Liberal Protests

[Westside]

4 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Over a year and a half ago..........................so we can ignore it.

 

EVERY LEFTIST’S GOAL: Criminalizing Dissent.

Louis Shenker, a 21-year-old junior at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, just wanted his MAGA hat back from the graduate student who ripped it off his head on campus. He wore the hat to a December 6, 2018 protest organized by the university’s graduate student union against Trump and local police. Video shows that when Louis, who is 5’6’’ and 140 pounds, arrived wearing the MAGA hat and holding a large sign, he was immediately surrounded by a hostile mob of older grad students cursing at him and calling him a white supremacist. A woman lunged from the mob and snatched Louis’s MAGA hat. Careful not to get caught on camera hitting Louis with their hands, they instead mobbed him like a colony of enraged penguins, using their bodies to push him from all sides, occasionally pecking at his head with their cardboard signs, and chanting in unison: “THE PEOPLE, UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED.”

 

“Get the f**k out of here, you shouldn’t be in an anti-racist march!” screamed the hat thief. A soft-spoken professor in the crowd warned Louis: “It’s actually dangerous for you to come by yourself like that.” As the protesters began to march and Louis tried to keep up while pleading for his hat, many of them, including several graduate student union members dressed in United Auto Workers gear, elbowed Louis into walls, lampposts, and other obstacles. “You act like a Nazi, you’re going to get treated like a Nazi,” a female protester yelled at the Jewish grandson of Holocaust victims. Louis left without his hat.

 

A month later, Louis was horrified to recognize the woman who stole his MAGA hat as Beth Peller, a 36-year-old grad student who would be teaching his mandatory freshman writing class.

 

 

 

 

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I wonder how that worked out? 

[Deranged Rhino]

Not sure the best thread for this, but this seems apt. Reason 1,009,895 why socialized medicine is a dangerously stupid idea: 

 

[Hedge]

 

 

 

 

[Koko78]

3 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Not sure the best thread for this, but this seems apt. Reason 1,009,895 why socialized medicine is a dangerously stupid idea: 

 

 

'Bloody hell, I'm not racist, my best mate knows guy who is friends with a black guy! Now, will you please treat this assault knife wound before I bleed out?!?'

 

Bollocks!

Edited February 18, 2020 by Koko78

[IDBillzFan]

7 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Not sure the best thread for this, but this seems apt. Reason 1,009,895 why socialized medicine is a dangerously stupid idea: 

 

That would never work here. Imagine if the US national health service said it would no longer help homophobes, racists and sexists?

 

Who would keep the Democrats healthy?

[B-Man]

 

 

Reminder from 2017:

 

Jon Gabriel: People seem to think that if something offends them, their arguments become more compelling. They don't.

 

Outrage is the currency of modern America. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “An extremely strong reaction of anger, shock, or indignation.”

 

Every day, another statement, joke or action provokes anger, shock and indignation against the hapless offender.

 

A dentist hunts a lion in Africa. Outrage! A woman tweets a joke before boarding a plane bound for Africa. Outrage!! A white cisgendered male op-ed writer mentions Africa in three different outrage examples. OUTRAGE!!!

 

It’s exhausting just to read about the outrage, so it must be debilitating to those peddling it.

 

I’ve never understood why people get offended by, well, anything. Even if someone attempts an insult, it’s up to you to choose whether to accept it as such. Just as you shouldn’t give others the power over your emotional state, you can’t be offended without your consent.

Or as some fancy-pants old white cisgendered male said, “Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.

 

When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you.”

 

Epictetus wrote that in The Enchiridion, Greek for “the handbook,” which means I have appropriated Greco-Phrygian culture. And if you’re offended on behalf of that extinct ethnicity, you need to keep reading.

 

Let’s reinterpret this 2,000-year-old dead white male for modern audiences. When a thin-skinned audience member shouts “I’m offended!” at a stand-up comic, it only reveals the heckler’s fragile psyche and low self-worth.

 

If you’re insulted when a co-worker holds the door for his female associate, you are projecting your hang-ups on what is most likely a simple act of politeness. If a Swedish bongo player sports blonde dreadlocks and you’re offended instead of amused, you have more baggage than a deposed Haitian dictator fleeing to Paris.

 

Perhaps I’m an outlier, but if someone tries to insult me, I don’t feel badly about myself — I just conclude that they’re an idiot. Some might find this attitude arrogant and they’re probably right. But if some humorless scold attacks me for being a white cisgendered male, that’s their problem, not mine. In fact, I pity them for not appreciating the single-malt, double-barreled awesome that I’m bringing.

 

Here’s an interaction I had on Twitter, the Algonquin Round Table of the digital age. One interlocutor noted that vaccinations might cause autism. (They don’t.) Another wondered if a government can mandate immunization. (Sure.) But shouldn’t parents have the right to say no? (Not if they put the community at risk; at least that’s how I see it.)

 

All fair questions and a fine debate to have. And on it went until one person replied with what he felt was the trump card: “That really offends me!”

To which I said, “So what?”

 

A brusque response, but the anonymous stranger’s taking of offense is not my or anyone else’s concern; public health is. Harrumphing “that offends me!” has no bearing on any argument, pro or con. It’s a non sequitur revealing naught but a delicate constitution.

 

I don’t intend to argue the pros and cons of vaccination; that specific debate isn’t the point. As our culture has slid to the so-called “social justice warriors” of the left and the trolls of the “alt-right,” activists on all sides believe that their being offended carries some sort of moral authority as a victim. Does their sense of grievance make their arguments more compelling? It does no such thing.

 

British comedian Stephen Fry said it best:

It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that,” as if that gives them certain rights. It’s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

 

“I’m offended by that.”

 

Well, so [bleeping] what?

 

Jon Gabriel, a Mesa resident, is editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com and a contributor to The Republic and azcentral.com. Follow him on Twitter at @exjon.

 

[Gavin in Va Beach]

12 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Reminder from 2017:

 

Jon Gabriel: People seem to think that if something offends them, their arguments become more compelling. They don't.

 

Outrage is the currency of modern America. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “An extremely strong reaction of anger, shock, or indignation.”

 

Every day, another statement, joke or action provokes anger, shock and indignation against the hapless offender.

 

A dentist hunts a lion in Africa. Outrage! A woman tweets a joke before boarding a plane bound for Africa. Outrage!! A white cisgendered male op-ed writer mentions Africa in three different outrage examples. OUTRAGE!!!

 

It’s exhausting just to read about the outrage, so it must be debilitating to those peddling it.

 

I’ve never understood why people get offended by, well, anything. Even if someone attempts an insult, it’s up to you to choose whether to accept it as such. Just as you shouldn’t give others the power over your emotional state, you can’t be offended without your consent.

Or as some fancy-pants old white cisgendered male said, “Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.

 

When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you.”

 

Epictetus wrote that in The Enchiridion, Greek for “the handbook,” which means I have appropriated Greco-Phrygian culture. And if you’re offended on behalf of that extinct ethnicity, you need to keep reading.

 

Let’s reinterpret this 2,000-year-old dead white male for modern audiences. When a thin-skinned audience member shouts “I’m offended!” at a stand-up comic, it only reveals the heckler’s fragile psyche and low self-worth.

 

If you’re insulted when a co-worker holds the door for his female associate, you are projecting your hang-ups on what is most likely a simple act of politeness. If a Swedish bongo player sports blonde dreadlocks and you’re offended instead of amused, you have more baggage than a deposed Haitian dictator fleeing to Paris.

 

Perhaps I’m an outlier, but if someone tries to insult me, I don’t feel badly about myself — I just conclude that they’re an idiot. Some might find this attitude arrogant and they’re probably right. But if some humorless scold attacks me for being a white cisgendered male, that’s their problem, not mine. In fact, I pity them for not appreciating the single-malt, double-barreled awesome that I’m bringing.

 

Here’s an interaction I had on Twitter, the Algonquin Round Table of the digital age. One interlocutor noted that vaccinations might cause autism. (They don’t.) Another wondered if a government can mandate immunization. (Sure.) But shouldn’t parents have the right to say no? (Not if they put the community at risk; at least that’s how I see it.)

 

All fair questions and a fine debate to have. And on it went until one person replied with what he felt was the trump card: “That really offends me!”

To which I said, “So what?”

 

A brusque response, but the anonymous stranger’s taking of offense is not my or anyone else’s concern; public health is. Harrumphing “that offends me!” has no bearing on any argument, pro or con. It’s a non sequitur revealing naught but a delicate constitution.

 

I don’t intend to argue the pros and cons of vaccination; that specific debate isn’t the point. As our culture has slid to the so-called “social justice warriors” of the left and the trolls of the “alt-right,” activists on all sides believe that their being offended carries some sort of moral authority as a victim. Does their sense of grievance make their arguments more compelling? It does no such thing.

 

British comedian Stephen Fry said it best:

It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that,” as if that gives them certain rights. It’s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

 

“I’m offended by that.”

 

Well, so [bleeping] what?

 

Jon Gabriel, a Mesa resident, is editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com and a contributor to The Republic and azcentral.com. Follow him on Twitter at @exjon.

 

 

Wouldn't be such a problem if journalists, either being too lazy to craft a real, researched story or simply wanting to push some work narrative, would stop using tweets of relative unknown snowflakes and their 'outrage' as a basis for a content column.

[njbuff]

Huff should tell Giants management to go fvck themselves right to their faces.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evolving sign

[Prickly Pete]

21 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

Everyone must pay for this pathetic feminist woman's bitterness. Everyone, for eternity.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

 

 

Wait for the very end of the video.

[B-Man]

4 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

 

Wait for the very end of the video.

 

 

Serious question..............How can they NOT realize how childish they look ?

 

Doesn't anyone have a better idea on how they should address people who do not agree with them ?

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

[Uncle Joe]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

Doesn't anyone have a better idea on how they should address people who do not agree with them ?

 

 

Repeat after me...

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

Why the Left Calls Good People Racist. 

 

It doesn’t work as well as it used to, but there are still no significant consequences.

 

 

 

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[GG]

On ‎2‎/‎25‎/‎2020 at 11:57 AM, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Minor correction, the pipeline doesn't actually "cross" the Trail.  It goes well underneath it.

[B-Man]

Caught on video: Black-masked Syracuse protesters 'blocking traffic'

 

 

 

 

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14447

[RochesterRob]

32 minutes ago, B-Man said:

Caught on video: Black-masked Syracuse protesters 'blocking traffic'

 

 

 

 

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14447

  Still not convinced that these "episodes" are legit versus being staged for a false flag.