Has there ever been a more perfect Social Justice Warrior headline than this?
Katrina survivors call for reproductive rights in face of climate change https://t.co/XcJWTz7hXL pic.twitter.com/PSobttukWY
— Climate Progress (@climateprogress) August 31, 2018
I’m not aware that “Climate Progress” is a parody site, long the lines of The Onion or Babylon Bee, although it’d explain a lot. Either way.
About a year and a half ago, I wrote one of my favorite pieces in the history of this blog – Unpacking the Invisible NPR Tote Bag, which spelled out the ideal of “Urban Progressive Privilege.
I described the phenomenon if “Urban Progressive Privilege” by tracing a line from the document from which the term “White Privilege” sprang – “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by one Peggy McIntosh:
Urban Progressive Privilege is like an invisible weightless NPR tote bag of special permissions, immunities, secret handshakes, Whole Foods gift cards, a virtual echo chamber accompanying everyone who has that privilege, filtering out almost all cognitive dissonance about political, social or moral questions, and a virtual “cone of silence” immunizing them from liability for anything they say or do that contradicts the group’s stated principles. As we in Human studies work to reveal Urban Progressive Privilege and ask urban progressives to become aware of their power, so one who writes about havingUrban Progressive Privilege must ask, “having described it, what will I do to lessen or end it?”
It was, to a degree, satire – and, like a lot of satire, it was simultaneously journalism. Privilege does exist in our society – but social, economic, educational and geographic class at the end of the day count for (I’ll be charitable) every bit as much as race. Can anyone say that Clarence Thomas is held in lower regard (by people other than Ryan Winkler, anyway) than John Roberts?
I wrote the piece originally because the ideal that “whiteness” – whatever that means, as if a “race” that simultaneously includes Norwegians and Armenians, Slavs and Spaniards, has any actual ethnic meaning – conveys so much privilege by itself that a white house painter in Spooner Wisconsin has social, cultural, financial and legal advantage over Oprah Winfrey or Sarah Jeong is so comically absurd.
So absurd, I thought, that it had to have been written by someone who was so detached by class privilege that they hadn’t the foggiest idea what life was like outside of their class bubble.
Lo and behold, I was right.
William Ray digs into Peggy McIntosh’s knapsack in this brightly illuminating piece in Quillette.
When I say “I was right” – well, I was being modest:
Peggy McIntosh was born Elisabeth Vance Means in 1934. She grew up in Summit, New Jersey where the median income is quadruple the American national average—that is to say that half the incomes there are more than four times the national average, some of them substantially so. McIntosh’s father was Winthrop J. Means, the head of Bell Laboratories electronic switching department during the late 1950s. At that time, Bell Labs were the world leaders in the nascent digital computing revolution. Means personally held—and sold patents on—many very lucrative technologies, including early magnetic Gyro-compass equipment (U.S. Patent #US2615961A) which now helps to guide nuclear missiles and commercial jets, and which keeps satellites in place so you can navigate with your phone and communicate with your Uber driver. Means is also recorded as the inventor of a patent held by Nokia Bell in 1959 known as the Information Storage Arrangement. This device is the direct progenitor of ROM computer memory, and is cited in the latter’s patent filed in 1965 for IBM. So, long before Peggy McIntosh wrote her paper, her family was already having an outsized effect on Western culture.
Elizabeth Vance Means then attended Radcliffe, a renowned finishing school for the daughters of America’s patrician elites, and continued her private education at the University of London (ranked in the top 50 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings), before completing her English Doctorate at Harvard. Her engagement to Dr. Kenneth McIntosh was announced in the New York Times‘s social register on the same page as the wedding of Chicago’s Mayor Daley. McIntosh’s father, Dr. Rustin McIntosh, was Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Columbia University. His mother was President Emeritus of Barnard College, an institution in the opulent Morningside Heights district of Manhattan, famous since 1889 for providing the daughters of the wealthiest Americans with liberal arts degrees…[husband] Kenneth McIntosh was himself a graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy, which boasted alumni including Daniel Webster, the sons of Presidents Lincoln and Grant, and a number of Rockefeller scions. He later completed his elite education at Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. By the time of his marriage to Elizabeth, Kenneth McIntosh was a senior resident at the prestigious Brigham Hospital in Boston, founded by millionaire Peter Bent.
In other words, Peggy McIntosh was born into the very cream of America’s aristocratic elite, and has remained ensconced there ever since.
So Peggy McIntosh is the scion – scienne? Scionette? – of a family that is in the top fraction of the top 1% of people in this country in terms of social, educational (or at least “Educational Affiliation”), financial and cultural stature.
And this leads up to a summation that could soon become a Berg’s 7th Law corollary:
Her ‘experiential’ list enumerating the ways in which she benefits from being born with white skin simply confuses racial privilege with the financial advantages she has always been fortunate enough to enjoy.
And – I’d add, from my position as an observer – it provided cover for the vastly more toxic “Urban Progressive Privilege”. Ray says nearly as much:
All of which means that pretty much anything you read about ‘white privilege’ is traceable to an ‘experiential’ essay written by a woman who benefitted from massive wealth, a panoply of aristocratic connections, and absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever. This alone calls into question the seriousness and scholarly validity of the derivative works, since they are all the fruit of a poisonous tree. But McIntosh’s hypothesis was eagerly embraced nonetheless, because it served a particular purpose—it helped to mainstream a bitter zero-sum politics of guilt and identity. This dark epistemology has quietly percolated through the universities and the wider culture for two decades now. It has had the effect of draining attention from a massive and growing wealth gap and it has pitted the poor against one another in public spectacles of acrimony and even violence.
“Progressivism” has ended up on the “wrong” side of the class war it has always espoused: they are the patricians, and have been for over a century now.
Idenitymongering – and the firehose of “privilege” allegations that are one of its weapons – is one way of dividing the unruly plebes against each other, as Ray points out:
A school board in British Columbia even thought it would be a good idea to greet its poor and working class white middle school students with this poster reminding them of the guilty burden they bear on account of their skin:
No, it’s not a flyer for a community theater production of “1984”. Yet.
I grew up a very poor white kid. By which I mean, single-mother-on-welfare-in-Alberta poor. As a child, I remember feeling utterly hopeless about ever making any sort of life for myself. If I were at school in British Columbia today, I would now have to deal with seeing this admonition every morning as well. One wonders why Teresa Downs doesn’t simply step down from her $200,000 a year job and pass it to a person of colour since she acquired it unfairly. Is her public declaration of culpability supposed to be compensation enough? Presumably, like Peggy McIntosh, she has convinced herself that human well-being will be better served by shaming the children of people whose average annual income is around $23,000.
I suggest you read the whole thing; as much as I pullquoted, there is so much more.
This week, I started going over the political and social aspects of various personality disorders, viewed through the lense of Shahida Arabi’s excellent piece, “20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You”.
Yesterday it was “Gaslighting” – the narcissistic abuser’s way of trying to convince you not to trust your own lying perceptions, mind and memories.
Today, it’s the trait that helped put this blog on the map: Projection:
Berg’s Seventh Law Is In DSM-V. Sort Of: Arabi’s second point is “Projection”; she describes it:
One sure sign of toxicity is when a person is chronically unwilling to see his or her own shortcomings and uses everything in their power to avoid being held accountable for them. This is known as projection. Projection is a defense mechanism used to displace responsibility of one’s negative behavior and traits by attributing them to someone else. It ultimately acts as a digression that avoids ownership and accountability.
Sound familiar?
It’s another term for Berg’s Seventh Law; “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.”.
While we all engage in projection to some extent, according to Narcissistic Personality clinical expert Dr. Martinez-Lewi, the projections of a narcissist are often psychologically abusive.
Like, for example, fretting about an “oncoming wave of right-wing violence” (perhaps by tiki-torch-carrying cartoon figures) while ignoring or cheering on gas-mask-clad “Anti”-fa thugs destroying property and beating up peaceful event-goers.
So yeah – of course it sounds familiar:
Rather than acknowledge their own flaws, imperfections and wrongdoings, malignant narcissists and sociopaths opt to dump their own traits on their unsuspecting suspects in a way that is painful and excessively cruel. Instead of admitting that self-improvement may be in order, they would prefer that their victims take responsibility for their behavior and feel ashamed of themselves. This is a way for a narcissist to project any toxic shame they have about themselves onto another.
And yes, it has resonance in the world of Trump (or Bush, or Reagan) Derangement syndrome:
Narcissistic abusers love to play the “blameshifting game.” Objectives of the game: they win, you lose, and you or the world at large is blamed for everything that’s wrong with them. This way, you get to babysit their fragile ego while you’re thrust into a sea of self-doubt. Fun, right?
Fun – and the status quo in our society. Especially here in MInnesota.
Solution? Don’t “project” your own sense of compassion or empathy onto a toxic person and don’t own any of the toxic person’s projections either. As manipulation expert and author Dr. George Simon (2010) notes in his book In Sheep’s Clothing, projecting our own conscience and value system onto others has the potential consequence of being met with further exploitation.
TL:dr version: don’t take their crap.
Tomorrow – “Word Sadal”
Yesterday, I introduced you to an article. “20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You” by Shahida Arabi.
It’s a fairly brilliant piece on coping with people with the variety of personality disorders that are slowly being recognized – sociopathy, narcissism (the two favorite pop-culture “diagnoses” of Donald Trump, among the Trump deranged – which is one reason I’m almost reticent about writing this piece; it’s become “hip” to call people you disagree with sociopaths and narcissists, lately).
But the more I read it – and the more I see the way our nation’s political conversation is going – the more I think it’s a coping mechanism for … well, the rest of us, in dealing with our nation’s socio-political and media ruling classes.
Because my case is this: The behavior isn’t all that different.
Gaslighting: Arabi describes “Gaslighting” as follows:
Gaslighting is a manipulative tactic that can be described in different variations of three words: “That didn’t happen,” “You imagined it,” and “Are you crazy?” Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality; it eats away at your ability to trust yourself and inevitably disables you from feeling justified in calling out abuse and mistreatment.
Is a comprehensive rewrite of history – “our entire history is racist”, “Reagan didn’t really have anything to do with bringing down the USSR” – gaslighting?
Does systematically impugning the motives and morality of those who differ from the narrative – “The NRA is a terrorist organisation”, “‘Whitenesss’ is an existential problem” – qualify?
Absolutely:
When a narcissist, sociopath or psychopath gaslights you, you may be prone to gaslighting yourself as a way to reconcile the cognitive dissonance that might arise. Two conflicting beliefs battle it out: is this person right or can I trust what I experienced? A manipulative person will convince you that the former is an inevitable truth while the latter is a sign of dysfunction on your end.
“All of society’s problems trace back to systematic racism/white supremacy/male privilege” – no matter what the actual parties’ actual beliefs, stories, background and motiovations? That certainly qualifies.
How does one resist?
In order to resist gaslighting, it’s important to ground yourself in your own reality – sometimes writing things down as they happened, telling a friend or reiterating your experience to a support network can help to counteract the gaslighting effect. The power of having a validating community is that it can redirect you from the distorted reality of a malignant person and back to your own inner guidance.
This is true. And it’s something the gaslighters know, too – because they do their darnedest to shut down that “validating community”; it’s why Big Left is doing its best to remove conservative news and opinion from social media, to push the return of regulations like “The Fairness Doctrine”, to jam down “Net Neutrality” and the like; because like any abusive partner, they know that that support network stands between them and complete brainwashing.
Next installment: Projection.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The old Leftist slogan “Question Authority” has become “Question Other Authority.” You should question all authority except Liberal Authority; them, you should believe without question.
As more young people buy into the new idea, this shift has exciting implications for the fields of climate science, law enforcement and politics.
Also academic freedom .
Also freedom.
…is frequently nearly impossible to tell apart from reality.
If a conservative were to say bla blq bla that Jimmy Kimmel just bla bla bla yadda yadda:
In the place of ABC’s late-night Jimmy Kimmel: The “Man Show” Jimmy Kimmel. The only thing missing were the women on trampolines.
Kimmel took aim Thursday at the Christian proprietor of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado. For the late-night funny man, the takeaway from Jack Phillips’ refusal to bake a cake celebrating a trans person’s transition is that the cakemaker might be gay, and that he sure looks gay.
“It’s funny because this is a guy who spends all day, every day, meticulously designing flowers out of icing. His whole life is gay, OK?” Kimmel said to laughs. “I don’t know if the wrong cake might bring that to life or what.”
The late-night host turned his attention to the shop owner’s physical appearance, adding for good measure that Phillips is “the totally straight cake baker.”
“You would think that someone who looks like the Reba McEntire’s version of Col. Sanders would be more sympathetic to gender identity issues,” the host laughed.
“Progs” jabber about “right wing hate”, and then marinade their own culture in the real thing.
The most depressingly evergreen story in all of media.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If you are a Minnesota White Male who sincerely believes that white privilege exists, that it arises from the vestiges of slavery still persistent in our society, and that you are tainted with it solely because of your race, then you must concede it would be immoral for you to continue to exploit your white privilege at the expense of other, more deserving persons of color and gender.
Having conceded it’s immoral for you to keep your job, your house, your car and your retirement account, shouldn’t you quit your job, give away your house and car, close your retirement account and distribute it to the people holding cardboard signs at stoplights? Shouldn’t you pull your kids out of STEM school so they don’t grow up privileged and thereby perpetuate the inequalities in society?
Shouldn’t a person of moral integrity immediately act to redress existing injustice and avoid causing more? If you fail to do so, doesn’t that make you a hypocritical lying crap-weasel? Why would I listen to anything a person like that says to me about privilege or race?
I’m waiting for all the “Free House, Volvo Included” signs to pop up in Mac-Groveland.
You and me both ,Joe.
I’ve been known to mock and taunt the likes of Sarah Jeong, Alondra Cano and Nekima Levy-Pounds for their comical take on “privilege” – including the implication that a guy driving a truck 70 hours a week out in Oil Country has “privilege” over people with elite educations and lifetime political / media sinecures.
Some might think I’m being hyperbolic, or exaggerating the moral dementia of this class of “Progressives”.
Oh, silly pollyannas. I dion’t have to exaggerate anything:
A feminist professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada recently published a book chapter documenting the myriad ways homeless men allegedly perpetuate “hegemonic masculinity” while discussing their hardships.
The book chapter, “When a Man’s Home is Not a Castle: Hegemonic Masculinity Among Men Experiencing Homelessness,” was published last Wednesday by Professor Erin Dej, in a book she co-edited on patriarchy in psychiatric wards and homeless shelters.
The goal of her research, she explains, was to “assess the ways hypermasculinity is performed among men experiencing homelessness.” And to do this, Dej interviewed 27 homeless men and spent and additional 296 hours spying on them in homeless shelters.
Up next – how lab rats are part of the patriarchy.
Satirical yet real:
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Something new for SITD – a movie review.
I almost skipped “The Greatest Showman” because the reviews were bad. Critics hated it. P.T. Barnum wasn’t cool. The film focused on the wrong things. They wanted it to be about racism, not circuses. But I’m tired of being scolded for sins I didn’t commit and I’ve always enjoyed the circus so when I happened to be on an airplane where the film was available to watch on the seat-back screen, I dove right in. I’m glad I watched it. I recommend you watch it, too.
I don’t know much about Barnum’s personal beliefs and I really don’t care. Every genius, every general, every giant had warts but that’s not why we remember them. And sure, the film shows historical social disapproval of inter-racial dating, but that’s nothing new. The plot device is “star-crossed lovers” and it’s as old as Pyramus and Thisbe, as classic as Romeo and Juliet, as popular as Showboat or West Side Story. Get over yourselves, people, it’s just a movie and more importantly, it’s a lot of fun. I particularly liked the “Come Alive” scene and the finale. They show the circus that I remember when I was a kid and the magic came to town.
We could use a lot more of that in America, today.
Joe Doakes
I keep wondering if, much less when, the social pendulum is going to swing back the other way.
It just keeps swinging out toward “absurd”.
Actually, that’d be a fun blog project someday; trace the rise and fall of ideological intolerance over time. Toxic Metastatic PC isn’t the first bout of it our culture has had, although it’s a doozy.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The people demanding a ban on plastic drinking straws are all young and hip. They think it’d be easy to switch to paper straws and way cool.
Those of us who are old and unhip remember paper straws. They collapsed when sucking a malt. They got soggy and mashed in your mouth when drinking a Coke so you had to keep ripping the end off, making the straw shorter and shorter. They were skinny and tasted bad.
But hey, bring back the past, by all means – trains and paper straws and bicycle-only-streets. I can’t wait for buggy whips.
Joe Doakes
We’re getting a lot of the big innovations from the LBJ and McGovern era. Why not paper straws. And Cnevy Citations.
City of Santa Barbara votes to give jail time for straw buyers.
Hahaha. Just kidding
They voted to give jail time to restaurant workers who give straws to customers, passing an ordinance…
…that will allow restaurant employees to be punished with up to six months of jail time or a $1,000 fine for giving plastic straws to their customers.
The bill was passed unanimously last Tuesday, and covers bars, restaurants, and other food-service businesses. Establishments will still be allowed to hand out plastic stirrers, but only if customers request them.
Santa Barbara’s ordinance “is likely the most severe straw ban in the country,” according to Reason, but it’s far from the only straw ban. Seattle banned plastic straws earlier this month, mandating a a $250 fine for violators. Santa Barbara, however, has gone much further than Seattle — even aside from the harsher punishments its law imposes. Santa Barbara has banned not only plastic straws, but also compostable straws. Oh, and each individual straw counts as a separate infraction, meaning that if someone got busted handing out straws to a table of four people, he or she could end up facing years behind bars.
Presumably if the waitstaff are illegal immigrants or DREAMers there’ll be some sort of exemption.
…but only barely.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The horror.
And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, The Rest of the Story.
Not a rare species, according to a scientist. Big game hunts fund conservation efforts, stimulate the local economy and feed local villagers. The news story here is virtue-signaling Bambi-lovers tweeting nonsense, trying to incite violence against an American citizen. Why isn’t that illegal?
“Why isn’t that illegal?”
Because, like “Anti”-Fa attacking innocent protesters, if someone in official leftist circles stood up and did something about it, they’d never do lunch again.
Glad we could settle that.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Democrats insist the policy of separating children from adults is inhumane. I’d like to hear a better policy, one that addresses this situation:
Adult man and little girl are apprehended in Texas walking North, away from the border with Mexico, along with 20 other people. They have no documents aside from a Xerox copy of Refugee Instructions distributed by an open borders advocacy group, printed in Spanish.
The Border Patrol asks the man for his passport and visa to prove he has legal permission to enter the country. He says they were stolen. He claims the girl is his child and they are refugees seeking asylum from persecution in his home country.
The Border Patrol asks the girl “Is this man your Papa?” to which she replies “No, I want my Mama, I want to go home.”
When confronted with the child’s statement, the man says the child’s father was killed by the narco-terrorists who have taken over his village, he is technically the child’s step-father, the child’s mother was travelling with them but was separated from the group when they ran from the Border Patrol, and he is attempting to reach Chicago, where a cousin resides. He’s hoping to be reunited with his wife there.
He also says he’s read the paper from the advocacy group, knows his rights, demands a lawyer, and insists on being released with the child plus provided transportation and food vouchers according to the policies set by the Obama administration.
You are aware of this news article from 2010, and Border Patrol agency reports documenting the problem is on-going.
You are setting policy. What should the Border Patrol do with the man and the child for the next few hours? The next few days? Long term?
Joe Doakes
Your overthinking it, Joe.
It’s all – every bit of it – about eliciting an emotional response from the ignorant.
Who are the Democrat voting base.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Sarah Hoyt asks the right question: what’s the margin of civilization?
Look, pretty much any organization can carry one freeloader. Usually, it’s the boss’s nephew. Certain union shops and government offices seem to have more of them because productivity isn’t tied to profit.
But at some point, if all you hire are Pajama Boys and Diversity Coordinators, who’s doing the welding? Who’s going to climb the power pole during the thunderstorm to reconnect the cables? Who’s going down in the manhole – ooops, sorry, person hole – to shovel the clogged sewage? Who’s the roughneck throwing the chain around the drill pipe when you’re coming out of the hole in the Badlands of North Dakota? Who’s the cop wading into the bar fight? Who’s the firefighter climbing down the ladder with my fat a** slung over the shoulder?
Diversity is a fact, not a goal. At least, not for long. After the collapse of civilization, it will be a curse word.
Joe Doakes
As Glenn Reynolds says, things that can’t be sustained, won’t be. Probably holds true for people, too.
“Environmentalists” get a pass on flying around the world in private jets to environmental conferences because they make the right noises.
Sexual harassers get a pass from #MeeeeToooos on, well, harassing sexually because they make the right noises.
Politicians who demand small businesses pay minimum wages far above the market rate pay their staff serf wages, without a peep in opposition, because they make the right noises about abortion.
Yappy gun grabber demands you give up your guns, while surrounded by armed security guards, and not a pundit so much as scratches their head at the arrogance, because he makes the right noises.
Is there any sin “the right noises” can’t get forgiven?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
A Jew turned Christian turned Evangelical says Christians “sold” their principles in supporting Trump. Time to move beyond social battles and forsake the politics of hate, fear and violence. Time to embrace gun control. Time to be like Episcopalians.
In other words, Never Trump.
He’s not alone. Catholic bishops in the United States have embraced Open Borders, climate change, gun control . . .
In other words, Never Trump.
I don’t understand the New World Order. I’m stuck in the Old World, the world in which the purpose of religion was to save my immortal soul from eternal damnation, a risk posed by my personal moral failings. Hellfire and damnation were the punishment for sin, not the result of global warming caused by greenhouse gasses emitted by the engine in my car. I was admonished to live in the world, but not be of it, that I might someday be worthy of salvation and heaven.
Either everybody has been doing it wrong for the last 2,000 years or modern religion has completely lost its way. I’m beginning to think it’s time to write out a few theses and find myself a hammer.
Joe Doakes
When progs finally get around to rewriting the Bible, Christ will work for a non-profit that sought justice for carpenters.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Our new Division Director is a Black woman whose first act was to order an all-day, all-staff training on racism. The class starts with slavery, proceeds through Jim Crow, and ends with White Privilege.
I tried to weasel out of going to the class on the grounds that I’m too busy providing service to our actual customers to spent a day sitting in a conference room listening to the same spiel I’ve heard for the last decade, but no luck. I would have loved to ask a few questions. I didn’t, of course, because asking questions is asking for trouble; but if I could have done so safely, I’d have asked:
Americans historically were gung-ho on efficiency and innovation. Going all the way to Africa to capture and ship human cargo only to toss half of them overboard (thereby altering the migration habits of sharks) seems like a lot of work and wasteful besides. Why did Americans invent slavery?
If American’s didn’t invent slavery, who did? How long was it around before we adopted the practice? When was the last slave in the world freed?
If slavery was part of the universal human condition since time immemorial until we stopped it a century ago, and if slavery only occurs today in places where America has not exercised its power to stamp it out, then why are we spending all day talking about it?
Formal slavery ended in America 150 years ago. Jim Crow – when and where it existed – ended 50 years ago. Minnesota never had either one. Why are we, as Minnesotans, spending all day talking about it?
White Privilege occurs because of White families working and sacrificing so their children would live in a better society. Granted, the children didn’t do anything to deserve that society – they didn’t build that – but why is it wrong for parents to work and sacrifice for their children? What values should we – as employees of the local government – be encouraging local families to adopt instead?
If only I didn’t need my job . . . .
Joe Doakes
What’s the word for the thing that comes after education has turned into indoctrination, and then into browbeating, and then…
What’s that word?
The Southern Poverty Law Center loses a $3 million defamation suit:
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has apologized for including the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism group, and its founder, Maajid Nawaz, in its Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. “Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,” the SPLC wrote in a statement. The SPLC will also pay a $3.375 million settlement to Quilliam that will be used to fight “anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,” according to a Quilliam press release.
But…what made the SPLC refer to them as a “hate group?”
“We were able to fight back against the Regressive Left and show them that moderate Muslims will not be silenced,” Nawaz said in the release.
Aaaah. It all makes sense now.
Fathers Day greetings from the world’s social justice pimps:
I have seen at least three businesses lately that have signs or t-shirts in the window that boldly state: “The Future is Female,” probably placed there by someone (male or female) who thinks they are a good and altruistic person who doesn’t hate. But they are wrong. Advertising, whether it be in the Washington Post or a storefront window, that men are to be hated or excluded from the future of America is hate in its rawest form, plain and simple.
I have but five words for these social justice warriors who think that they are just speaking truth to power: “Hate Has No Home Here.” It never will; as long as you hate men and innocent boys in this country, you are the problem, not the solution. And the rest of us will treat you as such.
Y’know how you can tell those sort of contempt is catching on? The market is reacting to it. For thirty years, now, advertising for products and services largely bought by women have increasingly portrayed men as incompetent, bumbling overgrown children (inevitably and inexplicably married to gorgeous, accomplished women). The market caters to things it sees people actually believing.
“But men do it too!”
Nah. Look at ads for products catering to men – women may be portrayed as objects of juvenile desire, but the contempt just isn’t there.
The ads – like the signs – are the symptom. The illness is “Feminism” as a politicla and social identity.
It’s 2018. Anyone can do anything they want…
…with the exception of stepping off the plantation in any way, if you’re black, Latino, gay or female.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Screenshot from this morning.
Tommy Robinson put in deadly peril for protesting Muslim child-rape gangs who sexually abused thousands of real girls; Congress about to ban child sex robots used by perverts who hurt no living person. Protecting evil while punishing fantasy. Insane.
Hard to know who to want to smack, some days.
The mayor of London has clearly solved all of their real problems:
If I lived in London, I would start by writing a biography of every woman that was stabbed in the past year, now that London’s violent crime rate has surpassed New York City’s for the first time in history.
Happy to help, Mayor Khan.
