Before that, in September, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city.” The implication being that terrorism is the new normal and Londoners will have to accept that they will happen.
Following Tuesday’s truck attack in New York City – which contrary to the prognostication of Virginia democrats was not carried out by a white guy with a DTOM bumper sticker – NBC published an opinion “America must prepare for a future where terrorism is routine.”
Between the Mayor of London and NBC, the West is on the cusp of surrendering. We can’t stop soft target attacks so we might as well give in to their demands.
God forbid we try and intercept the ISIS fighters returning home to Western nations, that’s just Islamophobia. It’s best to no be a racist, xenophobe and let them win.
Maybe woke New Yorkers are happy to virtue signal by becoming New Yorkistan but we in Alabama are not.
If this is truly the direction that Our Betters want to take this nation, all I can do is leave you with the wisdom of Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley.
This is about the simplest argument for national concealed carry I’ve ever seen.
The cops know about a spree killer on the loose, saw him on a subway, hid like dickless cowards, and watched as a citizen got stabbed nearly to death.
Yeah, if I’m in New York City on the subway, I want a gun on me. Being stabbed in the head by some drugged out madman while a couple of cops munch popcorn like they have front row tickets to Madison Square Gardens Fight Night is not what I planned for my vacation.
Just about half of all computer science majors are white guys, but fuck them. The DNC doesn’t have time for them. It’s not like they are people too, who went to college, have student loans and expenses, need jobs, and want to work. They are “already in the majority” so why should they ever be considered for a job?
It’s like these people are going out of their way to prove every paranoid, white supremacist conspiracy theory right.
Progressives: “We want the Confederate statues torn down, they are monuments to racism.”
White Nationalists: “That’s our heritage, where is it going to stop? First it’s Lee next it will be Washington.”
Progressives: “Don’t be paranoid.”
24 hour later
Progressives: “Hold my beer, Abe and George are coming down.”
It only seems to be getting worse.
White Supremacists: “Its time for a race war. RaHoWa!”
I’d say if they were interested in winning elections, they are their own worst enemies; but with this attitude they are every decent person’s worst enemies.
Rethink Masculinity based in Washington DC and associate with the DC Rape Crisis Center “is a men’s consciousness building group in which people identifying as men collectively learn how social constructs of masculinity harm themselves and the people around them, and work to construct healthier masculinities. We offer a two month long class where participants meet together once a week for 3-4 hours. These sessions are designed to equip and empower participants to work towards building new models of masculinity.”
The Men’s Project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison describes itself this way. “A key element of the program is intersectionality. There isn’t just one masculinity, there are many,” says Sam Johnson, a violence prevention specialist at University Health Services (UHS), one of the campus offices organizing the program. She explained that other components of one’s identity—including religion, sexual orientation, and race—all contribute to individual perceptions and experiences of masculinity.
Brown University has a program titlesUnlearning Toxic Masculinity that teaches “Rigid definitions of masculinity are toxic to men’s health. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized that men’s tendency to die at younger ages may correlate to the harmful ways that masculinity has been defined in society and the ways that men have been conditioned to practice it. How men are socialized plays into the type of violence that exists in college communities. The harm and violence that men inflict is not strictly contained to the self-harm mentioned previously. Men will often resort to violence to resolve conflict because anger is the only emotion that they have been socialized to express. Unfortunately, the way that young men are conditioned to view sex and their need to be dominant and have power over others also contribute to instances of sexual assault and other forms of interpersonal violence on college campuses.”
The common theme here is “men are violent.” That is it as an absolute statement.
Sometimes this takes a more extreme tone, such as with Professor Lisa Wade at Occidental College who said that “it is masculinity itself that has become the problem.”
Being a man, identifying as a man is a problem for these people.
They see only the worst behaviors and conclude that is all masculinity is about and that is all men do. As one reads further into these “unlearning toxic masculinity” seminars, you realize just how bad they are.
The Good Man Project, which is the worst of Third Wave Feminism for men gives 5 Reasons I Don’t Say “Man Up.” Reason No.3. is Vulnerability is a Sign of Strength, Not Weakness.
When I was growing up, “be a man” was a goal. Becoming a man was an achievement. Not something to be ashamed of.
Brown University did a series of interviews about toxic masculinity with students and they found the least masculine males to interview.
Watching these, I started to wonder, how many of these interviewees and kids in these videos had dads that lived at home with them. Dads who were a regular part of their lives.
We know that growing up in a fatherless home is the top predictor of crime, dropping out of school, poverty, and other social ills.
So much of what is described as “toxic masculinity” is the product of shitty pop culture. A recurring theme in these videos is men can’t have emotions.
Only in shitty pop culture and bad comedians are men not allowed to have emotion.
I’m sorry, but I didn’t get that memo.
If you asked me what “man up”means, first I will tell you it’s “man the fuck up,” then I’ll explain. Men should have emotions. I love my wife. I love my son. My favorite thing in the world is when I come home and he runs up to me and grabs my legs and says “daddy, you want to play with my toys,” and then we race his matchbox cars around the couch.
“Man the fuck up” means that I cannot be ruled by my emotions. There is time to cry later, there is a job to do now. My manly ancestors were probably scared shitless when the saber tooth tiger showed up. But as scared as they were, they had to guard the mouth of the cave with a pointy stick to protect the women and children from being eaten.
Duty BEFORE emotion is manly. Men can’t have emotions is sitcom bullshit.
I think General George Patton said it best in his speech to the Third Army.
Duty BEFORE emotion.
The question of what makes a man goes back thousands of years.
One word that keeps coming up is Virtue. Virtue comes from the Latin word Virtus, beginning with “vir” meaning “of man.” Virtus was the philosophy of manliness.
Even before the Romans, the Greek philosophers thought about virtue. The Aristotelian virtues are courage, temperance, and magnanimity.
I don’t see rape or posturing or having no emotions on that list.
In the Jewish tradition, virtue is associated with good social behaviors called Middot. There are 48 of these virtues that are enumerated, and they include Honor, Hospitality, Charity, Compassion, and Truthfulness.
The Catholic Church shortened this list to the Seven Cardinal Virtues (it’s an easier list to remember).
Chastity
Temperance
Charity
Dilligence
Patience
Kindness
Humility
The thing is, great civilizations were built upon these virtues.
The duty of a father is to teach his sons to be men. It is a duty passed down through time and civilization. As a Jewish father, I have four responsibility to my son(s): have him circumcised, teach him Torah, teach him a trade, and teach him how to participate in the world (often said metaphorically “teach him to swim”).
In the Christian tradition the duties of a father areto make of them good and manly Christians, useful citizens, and saints for heaven.
I don’t see any of these concepts or aforementioned virtues addressed in any of the Men’s Projects. There is a lot of introspection about feelings, but nothing about dignity. None of these programs seem to want take boys raised on sitcom fathers and turn them into men. They want to turn them into … effete naval gazers.
The center of these programs is not about making good men, it is really about emasculating them.
It seems as though what Social Justice assumes is masculinity is the product of boys raised without dads and by bad TV. It then wants to further damage these males, not by teaching them the virtues that have served men and fostered civilization for millennia, but to have them sit and cry and feel about about their male privilege.
To top it all off, these same people attack the strong nuclear family as a source of white supremacism and must be abolished. This will only serve to make more non-men in need to Social Justice emasculation.
This is one of the saddest and most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. We will be a far worse nation for it.
Woe be unto us when the saber tooth tigers return or the barbarians are at the gates and the students of the Men’s Project sit down and have a cry about it. They will have no one to blame but themselves when the women are raped and the children are eaten.
This move reminds me a lot of playing tag as a kid. There was always that slow kid, who just before he was tagged, grabbed a tree and yelled “BASE!!! You can’t tag me.”
This is Spacey running to Gay and saying “LGBT VICTIM STATUS!!! You can’t touch me.”
Did the Soviet Union kill 20 million people? Sure, but it wasn’t really communist. Neither was Mao, Pol Pot, North Viet Nam, Cuba, or any of the other nations around the world were socialism/communism has been tried and failed, leaving a wake of mass graves and millions dead.
How can modern supporters of socialism/communism be so naive? How can they deny the legacy of socialism/communism?
The truth is, they are not naive. They know exactly what socialism/communism is all about. They just want bullshit you into letting them assume power at which point they will kill you.
In the campus hysterics of the post Trump election era, campus communists have made that abundantly clear.
This doesn’t surprise me much, Kent State was the school where the Ohio National Guard had to shoot a bunch of communist students for supporting Cambodian communists against Richard Nixon.
The mask has totally fallen off. It isn’t about some equitable distribution of economic outcome and universal healthcare blah, blah, blah whatever these people say to try to make socialism sound all warm and fuzzy.
This is “we are going to take everyone we disagree with and put them in a prison camp and execute them.”
There is no hiding it now, no matter how many tweets they delete.
They. Want. You. Dead. Because you disagree with them.
He wants to kill you. Make no mistake about that.
Fortunately for us, he looks too limp-wristed to make a pistol cycle.
