Posted on 06/15/2018 9:19:09 AM PDT by reaganaut1
American women live under a suffocating patriarchy. Rape culture flourishes in the United States. Toxic masculinity stunts the emotional and professional growth of American females. Sexual harassment and predation are ubiquitous in American workplaces. College campuses are maelstroms of sexual violence. Female students need safe spaces where they can escape abusive male power.
These propositions are self-evident to a large, interlocking establishment of government bureaucrats, progressive politicians, college administrators, faculty, “activists,” professionals, and journalists. Yet this same establishment is up in arms over a recent declaration by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that female aliens caught trying to enter the country illegally will no longer be automatically considered for asylum by dint of claiming that they are victims of domestic abuse. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accuses the Trump administration of “staggering cruelty” in condemning “vulnerable innocent women to a lifetime of violence and even death.” The American Bar Association charged that Sessions would “further victimize those most in need of protection.” The executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Benjamin Johnson, denounced “this shameful chapter in our country’s history,” and promised a lawsuit.
Sessions was right to return asylum law to its original intent: offering protection to individuals persecuted by their government for membership in a socially distinct group. Domestic violence is a private crime, not a public one, and does not reflect general persecution of the sort that international law has codified as appropriate for asylum petitions. Asylum petitions have mushroomed 1,700 percent from 2008 to 2016, according to the New York Times, driven in significant part by domestic-abuse claims, often underwritten by extensive coaching and encouragement by hard-left advocates.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Oh. An insult.
Well then. Call me a name to go with it, and you win the argument.
Sorry - I used it up on somebody else.
(2) There's no need to read all comments on a thread before posting; neither is it possible, since one may be sitting there composing while the other comments are toddling in. It's not like we're all making witty ripostes in real time around a pitcher of beer.
(3) MacDonald masterfully showed that the "bureaucrats" and "'academics'" who are spouting Left-Feminese about the USA have no idea what they're talking about. This is especially so because they portray the USA as an abuser of women, and then say the world's abused women need to migrate here to be safe from abuse.
(4) If this is how you treat your allies, it's not surprising you have so few.
Pearls before swine ma’am, never wrestle with a pig or play chess with a pigeon.
“Gentlemen. Kindly read past the first paragraph.”
It amazes me how sarcasm is wasted on so many people...
WRONG!!!! It is EXACTLY your responsibility to read the article before commenting. You shirked your responsibility (I guess that goes along with putting responsibility second) and made an ass of yourself. Man up and admit it.
Do you read the thread before posting this reply? All the comments?
No you did not.
So, brother ass, don’t lecture others about reading.
I read the article before proceeding. You, OTOH, did not. You shirked your responsibility and made an ass of yourself. Now you’re reduced to moronic bluff and bluster ... not lookin’ good.
Not lookin’ good at all.
Your best bet would be to slink off and try to do better next time. Try putting responsibility first.
How ironic that a perfect reply to your blathering is found in your very own FReep page.
You just pwnd yourself with your own FReep page. lol
That has to be the stupidest comment you have ever made ... stupider even than your initial remarks on this thread.
Here’s some free advice: You’re at the bottom of a sewer pit right now. Quit digging. You’re just getting in deeper.
Here’s some free advice: You’re at the bottom of a sewer pit right now. Quit digging. You’re just getting in deeper.
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You finally made sense. I will take your advice. As arguing with you is equivalent to being in the bottom of a sewer pit, I will get out.
If you’d bother to read the whole article, you’d find that she was actually stating the leftist attitude and calling attention to leftist hypocrisy in connection with immigration to this country, where they supposedly find the conditions for women so horrible. She’s particularly attacking the part where the left simultaneously claims that escaping domestic violence in other countries is a cause for refugee status.
The point of her article is that if everything here is as horrible for women as they say it is, then why do they claim that we have to take in “women fleeing domestic violence.” The left tries to have it both ways.
Dear Heather,
Please feel free to move to Europe, where there’s no patriarchy, and women in short skirts are free to flit around from muslim immigrant to muslim immigrant, with absolutely nothing to fear.
Or Latin and South America, because as we know, there’s no history of macho culture there.
Or the Middle East, (except Israel, because, you know... Jews.)
Or China. That may be your best bet. You can have all the government paid abortions you want, just get pregnant, and China will suck that little baby right out of your uterus. Sounds like your sort of feminist paradise!
Mark
Responsibility2nd wrote: “I read that 3rd paragraph. It is as far removed from the train of thought she started in with the first paragraph as Trump is from Obama. ... Those three paragraphs were bad enough. Why would I want to waste more time?”
It was my impression that the ‘average freeper’ would want to know what they’re talking about before posting.
‘I’d ask Heather to let me spend a day with her to see/feel the horrible environment she speaks of. I’m willing to bet that it’s nothing remotely near what she writes about.’
methinks you need to get your irony meter tuned up, toute suite...
‘This site has gone full retard.’
sad, isn’t it...?
‘How ironic that a perfect reply to your blathering is found in your very own FReep page.’
please; just stop it...
My bad.
Daughters are reflections of what their mothers taught them until upper childhood. Men give them an example of what their husbands should look like.
Heather MacDonald is pretty well known. Take a breath...
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