"Progressives" Have Finally Shown Us Their True Colours - We Would Do Well To Remember Them

While the media reacts with shock and awe over the recent rallies supporting acts of terrorism, many of us are neither shocked, nor awed by this display. In fact, we've been pointing it out for years.

Original image courtesy of BLM Chicago

With the questionable DEI, antiracist, and just general “wokeness mania” that's been assaulting the senses over the last few years, it makes one wonder where we are heading as a society. The only reason I say these things are questionable is because every now and then these people do have the odd good thing to add to the national conversation. Generally this amounts to something as basic as, “don't be an asshole”. Why this message requires the faculty and exorbitant speaking fees it does is anyone's guess because I've been saying that for years. Aside from that one idea, most of their dogma is ridiculous and downright toxic. I think everyone should stop being assholes to the people around them - including DEI practitioners. Otherwise there's no question at all in my mind that DEI and antiracism do more to promote racism than they do to eradicate it.

The problem with saying stuff like this is that it automatically pits me against major institutions like college and university campuses, unions, most mainstream media personalities, and anyone in my town who's afraid of being called names on Twitter (sorry, X). The problem for those people is that I've stopped caring.

Anyway, all the issues that I've had with that brand of wokeness pale in comparison to what these usual suspects have pulled off over the last week. If there was ever any doubt about where these people stand; if there were really any questions about where their allegiances lie, the answers are being broadcast to us in real time, in all their grotesqueness, and for all to plainly see.

As to where our society is heading, that became all too obvious this week as the chattering classes and elites let it be known with their usual gusto that yes, the kind of terrorism we saw in Israel over the weekend that hearkens back to Adolph Hitler himself is completely acceptable.

This barbarism that was defended, celebrated, and even encouraged by the same predictable crowd that screams about how words and “microaggressions” are violence; how we need “safe spaces” at every university; and how all white people need to be in a constant state of repentance for stuff they had nothing to do with - this crowd has now laid bare the way they really feel about you, and about humans in general.

Take for instance the following poster that was put up at California State University to promote a protest against Israel:

Poster at California State University

For context, the paraglider pictured on the above poster represents the decimation of hundreds of young people enjoying an outdoor music festival. In a sad twist of irony, the festival was advertised as "the essence of unity and love in a breathtaking location.”

Some of the ones who weren't initially mowed down with automatic weapons were raped beside the dead bodies of their friends before being executed. That's what this poster is depicting and that's what this “protest” is supporting. Thankfully the creators of this piece of trash did end up taking some flack for it.

Here's another take on the same theme from none other than the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter:

As I said: the usual suspects. Obviously black lives matter, but from the start this organization has been implying by their actions that other lives don't matter. This just puts the cherry on top. For the record, the BLM Global Network Foundation has since denounced the image.

One does not need to be “against Palestine” in order to be honest about what happened there on October 7th. Namely, that these people are not only terrorists, but that they are also bloodthirsty savages. The fact that the CBC refuses to call them that doesn't change who they are. Everyone knows it.

Hamas is not on the side of the Palestinians. They are simply the ruling class at the moment - living like kings off the backs of the Palestinians. Those who say they're better than the Israelis need to give their head a shake.

In case you're not aware, it’s not the media, nor the general public that have designated Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations - it's the vast majority of the governments of the civilized world that have done that. So again, CBC may think it's mean and nasty to call those guys terrorists, but that doesn't change what they are and skirting the issue only saps more trust from an industry that is already bleeding trust.

With all the talk about “hate” over the past few weeks in relation to Canadian parents who were protesting gender ideology in schools, it's no wonder many of the same people using this word have no concept of what it really means and therefore can't even recognize it when it's literally staring at them through their computer screens.

There are wars - all the time. You can feel free to pick whichever side you like if it makes you feel important. War isn’t necessarily a crime. This is why we have a specific designation of "war crimes". The civilized among us have decided that war crimes are intolerable, regardless of circumstance, so when people get up and celebrate those attacks as "fighting colonialism" with obvious reference to the colonized west, I have very little sympathy for their stupidity. They have every right to that opinion and even the right to say it out loud, but when it comes from the same crowd with their petty rhetoric about “microaggressions", it says way more about who they are than anything else.

The Babylon Bee hit the nail squarely on the head with this wonderful headline:

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so totally accurate. Fiction just can't possibly compete with this current version of reality we’re constantly forced to reckon with.

On display right now clear across the western world is the very epitome of hate being live-streamed into our living rooms. I'm not talking about the Hamas attacks - that's obvious. I'm talking about so-called “progressives” - people who were born here in one of the freest places on earth. People who populate our colleges and universities, who head up our major media organizations and unions. People who still feel that it's their duty to stand up for the little guy - even when that “little guy” is the literal modern day version of the Nazis. As quick as they are to fire off accusations like Nazi, fascist, racist at anyone who disagrees with them, what they can't seem to do is spot the real thing even when it's so blatantly obvious.

These"progressives" are the real threat to our social system and our way of life. DEI and antiracism was just the start. This is where they really want to go with it and many of us have been saying this all along. This elite, educated, and privileged class are the ones who make it seem credible and cause regular people to believe it as well. They're also the ones with no excuse because they know (or should know) the history.

I sincerely hope that the blowback that many of these groups have received after having revealed themselves as they did will shock some of them back into reality. There was a small demonstration of that at Harvard this week after many of their student groups endorsed a statement saying it was all Israel's fault. When billionaire Bill Ackman and several CEOs called them out on it and demanded to know who the signatories were “so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members,” the retractions started rolling in. It's kind of funny how these individuals think they're so invincible that they can get away with stuff like this while hiding behind the name of Harvard. It's also funny how reality corrects that. Of course these students simply claim ignorance (but I didn't know what I was signing!), but another lesson reality provides is that we are ultimately responsible for our ignorance.

Here's Ackman’s follow up statement and every student at Harvard (and elsewhere) should read it:

Some advice for students

Keep in mind, these are the same people with no tolerance for any deviation from their ideals. They cancel speakers simply because they disagree with them. They cry, “UNSAFE!” at the slightest hint of confrontation. They flippantly demand resignations for the most trivial of causes. And then they come out with the most heinous display of antisemitism (literal racism) and expect the world to just bend over and take it.

I hope our leaders in academia are proud of what they've created. They've had years to right this ship and very few have even made an attempt.

Maybe now with all the attention the general public will take a bit more interest and hold some of these guys a little more accountable than we have. That would be a good start.

This is the reason freedom of speech is so terribly important - even when it's speech the majority of us find despicable. The reason we must continue to allow even the most disgusting type of speech is so that the speakers are also out in the open and we can see them for who they are. In a best case scenario, perhaps public pressure will cause them to change. In the worst case, well, at least we'll know who they are.

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