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2021-04-22 -Great Cultural Revolution
On Sparing The Rod
Sarah Hoyt via Instapundit
Justice is either the same for everyone, or it’s not justice.

People are either punished according to their deeds and those deeds injuriousness to society, or they aren’t. But even the most lax of systems, in which everyone is left to defend themselves as best they can is better than one in which the law plays favorites.

...But the cases the left has blazoned abroad are very bad. Both in the truth and in the lie. They’re very bad in the truth because they’re destroying people’s lives for resisting career criminals. Both career criminals and normal human beings know that.

Which means the career criminals being psychopaths will think they can now do whatever they want and the authorities and victims will be afraid to resist them. They’re not wrong. For a little while.

...I heard some recording of a young black activist saying that black people should loot everything for 200 years and it wouldn’t repay what they "suffered."

The problem is two fold: most of the people today haven’t suffered diddly. They’ve been told people who looked like them suffered and were mistreated. And they’ve been sold the lie they’re still being mistreated and are "hated."

The other part of this, of course, is that she’s going on color. She thinks black people suffered because they were black.

Oh, hell. They suffered because they were second class citizens. In other times and places it was white people who were second class citizens (still is, places in the world.)

...Did whites behave very badly when crimes against blacks weren’t punished, or at least weren’t punished nearly as they should be.

Yeah. OF COURSE they did. Because white people are human and humans behave very badly when they know they won’t be punished and have nothing to lose from it. Sure some of us try not to. But those of us who succeed in not going completely monster are aware of the monster and have principles that refrain from unleashing it.

Those who have no principles and no fear of external punishment? Oh, dear. Yes, white people in the past, in areas where they were immune from the law behaved very badly.

But it’s important to know this was not because they were white. Whatever myth you’ve been fed about devilish white blood, and no matter how much you feed it, it was because they were human.

In the same way, we’re starting to see black people behave very badly. Beating up nursing home patients, pushing and beating people on the street, killing uber drivers, etc.

Why? Because they’re human. Every race and variety of humanity has psychos and horrible people. If they know they can gambol with no punishment, the things they do will be horrific.

...So, the left, ignorant of history and thinking that being an oppressor is somehow a quality of being white is repeating very, very old errors.

At some point the majority becomes racist. And then it snaps. And then you have genocide of the minority by the majority.

And this country, in appearance and culture is still majority white.

What they’ve managed to do so far is encourage the worst of the black elements. And convince whites that they’re a threatened tribe. All is proceeding as they wish towards racial warfare. Very brief, violent racial warfare. That doesn’t go even vaguely as they expects. And which results in a genuinely white supremacist country, where even people like me are considered suspect and held back.
Sarah Hoyt is Portuguese. And, of course, such country wouldn't be a very nice place for the Jews (even blond ones) - but try telling it to Liberal Jews.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-22 07:14|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 You think they don't know this? Of course they know this. The whole point of Critical Theory is to break down and destroy Western culture and replace it with Marxism. They know exactly how evil they're being.
Posted by Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-04-22 08:23||   2021-04-22 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 destroy Western culture and replace it with Marxism.

100$ if you can find a left-wing activist who actually read "Das Kapital".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-22 10:23||   2021-04-22 10:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I suspect most of the so-called Marxist blacks to be dallying with islam, closet sunnis harboring as much a hatred for christians and jews as for their host country. Yes, I say host country. Because in hating it and identifying with shitholes they have made their choice.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 11:22||   2021-04-22 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The left believes in lowest common denominators. The left believes that all POCs deserve to be as atavistic as the worst of them, no consequences. Of course, atavism has its own built-in consequences, but the left ignores that.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-22 11:34||   2021-04-22 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5  100$ if you can find a left-wing activist who actually read "Das Kapital".

Grom, in winter of 2016 we had to infiltrate an event planned by commies in the state of Gujarat, India. We were expecting academicians and rich elites conspiring with student unions to subvert government policies, helping them procure weapons and all. We were supposed to find deeply indoctrinated supporters of militancy, committed comrades with Che t-shirts and fist waving bob cut dykes etc. Sure they all talked the talk very well.

But behind the podium from whence the speech was being given, were three framed photographs. Two of some local champions whom my predecessors had sent to hell. The one in the middle, was of poor Groucho Marx.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 11:40||   2021-04-22 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6  I suspect most of the so-called Marxist blacks to be dallying with islam,

Only as part of the costume and to get the jihadi class to advance Marxist goals, Dron, the same way your Sikhs are willing tools of jihadi Pakistan — they would never be so gullible as to actually believe in a god or clerisy they didn’t completely control. But conquering and erasing history, that they’re fine with.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-22 11:41||   2021-04-22 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't underestimate the power of islam to fully proselytize the sociopathic beast, TW. The sikhs too are no match for the moslems. Most of them know it.

The globalists too make the error of believing that they'll reign in islam when the time comes. But when the islam gets in into the individual, the family, the game is out of everyone's hands.

It comes with its own insidiously subtil potpourri of cultural nuances - arts, music, love and sex, spices and festivities and goodwill with the name of Allah strewn about 50 times a day. It is a way of life that takes the wild animal, the simple minded buffoon, the half-intellect subhuman; and imparts to it the dignity and self worth it craves. It brings the reject into the fold and gives him/her purpose. It only asks undying fealty and slowly replaces all other ideologies, deities, plans and ambitions with the ever loving Allah. And leaves a twofold child of hell for the mullahs to control.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 12:34||   2021-04-22 12:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Marx, Mao, even the devil had nothing over on islam. It is a curse, born out of the neglect of lofty human civilization and the indifference of societies which damned themselves to sharing a world with it forever. Our chief error was that we underestimated it. Both islam and leftists see each other as tools, but the civilizational integrity, strength of purpose and martial dominance is always on islam's side.

The antifas and BLMs are nothing. A real police force, unfettered by progressive liberal jurisprudence could wipe them out in an eyeblink. Mayhap you'll elect a wiser, stronger man and negotiate through them and come out on top next time. But I worry about some Minnesota based Khalifa's fighters wreaking havoc with BLMs as facilitators in the middle of blue cities, with already emasculated constabularies. [And therein lies an idea, for the smart buggers in deepState, whoso needs moral sanction to nip the BLMs if ever.]
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 12:39||   2021-04-22 12:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Dron,how was movie Tandav?
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 13:01||   2021-04-22 13:01|| Front Page Top

#10 It was a series, Wren. It was okay, just the usual naiveté that Indian audiences can be expected to digest as high suspense. Amusingly, the woke makers attempted to depict class warrior student leaders, moslems and commies as innocent siblings in the great revolution against corruption and fascism. But they ended up reinforcing the image of the moslem, the student activist and every random 'comrade' as the ingrate criminal bastitches they are; susceptible just as much corruption and hypocrisy as the Indian political class.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 13:10||   2021-04-22 13:10|| Front Page Top

#11 ^Oh thank you.
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 13:39||   2021-04-22 13:39|| Front Page Top

#12 #5 Groucho -- LMAO. You're making that up, right?
Posted by Matt 2021-04-22 13:43||   2021-04-22 13:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Not at all, Matt. And only I caught the glaring silliness. I even had pictures from the event until a few years ago. It was as if everybody took it for granted that the strangely keen eyed gentleman in the picture must be someone important. But the banana goes to the idiot who printed and put up the portrait. And the fact that nobody questioned it.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 14:48||   2021-04-22 14:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Dron, is Love Jihad seriously real??
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 14:52||   2021-04-22 14:52|| Front Page Top

#15 #8 Nazism lasted (in power) for 12 years. Communism for 70. Islam 1400+, and still going strong
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-22 15:25||   2021-04-22 15:25|| Front Page Top

#16 The educators of the Indian citizen, the political class and media are seriously the most mentally ill equipped idiots. There is only one jihad, it is the struggle against the kafir and what is [ironically] called jahilya. What people are calling 'love jihad' is just fraud and seduction which has always happened in a society that chooses to keep its women undereducated and at the mercy of men.

The moslem sees a woman as nothing more than a beast, a thing of lust and naive tenderness to be captured and used. Other cultures see the woman as half of humanity. They do not. The moslem believes in social conquest, the gradual takeover of kafir communities by any means possible.

Grooming, seduction and marriage is one such means. To the moslem, he is doing you a favour by rescuing you from the pansy hindu/christian/jain whatever thingy you are born in. Once the girls find out it is difficult to get out. Thanks to useless constitutions and judiciaries in India, the woman is not given much liberty to plan her life anyway. A divorce needs a year long litigation, magistrates need convincing, police complaints need be filed... meanwhile the woman experiences islam as it truly is, not always making it out alive.

What non-moslems must understand is, the moslem has true historic momentum behind his culture, because unlike for other societies, the renaissance, the reformation, colonization, the IR, the wars... the islam train was never slowed down or diminished by anything. It plowed on in its ultra-simple monotheistic message and militant dogma. In fact it gained velocity as the other religions and paradigms of social organization proved increasingly debatable to a rapidly progressing world. Today, the christian boy, the hindu boy, the sikh or jain youth brings not much to a love affair. The handsome kafir killer brings a healthy bod [does not drink or smoke], a rebel image and a fearless [does not fear jail or public shame] attitude, a confidence the mamma's boy next door will not have. Naturally, you're swept off your feet, especially if all you've seen are hypocrites and misogynists in your family playing 'man of the house'. It's no wonder that almost all big stars [deities to the people] are moslems. Bollywood controls much of our fake national sentiment, and moslems control bollywood.

They control the very imagining of romance, for the average Indian. Let that sink in.

It's a complicated problem, but the solution to it, like every solution, lies within ourselves. If we raise only faggots posing as men, we cannot complain when our daughters fawn over the honey tongued Abduls.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 15:25||   2021-04-22 15:25|| Front Page Top

#17 The educators of the Indian citizen, the political class and media are seriously the most mentally ill equipped idiots.

I must disagree and uphold the honor of Israel!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-22 15:33||   2021-04-22 15:33|| Front Page Top

#18 ☺

I meant it's our pols and media who make the tropes and stereotypes around here. The citizens are taught simple memes instead of apprised of the deeper malaise in themselves, and shown a dozen cholesterol bloated septuagenarian messiahs to vote for every few years, none of whom know jack.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 15:47||   2021-04-22 15:47|| Front Page Top

#19 ^Well, our get their ideas from our moral & intellectual superiors - the EUropeans.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-22 15:58||   2021-04-22 15:58|| Front Page Top

#20 I was right this whole time! *sniffs* The school thots never believed me!
P.S. They're going to hell.
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 16:03||   2021-04-22 16:03|| Front Page Top

#21 Wait you're Wren?
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 16:16||   2021-04-22 16:16|| Front Page Top

#22 Uh...yeah.
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 16:18||   2021-04-22 16:18|| Front Page Top

#23 Anime fan and dissident reactionist? Has a thing for presidential staff.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 16:21||   2021-04-22 16:21|| Front Page Top

#24 @Dron66046 Spot on. 😁
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 16:27||   2021-04-22 16:27|| Front Page Top

#25 #23 Sounds familiar though. I dunno.
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 16:29||   2021-04-22 16:29|| Front Page Top

#26 Rhinemann, stop being overexcited.
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 16:33||   2021-04-22 16:33|| Front Page Top

#27 I uh, ain't. I'm just amused at the way you got yourself busted fam!
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 16:40||   2021-04-22 16:40|| Front Page Top

#28 ....
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 16:44||   2021-04-22 16:44|| Front Page Top

#29 The moslem sees a woman as nothing more than a beast, a thing of lust and naive tenderness to be captured and used. Other cultures see the woman as half of humanity.

Or even as the Mother of God. To be worshipped and declared Blessed, the source of all life and holiness.

To be praised with our most beautiful songs and rendered with the most beautiful images by the greatest artists our civilization has produced.
Posted by Elmereng Jease8364 2021-04-22 16:50||   2021-04-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

#30 ^Is there no way to delete your own comment? Or does this forum stay true to the concept of digital permanence on the internet? Which is anything you put out online stays there for a long time...
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 16:53||   2021-04-22 16:53|| Front Page Top

#31 Elmereng Jease8364, is there a woman holding a weapon on you? If so, just post a comment with "I like Pizza" so we can laugh and tease you. (J/K)
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-04-22 16:54||   2021-04-22 16:54|| Front Page Top

#32 ^ yes. Here's the great art historian Sir Kenneth Clark on the Female Principle in religion and art:

"The stabilising, comprehensive religions of the world, the religions which penetrate to every part of a man's being (Egypt, india or china) gave the female principle of creation at least a smuch importance as the male, and wouldn't have taken seriously a philosophy that failed to include both.

"These were all what HG Wells called communities of obedience. The aggressive, nomadic societies- communities of will (israel, islam, the protestant north) saw their gods as male. It's a curious fact that the all-male religions have produced no religious imagery- in most cases have forbidden it."
Posted by Boss Lumplump3864 2021-04-22 16:55||   2021-04-22 16:55|| Front Page Top

#33  #32 Actually Islam does produce some religious imagery. Depiction of living things is forbidden of course, but writing Quranic text isn't. So the sculptors and painters of yore found a loophole of sorts.

They twisted the letters of the scripts used in Arabic/Turkish/Persian in a way that it would look like a living thing. Sort of like a new font. Technically they could claim to have only written Quranic verses, so they wouldn't be penalized by the clerics.

But I do see your point. The nutjobs at Taliban as well as Daesh clearly don't even excuse even the loophole versions, which essentially sums up Islam.
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 17:02||   2021-04-22 17:02|| Front Page Top

#34 But there's some debate among the scholars about the depiction of living things being un-Islamic or not. Some maintain that it isn't forbidden as long as one isn't creating a painting of the deity or the messenger. Others differ.
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 17:06||   2021-04-22 17:06|| Front Page Top

#35 I would argue that the purpose of faith was not to produce fancy imagery and employ artisans, but to make a better class of human. Faith that tangentially goes the organized religion way often produces an industry of imagery, doctrine and soon... ideology that superimposes the wishful thinking of man on the possibility of his maker. As an Indian I can vouch for most of our modern religion being only skin deep, superficial; only dressed in beautiful arcana from the past. It takes years of wasting your life to understand that these artistic forms of the numinous only glorify inactivity and submission. While the jihad is in character with the very nature of base man, survival against odds, conquest of all he surveys, and dominion.

This is why the systems that were practical for purposes of empire building or social structuring for conquest flourished, and societies that gazed at images in smoke with reverence are today chasing their right to coexist with barbarians who don't give a shit.

And in all this noise, the voice of God is long forgotten.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-22 17:13||   2021-04-22 17:13|| Front Page Top

#36 
and societies that gazed at images in smoke with reverence are today chasing their right to coexist with barbarians who don't give a shit.


A significant reason why Hindus in the Indian subcontinent got subjugated by Islam for a millennium.
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 17:22||   2021-04-22 17:22|| Front Page Top

#37  #35 Quebec
Posted by Rhinemann 2021-04-22 17:26||   2021-04-22 17:26|| Front Page Top

#38 ^Islamic Bollywood manufactured chads for references:
href="https://youtu.be/lpdRqn6xwiM"
href="http://https://youtu.be/e8B0AzmXPV8"
Posted by Wren 2021-04-22 17:28||   2021-04-22 17:28|| Front Page Top

#39  Is there no way to delete your own comment?

A power granted only to the moderators by our beloved site owner, the man who wrote Rantburg’s code, Fred Pruitt. That is why he, in his wisdom, gave us a Preview button as well as Submit for our comments, Mr. Rhinemann, so we could review a post before displaying typos and poor sense for all to see. ;-)

We moderators also can cover over the text of a comment, for those who transgress Rantburg’s few rules or are clearly drunk, but have not transgressed far enough to need erasing.

But in this case, I interpret Elmereng Jease8364 statement in #29 about the Mother cult as a reference to Catholicism — the Islamic view is that the Mary cult is straightforward idolatry, and a substantial number of Muslim thought leaders value females primarily for the womb jihad, expecting them to push out large numbers of future jihadis and producers of more jihadis.

Rather than the visual and plastic arts, Jews put their artistic energy into the poetry of prayers and psalms, and their intellectual energy into understanding the world and human nature well enough to figure out how best to live within God’s laws in the world and society as it is.

There is plenty of representational art in the Muslim world — all those rugs except the Afghan war ones being stylized gardens, not to mention the gorgeous tile work and carvings all over the buildings.

I would argue that the purpose of faith was not to produce fancy imagery and employ artisans, but to make a better class of human.

I agree. Religious imagery is primarily a tool for a stable illiterate society. The Jews didn’t need it, having early prioritized general literacy, while the Muslims relied on rote memorization and smashing all visible signs of preexisting beliefs other than their own to solidify their conquest — and periodically Muslim rebels and raiders arose from within (or nearby) to smash the decadencies of the reigning Muslim fatcats and the impure infidels they’d allowed a more or less precarious existence in their midst.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-22 18:15||   2021-04-22 18:15|| Front Page Top

#40 I would argue that the purpose of faith was ...to make a better class of human.

One can agree with this part of the above statement and also note that looking at the art of Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Rembrandt along with listening to Bach also makes for a better class of human.
Posted by Spitle Elmuse2205 2021-04-22 20:16||   2021-04-22 20:16|| Front Page Top

#41 Common error. Catholics do not worship Mary, they venerate her. There is a difference, she is not a diety - she is asked to pray for us, to offer up a prayer to God, same as you would ask your neighbor to pray for you if you were both believers. The theory is she the Theotokos, the God-bearer, and therefore would know better than any other mortal human how to talk to Him.

A lot of the cult-like behavior is from superstitious people who are in fact committing idolatry if they think the statue of Mary on their mantle is redemptive instead of their faith and works and grace of God. It is a common error in the poorly Catechiszed
Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-04-22 22:34||   2021-04-22 22:34|| Front Page Top

#42 TW. I have seen as I am sure you have commenters from time gradually get drunk through out the day while commenting. Only blog I have ever seen that happen.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-04-22 23:18||   2021-04-22 23:18|| Front Page Top

#43 It is a common error in the poorly Catechized

Catechize me, baby!
Posted by Mater Pulchritudina 2021-04-22 23:36||   2021-04-22 23:36|| Front Page Top

#44  One can agree with this part of the above statement and also note that looking at the art of Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Rembrandt along with listening to Bach also makes for a better class of human.

Yes, indeed. My statement is the poorer for having missed that difference between purpose and result.

I have seen as I am sure you have commenters from time gradually get drunk through out the day while commenting.

I’ve been known to dance on tables stone cold sober, so don’t generally realize when those around me are under the influence. The only one I’m sure about on that score is drunken-voice-to-text-guy — the rest of you I assume are completely in your right mind.

Thank you for joining our stable of religious educators, These Forkbeard7574. My learning for today.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-22 23:59||   2021-04-22 23:59|| Front Page Top

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