Posted on 03/08/2021 8:41:11 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“That’s insane!” These days, how often do we say those words? The litany could go on and on.
Dr. Seuss is suddenly persona non grata, six of his books removed from publication because they are “racist” and “hateful.” That’s insane!
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has become a widely reviled personality because she claims that boys are born male and girls, female? That’s insane!
Statues of Abraham Lincoln are being torn down and schools named after the Great Emancipator renamed in the cause of fighting racism. That’s insane!
Woke educators decry mathematics education focused on getting “the right answer” as an expression of white privilege and patriarchy. Suddenly math is about social justice. That’s insane!
No. Actually, it’s not. “Canceling,” as it is called, is a coldly calculated strategy implemented with malice aforethought. The goal isn’t to persuade. Social excommunication, media deplatforming, and the trashing of venerable traditions doesn’t seek to reform institutions or promote societal improvement. Rather, the point is to destroy every traditional religious, social, and political institution judged guilty of constructing Western Civilization, toward the end of rebuilding society in the image of Woke.
Let me put it more simply: The French Revolution is attacking the American Revolution.
The French Revolution? Am I nuts?
I don’t think so. Sure, circumstances are different. Antifa and their allied corporate wokesters are not attacking a king living in splendor as the common people starve. And to be sure, no guillotines have been installed in public squares chopping off heads. Well, at least not literally.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
PING!
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The Lefflaff loves the French Revolution metaphor until the Robespierre part...
I’m sooooo looking forward to the Robespierre part.
“Voudrais tu lire avec moi, ce soir?”
(want to read with me, tonight?)
Patty LaBelle & the Bluebelles first version of what became
“Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce Soir?”
**Foolish Fiction
The article is gone from Epoch Times.
Interesting. I had it at the precise link I put in the post, so who knows what in heck happened. I’ll check again later on.
You have to pay forthis article to get it.
Moved to premium content here?
Great stuff!
We were so blessed to have George Washington as our possible dictator.
What a man!
French Revolution vs. American Revolution? No.
The French Dreyfus Affair is more analogous. Read how historian Robert Lynn Fuller describes France around 1898 to 1903 - see below. Sound familiar:
Here is how Robert Lynn Fuller begins his unheralded book “The Origins of the French Nationalist Movement, 1886-1914”:
“Poor France. By the opening of the twentieth century her condition had sunk to such a low the nation was no longer recognizable as the France that had for centuries been the cultural center of Europe and had preoccupied the minds of kings and their ministers ever there were kings to fret about France. This once-proud nation had been overrun by foreigners who mercilessly exploited her rich resources and native industry. Foreign workers stole the jobs of hard-working and honest French men and women who asked only to be allowed to toil in their own land for a decent living. The government had fallen into the hands of a cabal of swindlers with a single goal: to bankrupt the state so that foreign and Jewish bankers and speculators could enrich themselves and their corrupt servants. The universities had become captive to a strange breed of aliens who used them to serve these foreign and Jewish masters. These secretive conspirators worked hand in hand with collectivist revolutionary socialists to ruin French industry and commerce, and to reduce all French men and women to slavery….The foreign policy of France was controlled by crooked anti-French cosmopolitans who strove to advance the interest of France’s enemies, above all England. In order to achieve this conquest, the foreigners, speculators, Jews, Protestants and France-hating Frenchmen first had to neutralize the French army, which alone could save France from ruination. However, by 1902 the army was nearly prostrate, demoralized, stripped of her best commanders, starved for funds, and infested by an internal corps of spies serving the Masons. France had not been reduced to such a depraved state since the Hundred Years War…”
Yet another clueless, idiotic and moronic emission of flatulence from our side.
In the French revolution, the aristocracy was attacked and terrorized. In our present WAR on America by a foreign power, aided by their American allies, the aristocracy is doing the attacking and terrorizing. It is the history and the character of THE PEOPLE which is being destroyed, not the other way around.
And why would this idiot and moron use the French revolution?
What we are experiencing is the Chinese Cultural revolution, American style, actually directed by the Chinese.
Why would this idiot and moron not use that example?
Absolutely correct. Terrible analogy fail.
Looks like a heavily camouflaged anti jewish hit piece to me.
What is a “ Jewish bank “ anyways ?
Well, DUH, it's any bank that has more money than you do!
Just as an FYI, all the Marxist revolutions, yes, including the Chinese Cultural revolution, literally had used the French Revolution as its inspiration. Even Karl Marx admitted that much in at least two sources, and if anything he wanted it to be an even gorier remake. Don’t believe me? Here are some quotes from him:
*”Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793…”-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute
*”The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it.”-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute
And believe it or not, Voltaire and his ilk attempted that crap long before Mao came up with the idea and arguably was successful in that regard. Contrary to popular belief, the aristocracy wasn’t even the intended target of the French Revolutionaries, it was actually Christendom as a whole. In fact, some of the supporters of the French Revolution were in fact members of the aristocracy. I can name at least two people who definitely were aristocrats and who supported the revolution: Duke Phillip of Orlean (aka, the brother of King Louis XVI who acted as the single tie-breaking vote to ensure his demise), and Marquis de Sade.
But hey, don’t take it from me, take it from these sources:
And for good measure:
https://archive.org/details/BarruelMemoirsIllustratingTheHistoryOfJacobinism
Heck, cancel culture also had its roots in the French Revolution as well. And wouldn’t you know it, that sage of Freedom of Speech, Voltaire, practically INSTIGATED cancel culture. Just read Barruel if you don’t believe me.
I wouldn’t be so sure about dismissing the French Revolution that easily. Barruel certainly indicates they were similar in his book. As did Timothy Dwight.
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