{"id":64153,"date":"2017-08-17T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64153"},"modified":"2017-08-16T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T03:13:15","slug":"to-everyone-looking-for-denunciations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64153","title":{"rendered":"To Everyone Looking For “Denunciations”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The other day, a “progressive” – a onetime prog-blogger, who seems to have gone to intellectual seed just a bit – snarked at me on social media; “I haven’t seen your resounding denunciation of the Nazis”. \u00a0 \u00a0(A lesser light who started his political life well in the “To Seed” camp asked me a parallel question – “Did you ever vote for David Duke?”).<\/p>\n

You’d think you progs would be more aware of the history of rhetoric like “did you denounce them with satisfactory fervor? Hm? No? What does THAT tell us?” Orwell wrote a book about it. Stalin held show trials over it. Millions disappeared from this earth over it. (Did you ever denounce that? Send the cite, please).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But what the heck. Let’s put it on the record.<\/p>\n

If you’re member of\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>group that inflicts violence – literal or rhetorical – on people over their race, religion, preference, worldview or other aspecf of humanity? \u00a0Klan, Nazi, “Anti”-Fa or Philly fan?<\/p>\n

Go to hell.<\/p>\n

And if you are one of those sanctimonious virtue-signalers who theatrically demand (“when did you stop beating your\u00a0<\/em>wife?”) show-trial denunciations?<\/p>\n

You go to hell too. \u00a0I’m not saying you’re a totalitarian. \u00a0Merely that totalitarians need lots of people like you to have a chance of taking over a society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That should take care of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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