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Okay, I’ll Post Again

So I stopped writing this blog because I felt myself just getting angrier, getting really upset and I didn’t want to be another guy screaming on the internet. The events in Charlottesville opened my eyes a little. 

Back when I was still regularly posting, I had this illusion that there were good people on “all sides” and all I needed to do was just reach out to some people and get them to understand that Donald Trump was the bad guy, not them. 

Then I got disheartened and angry and I no longer felt like this mission had any value. So for months I just sat back and watch this whole swirling mess get worse. 

And then a Nazi drove a car into a crowd...and Trump’s response sounded eerily familiar. He said my exact words back to me. A fucking chill ran up my spine. 

I’m going to leave my old posts up, please feel free to read them, go ahead, I’m not ashamed. Because I want you to know how utterly wrong I was.

I don’t like Antifa, I’m not a fan of meeting violence with violence, but they showed up to that rally and threw bottles. The other guys, the fucking Nazis, showed up with assault rifles. 

And a poll by the Washington Post says that fifty percent of Republicans are perfectly okay with postponing a national election if Donald Trump said it was unfair. I’m not making that up: See? 

Eight months ago, I walked into a trap. I looked at a bunch of people who had the same political values as me and I looked at a bunch of guys who were very different and I made a judgement. I equated one group I disliked with another group I knew was wrong. I apologize. 

So let me be clear: there was only good people on one side of what happened in Charlottesville, and someone evil hit them with a car. 

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Please come back.

I’m way, way to angry. I was trying to write a blog that tried to change minds with reasoned discussion and honestly? I don’t think it works anymore. I don’t like I was helping anyone. 

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I literally just discovered your blog. :( I'm kinda sad you're gonna take it down, but you do what you gotta do I guess.

The honest truth? I was trying to be conservative and also be kind. I realized after I saw this video: https://youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk that I couldn’t be both. I chose to be kind. 

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Sigh, so this was supposed to be a polite discussion but now I’m kind of mad.

Steve Bannon is a bad person. Brietbart is not news, it’s brainwashing. The Alt-Right is REALLY, REALLY bad for America and Richard Spencer is evil. 

And the sad thing is I started this blog to convince people who might be on the fence that mainstream conservationism or progressivism is wildly better than sitting on the far ends of the spectrum and just hurling insults. But I now think things have to get worse before they get better. People who voted for Trump aren’t going to be convinced, just like people who didn’t vote for him aren’t going to feel better about him one fine day. 

So I guess this blog is dead. 

But before I kill it, here’s one final thought: Donald Trump counts Steve Bannon among his closest compatriots. Steve Bannon says that Breitbart is a platform for the Alt-Right. 

This is what the founder of the Alt-Right believes: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist

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Trump Is Literally Trying to Destroy America

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/2016-election-pennsylvania-polls-voters-trump-clinton-214297 

Gun crime, high rates of obesity, racial disharmony. These are all problems America has. You know what problem we didn’t really have? And I mean like...for most of the history of our existence as One Nation Under God Indivisible, etc, etc? Concerns about a peaceful transfer of power. That’s right. Since 1865 to today we have had almost no concerns about a coup or a civil war or illegitimate elections. We would hold an election, people voted, most stayed home, then a new guy stepped into the White House with no problem. Some presidents even left their successors little gifts or notes of congratulations. The one incident of vandalism was a story about the Clinton-Gore camp taking all the Ws off the keyboards but that’s not entirely accurate it turns out (http://www.salon.com/2001/05/23/vandals/). Truthfully we, as a nation, have been a sterling example of safety through political continuity for two centuries. It is a cornerstone of our identity as a nation. When you ask people from other nations about what they actually like about us, and it’s a short list sometimes, that’s one of the things they like about us. 

Donald Trump is actively and almost callously disrupting this wonderful part of our country’s history. He’s calling for elections to be monitored, not out of genuine fear but what appears to be some ego driven personal animus against losing. This man is so allergic to the idea that he might not be someone’s first choice for the Oval Office that he’s now actually casting doubt on the entire process of our democracy. 

This horrifies me. It horrifies me as a Conservative, it horrifies me as an American. It horrifies me as a person. 

Donald Trump has spent his entire life callously disregarding other people and alienating women, blacks, gays, and people who don’t spent fifteen hundred dollars a week on comb overs. If he loses this election, it’s because all of those people didn’t vote for him. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s not a big fearsome power grab by shadowy groups of people who the Alt-Right will paint as anti-american. 

He lost because when it came time to audition for the biggest job in the world, on a global stage, Donald Trump acted like a petulant child who didn’t like it when people were mean to him. He lost because he had no right to be the nominee in the first place and if he hadn’t caught a large group of otherwise good people  (all people are good, don’t listen to tumblr) at a bad time in their lives, then he would never be the nominee. He knows this and now he’s giving himself an out if he does lose. He might lose because he’s just a terrible candidate, a bad conservative, and a bad American. 

If he loses, and I pray he loses, that is why. No other reason. 

Don’t monitor voting precincts, they are already monitored by dozens of volunteers who have given up their free time in support of the greatest democracy in the world. If you feel that strongly about our political process, join those people. Not because Trump said to advocate on his behalf but out of pride for the miracle that is America. 

But I’ll tell you right now, the first thing you’ll discover if you do volunteer is how robust and safe our political system is, how hard it is to “hack” elections in this country. You will discover that this man’s fear mongering is just that...a fear. A fear you can ignore. 

Our country has a ton of problems and we are far from perfect but this particular problem hasn’t existed until now. 

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I don’t get the whole “she has more authority” thing. Is this an army? Is there a chain of command? Who decides who has more “right” to talk about basic human issues?

I’m at a loss. I posted about white people & black hair on Facebook and my old roommate, who is mixed race but white passing, is telling ME I’m overreacting and that “people should wear their hair how they want.” I don’t know how to approach this. I don’t want to talk over her because even if she’s white passing, she holds more authority over me in race related issues. I don’t know what to do.

????????

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Being Angry and Feeling Angry Are Two Different Things

I’d like to propose an idea to people who might read this: what is the difference between “feeling angry” (an emotion) and “being angry” (a state of mind). 

Anger is an important emotion, it helps us voice our displeasure, points out faults in our society and our discourse and ourselves. Anger is a good emotion and everyone has the right to FEEL angry. 

Good things come with limits, however. 

In 2008 I lost a good job to the economy, then I couldn’t find another job, then I found a terrible job, lost that one, and had to look for yet another job. I felt angry and after a while, I just was angry. My emotion became a state of mind, a thing that colored every thought I had. My anxiety and anger about my employment made me into a different person. I yelled at my loved ones, got drunk every other night, my diet got worse, I gained weight and yelled at people. Suddenly my anger became a form of depression because it was the only feeling I had left. 

The people on the Alt-Right feel angry but they also ARE angry. Their anger colors everything. When Black Lives Matter talks about white privilege, these people who are underemployed and worried about money don’t feel terribly privileged and they feel attacked. When Liberals talk about how vicious and cruel our foreign policy is, the Conservatives who make up the vast majority of our military feel betrayed by the rhetoric of their own country. And when Progressives talk about how we need to “redistribute” wealth or raise taxes, the small business owners who aspire to be big business owners feel threatened at the idea that they won’t get a chance to gain what a mostly liberal elite class already has. They feel angry and for some people, over time that anger becomes blinding and hateful. They turn from feeling angry to being angry and stay that way. 

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and the Alt-Right take normal disagreements and natural emotions and make them part of an identity. They and other forces in our society turn a perfectly reasonable feeling, a good natural part of the emotional tapestry and turn it into an identity, into a belief system. They create this religious belief system where the only commandments are “be angry” and “don’t stop”. 

They aren’t the only ones, the Extreme Left loves to do the same thing but some how it’s just so much more visible on the Right. The interesting thing is that it’s also not terribly helpful on either side. The Occupy movement accomplished very little, the Black Lives Matter team is fractured and not unified, and the Sandernistas failed to get on the ballot (by a wide margin). 

And the Right Wing has been no different. In 2009, you started to see people shutting out the Moderate Conservative politicians, as if ideological purity was this great and wonderful thing that everyone was going to flock towards. They called these poor moderates who the Tea Party hunted to extinction were called R.I.N.O.s (Republicans in Name Only) and their biggest sin? Not being angry enough. Not getting fired up enough. Not being motivated enough to change things. The feeling was that the REAL conservatives were going to take over and fix things.

So they took over and accomplished nothing. No major policy decisions, no serious alternatives to the President’s healthcare plans, they even shut down the government in 2013 and may try to do it again if Ted Cruz gets his way. they became the party of No, the party of doing nothing while the world fell down around their ears. 

Because the only thing they’re good at is being angry and staying that way. 

In the end, that may be all they have left. 

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Not Seeing the Dictators Through The Trees

There is a deeply disturbing trend among both Liberals and Conservatives, a lean towards totalitarian thought, that I find a little disgusting. It’s especially bad in the ranks of the Alt Right, where a movement that’s supposed to stand against single party rule now proudly embraces a kleptocrat. 

I’m not here to claim that the Alt-Right Movement is in Putin’s pocket. There’s no strong evidence of that and frankly that’s far too easy an explanation for our problems than some Russian covert op.

Like I said, the Liberals are guilty of it too. 

Post 9/11, there seems to now be this general feeling on the Left that anyone who is in the mainstream is apart of this vast ongoing government conspiracy to violate the rights of thousands to profit millions and that all governments are generally evil. (Hang on to this because in a second you’re going to hear it again) One of the chief architects of this belief system was Julian Assange and Wikileaks.  

Personally, I always thought Wikileaks is bunk because of what it represents: A world that is upset about quasi legal shadowy entities that are beholden to no one so they fully embrace a quasi legal shadowy entity that is beholden to no one.

Wikileaks has long been the progressive darling for it’s “brave” stance against opaque government entities. Julian Assange has been quoted as claiming things like: “Secrecy breeds incompetence.” or “People don’t want to be coerced, they don’t want to be killed.”

Etc. Etc.

And yet if the AP and other actual journalists are to be believed, Wikileaks has hurt a lot of people. They’ve outed gay men in places were being gay is illegal, outed abused women and children, published medical records and financial records of innocent people, and most recently, threatened to tip the American Election in the favor of Donald Trump. That last part isn’t entirely their fault, no  one can be blamed for pointing out corruption, though their timing is...interesting. 

This is all part of a weird pattern for Assange, who is locked in an Ecuadoran embassy because he’s been accused of a sex crime (or a CIA covert op if you hear Assange tell it). Assange releases something that isn’t terribly damaging to US Intelligence, gets touted as a hero by people who don’t like the CIA, then the US reacts because he did deliberately break the law, and then he claims he’s being persecuted (which may or may not be true), then he gets offers by left wing groups to do various things, utterly wiffs it, and then the cycle begins a new. 

Remember, Julian Assange is a guy who claims that secrecy is bad and that government entities are all liars and yet he tried to found a political party in Australia. Ask around how that went.

Go ahead, I’ll wait here.

If you read most of the same sources I read, the main complaint about the Wikileaks party is that everyone accused Julian Assange of being secretive and of lying a lot. He’s a guy who is physically incapable of telling the truth when his feet are held to the fire because he thinks the world is out to get him. He loves the spot light and is selective in where he stokes his outrage. This is a guy who claims that Hillary Clinton is this outrageous monster (which is true) and yet when he is confronted by the possibility that an even greater outrageous monster is actively supporting him, he is mum on the subject. 

No not Trump. Putin. Assange has his own tv show on a government financed Russian News Service, he’s getting political support from the Russian Government, if his Ecuadoran deal falls through, rumors spread that he’ll flee to Moscow. 

Also, do you know who has never really been targeted by a Wikileaks drop in spite of having persecuted gays, invaded foreign nations, and tortured terrorism suspects? Russia. And all of those things are things the United States has done that have found their way onto the Wikileaks site while Russia’s own record is quietly ignored. It’s almost like Julian Assange’s organization is very selective in who it crusades against but they are dead certain that the great evil of our times is Hillary Clinton.

All of this culminated in the Green Party Convention here in the states where Assange skyped a speech about how evil the United States is. 

And the Green Party, the most liberal group in America, claimed that this man accused of sexual assault and clearly in the pay of a homophobic dictator was a hero. Like that was the actual word that was used.  

But he’s not the only one with a sketchy record. In fact, as I will outline in a minute, Julian Assange has the EXACT SAME SKETCHY RECORD AS THE ALT-RIGHT.

Post 9/11, there seems to now be this general feeling on the the Alt-Right that anyone who is in the mainstream is apart of this vast ongoing government conspiracy to violate the rights of thousands to profit millions and that all governments are generally evil.  

Does that sound familiar? Does that sound like it’s the position taken by a liberal hero in the pay of a foreign dictator? Does that sound like maybe these guys are on the same side politically as Putin? I’m not going to say that outright because truthfully, no it doesn’t and there’s no proof of that. If the media had a real smoking Russian gun connecting Trump and the Alt-Right to Putin, then we would hear about it but we don’t. So there is no obvious connection between Putin and the Alt-Right like there is between Putin and Assange. 

But there are plenty of other seedy connections on the Alt-Right.

I am bemused to see the Alt-Right embrace a guy like Alex Jones because if I was going to design a comedy version of the typical Alt-Right Conservative, it would be Jones. Like I would be tempted to claim that he’s fake and that the things he says are a pantomime exaggeration of an actual Paleo Conservative except other Paleo Conservatives all sound like he does. 

This is one of the many things that drove me away from being a Republican and into the arms of the Independents. Lately it seems that Conservatives can’t properly put their views or beliefs into a rational argument and they have trouble picking someone rational or intelligent to speak on their behalf, the Alt-Right, it seems, can’t speak eloquently on their position so they just keep screaming it.

And Alex Jones is the best at screaming in the world. https://youtu.be/hnGkslj4PVA?t=2m27s

I don’t know who Sam Seder is but I thank god he put that clip on line because it is just one of the best examples of why Alex Jones is a human cartoon. He makes his money advertising gold sellers and survivalist gear and his net worth is over five million. Five million dollars selling people things to prepare for an apocalypse that HE claims is right around the corner. He lives in a big house with five million bones because he has convinced people that the UN and the US are coming to kill them and that they should all live in shacks and await the end of the world. 

He has five million dollars and he regularly declares that the economy is about to collapse. 

I’m not that religious but some times I get down on my knees and pray that God opens a hole in the ground and takes someone that sinful away from this world. 

Alex Jones’ continued existence may turn me into an Atheist because no planet ruled over by a loving God could ever have someone so awful living on it. 

But he’s not even the worst thing about the Alt-Right. 

The Bundy family are  a bunch of racists who take over government facilities and when they get arrested they claim they’re being persecuted by jackbooted thugs. These are men (almost all men) who use threats of violence to get what they want and when they fail to get what they want, they claim they’re being persecuted. I’m particularly amused by what happened in Oregon, about how that whole movement fell apart because The FBI refused to commit to a stand off or because their fair weather members kept stealing money and supplies. 

Why it’s almost like a group run by extremists is incapable of governing themselves or others. It’s almost like after being given or taking even a little power they fall all over themselves in failure. It’s almost like they are embracing the extreme views of Kleptocratic foreign dictators without actually getting the benefits of being associated with him and they’re still totally incompetent. 

And while all of this is going on, Putin takes over more the Ukraine.

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Alt Right Is Not Right...See What I Did There?

Well they’ve given the Trump Movement a real name that unhinges it from their candidates identity. On the one hand, it’s good to give this thing a name. When you name it, you can beat it. 

On the other hand, what worries me about this is that it’s no longer about Trump. 

Everybody generally agrees that surprise, surprise, appointing a guy who is not actually Conservative and acts like a short tempered sociopath to be your candidate was not the best move politically so it’s kind of a given that Trump is going to lose. But now it seems that the movement Trump started and the remaining few nutcases from the Tea Party are now calling themselves the Alternative Right (which is not how that works, by the way, there is no Left, Right, then other Right).and the message here is clear: When Trump Loses, these people are not going away. 

On the one hand, this is entirely the fault of the Republican party: they embraced the extremism of the hard right for votes, they ignored the plight of the working American, the ignored the dangerous rhetoric of guys like Ted Cruz, and now this is what we have now. 

I’d love to believe that this is going to go the direction of stuff like the John Birch Society, Lyndon LaRouche, the Moral Majority, the Tea Party, and a variety of other stupid ideas and neigh cult like behavior that pop up every now and then in the Right wing. 

Except, none of those things existed during a time that was fundamentally as divisive and riddled with controversy as 21st Century America. We live in a time when people call stand up comics “problematic”, use death threats when video game releases are late, or accuse box stores of being evil when they allow people who had sex reassignment surgery to use a different bathroom. 

America is angry, almost furious. The Conservatives are mad at each other and at Liberals, the Liberals are made at the Conservatives, and the Social Justice types just hate everyone. There are no moderates anymore, there are no people to pull the crazies back from the precipice this time. We have politicians on both sides who are corrupt and cowardly, we have too much big money in politics, no local leadership in state political entities, and Journalists who kowtow to corporate interests to keep their jobs. The Internet allows people to be anonymous jerks and to ignore things like facts or reason. The political environment that we’re dealing with now gives us every indication to believe that we’re stuck with this. Stuck with the Alt-Right and the SJWs and the screaming and the suffering. 

I’d love to believe that this isn’t going to be a permanent problem but it is and it’s going stay that way until somebody tries to put a stop to it. 

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Men’s Rights and The Wasteland Between Misogyny and Misandry

If you spend enough time on tumblr, you will find some misandry. It’s there and it’s stupid.

 It’s not an exclusive product of Third Wave Feminism, after all Second Wave Feminism gave us Dworkin and “All heterosexual sex is rape”, but it is an intrinsic part of that movement’s thought process. All women are quivering victims who need to be protected in the presence of brutal male aggression, which is everywhere. 

Some of their positions reach into the absurd: Lady Gaga wrote a song that claimed that all women are about to be raped and it showed up on the soundtrack of a documentary that used bad statistics to make the same claim. Teen Wolfe actress Adelaide Kane seems to be under the impression that all women are routinely sexually harassed and has tweeted so on multiple occasions because that makes sense, an Australian B list Actress claiming to be the voice of an entire gender. Lena Dunham, a wealthy tv star who is the daughter of wealthy people, and Jennifer Lawrence, the number two box office star in America, have made the claim that they are victimized by a pay gap that economists have grave doubts exists in the manner outlined by Dunham and Lawrence. If it does exist, it’s doubtful that Dunham and Lawrence would be considered victims in such a scenario, considering they’re very, very wealthy. Lena Dunham made these claims in an online newsletter supported and published by the Hearst Corporation, which is owned by men, run by men, and founded by one of the oldest male dominated dynasties in America. So...y’know, girl power.

Third Wave Feminism is also very demanding, requiring it’s participants to either be fake lesbians or bisexual or pretend to be bisexual and to hang out with your squad and pretend boys are icky, just like it’s third grade. This infantile mindset leads to fewer relationships and studies show Millennial women are having substantially less sex (straight, lesbian, or otherwise) than their previous generations. You might find this surprising but I don’t. Between the fears of getting raped and the requirement to be genderless and man free, who has time for intimacy?

Third Wave Feminism is dumb but it’s also harmless, it’s a stretching rubber band that is going to snap eventually and everyone involved is going to move on to something else. Third Wave Feminism has no legs because it’s asking women, many of whom are already quite powerful, to see themselves as powerless and sexless. At a certain point, this kind of internal repression is going to become externalized, then rebelled against, and then you’re going to get an explosion. The kids in the 2020s are going to fuck their brains out. 

You know what’s not harmless? Advocating legalized rape.

Third Wave Feminism has gotten it’s strength from being attractive to women who are already powerful but MRAs and Red Pill movements have grown powerful by attracting men who have no power. They seep into the mindset of men who live without the ability to determine their own destiny, men who are underpaid, overworked, and socially awkward. Men who feel so stripped of masculine power that they give in to the worst impulses. Men who allow themselves to believe that women have victimized them because these men doubt fit traditional gender roles. 

This anger, this fury, explodes outward in a lot of ugly ways, Gamergate, the Isla Vista shootings, Death threats. But at it’s core it’s a cry for help from a group that feels voiceless. 

And the people who offer them a chance to be heard are awful. 

Roosh V is the nom-de-guerre of Daryush Valizadeh. He runs a website called Return of Kings and the guy is a falling down nightmare. On multiple occasions, Roosh has advocated positions that most rational people would regard as unhinged. He claims that legalized rape would prevent rape, that there’s a world wide conspiracy rob men of their masculinity, and that women are only attractive when they’re virgins (the guy runs a sex tourism website and he demands virgins, he’s not even consistent). 

To make matters more despicable he dresses this nonsense in Conservative politics, like treating women like shit is an important part of a political belief system that advocates that humans take control of their interaction instead of surrendering themselves to pointless traditions and government mandates where people, including women, can’t determine their lives for themselves. 

Then there’s the Red Pills, the men who advocate literally separating their lives from women because they feel traditional gender roles create an unfair standard that men have to live up to. They claim that feminism has unduly turned men’s lives into a painful nightmare. They say that the ongoing experience of working to attain female approval is poisonous and bad for men’s health. I find this position amusing since it’s exactly what Betty Friedan said about Men: 

“American women lately have been living much longer than men, walking through their leftover lives like living dead women. Perhaps men may live longer in America when women carry more of the burden of the battle of the world, instead of being a burden themselves.”

But hey, don’t tell them that.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg, lately it seems being Conservative in some circles involves being furious about women or about women’s rights or some other variety of anger. It seems as though claiming to be Conservative is now a way to work your way through a lot of personal bullshit. 

The saddest part is that I understand some of the anger. 

I’m not terribly attractive and I lack confidence, I’ve never had a real girlfriend, I didn’t lose my virginity until I was thirty two. I still struggle with women, painfully so. All those various slights and stings that get under your skin, all those little pains that makes your heart feel like it’s turning to stone, I get that. When Eliott Rodger killed six people because of his frustration with women...I understood. I was horrified but I understood. You get angry, you feel furious. You want to hurt something as bad as someone hurt you. 

People like Roosh V and the rest of the Alt Right take advantage of that rage. They push you into a place that makes you feel better about being a loser and soon you understand the way the world works. This mindset takes away your pain. Women won’t talk to you? It’s because a world wide conspiracy of bimbos takes your strength. These men are Beta Males doing what they think makes them Alpha Males and they refuse to acknowledge that there’s no such thing as an Alpha.anything. Ironically, this is sort of how Third Wave Feminism appeals to women. Does your life feel empty? Do you lack an identity or a strong connection to the group you identify with? Here, this is a prepackaged identity with morals and goals and motivations. None of this new identity is organic to you but what’s it matter? It’s making you feel good. 

There’s this terrible wasteland between Misandry and Misogyny, this gulf of communication that leaves everybody angry and sad. Kind of wonder when that’s gonna end. 

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Stopwhitepeople2k16 and why it’s not that big of a deal

Okay so at this point I guess the SUNY Binghamton’s totally optional RA Program that’s designed by students and is not an actual class has gone viral. There’s a lot to unpack here: First, calling a program that’s supposed to promote racial harmony “Stop White People” reeks of a bad idea and the concept of allowing undergrads to design anything also reeks of a bad idea. But if you want actual commentary on that side of the subject, I suggest you go to “Stop Making Liberals Look Bad” to get their take on it. 

On this blog, we’ll address the creepy and very goofy way that some people in the Conservative blogosphere react to stuff like this. Here are actual Facebook posts on the subject: 

“ Have you seen the stop white people class at Binghamton University? ? Who do we sue for raciisiom or prosecute for intentionally threatening a group of people? This should not go unnoticed, it's a left -wing attack on white people! Now imagine if it was stop black people class! This has gone to far, get ready my fellow race, we are under attack!” 

“ BINHAMTON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTION TO OFFER " STOP WHITE PEOPLE COURSE" 80% OF ALL AMERICAN DEATHS ARE EVIL WHITE GUILT FOLKS? ONE MILLION EVIL WHITE GUILT FOLKS ARE FALLING VICTIM TO BLACK AND MINORITY PRIORITY CRIMES HOURLY, DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, YEARLY, ANNUALLY FOR OVER 52 CIVIL RIGHTS BUT NOT FOR WHITES YEARS NOW? WE DO EVERYTHING THE OPPOSITE WAY OF NORMAL LEGAL, MORAL TRADITIONAL ARYAN AMERICAN PEOPLES MORAL LAW AND ORDER WAY OF LIFE TODAY....THE QUESTION IS WHO THE HELL DOES WE MEAN ANYWAY? YES THERE IS A NORMAL RIGHT WAY AND THEN THERE IS A UNNORMAL WRONG WAY - IT JUST DON'T WORK TRYING TO PLAY IT BOTH WAYS ....Amen.” 

“ as this has now proven to be acceptable, I will be lobbying for a class here in Williamsport to "stop black people" since we see so many criminals listed as from Philly. gee, sounds a lot worse when I say it, doesn't it?” 

“ A lot of us "uneducated people" have no regard for what you "educated" folk call a higher education. It's not difficult for me to understand how something like this got into the schedule at a SUNY school; state sponsored racism is right up this governors alley. The fact that it is in the curriculum at Binghamton SUNY, again no surprise. What is alarming to me is that there are supposedly "educated people" who believe in this sort of crap. I'm guessing these are folk who have never held a shovel or sledge hammer and never would since it is below them. Here's a little news flash for you little pumpkins; the only thing below you is whale shit. Society has somehow placed a precedent on what the thoughts of academia are. Those days are beginning to come to an end. We are starting to see what the end game is and we do not like it. Take your manufactured indignation, your PC bullshit, and your so called sophistication and go hide in your safe place. The rest of us will just keep plodding along ignorant of the Utopia you have promised for years and never delivered.” 

Seems like a huge reaction for something which, frankly, like twenty people are going to attend and is not an actual course taught by a professor. There seems to be a on going thing in Conservative circles about Reverse Racism, which does not exist. Reverse Racism is a made up concept. 

Racism, where people of all skin colors can allow hatred into their hearts and feel anger at another race, that is very real. Black people can be racist, Asians can be racist, everybody can be racist and it’s not something you can fight with anger. If the situation was reversed would people be angry about  that? Yeah, maybe there’s a point to that and I’m willing to accept the idea that in the never ending liberal dark forest of social justice, there are more than a few people who hit that mark of “I really do hate white people”. 

But are you seriously going to tell me that the correct reaction to this news is some insane levels of rage at the idea of a course, not an official course, taught by not an official instructor is worthy of calling people as low as “whale shit”? Like this is the reaction of the kind of person who just found out their kid got molested and you’re using it to protest the equivalence of a 2 hour seminar with a bad title? Come on. I’m particularly mystified by the idea of the uneducated guy who has “no regard” for higher education. You’re telling me you don’t want your kids to be doctors or lawyers or heads of major corporations? You see no value at all in the idea of post graduate education and it’s benefits? This, right here, is the thing that tears up a seven hundred year old march to scientific supported enlightenment in your eyes? 

Look, take a deep breath, step away from the computer and think: maybe American civilization isn’t about to end just because somebody has a goofy opinion about race that’s being expressed through a hashtag. Is it just barely possible that the best way to defeat “Reverse Racism” (which is not a thing, stop making it a thing) is to NOT let it bother you? 

There’s another side of this too: the concept of getting pushed into anger. 

In professional wrestling, which I frigging love by the way, they have this thing called a “Work” where something really bad happens to the “Babyface” or hero and then the “Marks” (people who believe wrestling is real) get “worked up” or angry and start booing. The wrestlers want you to boo because that means you’ve been fooled. You’ve been “Worked” 

I have a sneaking suspicion that’s what this is, that this is a group of students (and that’s who created the program) gave this thing a provocative title to get people mad. I suspect that someone in authority allowed them to name this class in this manner so people could attend the class all worked up and then get shown some sort of lesson or something and in the end...y’all got worked. You became marks for a work. Now you’re booing and I suspect that’s what they want. They want Conservative outage and thus make you look like fools. That’s...kind of brilliant actually but also kind of sad. Sad that we have become so predictable as a culture that people can shout into an echo chamber and get anger and rage so quickly. You are angry and thus they got what they wanted. Tomorrow Milos Yiannopoulos or Steven Crowder will pull a stunt and the outrage will continue, this time on the other side and the cycle will begin anew. Isn’t that the really objectionable part about this whole thing? Not that this class exists because stuff like this always exists, it’s that you’re so angry about it. You’re so enraged that you’re shouting in all caps about the glory of the white race or some nonsense. Basically this is what SJWs want from Conservatives and this is literally what you’re giving them. 

So here’s a question: how does being angry about this make you feel better?

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BLM Should Be A Conservative Movement

The title says it all: Black Lives Matter is partly championing a thoroughly Conservative cause that, sadly, Conservative can’t be bothered to support. 

While I am not overly fond of Black Lives Matter or it’s tactics, I cannot help but notice that one of the core arguments of the group tracks awfully close to two very important principles of Conservative politics. The first, Government Overreach is harmful to society, and the second, Government Overspending leads to corruption, injustice, and poor decision making, have both been basic parts of the Conservative platform for decades.

Consider the following: As America moves closer and closer to a mostly urban society, city governments have festooned the legal code with silly, almost paranoid laws that turn ordinary citizens into criminals. They do this to earn money or to promote an ideology but you can find this nonsense in every state that has at least one major city: Bloomberg tried to make drinking a Big Gulp illegal. Cook County Illinois ruled that rock and hip-hop venues are not tax exempt because “Rock and Hip-Hop don’t have artistic value”, some places insist smokers stand fifty feet from any entrances as if they were giving carcinogens a restraining order, sometimes police officers are needed to raid a Los Angeles County Business just because they don’t pay eight hundred dollars in taxes for having furniture in their office. And by the way Los Angeles, why do porn stars have to wear condoms? If you record a naughty video on your iPhone, does that ordinance extend to private citizens as well? 

This is just a small sampling of the bigger ticket items but you get the idea. 

The people most affected by many of these laws are people who live below the poverty line and while that group does include Caucasians, it can often touch African Americans and Hispanics in a disproportionate manner. 

There was a time when fighting against this sort of thing was a clear cut Conservative issue. Liberals scowled at Ronald Reagan’s demand to cut red tape and social programs but part of that movement was also a desire to pull the Government back from Nanny State finger wagging and the 1950s era surveillance state. You still hear Conservative commentators rankle at the idea of state and local taxes that murder jobs in Blue States. 

But when Police are called to choke out Eric Garner for selling black market tobacco products or to shoot Alton Sterling for selling bootleg cds, these same commentators claim that “all lives matter” instead of identifying the jack booted injustice for what it truly is. It’s nanny state politics at it’s most horrifying and it’s supposed to be the very thing Conservatives champion. 

Yet...no outrage. Not even from the extreme and paranoid wings of Conservative Thought that literally get outraged if Obama sneezes too hard. 

And where did the police learn such violent tactics? Where did the get all that nasty looking hardware and gear to fight asthmatics that just want to earn some money on the side? From government funding. Specifically from post-9/11 anti terrorism funding that was spread too generously in the paranoia of the early Aughts. Suddenly every police officer in every wealthy city and suburb was now armed to the teeth and trained in paramilitary tactics, thanks to government overspending and waste. Conservatives these days are awfully quick to talk about the debt but when that debt has allowed police departments in small suburbs to drive armored personnel carriers or buy Barrett .50 Sniper Rifles, where is the outrage? If giving a tank to a suburban police department that serves a population of less than 5,000 people isn’t government waste, what is?

And also...where is the fear? Where is the very healthy fear of what happens when the combination of over-funded police and thoughtless laws are let loose in a divided society? Why is it that Conservative Paranoia is never actually pointed in the correct direction?

I am not a fan of Black Lives Matter but I acknowledge the point they’re trying to make. It’s a cause that should be shared by Conservatives.