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Posted on 11/03/2018 7:14:18 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler
Poynter is brainwashing future “journalists”. It is a liberal, Marxist school for “journalism”.
Do you prefer: Know your enemy. Know their techniques. Know their weak points.
Or do you believe ignorance is bliss?
Yes and this trend is very evident on next door, which was mentioned in the article.
I see next door as the new facebook or maybe worse.
Everything is racist. In my hood there was a long, long debate, chock full of hand wringing and virtue signalling over the use of the word ghettobird which is slang for helicopter.
Most of the people on there are the usual raging leftists who claim the site shouldn’t be political and remove opposing commentary if they are ever confronted with any truth, statistics or facts regarding any pet proggie issues they brought up in the first place.
It’s nothing but puppies, proggies, virtue signalling and I’m calling the police because someone is sitting in front of my house.
Don’t click on it. Problem solved.
Bingo.
Well said.
For all of those who are criticizing the posting of this article here, I want to counter that it is highlighting a very dangerous trend among the left. That is the leftist practice to condition people to reflexively assign racist motives to those who point out the hypocrisy and anti-freedom beliefs of the left.
Nothing in the lawn display was racist, yet this “couple” is worried that the little boy is going to be subject to racist harassment?
EXCELLENT POST.
A clear and succinct warning of the danger we face when every act and action the left dislikes is reduced to racism.
We are a long way down that road already.
I think articles like this keep an important issue in focus; to wit, the LGBT crowds are not happy with our tolerance, they demand acceptance.
There are also areas in the US that my family and I (white heterosexual) would be made to feel unwelcomed so I do not not ever intent to move into such a community.
How many conservatives would be welcomed in any major university town? Answer none.
Indeed. I’m willing to tolerate, but they want me to celebrate.
Don't give them ideas. If they could, they would probably impose some form of tax on non-homosexuals like the Muslim jizya, the tax on non-Muslims. I'm sure they would also mandate celebration of all their "holy" days.
Exactly. They want their coffee cake (as well as your coffee cake) and to eat it all, none for you.
Yeah. Garage door ‘communities’.
The garage door opens. The ‘neighbor’ drives in. The garage door closes, and that’s the last you see of them.
“They are so conditioned to automatically think “racism” every time they hear a conservative that they are incapable of even thinking about the philosophical underpinnings of conservatism.”
The only conditioning they are exhibiting by using the word “racism” is that they have learned that it works like a charm in putting anyone on the right on the defensive with that accusation.
As long as we recoil at being called racists we lose. It is time we embrace the insult and then go on the attack. That is the only way to take away that weapon from them.
So next time somebody calls you a racist, laugh and then say, “you’re right I’m a racist, whatever that means, now let me tell you what you are.” And proceed to eviscerate them.
For all of those who are criticizing the posting of this article here, I want to counter that it is highlighting a very dangerous trend among the left. That is the leftist practice to condition people to reflexively assign racist motives to those who point out the hypocrisy and anti-freedom beliefs of the left.
Nothing in the lawn display was racist, yet this “couple” is worried that the little boy is going to be subject to racist harassment?
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Racism is the spear tip to paint all people who are not leftist fascist totalitarians as less-than-human.
less-than-humans can be easily killed.
Yes, I do live in Tierra Verde. A beautiful, quiet island in St. Petersburg. The people are nice and, thankfully, very conservative. There are areas of St. Petersburg (which are mentioned in the article) that are VERY gay-friendly. This couple should stay there if they want to be surrounded by gay families. I would not feel welcome in those neighborhoods.
The couple is expecting everyone to be happy and accepting of a gay couple with a child. They want the gay couple to be viewed as “normal”. It will never been seen as “normal” by Bible-believing Christians.
I dare say, no one would ever harass or hurt this couple on Tierra Verde. The people there are decent and nice and pretty much keep to themselves. But to accept this “family” as normal probably won’t happen any time soon.
the FDRQ can...
Well as a conservative-minded white male there’s reasons I wouldn’t move my family to certain neighborhoods. And racism is one of them.
Here's a sample post:
We had dozens of kids ring our Raleigh Heights doorbell last night. They were the nicest people one could enjoy meeting. They were polite and they were fun. Not one of them left our doorstep without saying "Thank you." Many of them added "Happy Halloween." There was NO vandalism and NO misbehavior. My wife and I are delighted to think that these young people will inherit the future.Thanks Kids, Thanks Parents, and Thanks Teachers.
I believe Poynter was the founder of the left leaning St. Petersburg Times (aka known as "Pravda On The Bay").
The St. Petersburg Times then morphed into the Tampa Bay Times and drifted further left.
They then expanded distributorship outside St. Petersburg into the Tampa area across the bay.
Eventually they bought their competition, the centrist/conservative Tampa Tribune, and shut it down.
Thn they tripled the price of their delivery subscription.
Now the 3 million residents of the Tampa Bay area have only one major newspaper - the far left Tampa Bay Times.
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