Of course, they don't care about Middle Eastern women (or men or children), but it's become unacceptable to publicly say they're a worthless people and we can kill them and take over their nations anytime we like. So instead, suddenly these folks are really concerned about women's rights (but only over there).
A corollary to that joke is that anytime a conservative invokes Freedom of Speech™, it is a very safe bet some prominent conservative has just been fired for saying something incredibly racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.
Which brings me to this picture currently floating around the interwebs:
It's a picture of a bunch of supposed historical re-enactors, dressed up like Nazis, having a dinner party in a private room of Minneapolis restaurant Gasthof zur Gemutlichkeit, complete with Nazi banners and other regalia strewn about (on MLK day, for an added bonus).
I'm not even going to touch how idiotic that is, as any functioning human adult can immediately understand why this is a terrible idea. Rather, I want to focus on the comments of the owner of the restaurant (which have been echoed by several of the Nazis in the photo) aimed at the people criticizing him for hosting the event:
"We live in a free country...but from the comments I see, a lot of people they don’t see what freedom is."
Except…no. The constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech specifically prevents the government (or more specifically, anyone acting on behalf of the government) to censor one's speech or activities without compelling reason. Since not a single one of the people in this photo, in the group, or employed by the restaurant has been subject to any government action as a result of this, it means their freedoms are perfectly intact.
So repeat it with me kids: freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
So while no one has the right to prevent you from being the kind of fucking moron who thinks dressing up and playing Nazi is a fun thing to do, everyone has the complete right to tell you you're a fucking jackass for doing so. That's not them imposing limits on your freedom of speech, that's them exercising their freedom of speech.
A violation of your free speech would be if the police had prevented the dinner in the first place, or arrested them all afterward. And if that happened, as much as I loathe these people, I'd be first in line to defend them. But that didn't happen; they are all currently walking about freely with no chance of criminal conviction stemming from this. That is why I'm also happy to be right in line to tell them they are horrible people who need to seriously re-evaluate their life choices.
But whether it be dressing up like Nazis, or telling a national publication that Black people were happier under segregation and gay people are an abomination, conservatives seem to believe that any criticism of their words or actions is automatically illegal censorship (quite ironic given their love for censorship in every other arena, but that's another topic for another day). Apparently, to them, freedom of speech means everyone not only has to let you speak, they have to listen to you speak, and have to then agree with whatever you said.
But that's not how it works. You've got your freedom of speech to dress up like the people who slaughtered at least 6 million human beings and have a grand ol' time being a giant asshole. But everyone else has the freedom to tell you you're a giant asshole.
I'll let the last word go to Dr. Degrasse Tyson. While it's on a different subject, the general principle remains the same:
1 comment:
This article (and blog) is full of stupid.
Can we agree that you only turn a blind eye if the person isn't Christian or white when it comes to women and "women issues."
The conservatives bring it up because faggot left wingers (i.e. you) don't have the balls or care because it deals with another group (Arabs) and religion (Islam). Islomphobia and racism take precedence over women issues. It doesn't mean that they suddenly do or do not care, you halfwit.
You trot about "da evil white man" because it's safe. You won't get fired. No one will attack you. At dinner parties with other white people, you'll drink up talking about getting rid of privilege in some abstract way rather than starting yourself and your family (because you're a typical leftist professor bitch).
The fact that you compare the stereotypical Conservative to that of a Muslim in the ME when it comes to women and women issue just shows how much of a fucking moron YOU actually are. You're just like the Feminist that moan about the white male patriarchy but won't make a peep about Islam and Arabs.
I mean, I get that every ideological group has its hypocrisy (including conservatives). But only leftist act like they're supposedly brave, believing that they're the anti-establishment, when they're not. That's what gets to me. The fact that you THINK you're brave, when you're a cowardly bitch. The fact that you think you're really "against the system helping the oppressed."
p.s. The last time I checked every country previously during those "1950's segregated days" were better off. South Africa has become a bigger shit hole thanks to you. Yeah they're coded to a degree about how Africans when manifesting in a particular area create shitty places to a certain degree. Even the low impoverished cousin fucking "white" areas don't come close. The is everywhere and no just in America. Africans, Arabs, and Hispanics create shit holes. Conservatives don't come out and state it because they're cowards and have been silenced into submission. Liberals, through dominating institutions, media, and schools, have set the social terms of how people are supposed to act. I find it amusing when you whine about how racism is "coded" and no one can be upfront (because you made it such dumbass).
Since we're on the subject of "coded" language when will be get shit like you to admit that "diversity" means "less white people?" Or that you simply want to destroy "whiteness?" That "progress" boils down to someone who is non white male Christian for president. That the highest office in the land is reduces to a representation show for your good feels. Hey did you know our racist founding fathers wanted a racist country? So why haven't you man up and and deface statues to them instead of going after some obscure racist southern general that no one knows about?
I'm amazed that idiots like you, knowing that you hold the establishment, and can fire people on a whim, blame that others are not being honest about their beliefs. You're a fucking retard. Of course they're going to lie and hid it.
While I'm not a fan of Nazis, they did create quite a system and economic recovery. Virtually every technology in warfare we use today is due to them. You, as the left wing establishment can't create shit. So if you're going to bash a group (neo nazis are stupid who brag with no personal accomplishment for being part of the white race), you better have a better society in terms of living standards etc. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
And the last time I remembered "professor" communist and Maoist killed more than the Nazis but you'll never hear a leftist whine about that.
Now go worship MLK, your Jesus, jerkoff.
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