts
Again, the Israelis may very well be committing genocide against the Palestinians as we speak. But because our Woke Overlords and their Woke Minions are the worst stewards of the meaning of words in the history of mankind, I refuse to believe it. Our Woke Overlords and their Woke Minions simply can’t be trusted. They don’t use words to enlighten. They only use words to manipulate the uninformed and kill rational discussion.
Okay, groovy freedomist, that’s all I got. Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Peace.
I hope this word definition cliff note type synopsis can be used alongside fact based governing results and proposed policies to enable informed voting choices later this year instead of personality based selections.
Amen, brother. Imagine if we had an election campaign that focused on liberty and the proper role of a government obligated to safeguard liberty? But we can’t have adult conversations in this country anymore. Our Woke Overlords want nothing to do with anything so weighty. So instead we’ll get nothing but “orange-man bad” and “cackle-woman good.” Here are just a handful of questions I would like to see our vaunted press ask both candidates:
How would you define liberty?
What is your plan to stop nearly 60 years of deficit spending?
Do you believe the federal government’s ability to tax should be constitutionally limited? And if so, what should that limit be? Fifteen percent of a person’s income? Twenty-five percent? Fifty percent? More?
Do you think crony capitalism is a problem? And if you do, what do you specifically propose to stop it?
What is your proposal to reduce the cost of healthcare? And not just to the consumer with the magic of government subsidies. How would you reduce the cost of healthcare to anyone who pays for it—be it the consumer, the healthcare insurer, or the government?
Is Martin Luther King, Jr. right or wrong? Should Americans be judged by the content of their character or the color of their skin?
Can you give us an example of DEI being used to reduce the percentage of women or people of color in a workplace?
What did our Founding Fathers believe to be self-evident in our Declaration of Independence?
Can you recite word for word the Sixth Amendment to our Constitution? And if you can, can you do so now?
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln stated that the “great task remaining before [them]” consisted of four things. Can you name them?
Do you think Orange Man or Cackle Woman could adequately answer any of these questions? In a serious country with serious politicians, any politician on the doorstep of the presidency would knock these softball questions out of the park. And in a serious country with serious journalists and serious citizens, these questions would be the norm, not some fantastic thought-experiment dreamed up by an unknown blogger from the wilds of North Carolina. But sadly our country is a joke. No one cares about liberty. No one cares about the proper role of government. Every American just wants more welfare or privilege. And every politician is happy to satisfy those destructive wants.
A long game assignment. The education system has been redirected to other priorities. As former C. I A. Operative Andrew said “Ignorance is celebrated”.
Without a doubt. Our Woke Overlords, with the consent of our Republican quislings, captured education a long time ago. And now our Woke Overlords use that control to sow hatred of America, modesty, self-reliance, capitalism, and white people. I wish I could be more hopeful, but I don’t see how America survives Woke hegemony. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Bill. Awesome comments.
I really regret to say this, but it appears to me that the real threat to our constitutional Republic are rino Republicans.
We need a new generation with a backbone that can play three dimensional chess with the opposition instead of checkers.
Agreed. In the fight against Woke tyranny, Republicans ain’t worth “a warm bucket of spit.” As long as they and their donor class are still able to feast at the federal money trough, they are totally fine with Woke hegemony.
Mr. Groovy,
I also think that anyone that leans right should avoid being a polling chump and decline to answer.
The only one not getting paid in polling is the chump. The Dems raise money to pay for polling. The polling company gives or sells that info to the Dems and the media. The Dems use that to craft winning messaging against Republicans. The media uses that info to sell ads against the news shows they run. Everyone gets paid except the chump. If polling was more expensive, there would be less of it and it would be more valuable and accurate. Hence my thought to stop being chumps.
Elections need to be surprises again.
No need to publish this comment from me but feel free to use this for your own future blog posts. Thanks for the forum!
Interesting. I never looked at polling through this angle. I think you’re on to something.
Lawyers sell their time and knowledge to get paid. Your opinion is also very valuable.
Demand to be paid the next time a poller calls. Then, wait a moment to hear the call disconnect from the poller. Then, smile to yourself.
Dems have no internal compass or true north star. They blow around with whatever wind is blowing.
Take away their wind and they are dead in the water and flop around like fish in a boat.
Stop helping them with messaging.
When is your book coming out?
Hey, Jay. Thanks for asking. My opus on liberty has been a bit tougher to write than I supposed. It turns out that I don’t know liberty nearly as much as I thought. But I’m finally over the hump and it should come this fall, after the election.
Nice. Looking forward to it.