Posted on 04/09/2016 6:16:20 AM PDT by rktman
As we watch our nation becoming more and more divided, one troubling trend is accelerating with amazing speed: the increase in “-ist” accusations.
If you’re white, you’re automatically a racist. If you’re a man, you’re automatically sexist. If you’re a boss, you’re automatically an oppressive capitalist. If you live in Idaho, you’re automatically a white supremacist (trust me on this). And on and on it goes. Judgmental. Hater. Intolerant. Phobic. Did I miss anything?
Accusations of “-ist” became widespread because they were so effective. Ever try to engage a liberal in conversation? The moment – the moment! – you say something they don’t like, the accusations start. “Hater!”
How do you argue against that? Most people immediately move into defensive mode, sputtering denials the other party soaks up like water, causing their baseless accusations to bloom and flourish. “Hater! Racist pig! Sexist jerk!” And on and on it goes.
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Completely concur with your statement, Jim. You can’t enlighten or uplift those who do not want to be, or more correctly, those who believe that they are already uplifted and enlightened, and who are completely wiilling to see you dead.
Who said anything about coming unglued? You ever study martial arts?
It started the very moment that law and justice were removed from G-d's jurisdiction and declared to be solely the jurisdiction of man; ie, when morality was defined as something other than "arbitrary Divine decree." And that was a long, long, long time ago--the Renaissance at the very latest. Maybe as far back as "render unto Caesar."
The Thousand-Year Reich and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere have been rather dormant for 70+ years. Are you going to claim we are their "perpetual prison keepers"?
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