In last week’s segment, we identified a handful of ‘hate watch’ sites – run, ostensibly, by folks who understand better how people ought to interact than anyone else. One site in particular, The Public Eye, succinctly defined – in a neat, scrolling banner, streaming across their main page – the forces of ‘evil’ that the anti-hate crowd purport to oppose. A study of these terms will help us to understand just what it is that fires up these folks.
Collectively, the terms are defined as “Threats to Democracy and Diversity.” Was it Woodrow Wilson who first used the term democracy, as if our nation was one? Anyway, before the twentieth century, any schoolboy could have told you – this is a republic, not a democracy. We do elect our national officers in a democratic fashion, but all decisions are made by representatives of the people. Thank goodness we don’t have national referenda! And diversity? – nations that truly have it have internal strife, nations that don’t, generally don’t.
Using a person’s race to point out just about anything. We are only allowed to use ‘race’ in a sentence when we are describing how downtrodden and oppressed a racial group is. If we say that, for instance, as many as 25% of Black men ages 18 to 34 have a rap sheet, we are being racist. Never mind whether it’s true. Suppression of truth defeats our ability to deal with reality, thus making the original problem larger than necessary.
Sexism
Same as above, only with gender as the operational term. If we cannot discuss real gender differences, truth dies. If we cannot deal with women as women and men as men, then we turn people into robots, which are much easier to subdue than flesh and blood.
Homophobia
What in the world is homophobia, anyway? Is there anyone who is really afraid of homosexuals? If the fear is actually directed at homosexuality itself, then why so maligned the fear that one’s children may have to grow up in a world unintended by our Lord? If millions of people took up murder as an active interest, citing the ‘naturalness’ of it, should we who are against it be labeled ‘murderphobes?’ I know…the whole context of homosexuality is presented as an ‘alternative normal state.’ Any biology text will tell you that sexual activity in an organism is for reproduction of the species. Therefore, any off-label use of the sex organs has to be termed ‘abnormal.’ I can already hear them screaming: “But it just ‘feels right’ so it must be natural!” Any alcoholic will tell you that he feels better when tanked up, but it doesn’t do him or anyone around him any good.
Antisemitism
Works just like ‘racism’ and ‘sexism.’ Say anything critical about someone who happens to be Jewish, and you are in trouble. This accusation is used by Jews or Jewish groups that have nothing intelligent to say in their defense.
Oppression
Defined as anyone or any institution acting out of good sense against anyone else making no sense. In today’s world, idiots have a right to be taken seriously, and we are not to hold them down to the same rules to which productive society is subject.
Supremacy
A derogatory term tagged on anyone who happens to notice racial differences. We are supposed to be deaf, dumb, and blind to it all.
Demonization
Making a demon out of a demonic individual or issue. We’re not supposed to notice…remember?
Scapegoating
When someone on the Right blames the actual culprit for an injustice.
Conspiracism
When the Right uncovers the Left’s plans, it’s Conspiracism – when it happens the other way, it’s ‘investigative journalism.’
Demagoguery
When the Right keeps hammering the truth. When the Left does it, it’s “expressing the will of the people.”
Prejudice
pre-judge: To make a decision based on previous knowledge. Otherwise known as ‘good sense.’
Discrimination
Being able to tell right from wrong, good from bad, smart from stupid, etc.
Ethnocentrism
The ‘evil’ of any white, Christian nation or ethnic group daring to evolve their laws and customs around their common roots. When ‘people of color’ do it, we are supposed to ‘celebrate their beautiful culture.’
Stereotyping
Daring to notice that ethnic/racial groups tend to repeat certain behaviours. It’s okay to refer to the ‘thrifty Scot,’ though.
Theocracy
What we are headed toward any time a devout Christian politician expresses his faith in a public venue. But Joe Lieberman can parade his pseudo-Jewish schtick all over the media – in the midst of an election, no less.
Millennialism
The Bible certainly contains prophesy regarding the end times [eschatology,] but if you claim to understand some of it, you are a ‘millennialist.’ That’s bad, I guess. Isn’t it?
Apocalypticism
Tied closely to ‘millennialism.’ These two terms probably rain on the secular humanists’ parade because they contradict the idea that men control their own destiny. If God can turn out the lights at any time, then what point is there to ‘fight for world peace,’ and all that nonsense.
Authoritarianism
The Right putting their ideas into law. When the left does it, it’s called ‘sustainable policy.’
Vigilantism
What some elements of the Right resort to when the legal system fails to do its job. Since government is made up of people, vigilantism is simply ‘justice by other means.’
Producerism
Any policy or philosophy which acknowledges or encourages the productivity of individuals or [non-governmental] organisations. The Left thinks that consumer goods fall from the sky. They think that wealthy people with good ideas should risk their investment capital out of a love for humanity, not expecting a return. Leftists should put this theory into practice with their own money, if it’s such a good idea. They won’t, because it isn’t.
Repression
When traditional, common-sense people shout down stupid, silly people with stupid, silly ideas, it’s called ‘repression.’
Neofascism
When the Right begins to gain the same amount of power as the Left, they become ‘neo-fascists.’
Neonazism
The term the Left drags out when ‘neo-fascist’ isn’t convincing enough.
Totalitarianism
See ‘neo-fascism’
What Does it All Mean?
The obvious trend running through these terms is that none of them ever apply to the Left. This is where people with ‘ears to hear’ and ‘eyes to see’ get the idea that the media are biased to the liberal side. The Left is the ‘baseline’ by which all other ideas are judged. The Left doesn’t see it that way because they think they are normal and everyone else is nuts. But while Leftists ideology is founded on the shifting sands of human opinion, the Right’s ideas are founded in the truths of the Bible – even non-believers’ positions are Biblically-based, though they choose not to acknowledge the fact.
The reason the Right spends so much time rending its garments and fragmenting their alliances is that we are all obsessed with ‘truth.’ Since we are sinful humans, we differ on the plain teachings of God in the Bible, but we nevertheless sing from the same sheet of music [mostly.] The Left is obsessed with power.Even though the interests of various groups on the Left are widely divergent, they are willing to jump into bed with anyone who can assure their rise in status and power. This is why the Left is ‘popular’ and the Right isn’t.
An obvious question to ask is, “why does the Left fight the Right so hard?” After all, we are mostly folks who simply want to be left alone to live our lives without interference from without. We are no threat to anyone. Or are we? Perhaps if the Left desires to consolidate power, and we desire to be left alone, we diminish the power of their ‘hive’ if we opt out. Then all the talk of ‘world peace,’ ‘sustainable biospheres,’ and ‘social justice’ is simply a load of bovine effluent designed to disguise the Left’s simple desire to be ‘the king’ and rule ‘all they survey.’
Power…money…it all makes sense.
Let them have their little ‘watch’ websites, their smug attitudes, their aristocratic glibness when faced with the truth. Truth will indeed win over evil. The Left may make things hard for us – harder than they already are. They may make it hard to do business, to educate our children, to worship – mind you, they may even try to kill us [and many will assert that such is already happening.] No plan, no agenda, no doctrine, no machination of man can thwart the will of God.