Posted on 07/28/2020 10:19:13 AM PDT by Starman417
For the last two months we’ve been watching as BLM and Antifa have knocked over statues, defaced monuments and churches and set fire to basically anything they can get their hands on. St. Louis had to go because he led the Crusades. Christopher Columbus has to go because he opened the door to colonizing a new world. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have to go because they owned slaves. Fredrick Douglas and Ulysses S. Grant and Teddy Roosevelt and Jesus Christ had to go because… never mind.
And it’s not just statues that are under fire. There’s Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Eskimo Pies, Mrs. Butterworth and the girl from Land O' Lakes butter. There’s the NFL’s Redskins, the TV show Cops, the National Anthem, Goya foods, and basically all the police.
What started out as protests against the killing of George Floyd has metastasized into a battle against everything American, everything capitalist and anything that is not sufficiently woke.
Once can certainly appreciate those sentiments because the United States has obviously been a plague on humanity. America was built on land stolen from the Native Americans. The country had slavery from the beginning and Jim Crow laws until the 1960s. As a result, blacks are disproportionately represented in the justice system and those of European descent enjoy white privilege. Anything below a living wage is basically slave labor. College and healthcare are human rights and should not be the kinds of things that Americans should have to pay for, or the kinds of things people can make a profit off of. Some people have more money than they need while others don’t have enough to feed their families. And perhaps most of all, we elected Donald Trump as our president...
If the “peaceful protesters” who are telling us that capitalism needs to go and the United States is the problem had real principles, they would take their demands to the next level. It’s not enough to boycott Goya foods or MyPillow.com or Hobby Lobby. No, if these activists really wanted to show the world that it can do without capitalism and the United States, they should refrain from using anything that American capitalism has produced.
Twitter - Gone.
Apple. Gone.
Air Conditioning - Gone.
Facebook- Gone.
Netflix - Gone.
McDonalds - Gone.
Google - Gone.
Cell phones - Gone.
Uber - Gone.
Call of Duty - Gone.
Flight - Gone.
Amazon - Gone.
Quicksilver - Gone.
Nike - Gone.
Starbucks - Gone.
Fortnite - Gone.
Supreme - Gone.
X Box - Gone.
Batman - Gone.
North Face - Gone.
Elevators - Gone.
CNN - Gone.
Not to mention staples like Coke and Pepsi and McDonald's and Frito Lay and Disney and countless others.
If the goal is to tell us that capitalism is bad and should be destroyed, then doesn’t logic demand that the fruits of the imperialist, racist, sexist American capitalist system be obliterated?
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I wish these “peaceful protesters” had a LOT MORE ‘convictions’.
Convictions resulting from prosecuted felonies, like lobbing IEDs at police and blinding them with potent lasers.
What? Give up Iphones and $300 sneakers? Never!
So they’re stuck with what, Stolichnaya, AK-47s, and potatoes?
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