Yesterday Mr. D posted on what any conservative more than five minutes old has learned, which is conservatives are not allowed to have certain thoughts. And, a couple days ago I posted on an irony I’ve longed noticed on the Left, that they view themselves as tolerant and open and decry attempts to enforce, as they see it, conformity, yet they themselves are wholly intolerant when faced with opposing viewpoints.
All this reminded me of a friend of mine from my school daze. He’s a genuinely gentle and nice fellow, but he’s of the Leftist persuasion.
He posted this on facebook awhile back, before the election, and the resulting tongue baths from other lefty friends were what you’d expect.
I believe that the most valuable ideal is kindness.
I believe that all people, regardless of ethnicity, race, religious belief
or non-belief, political alignment, sexual orientation and status in life
are deserving of respect.I’m not perfect in embracing this next ideal but I do my best. It’s all
about having an open mind. I may not agree with the political positions,
religious beliefs, or phobias of others but I do my best to listen to and
respect others.
Then, pulling a 12-G turn, he posted this awhile later…
I am tired of listening to you all! And now I ask that if you truly believe
that we are better off under the current President, if you believe that we
don’t need stricter laws and bans of certain guns, and/or if you have or
intend to disparage the young people of March for Our Lives…then please
unfriend me now and save me the trouble of having to do so myself, which I already have done for some others.I no longer have the patience to listen to you.
The resulting tongue baths from other lefty friends were what you’d expect.
You’d think the cognitive dissonance would be strong enough to render a tiny tear in the fabric of space-time. Fortunately, all Leftist hardware comes with a special “the Left is always right” filter factory-installed, and this filter smooths out any wild fluctuations in the logic circuits.
I long ago lost any hope that the Right could simply present the better argument and out-debate the Left while standing on our respective soap boxes in Hyde Park, or Central Park, or Whatever Park. My guiding philosophy has been replaced by this warning from The Terminator.
Listen, and understand. That terminator [the Left] is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
David French came up in the discussion of Mr. D’s post. He has this article in The Atlantic, where he is now a contributor. (Note: if you’re the acceptable House Conservative for a joint that got rid of Kevin Williamson for WrongThink, you’re doing something wrong.)
The American right has lost the plot on free speech. The passage of Florida’s House Bill 1557, which bans “classroom instruction” on “sexual orientation and gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade and in a manner that isn’t “age appropriate or developmentally appropriate” in all grades, K–12, is merely the latest in a string of what the free-speech-advocacy organization PEN America has called “education gag orders” that have been proposed by Republicans and passed by red-state legislatures from coast to coast.
Never mind that French looks to PEN America, a standard-issue Lefty advocacy group, as the authority on what “free speech” is. How French got so far off the beam as to conflate “parents objecting to the sexualization of young children in public schools” with “stifling free speech” is mind-boggling. It is far beyond just a righteous Never Trump knee spasm.
The right is now in the process of unlearning liberty. After decades of litigation and legislation, it largely gained what it wanted: a much more free marketplace of ideas. But it is difficult for a commitment to liberty to survive partisan animosity. If you hate or fear your opponents enough, it is hard to resist the siren song of using raw state power to silence their voices.
Yet censorship is inconsistent with American pluralism. Speech codes and book bans undermine one of the core purposes of American education. We send our kids to school not just to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic, but to learn how to be citizens in a liberal democracy, and a core value of that democracy is a commitment to free speech—for me and for thee.
It wasn’t all that long ago we would never have imagined that the barricades would be formed by piling up desks at the front of the classroom, but that is where we are. We don’t send our kids to school to be indoctrinated. We are not powerless, doomed to let any radical walk into that classroom and say what they want in the guise of “free speech”. If French is unwilling to defend what is right, and Right, then we’ll have a quick graveside service, close the wall up with our fallen conservative apostates and fight on. French wrings his hands over the use of the word “grooming.” I’m with Kurt Schlichter on this one.
See, it’s important that you not use undeniably accurate terms to describe our enemies because by doing so you may convey truthful information that hurts liberals and, according to our conservative cruise ship betters, that’s not who we are. Well, that’s certainly not who they are, because if there’s one thing they simply cannot accept it is victory. And that includes victory over perverts who what to chat up your young ‘uns in kindergarten.
Accordingly, we are not supposed to call groomers “groomers” anymore because people draw the right conclusions when we do, and that certainly will not do.
If there’s anything the failurecons, who constitute a concentric circle with the Never Trump sissies, hate is winning. And we are winning the world’s easiest argument by taking the position that molesters and those excusing and facilitating them are bad.
To the barricades!
Go ahead, walk up to a five year and start talking to him or her about sex. Tell ’em about your sex life. We have free speech, don’t we?
That is how badly French & associates have lost the plot.
to be citizens in a liberal democracy
That.. right… there… relegates all the nevertrumpers to the gutter and tells you all you every wanted to know about whether they are conservatives or have ever been such. These turds are not apostates, they never were conservatives so they had nothing to denounce. They have always been libturds who used conservative moniker to sew discord and to further libturd agenda. They are not turncoats, they are agent provocateurs. That quote right… there… proves it. Right… there…
Good post, Jeff, and thanks for the nod.
We send our kids to school not just to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic, but to learn how to be citizens in a liberal democracy, and a core value of that democracy is a commitment to free speech—for me and for thee.
For a guy who espouses free speech, he’s really into shushing his opponents.
Jeff, I’ll take your quote:
You’d think the cognitive dissonance would be strong enough to render a tiny tear in the fabric of space-time.
and raise you another:
You use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore
The Republican party that French believes still exists began to die in earnest during the Tea Party movement when the focus shifted from fiscal to social issues. Trumpism was simply the final nail in the coffin.
I’m aware some are debating whether it’s OK for mentally ill degenerates to read their “how-to” manuals to 6 year old kids.
Fuck that. Fuck French and Fuck Schlichter. It’s not up for discussion. If you think it’s OK, you’re in favor of grooming little kids for sex, you’re sub-human. You’re not fit for life in a civilized society; period. I hope to live long enough to see them all lined up against a wall.
French has a history of litigating in favor of free speech for conservatives in academic settings. I suppose that is why French believes that the free speech rights of elementary school teachers need to be protected.
Some Christian thinker, I believe C.S. Lewis, argues that vices begin as virtues but become vices when they are elevated to being good things in themselves rather than as a means to achieve a good thing.
Both French and Goldberg are guilty of this, IMHO, in regard to the liberal society.
Will someone remind Emery that Trump received more GOP votes in 2016 and 2020 than any Republican candidate in history?
“I don’t like Trump or the tea party, therefore the Republican party is dead.” is an especially stupid argument.
The Taxed Enough Already (Tea) Party was all about social, not financial, issues. Got it.
The TEA party was not the motivation for change, it was the response to Progressive overreach, the first swing of the pendulum.
Donald Trump was not the motivation for change, he was the response to overreach by Progressives and acquiescence by cruise ship Republicans, a second, wider swing of the pendulum.
With guys like French celebrating grooming while claiming to be Republican, in 2024, the pendulum is going to look like something from Edgar Allan Poe.
Can’t wait.
On a side note, RINO Mitt Romney was initially not going to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson. Interestingly, after her record of lenient sentences on pedophiles and perpetrators of sex crimes, he changed his mind. I find it concerning.
I don’t care whether you’re on the left or the right, conservative or liberal, basic values such as honesty, integrity and respect for the law, are more important than political ideology.
Yea, Emery and so far, the party you constantly defend and your, are guilty of more violations of the law and the constitution than the GOP.
French has a history of litigating in favor of free speech for conservatives in academic settings. I suppose that is why French believes that the free speech rights of elementary school teachers need to be protected.
MP, if he can’t tell the difference between protected speech and pedophiles grooming little kids for sex, he stands against the wall with the rest. I’m really done with the whole bunch of these Neo-con assholes.
Well, we all deserve to die, Blade.
But anyway to read French’s or Goldberg’s weekly bulletins is like listening to a queer guy explain how man on woman sex works. Shallow and completely lacking in anything like an understanding of the topic. Once you set aside the reproductive aspect of sex, men making making love to men makes more sense than men making love to women. Women are really weird and hard to figure out, kind of like space aliens.
Trump is a bad guy and I should not vote for him. Got it. But I am supposed to vote for John Kasich or Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush because they aren’t bad guys? Don’t get that.
during the Tea Party movement when the focus shifted from fiscal to social issues.
I think Emery cut-and-pasted from the wrong site.
Google Rick Santelli and the “rant heard ’round the world”, Emery. In the words of Dean Wormer, “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”