The Art of Being Offended: Part One

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‘Indoctrinationism’: The Ideology of Speech Policing

By Bruce Heiden| July 20, 2017

Speech policing in the United States, often called “political correctness,” has inspired much resentment and concern along with advocacy. Right now only its advocates have an action plan—which is to institutionalize PC on university campuses through the appointment of administrators responsible for developing and enforcing policies to control expression. Those who object to political correctness are less organized and largely lack a coherent idea of it as a unified phenomenon. But they apparently stumbled into one successful response to it in the presidential victory of Donald Trump. Although Trump has no policy proposals that touch upon political correctness per se, his willingness to occasionally violate its sensibilities, and to openly denounce some of its advocates in the media, certainly won him many votes among proud Deplorables.

What’s In a Name?
Some commentators have even suggested that PC was the single most important factor separating Trump from his Republican rivals, and that it needs to be seen as a central issue in contemporary American politics. David Gelernter made such an argument in early 2016 and suggested that the real gravity of “political correctness”         https://amgreatness.com/2017/07/20/indoctrinationism-ideology-speech-policing/

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What the South was really fighting for in the Civil War

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Draggingtree said:

What the South was really fighting for in the Civil War

 

 

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 This page is dedicated to bringing the people of YouTube good Pro Confederate videoes and also videos showing the truth behind the confederacy in the Civil War. And to Honor all the Confederates who died defending Dixie. I live in the great state of Missouri wich was on of the 12 states that made up the Confederacy even though the union did not reconize it as a Confederate state the Confederacy did and Missouri then secceded on October 31, 1861 almost all of the wins in Missouri were Confederate wins and Missouri's goverment had many pro Confederate people such as the Govener so all in all their was more Confederate actions taken in Missouri then Union ones so i am proud to have been born and raised in my Dixie state of Missouri

 

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Oh Please!!! Talk about SPIN!

 

 

And what was the failure to compromise about? One word Slavery. And no matter how hard people try to spin it it was about Slavery.

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31 minutes ago, Valin said:

 

My Man; you are as bad as the never trumpers, it was bout states rights.

6 % of the south households had slaves

94 % did not own slaves 

You can go find videos as I can for or against.

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The Civil War was Not for Slavery

 

 

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22 minutes ago, Draggingtree said:

My Man; you are as bad as the never trumpers, it was bout states rights.

6 % of the south households had slaves

94 % did not own slaves 

You can go find videos as I can for or against.

As Colonel Seidule rightly asks "The Right To what?"

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22 hours ago, Valin said:

As Colonel Seidule rightly asks "The Right To what?"

who is Colonel Seidule might I ask

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1 hour ago, Draggingtree said:

who is Colonel Seidule might I ask

 

 

 

More Here

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Judge allows Unite the Right rally to stay in Emancipation Park

BRYAN MCKENZIE

August 11 2017

 

A federal judge on Friday granted an injunction allowing the far-right Unite the Right rally to be held in Emancipation Park in the shadow of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

U.S. District Court Judge Glen E. Conrad made the decision late Friday after a two-hour debate that followed a 30-minute meeting between the judge and attorneys for rally organizer Jason Kessler, the city of Charlottesville and downtown merchants.

Conrad said he granted the injunction because testimony indicated that Kessler could successfully prove that the city revoked his original permit based on his ideas.

 

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H/T DU

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Rebel yell: Southern nationalists again crying 'secede'

Friday, August 11th 2017, 1:40 pm CDTFriday, August 11th 2017, 1:45 pm CDT

By JAY REEVES
Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried and failed to do: secede from the Union.  http://www.wbrc.com/story/36117377/rebel-yell-southern-nationalists-again-crying-secede

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I've got problems with this...and these people

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1 hour ago, Valin said:

 

Who Doesn't these people are nothing but the same as resist movement / black lives matter group 

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Stupidity is an equal opportunity trait. Thing is the media will portray these (insert your favorite expletive here) as conservative.

 

I/m thinking it would be nice if we could take Both these groups and...............

 

 

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Report: ‘Unite the Right’ Organizer Jason Kessler Was Obama Supporter Involved With Occupy Movement

by ZeroPointNow - Aug 14, 2017 12:04 PM

"Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association."  

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What If 'Unite The Right' Isn't Really Right?

 2017-08-14 14:44 by Karl Denninger 
in Editorial , 801 references 

What if it's all a scam?

What if Jason Kessler isn't really a right-wing extremist?

What if Jason Kessler used to be involved with Occupy Wall Street and was a strong Obama supporter -- right up until, quite-literally to the day, Trump won the election?

What if he's nothing more than a stooge?

In other words, what if Jason Kessler is just a plain old-fashioned *******-for-hire?

Hmmmm.....

At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association.

May I remind you that The Southern Poverty Law Center, the source of the above, is thought of as a fairly hard-left organization.  In other words, it's extremely unlikely they'd try to smear this guy with an unwarranted claim that he was involved with a hard-left cause!  Yet there's the accusation that he was formerly associated with Occupy, a socialist (if not communist) cause that was about as diametrically opposed to the KKK or "alt-right" as one can imagine.      https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=232300

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College Republicans leader assaulted at Charlottesville vigil for wearing conservative hat

Greg Piper 

August 15, 2017

 

White nationalism is starkly opposed to the conservative vision of treating all people as individuals rather than identity groups.

Therefore, it was no surprise that a conservative student went to a vigil in memory of the young woman who was killed by a driver that plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters at Saturday’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

It didn’t matter that the downtown Syracuse vigil was hosted by the town chapter of Black Lives Matter.

Ithaca College student Caleb Slater, president of its College Republicans chapter, told The College Fix he knew he “would encounter many people that I did not agree with on most issues, but hoped that we could at least come together to combat and call out extremism in this country.”

 

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August 17, 2017

Something stinks about Charlottesville

By Russ Vaughn

Evidence is turning up from, of all places, the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as Breitbart and others, that this character, Jason Kessler, who organized the suspicious and supposed Alt-Right demonstration in Charlottesville, Va. that blew up in everyone's face, is a cunning lefty holdover from the Occupy Wall Street movement and a former Barack Obama supporter.  I smell Soros money, sabotage, and Democrat dirty tricks here.

I've been suspicious of the nature of the violence at this supposed Alt-Right demonstration since the news first began breaking.  It is no secret that radical elements in the Democrat left have been routinely utilizing violence when it suits their purposes.  We also know via secret tapings by Project Veritas that the Democratic Party has a semi-official director of dirty ops, Dick Creamer, who hires, trains, and emplaces professional disruptors to encounter, engage, and infiltrate conservative demonstrations to foment violence, assuring that the demonstrations then become the targets of negative media attention – naturally, against the conservative side.           

Charlottesville was a Democratic Party black operation, planned, organized, and carried out to its successful conclusion, to make the media portray all these conservative whites as stupid, racist, and violent.           

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/something_stinks_about_charlottesville.html#ixzz4q1O2sOXC 

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The Confederate Rule of Law by Marshall DeRosa

 

I know I have this posted -- but I think it's worth posting out in plain view so all can see and hear.

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The Charlottesville Doctrine

 

 

Further demonstration of the fact that the terms Republican and Democrat have no meaning is the way the cowards and traitors of the Republican establishment have come out in favor of Antifa, the new KKK of both parties. There is no other way to interpret the vehemence with which the Bushes, Rubio, McCain, Cory Gardener, etc, etc have attacked Trump for pointing out the simple fact that violence was unleashed on the white supremacists and Nazis at the Charlottesville protest.

Like 'em or not, the white supremacists and Nazi's had a permit to rally and it was the responsibility of the state to protect that right and to protect the demonstrators. Those who did not have a permit were the Antifa counter-demonstrators, who arrived with weapons and the intent to inflict injury on the protesters. This is a coordinated attack on other Americans aided and abetted by the state and city governments.   
 

More @ Christian Mercenary

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Why I Wouldn’t Change a Word of Trump’s Statement

By Esther Goldberg| August 17, 2017

President Trump on Saturday first addressed the alarming violence that was then unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia, between neo-nazi nationalists and their opponents, the alt-Left “activists” that includes groups such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Communists, anarchists, and supporters of Palestinian terror.  

Trump had been scheduled to speak about the Veterans Administration. To the extent his comments addressed Charlottesville, they were hastily constructed, on the basis of incomplete knowledge. Representing Donald Trump, unplugged and unvarnished, they came straight from his heart.

And, to my mind, they were perfect. I wouldn’t change a word.

“Egregious” displays of “hatred, bigotry and violence” have no place in America he told us, with stunning clarity. No exceptions. No qualifications. Whoever you are, whatever you are, whatever your grievance, there shall be one law, one standard. https://amgreatness.com/2017/08/17/wouldnt-change-word-trumps-statement/

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8/16/2017

No, the Government Should Not Censor White Supremacist Views

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:00 am

An incident like the one in Charlottesville emboldens the folks who want to control your speech. Nobody wants to speak up for Nazis, of course. The speech police seize upon such an environment to suggest that, hey, what would be wrong with having government ban white supremacist speech? Thus we get hot takes like this: Matthew Walther’s piece at The Week titled Censor White Supremacy. After some head-scratching citations to writers as disparate as Stanley Fish and John Milton, Walther presents this wrong-headed peroration:

Which brings us to the recent decisions by Go Daddy and Google to deny the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi publication, a home on their web hosting platforms. I have yet to see anyone find fault with this decision even though realistically speaking it amounts to censorship. This is in itself a good thing, though few people have acknowledged it as such. At present it is easy to ignore the elephant in the room by saying that these are private companies free to make their own decisions about what viewpoints can be expressed on web servers that they own and control. But there are only so many web hosting services. Suppose no one was willing to offer these Hitler fanboys room to air their grievances with African-Americans and Jews on the internet — suppose that they could find no publisher willing to reproduce their pamphlets and no one willing to sell them a Xerox machine and paper to distribute them on their own?

Would it still be okay? Why is it reasonable to pretend that an action that is licit and even commendable when taken by a corporation that will soon be worth $1 trillion would be unjust if an ill-defined entity called “the state” undertook it? The world in which the government enjoys a monopoly on coercion and corporations are not state entities whose actions would not be possible without a vast infrastructure and legal apparatus in which they operate is a fantasy. The procedural question of who is responsible for the censorship is beside the point. The only relevant one is whether it is laudable.