Posted on 06/19/2020 6:15:52 AM PDT by rktman
We're in the dawn of a high-tech, bloodless Cultural Revolution, one that relies on intimidation, public shaming and economic ruin to dictate what words and ideas are permissible in the public square.
You may also have noticed another progressive slogan gaining popularity these days: "Silence is violence." It's no longer enough not to peddle wrongthink in the op-ed pages of the local paper, but now you must also actively champion woke progressive positions or you, too, are tacitly engaged in violence and racism.
This is a neat trick: To speak out in the wrong way is violence. Not to speak out is violence. Not to speak out in the way progressives dictate is violence. This is why your apolitical local lawn care company is sending out emails promising to dedicate themselves to Black Lives Matter. No one wants to be accused of harboring counterrevolutionary sympathies.
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Where’s the outrage on our part? Why the hell is nobody fighting back?
I guess I’m a violent person.
We’ve seen this all before........China, 1960’s, Mao’s Red Guards, burning books, torching buildings, killing people all in the name of a ‘Cultural revolution’...................
What about the silent muslims after 9/11?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/three-generations-brainwashing-pays-off-liberals-newt-gingrich
Ayn Rand identified this years ago. I’ve never liked her phrase “Sanction of the Victim” but the concept is right on.
The Left will oppress us and tyrannize us. But that is not enough. They also insist that we agree to the punishment and thank them for it. We must apologize. We are victimized and we must sanction it.
This is not going to end well at all.
it may also never end
The who after what? You understand what I mean right?
It may not stay bloodless......
Where’s the outrage on our part? Why the hell is nobody fighting back?
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We elect (and re-elect) cowards to represent us and we don’t hold them accountable. And then we’re surprised when they fail to stand up and do the right thing.
It may not stay bloodless......
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If we (collectively) don’t start showing some strength and resolve that will happen. Weakness invites aggression. Always has, always will.
I’m confused. Leftists say conservative speech is violence but their violence is speech. Now our silence is also violence? Maybe a lesson in the meaning of words is in order.
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Re: where ‘silence is violence’
Exactly!
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
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