Short Takes on Our Times

Violent Protests?  The liberal media ties the adjective to the noun as if that sanitizes the violence.  Traditionally American society has treated the combination as an oxymoron.  Protests in a democratic society are to be civil – the First Amendment to the U.S. protects  that right:  “Congress shall make no law… abridging… the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”.

Violence is violence.  The purported reason for it is not justifiable in America.  Excuses for it merely sanction more of it.

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Is patriotism dying?   In recent decades, the split between Republicans and Democrats over feelings of pride in America have widened (GOP more; Dems less).  But in the past few years, the absence of patriotism among the young has become obvious.  Two years ago, fewer than half of those under 30 “were extremely proud to be American”.  Now only 20% feel that way.

Why?  Certainly the lack of civic education in schools is a large factor.  (If you don’t “know” America, what’s there to love?)  And the current drumbeat permeating the culture (of the young in particular) that America is racist is a contributor as well.

Where are the voices of reason and sensibility countering these largely false and malicious attacks?

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The image of the GOP is not served well by the positions of several Republican governors (think of Florida and Oklahoma, for instance) who refuse to mandate mask-wearing.  Sure facial coverings can be uncomfortable during the heat of summer, but the potential unpleasantness pales into utter insignificance when contemplating the potential life-saving benefits.  Such Republicans cast their party as one of non-seriousness.  Doesn’t the GOP already suffer too much in the public eye from that aspect of our President?

The “Woke Plan” How White America Can Atone for Its Racism

With credit to the inspiration of Lewis Carroll, let’s recite the facts – according to the woke playbook religiously followed by all social justice warriors and their numerous followers in the media and elsewhere.

Whites from Europe invaded the North American continent in the early 17^th century for the implicit purpose of subjugating and killing the natives.  (Can you believe that the caucasians thought they were in the India subcontinent?  How stupid could they be?)  The idea that the early white settlers were motivated by religious objectives is ridiculous.  The New York Times will set you straight if you believe that white racist cover story.

Blacks were imported from Africa to aid the whites in their efforts to take over the land and were kept as slaves.  The conquest of America could not have occurred without them.  So, in essence, the United States was created on the backs of Africans and their descendants.

Thus, the so-called Tree of Liberty planted in the American soil by whites was a parasitic growth.  Nothing that grew from it was redeemable.  Saplings that it generated were similarly infected and cursed.  

So the America of today is damned for the evils of whites who landed here 400 years ago.

The sins of our racism – present and past – must be eradicated.

New York Times columnist Charles Blow readily agrees that slave holding negates whatever good an individual accomplishes. Such people as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, he noted, should not “be honored with monuments in public spaces”.  Blow up their memorials! 

Removal of all signs, statuary and other symbols commemorating white people and their history is mandated, of course.  But that is but a tiny step in the direction of what social justice requires.

The objective needs to be the restoration of what America used to be before the evil whites arrived.

Destroy all that invaders built.  No cities, no paved roads, no agriculture, no cleared farmland.  Instantly restore America to its pre-white man pristine state.

And of course, that state of being requires that all whites be returned to their native lands and, also, blacks must go back to Africa.

But all that will be for the best.  When people are only with their own kind, racism cannot exist and utopia will finally arrive.  After all, isn’t the existence of racial bias of whites the only real evil in the world?  Other seeming flaws in society  (such as  disparities in employment, wealth, crime rates, etc.) are surely spawned by it.

Ah, but trouble in paradise looms.  Indigenous Americans, even before whites invaded their land, had a history of slave holding…  [However, a good social justice warrior knows that canceling discordant facts is the proper response.]

So there you have it.  The only way for whites to atone for their sins against America is to disappear.