Forget
the bizarre and evil concept of national original sin that is the malignant
idea that America is built upon “systemic racism." America’s true systemic
flaw, arising at the time of those miserable progressives of yesteryear and
continuing up through the miserable progressives of this rotten year, is what
we now call “liberalism.”
Oh, it’s not classical liberalism, with its concern for
expanding economic and personal rights – you know, individual liberty. The
current inverted mutation of liberalism is all about constricting economic and
personal rights and forcing individuals into collective boxes where their
individuality is subsumed into an easily exploited and manipulated conformist
whole. Want to test out this hypothesis? Look through the endless woke tweets
of your favorite hack journalist, pinko pol, or Hollywood half-wit, or even go
up to some self-described liberal in your own life, and see if you can find one
iota of deviation from any of the approved liberal dogma. Good luck. You won’t
find a smidgeon of nonconformity. You won’t detect a molecule of dissent. These
people are the Borg, if the Borg worked in a giant space coffee house, had
Bernie stickers on their spaceships, and could not do a push-up. You can’t
reason with them – appealing to reason is futile.
Systemic liberalism is the real poison in America’s veins,
not the fanciful notion pushed by bigots, charlatans, and demagogues, that the
American enterprise is dedicated to invidious discrimination on the basis of
race.
Only a country so prosperous, so free, and secure could be so frivolous as to indulge an elite that eager to embrace such a manifestly ridiculous conceit. And only academics are dumb enough to come up with it in the first place. If you needed more incentive, beyond its greed and incompetence, to figuratively burn our college and university system to the ground, look no further than the critical race theory nonsense it spawned.
Only a country so prosperous, so free, and secure could be so frivolous as to indulge an elite that eager to embrace such a manifestly ridiculous conceit. And only academics are dumb enough to come up with it in the first place. If you needed more incentive, beyond its greed and incompetence, to figuratively burn our college and university system to the ground, look no further than the critical race theory nonsense it spawned.
It’s the phrenology of political theories, except dumber and
more malicious.
Systemic liberalism infects all aspects of our society, and
the society they want will be built upon its leprous foundation. In the
government, you have mayors, governors, congressjerks, and senators cheering on
political violence. Public property is destroyed and citizens are imperiled and
they demand that you disarm and not leave your house without sporting a piehole
thong.
Even institutions we thought were solid are wavering. Too
many cops kneel or stand back as spectators to the chaos. The military is
bombarding the troops with memos from generals competing for victory in the
Battle of Woke Island. Sadly, the harassed warriors whose combat training is
pushed aside for ever more diversity tail-chasing will look back on that
bombardment wistfully when the Red Chinese, who have a serious military,
bombard them with actual munitions.
In the courts, we see Hawaiian judges and the double standard
that entrapped Mike Flynn. Our FBI is corrupt and unable to find its moral
footing. It can’t seem to get around to arresting scumbags pulling down statues
but it can spare better than a dozen G-men to sherlock the mystery of a troubling
garage door knot. Maybe J. Edgar liked to rock a little black dress, but at
least he knew how to lock up crooks.
All of the mainstream media is 100 percent in on systemic
liberalism, with the grim conformity of what it covers (and what it covers up)
matched only by the grim conformity of the bias it displays. Objectivity?
Racist! Free expression? That’s makes us feel unsafe! We now have journalists
demanding that people be punished for writing things that are contrary to the
approved narrative. Gee, how could that ever go wrong for people who write
things for a living? Well, the soft senior men and women running those
organizations are finding out, as the young wokes in their newsrooms take over
because the old guard is too exhausted to resist.
Our scientists offer scientific findings that inevitably
support the liberal narrative. The new scientific method is determining what’s
woke and half-heartedly working backwards from there. So, one day we’ll all die
if we let our kids play in the park, then the next we hear we’re immune to the
pangolin pandemic if our hearts are woke enough. To point out that this is
idiocy is to deny science.
In Hollywood, the studios rush to hide what used to be merely
bad taste but is now heresy. And our courageous comedians cower, terrified to
mock the eminently mockable antics of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the other
sects of the left’s semi-organized religion. But hey, those Audie Murphys of
America’s stages and screens will never hesitate to take on those Jesus-loving
Christians.
Corporations and enterprises like the NFL and NASCAR abandon
and spit on their own customers, treating them as racist rubes as the C-suite
sissies seek to please their younger second wives and not the people who buy
their stuff. You can’t open an email without being reminded that the company
that makes your fertilizer is giving part of the cash you spend with it to the
Marxist cadre at Black Lives Matter.
In people’s private lives, tiresome acquaintances scold
others on social media for failing to post the right nonsense on their Facebook
pages. Daughters rebel against whatever it is suburban daughters have to rebel
against by announcing on Twitter that they are cutting off their parents
because their parents are insufficiently woke (though whether that lasts past
daddy cutting off young Ashleigh’s cash remains to be seen). Frigid suburban
matrons cruise into their local Starbucks, book cover facing out so everyone
knows that they are carrying a copy of White
Fragility. It’s the new 50 Shade
of Gray, with the same vibe of cringey masochism that helps fill up with
their empty lives and lets them feel something, anything. There’s a reason that
these people all seem to have weird issues and to be working them out on the
rest of us. These people all have weird issues and are working them out on the
rest of us.
We don’t
need to purge our society of systemic racism because heroes in the past did
that for us. From the heroes of Gettysburg to heroes like Medgar Evers (an
Army vet of Normandy appropriately buried in Arlington), the blood of patriots
washed away the structural racism of the past. What is left today are a few idiots
with tiki torches and lots of college professors and New
York Times scribblers who thrive upon hating people for where their
great-great-great-great grandfathers came from. Those garbage people are the
exception, a fringe, and do not reflect America
Sadly, structural liberalism is beginning to. Liberals want
an America of terrified conformity, of eternal grievance and hate, where the
rights of individuals are crushed if they prove to be an obstacle to liberal
rule.
Who wants to punish people for their speech? Liberals.
Who wants to discriminate among people based on their race?
Liberals.
And who wants this hate to continue and even grow because
they see harnessing it as their means to take perpetual power? Liberals.
It’s past time to smash systemic liberalism. Get ready to be
the backlash.
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Bizarro
World, coming to a neighborhood near you!
For those of us old enough to remember a
time when men were men and women were women, a major source of entertainment
for children back then was comic books. And who was the most famous
comic book character of all? Why, that's easy: Superman! Faster than
a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings in a single
bound. You wanna talk about white privilege? Superman was
super-strong, super-fast, and invulnerable to everything except Kryptonite, all
the while sporting pecs that just wouldn't quit.
Among Supe's many adventures in space, he
once came upon a planet where everything was exactly the reverse of how things
are on Earth: Bizarro World. On Bizarro World, up was down, left was
right, and black was white. Decades later, us oldsters may have forgotten
such silly memes until, sadly, our own country turned Bizarro.
Now, thanks to liberals, leftists, and
Democrats, nothing in America really makes sense anymore.
Don't want your business to
die? Don't want to be quarantined? Don't want to spend your
life wearing a useless paper mask? You're a
terrorist! Like throwing bricks through store windows, lighting
buildings on fire, tearing down statues? You're a warrior for social
justice.
Dare to offer the opinion that everyone's
life is valuable, that all lives matter? You're a
racist. Write thousands of words in the N.Y. Times describing how
whites are irredeemably racist — inherently racist as per erstwhile President
Obama, meaning they don't even know they're racist — and you win a Pulitzer
Prize.
When a pandemic arrives, you might think
it's crucial to be with loved ones, attend religious services, and take care of
everyday health needs. But you'd be wrong. What's most
important currently, it seems, is riots, arson, abortions, and buying
weed. Play ball, no! Buy booze, mais bien sûr!
If you think Obama, Biden, Crooked
Hillary,
and the DNC all conspired to take out
Donald
Trump, both before and after he was
elected,
why, you're a conspiracy
theorist. Tell the
world on CNN that Donald Trump is a
Russian
agent, a friend to China, and a
fulminating
racist to all the minorities who enjoyed
record-
low unemployment before the Wuhan
Flu
arrived, and, well, you're a sublime
sage
speaking truth to power.
It's more than one can wrap his mind
around — the mainstream media proclaiming that Republicans are all sex fiends,
racists, and grandma-killers while Democrats keep getting caught schtupping the
staff, wearing blackface, and sending COVID-19 patients into poor Grandma's
nursing home.
Now that we're in a pandemic-induced
second Great Depression, thanks to the Chinese Communist Party and the
ironically named WHO, who shall lead us out of it in January? A
self-made billionaire who single-handedly conquered the real estate,
entertainment, and political worlds or a 77-year-old swamp rat with dementia,
fake hair, and fake teeth? Polls overwhelmingly say: give us the
senile swamp rat!
Sadly, we can't expect Superman to save us
from our present upside-down discourse. We can only hope integrity,
common sense, and common decency will save the day.
Pollak: 3
Recent Signs Democrats Want a Socialist Revolution
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Three
events last week showed that Democrats do not want a mere transfer of power if
they win the November election: they intend to revolutionize our entire system
of government.
The
first happened Wednesday, when Democrats blocked the Senate from considering a
bill on police reform by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
Scott,
who is African American, has been working on the issue for years. He had the
full support of the rest of the Republican caucus. He also agreed to consider
whatever amendments Democrats offered.
They
still used the filibuster to block the bill from even being debated.
The
episode showed that Democrats do not actually care about police reform. Nor do
they want to unite the nation behind any sort of bipartisan compromise. They
simply want to use the issue in the elections, which they hope will give them
the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Then they can get rid of the filibuster and pass
whatever they want.
The
second episode happened later that same day, when the school board in
Democrat-dominated Oakland, California voted unanimously to abolish the police
force in local public schools.
With
school shootings still a concern, the board bowed to the wishes of Black Lives
Matter activists and removed a crucial layer of defense for the city’s
children.
It
is not an isolated episode: Democrats on the Minneapolis City Council voted
Friday to disband their city’s police.
This
is not a party that is interested in rational decisions on public policy. This
is a party committed to a revolutionary course.
The
third episode happened Friday, when the House of Representatives voted along
party lines to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state.
It
is an utterly absurd proposal. D.C. is barely even a proper city; in land area,
it is smaller than
Stockton, California. There is no pressing national demand to add another state
and redesign of the national flag.
There
is only one reason Democrats want to add another state: they want to add two
Senators, who — given the partisan makeup of the Swamp — will always be Democrats.
That means Republicans would have to work much harder to gain a majority. (It
would also mean the majority that confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme
Court would never have existed.)
With
a permanent majority in the Senate, and the filibuster gone, Democrats will be
able to redesign the country, even without passing a constitutional amendment.
They will be able to expand the Supreme Court and pack it with liberals with
just a simple majority.
They will be able to make all eleven-million-plus illegal aliens in the country
voting citizens, permanently altering the electorate in Democrats’ favor. They
will pass a version of the Green New Deal. And so on.
The
Democrats knew a D.C. statehood bill would not pass now; their goal is to
soften opposition so that they can pass it next year with minimal opposition,
if and when they sweep the November elections.
Democrats
have made their intentions clear. The only way to stop their socialist
revolution is to beat them in November.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and
the host of Breitbart News Sunday on
Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7
p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER,
is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism
Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
By Destroying History, Liberals Make an Example of
Themselves
The current mania for pulling down statues of so-called morally
corrupt historical figures is a classic case of presentism: "reading modern notions of
morality" onto the past. It seems that those driven to do so
may be honestly trying to rectify the "sins" of the past — whether it
be colonial conquest, slavery, genocide, or whatever else. How
corrupt were these historical figures? Were they indeed much more
reprehensible than anyone in the present day? What did these people
actually think in the awful before times when our Western European ancestors
discovered the "New World" and practiced conquest and
slavery? We are not able to read their minds — only to speculate
upon their intent by examining historical documents: the writings,
recollections, and stories of those who experienced those
days. Indeed, how many of these activists so intent on destroying
these representations of the past are fully knowledgeable of these documents
that underpin the respect once given to these historical figures resulting in
their statuary honors?
David Wootton, in his book The Invention of Science, explores the
development of modern thinking through the investigation of historical
artifacts such as writings, literature, and recollections. He notes
that in the 1600s, even the notion of history itself did not
exist as we understand it today. Wootton describes the intellectual
culture of a typical well educated European in the 1600s. Such a
person believed that witches could turn people into pigs, for instance, and
that magic could be used to retrieve stolen goods. Alchemists could
turn base metal into gold, and murdered bodies would bleed in the presence of
the murderer. Slavery was understood to be just one way of the
world. Europeans at that time were familiar with the writings of the Romans and
the Greeks and how they lived. They had no notion of progress as
such — to be able to reflect on their own technologies and compare them to the
capabilities of others — so the classical civilizations of Rome and Greece were
seen as contemporaries rather than as ancients. We today can marvel
at their ignorance, even as we take for granted the modern world that exists as
a result of their imagination and curiosity.
How these Europeans of the 15th and 16th centuries, few of whom
managed to cross the oceans to discover the North American continent and return
to tell the tale, viewed the non-literate stone-age peoples they encountered
there may not be acceptable to our modern notions of cultural respect and
"cultural equivalency." We may say the European explorers
and settlers exhibited hubris, "an overestimation of one's own
competence, accomplishments or capabilities," in their dealings with the
indigenous populations when humility would have served them
better. And although any rationale for why they responded the way
they did toward these peoples does not excuse the violence they perpetrated,
their accomplishments, and those of their contemporaries, drove the growth of
science, technology, philosophy, and the evolution of the modern world that we
enjoy today.
Throughout history, there is much can be learned from both the
accomplishments and the mistakes made by those that came before
us. Erasing history serves only to throw the baby out with the bath
water.
We are supposedly morally evolved for the better now — against
slavery, racism and bigotry, conquest and war — yet one open-eyed observation
across our planet today would reveal that human beings are practicing these
"awful" behaviors almost everywhere in some form or another.
The statue-destroying activists are unwittingly displaying
themselves as arrogant in the highest degree, for instead of acknowledging
history and the lessons that could be learned therefrom to build a more
compassionate and understanding present and future, they practice the same
destructive behaviors that they are purportedly erasing from the
past. Actually, it is the worst best case of hubris, for the
activists claim to stand on the highest moral ground to support their judgments
and display no self-reflective understanding of the past, themselves, or their
current behavior. Most of the recent cases of destruction, if not
all, demonstrate a woeful ignorance of history by the
perpetrators. So although presentism may have
launched this destruction, the lack of historical understanding and
self-reflection renders the movement hollow, corrupt, and devoid of any
humility and compassion. Instead of being able to say "we've
come a long way, chaps," it appears that human behavior has not evolved
one bit for the better in the centuries that have passed. How dare
we disparage our historical forebears?
It raises the question — is the current violence and outrage
simply a case of hubris and ignorance, or is there another purpose driving this
need to erase the past? Should our historical figures be seen not as
good examples at all, but as horrible warnings? Even if so, we are
still charged to learn from the past to both appreciate the benefits that have
sprung from their effort and forge a better future by avoiding their mistakes.
In any case, the destructive so-called activists — i.e., vandals —
definitely fall into the category of being not good examples, but horrible
warnings to a civil society. Woe to a human experience with no
history, no memory of either joy or pain. Without memory, we have no
understanding. It is better to add to the history we think we know —
to unveil the hidden, to recognize and honor the forgotten, in order to make
the record more honest and complete. Doing so can inform our work to
build a better future's past. History demands our humble
understanding, not our hubristic outrage.
Rosamina Lowi is an
e-learning developer, writer, and editor. Contact her at
rlowi@yahoo.com.
Anarchists and
left-wing extremists have sought to advance a fringe ideology that paints the
United States of America as fundamentally unjust and have sought to impose that
ideology on Americans through violence and mob intimidation. They have
led riots in the streets, burned police vehicles, killed and assaulted
government officers as well as business owners defending their property, and
even seized an area within one city where law and order gave way to anarchy.
During the unrest, innocent citizens also have been harmed and killed.
The War for Free
Speech Is Here
By J.B. Shurk
While most of us were busy surviving pandemic-fueled civil
confinement and Democratic Party–led riots in the street, the shots over Fort
Sumter were fired, and the war for freedom of speech began
in earnest. Just as the mob outside seeks to control how we think
and what we may say, Google, Twitter, and Facebook seek to do the same thing by
targeting and discriminating against conservatives for their
ideas. That there is now such a strong army of "Americans in
name only" who have taken it upon themselves to tell others what they may
learn and believe and write without being tormented or threatened by black-clad
shock troops breaking windows and fire-bombing businesses or financially ruined
by Democrat-aligned corporate oligarchs targeting conservative Americans'
livelihoods only serves as jarring proof that we have tolerated these attacks
on our freedom and woefully appeased our attackers for entirely too
long.
It's not the rise of a charismatic leader in Sinclair
Lewis's It Can't Happen Here that is hard to
imagine. We've read about Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman
Republic, about the French Revolution's Robespierre and Napoleon Bonaparte,
about the post-WWI rise to power of Russia's Lenin and Italy's
Mussolini. We've seen the film reels of Adolf Hitler gesticulating
before crowds of thousands and Hugo Chávez using the power of television to seduce
his countrymen with socialist dreams.
What has always seemed difficult to grasp is how so many millions
of ordinary people could become mindless cult followers, all marching together
and repeating the same phrases as if part of one unitary
organism. How do you teach millions of people to throw a straight
arm high into the air as part of a Nazi salute? How do you condition
a populace to greet one another with an exclamatory "Heil
Hitler!"? How do you teach law-abiding citizens that breaking
the windows of Jewish businesses is not only acceptable, but also
patriotic? How do you mobilize a nation, as Mao did, to destroy its
own glorious history? Or convince a prosperous country, as Chávez
did, to trade the wealth of the free market for socialist
poverty? How do you so effectively harness the passionate hatred of
uneducated children that they turn on their parents and teachers, destroy their
churches and religious temples and statues and historical monuments, and
violently punish anyone who gets in their way? How can any of the
sins of authoritarian dictators, socialist despots, or communist mass murderers
ever become reality in America, where freedom and personal liberty reign?
Then I look at police officers lying
prostrate before a crowd demanding their obedience. And I watch Mitt Romney prove
his devotion to those who would control his mind by declaring, like a victim of
Stockholm syndrome, that "black lives matter" in cadence with the
"woke" mob. And I see statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln toppled
over and churches and synagogues desecrated. And
I watch thousands of people all bending a knee together,
lest they be outed as insufficiently devoted to the new state church of the
super-woke and its ever-evolving requirements for remaining in good
standing. And I realize that teachers and parents and ordinary
Americans who know better are too afraid to speak up and against the demands of
the Black Lives Matter and Antifa and Democratic Party–run mobs. And
I watch Google and Facebook
and Twitter actively conspire to deprive Americans of their free
speech, especially political speech most in need of protection. And
I finally realize that this is how it can happen
here. Not because there are too few of us who care about free speech
and personal liberty, but because too many of us decide to go along to get
along.
Marxist socialist politicians, global government technocrats,
transnational corporate boards of
directors, and "woke" mobs have joined forces to scare and
control everyone else. During this time of mass hysteria driven by
the political exploitation of disease and racial grievance, a normal American
who simply wants to be left alone to attend church and run a small business can
find both his church and business destroyed, while the United Nations, state and local governments,
and virtue-signaling corporate brands actively
support those waging war and damn the victim for having the temerity to pray
and make a living.
When arsonists on the street are celebrated for burning down
history and arsonists at the major tech companies are celebrated for preventing
points of view, it's clear that the anti-Americans have gained the upper
hand. When a celebrated and wealthy NFL quarterback retreats
briskly from defending the American flag, you know that even those known for
their courage have become too afraid to defend what is right. When
your employment is
threatened unless you learn to bow down before the mob and repeat
meaningless slogans as if they were meaningful sacraments, there is nowhere
left to hide from a war that will consume us all. We either fight
and defend the free speech of every American now or no American will ever again
be free. A middle ground no longer exists.
There is no more effective way to lead a nation to civil war than
to deprive half of that nation of a voice. When politicians and
privileged corporate giants and shock troops on the street all demand obedience
to one point of view, there is no peaceful release valve for those who
disagree. And when the strictures of political correctness are more
threatening than their intended targets, then political correctness wages war
on people of conscience.
The freedom to create ideas and release them into the world, to
pray fervently and openly according to personal belief, to speak without worry
of pain or punishment, is so essential to what America is that
fighting for its preservation is nothing short of fighting for the survival of
the American nation itself. If we lose it, everything else falls
apart. Preserving free speech must be where we make our last stand.
More than 60 People Shot, 16 Killed, over Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
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On Sunday
morning Breitbart News reported at least 20 had been shot in a
24-hour time-frame running from Friday at 4 p.m. to Saturday at 4 p.m. Seven
people were killed during that interval.
On
Monday morning, NBC Chicago reported the
total number of shooting victims was over 60 for the weekend, with 16 people
dead.
The Chicag0
Sun-Times reported one
of the weekend’s fatalities was a 10-year-old girl who was “inside a Logan
Square home on the Northwest Side” when she was shot in the head by a stray
bullet. She was shot at 9:40 p.m. Saturday and pronounced dead just hours
later.
A
one-year-old boy riding in the car with his mom was also shot and killed
Saturday. He and his mother were driving back from the laundromat when a car
pulled up next to them and opened fire. The mother was shot as well, but her
wounds were not life-threatening.
At
least 100 people were shot in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
last weekend, which was Father’s Day Weekend, and 14 of them succumbed to their
wounds.
On
June 21, 2020, Breitbart News reported at least 56 people were shot in
Chicago by Sunday morning of Father’s Day Weekend alone. Nine of those shooting
victims died.
More than 30 were shot, two fatally, in
Chicago the weekend before that and 35 were shot, five fatally, the weekend prior.
The Sun-Times reported 85
shot, 24 fatally, in Chicago during the last weekend of May 2020.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist
for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with
AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second
Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed
American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins.
Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range
at breitbart.com/downrange.
VIDEO: Man
Allegedly Shot, Killed Two Chicago Teens Who Asked How Tall He Was
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A man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly shot
and killed two teenagers in Chicago, Illinois, for asking how tall he was.
“Police said
Laroy Battle, 19, opened fire
on two teens in an alley in the 7900-block of South Luella Avenue around 5 p.m.
on Saturday, June 20,” according to ABC 7 Chicago.
Deputy Chief
of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said the shooting happened after the two teens
and a friend had a brief encounter with Battle, whom they did not know, at a
neighborhood corner store.
“The victims
commented, because, since Battle is quite tall, and they asked him how tall he
was and you know, hoped to be that tall someday. And unfortunately, obviously we’ll
never see the full growth of these poor children,” Deenihan explained.
As the three
teenagers walked home from the store, police said two of them were shot
multiple times in an alleyway.
“Jasean
Francis, 17, was shot in the back, chest and left hand and taken to University
of Chicago Hospital, where he died,” the ABC 7 report stated.
“Charles
Riley, 16, was shot in the back and left leg and was taken to University of
Chicago Hospital, where he also died,” the article continued.
Deenihan said the
teens had been to a mall together and knew the neighborhood well, but did not
often venture out because it was so dangerous.
However, on
that one occasion, the boys got permission from their mothers to walk to the
store and buy candy.
“None of it
makes sense,” Deenihan said of the shooting.
“Battle is
charged with two counts of first degree murder. Police said he had a previous
conviction for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, for which he received
probation,” the ABC 7 article noted, adding that he was denied bond on
Friday.
At a press
conference Thursday, Deenihan called both
victims “very good kids from really excellent families,” according to the Chicago
Sun-Times.
The Russian Origins of
Black Neo-Marxism
By Gary
Gindler
“White” does not mean white. “White” in radical parlance
means anyone of any race, creed, nationality, color, sex, or sexual preference
who embraces capitalism, free markets, limited government, and American
traditional culture and values.”
This
philosophical concept belongs to Noel Ignatiev, a white
American of Russian origin, who is the ideological founding father of numerous
radical black movements in America. The author of this concept was even
lucky enough to see his best students -- Black Lives Matter (BLM) -- in action.
Research
into the work of this former Harvard professor finally answered the question of
why BLM proponents are so negative about the perfectly rational slogan “All
Lives Matter.” The fact is that the “black” in the interpretation of Ignatiev
is a revolutionary Marxist. All those who do not agree with the Left
ideology should, according to Ignatiev, be eliminated.
The
slogan “All Lives Matter” blurs the concept of the enemy and brings confusion
to the minds of revolutionaries. That is why any mention of “All Lives
Matter” (or its version in support of the police -- “Blue Lives Matter”)
provokes such an acute reaction of the Left.
According
to Ignatiev, “black” is not the level of pigment in the skin, but the level of
adherence to the Marxist doctrine.
According
to this definition, the great American free-market economist Thomas Sowell,
although he has quite enough black pigment, is not “black.” The conservative
justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas is not “black” either.
According to Ignatiev, many black Americans are not “black” just because they
do not want to follow the Marxist dogma.
Noel
Ignatiev (1940-2019) was born in America in a family of Jewish immigrants from
Russia and was a third-generation communist. Moreover, he was not just a
member of the Communist Party of the USA from the age of 17 but belonged to its
most radical, ultra-left Marxist-Leninist wing. What was his most
outstanding contribution to American philosophy? Here it is:
“Eventually white women can breed out, but my feeling is that if
you are a white male, you should kill yourself now. If you are a
thoughtful person, with a social consciousness who considers himself white, you
will consider suicide.”
It
was he, a convinced, uncompromising, and resolute communist, who in 1967
proposed the doctrine of “white privilege.” Not as a
racial term, but as a somewhat modified Marxist term of the class
struggle. The notorious “eradication of white privileges” is simply the
standard Marxist wealth redistribution, expressed in newspeak.
Of
course, the primary task for Ignatiev was never the physical extermination of
whites. He was talking about the ideological purification of the “whites”
from the principles of private property, individualism, and freedom -- all
concepts profoundly alien to the Marxists. Supporters of Ignatiev, aiming
for socialism in America, have chosen a very peculiar way -- the mass transformation
of whites and squeezing out of them of all their “whiteness.” He sees a happy
future as an all-American Gulag, where the re-education of “whites” into
“blacks” takes place.
“The goal of destroying the white race is simply so desirable, it
boggles the mind trying to understand how anyone could possibly object to it.”
The
showcase kitsch concentration camp CHAZ/Antifastan in Seattle, with its
intolerance of dissent, is the pinnacle of the realization of Ignatieff’s ideas.
The
kneeling of some American police offices, military personnel, and politicians
in front of a crowd of “blacks” (“blacks” from a Marxist point of view, of
course) is an acknowledgment of the supremacy of left-wing ideology over the
law. This is a recognition of the supremacy of the leftist dogma over the
Constitution and the oath.
Kneeling
is a confirmation that America is not suffering from systemic racism but from
systemic neo-Marxism.
Before
citing another statement of Ignatiev, let’s consider its antithesis:
“Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead
black males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct
known as ‘the black race’ is destroyed.”
No, this is not black racism. This is a systematic,
canonical, and “ideologically correct” approach to the class struggle, designed
to accomplish a dogmatic Marxist wealth redistribution. Why? Because
since the 60s, all leftists have known the maxim: “The issue is never the
issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
BLOG EDITOR: BARACK OBAMA HAS OPENLY ADMITTED HE WOULD ACCEPT A
THIRD TERM. HIS DIVISIONIST PLATFORM SEEKS TO ACHIEVE THAT.
That is why the two paramilitary wings of the Democrat party --
the “white” Antifa and the “black” BLM -- perfectly understand each
other. After all, the race is not a problem. The main goal is the
revolution. (By the way, the “white” wing of the stormtroopers was also
created by the communist: Soviet agent Ernst Thalmann established Antifa in
Germany in 1932.)
BLM
stormtroopers are trying to provoke a racial war in America in the hope that it
will develop into a civil war -- simply because it is much easier to make a
revolution during a war. One of the founders of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, does not hide the fact that BLM members
are “trained Marxists” who “read Marx, Lenin, and Mao.”
Of
course, the entire Ignatiev’s clink clank is hardly perceived by an unprepared
audience. Therefore, for brevity, we formulate the quintessence of
Ignatieff’s philosophy in a simplified form: racism is a form of anti-communism (meaning
the “white racism,” of course).
Actually,
many readers are familiar with such definitions. For example, “Zionism is
a form of racism” has been an official UN slogan for many years.
Therefore, the militant anti-Semitism of paleocommunist Ignatiev should not
surprise anyone. Indeed, according to Ignatiev, it follows that “Zionism is a
form of anti-communism.” Moreover, Ignatiev hated Christianity as much as
Judaism (he especially hated Christmas and, oddly enough, Christmas trees).
The Race Traitor magazine
published a policy article by Ignatiev in 1997 entitled “The Point Is Not To
Interpret Whiteness But To Abolish It”:
"When it comes to abolishing the white race, the task is not
to win over more whites to oppose “racism”; there are “anti-racists” enough
already to do the job. The task is to gather together a minority
determined to make it impossible for anyone to be white. It is a strategy
of creative provocation.”
Of course, by “minority” here Ignatiev means a group of fiery
revolutionaries, and “creative provocation” means riots and vandalism. The
analogy with the Russian Bolsheviks here is direct – the lumpenproletariat was
used in the communist coup in Russia; in America, Ignatiev proposes to use the
lumpenblacks as cannon fodder.
No,
not all immigrants from Russia became great Americans, such as Sergei
Rachmaninov, Igor Sikorsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, and Ayn
Rand. Unfortunately, Russia also offered the arch-communist Noel Ignatiev
and the founder of Russian fascism Ivan Ilyin.
That’s
where the Democrats, who are looking everywhere for the Russian fingerprints,
can come unrolled -- after all, if one believes Democrats, even President Trump
is the puppet of the Kremlin. Where is the noble indignation of the
leftist press about the “Russian interference in the United States internal
affairs”? After all, it was Ignatiev who made titanic efforts to turn American
youth into brainless, self-righteous fanatics of a Marxist utopia.
The
question, of course, is rhetorical.
Leftists
in America -- despite intraspecific ideological competition and the amount of
skin pigment -- are not on the American side of the barricades..
Gary Gindler, Ph.D., is a conservative columnist at Gary Gindler Chronicles and the
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BLM
Protesters Storm Beverly Hills Neighborhood: ‘Eat the Rich!’
AMY FURR
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Jun 202051,581
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Police made several arrests after a
group of Black Lives Matter protesters marched through a Beverly Hills
residential neighborhood Friday night.
“Videos and
photographs of the mob flooded social media as they shouted various
messages throughout the residential neighborhood and tore down American flags,”
the Daily Wire reported.
Human Events
Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong shared footage of protesters shouting “Eat the
rich!”:
Black Lives Matter mob shouts “eat the rich” as they
march down a residential area in Beverly Hills. They’re coming for your homes.pic.twitter.com/gs5Hszjb7m
Later, he
tweeted a video of protesters in Los Angeles shouting “No justice, no peace! No
racist police!” as they tore down an American flag attached to a building:
The Black Lives Matter mob in Los Angeles seized a privately
owned American flag in a residential suburb, shredding it and pulling it down. pic.twitter.com/gCffXqZuwZ
In another
video, the protesters in Beverly Hills shouted, “Abolish capitalism now!” while
they continued their march through the neighborhood:
A mob of Black Lives Matter activists march through
residential neighborhoods in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, chanting “abolish
capitalism now.” These same people live off welfare provided by taxpayers.pic.twitter.com/s0w9qNY9ZT
In an update
on its website at 11:40 p.m., the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) said “An
unlawful assembly has been declared in the area of Rexford Drive and Carmelita
Ave. BHPD remains on scene.”
Saturday
morning, the department tweeted that the unlawful assembly was over and arrests
had been made:
The unlawful assembly in the area of Rexford Dr &
Carmelita Ave has ended with arrests being made. Protesters have now left the
City.
Wednesday,
President Trump tweeted that it was sad how government leaders in many states
had allowed protesters to tear down statues and monuments:
….the good and the bad. It is important for us to
understand and remember, even in turbulent and difficult times, and learn from
them. Knowledge comes from the most unusual of places!
In an
executive order issued Friday on protecting America’s
memorials and statues, the president said many of the rioters, arsonists, and
left-wing extremists who carried out acts against the monuments had identified
themselves with ideologies such as Marxism.
He continued:
Anarchists
and left-wing extremists have sought to advance a fringe ideology that paints
the United States of America as fundamentally unjust and have sought to impose
that ideology on Americans through violence and mob intimidation. They
have led riots in the streets, burned police vehicles, killed and
assaulted government officers as well as business owners defending their
property, and even seized an area within one city where law and order gave way
to anarchy. During the unrest, innocent citizens also have been harmed and
killed.
“My
Administration will not allow violent mobs incited by a radical fringe to
become the arbiters of the aspects of our history that can be celebrated in
public spaces,” the president commented.
“State and
local public officials’ abdication of their law enforcement responsibilities in
deference to this violent assault must end,” he concluded.
Two Black
Conservative Women Speak Out about the Democratic Party
By Elise Cooper
Two conservative black American women
speak out about their feelings and why the Democrats are not the party for
them. Throughout the country, impoverished black neighborhoods have
been controlled by Democratic politicians. Education school boards;
Democrats; mayors: Democrats; district attorneys: Democrats; police chiefs:
Democrats; governors: Democrats; congressional districts: Democrats; and
senators: Democrats.
Stacy Washington, a conservative black
radio host (listen.stacyontheright.com), is dumbfounded that Biden and many
Democrats say nothing but are never questioned about
solutions. "At the Breakfast Club he uttered the words 'you
ain't black' if they did not vote for him. He essentially claimed
ownership of the black vote just because he is a Democrat. Today,
black Americans want to know why they should vote for him. He
criticizes President Trump but never provides viable alternatives of what he
would do. Democrats feel they own the black vote."
Kathy Barnette is the author of the
book Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain and is the
Republican candidate for Pennsylvania's 4th District. She echoes the
same sentiment as Stacy. "In my book, I wrote how I was like
most black people, born into the Democratic Party. It was never a
point of conversation, deliberation, or discussion. Time and again,
I voted Democratic. I don't remember ever having a thought not to
vote that way even though I studied the issues and candidates. But I
woke up after growing up in a desperate economic situation. I had a
front-row seat on the failed liberal policies that left us exploited and
devastated."
What has become important to Kathy is her
life experiences. At the age of eighteen, she joined the military,
becoming a part of the CID (criminal investigation detachment)
unit. She was one of the few people who were not from a law
enforcement background and the only black person. "I had heard
about police brutality. For me, as a young black girl, after having
spent time with these people, I realized the stress and struggles they were
under. With all my life experiences, the book written became the
journey for me to get off the Democratic plantation."
She is running for Congress because she
looks at the black community as a "microcosm of the failed liberal
policies. This is what is playing out on the streets
today. When you have lived the life I did and the obstacles I have
overcome, you make sure not to remain silent. My opponent and Vice
President Biden are just feeble puppets. The incumbent I am running
against is a political social climber. She got elected on the wave
of the 2018 MeToo movement. It was convenient then for her to say it
is all about the women, but now it is no longer just 'believe the women, but
wait for facts.' Puppets do as they are told what to
do. Another example is my opponent's ties to China. Her
bike business received 20 million dollars from the Chinese National Party to
make bikes there. Yet she speaks of a fair wage. She had
taken jobs away from Americans and is paying the Chinese people less than
$2."
Stacy told American Thinker, "About
10 to 20% of those living in the inner cities do the
crimes. Everyone else is running scared. The liberal
policies of reliance on government instead of locally controlled areas are just
bad for everyone. Law and order are important."
Kathy believes in the rule of
law. She does not understand why people support defunding the
police, considering it is those neighborhoods that need more, not less, police
protection. "If someone is breaking into my home, trying to
accost me, my children, or my husband, and I call 911, will I get a recording
of soft music, giving me tips on how to manage my stress? Look at
Chicago that recently had 104 shooting incidents. I am very aware
that in the inner city it is hard pressed to find any conservative thought,
competitive thinking, or political diversity. I talk about it in my
book. When liberals are in control, they bring destruction,
instability, and violence. Confusion is their middle
name. The only remedy is to kick them out of office."
For an example of what is happening,
people need to look no farther than the Senate police reform legislation that
was recently blocked by the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi said how the
Republicans are "trying to get away with murder,
actually." Yet she and the Democrats ignore the fact that it
was put forward by a Republican black American, Senator Tim
Scott. He noted in an email sent out, "These are serious
reforms to respond to the serious moment our nation is facing. My
[Democratic] colleague from Illinois, Dick Durbin, took to the Senate floor to
call my efforts to reform policing in our country a "token
process." Those words hurt me in my soul. Senator
Durbin went on to call my bill a 'half-hearted approach' to police reform. I
don't know exactly what Senator Durbin meant, but his rhetoric was out of line
and represents a divisive moment for our country. As the only
African-American Republican senator, I have been leading efforts for years
to reform our police on the issues impacting communities of color all across
our country. Democrats like Senator Durbin are more interested in
scoring political points."
In the book, Kathy asserts,
"Regardless of the party's policies, its agendas, its platform, its moral
decline, or the lack of its community responsiveness, the encoded message is
that if you're black, you must be a Democrat. To do, think, or say
otherwise is to reject your own race. And that is
unacceptable." She explained, "White liberals go into
black communities to tell them what their issues are. White liberals
are allowed to take control of the narrative and vocabulary. Black
people should be participating in the discussions. People should
wrap their minds around this manipulation."
She told American Thinker that she decided
to have her campaign participate in the Black Lives Matter
protests. Why? Because she wants to go where the black
people are and present some critical thinking. "I was
surrounded by liberals. I want to present a different
option. The black people, after I was done speaking and talking
about my proposal for the Minority Inclusion Act (MIA), gave me nothing but ovations. I
will not be bullied into silence. The Democratic goal is not to
solve the problems, but to get more power and influence. To make
those they are serving more dependent on them. These white liberals
will come out of it winning, while the rest of us have boarded up windows and a
devasted economy. This is my fear for the black community."
Democrats like Durbin and Pelosi think
they know more about what is best for the black community than black Americans
like Tim Scott. Kathy was asked if she thought there is racism in
this country as put forward by liberal media and
politicians. "I think these liberal white liberals will try to
come out of it with more power, control, and manipulation of the
narrative. They want everything covered through the lens of racism,
something I talk about in my book. I do not believe that this
country is systematically racist. But as I say in my book, racism
still exists. Bigotry is real. Hate is
evil. Have I been called the N-word? Yes! I am
the children's children of those who were bred for a business strategy, have
had their children taken away and sold to the highest bidder, have had to take
a literacy test to vote, or forced to live in a particular
neighborhood. My great great grandmother was a slave."
She went on to say, "Toppling statues
and renaming buildings does absolutely nothing to improve my
life. These statues are like markers of where we are and where we
were at that level of time. Let it add to the level of
understanding. No one is building, but destroying. They
should not be destroyed because they serve as a reminder. Markers in
time show us where we were, how far we've come, and where we are going."
Kathy wants Americans to understand:
"this nation is not perfect or complete, but is moving in the right
path. We do have to grow and improve. I love America, my
nation, and want to see everyone do well and succeed in life. I am
on a mission. My nation that I love is on fire. We need
better options. Every time I hear the National Anthem, I
cry. We need to see the good, the bad, and the ugly. The
Constitution is an amazing document. We need to raise the bar of
expectation, to reach above ourselves as our forefathers did. I want
to see a better tomorrow with an obligation to live well. This is a
nation that is willing to right its wrong."
The author writes for American Thinker. She has done book reviews and
author interviews and has written a number of national security, political, and
foreign policy articles
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