The ACC's adoption of Cultural Marxism gets a smackdown big time - Granite Grok

The ACC’s adoption of Cultural Marxism gets a smackdown big time

acc-commissionor-swoffordFirst the NCAA and now the ACC have decided to strip North Carolina of any championships, especially football (as that is the time of year) because its state’s legislature decided that your chromosomes determine which bathroom you should go to with the passage of HB2. I am glad to see that Gov McCrory has stayed firm to principles and has not (yet?) caved in on this like former Indiana Gov. (and current running mate of Donald Trump) did on its religious / conscience protection law.

But one person that remains on message is Reverend Franklin Graham, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham.  He wrote a letter to the head of the ACC and the schools that are in that athletic conference calling them out on their absolute hypocrisy on calling out North Carolina but refusing to do the same of their big dollar sponsors.  Gosh, it’s almost like the ACC is no better than any ordinary corrupt politician (does Hillary Clinton come to mind)? Emphasis mine:

Dear Commissioner Swofford,

As a lifelong resident of North Carolina and current CEO and president of two organizations employing nearly 1,500 North Carolinians, I am saddened—even outraged—by the vote of the ACC Council of Presidents to move conference championships from our state in protest of legislation requiring people to use public bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender.

While I recognize this legislation—and legislation like it in other states—is complicated by society’s continued blurring of the lines of gender and sexual identity, I also recognize the profound hypocrisy of the ACC, the NCAA and other companies and organizations who are making calculated business decisions disguised as moral outrage.

For example, the football championship game your conference voted to move from Charlotte in December is called the “Dr. Pepper ACC Football Championship.” Dr. Pepper and its parent company, Cadbury Schweppes and Carlyle Group, proudly sell their products in countries where homosexuality is illegal.Will the ACC drop its title sponsor? And why isn’t the LGBT community demanding you sever ties with such a “bigoted” corporate sponsor?

Simple – it’s all about cowering traditional conservatives and leaving them no place to be.  Only those targeted matter and those that are targeted are those that oppose the Left’s agenda.

Currently, LGBT relationships are illegal in more than 70 countries—including 10 where homosexuality is punishable by death. Dr. Pepper is often bottled under contract by Coca-Cola bottlers—yet Coca-Cola conducts business in virtually every nation on earth, including nearly every country where homosexuality is currently criminalized. Can your conference continue to tolerate that?

The ACC website proudly features Toyota as an “Official Corporate Champion,” yet Toyota maintains factories and distribution centers in several of these discriminatory countries, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Egypt. Where is the moral outrage of the presidents of Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, UNC, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest?

Coke, Toyota, Dr. Pepper – if they are helping the Left, it’s an immediate get-out-of-jail card.  At least for now. But next is a great slapdown – the ACC’s own behavior for which they have targeted NC for:

Indeed, the ACC’s member schools compete in 25 sports divided by gender—12 men’s sports and 13 women’s. Though gender issues may be becoming more complicated in higher education and other parts of society, the athletic conference you serve as commissioner doesn’t seem to have any problem distinguishing between the two genders—male and female. Yet, when a state like the one I live in seeks to make the same distinction with regard to use of public bathrooms in an effort to protect its citizens from those who would use the men’s room today and the women’s room tomorrow, the academic elites who comprise your conference fake a moral outrage that is frankly shameful.

But that’s what the Left does – screams bloody murder about someone else’s behavior and generally rather brazen in denying its own similar incompliance.  In other words, they can’t dare walk the talk.

Ironically, the NCAA is more discriminatory towards transgender people than the public policy they apparently wish to see as law in America. For example, opponents to legislation like NC House Bill 2 support permitting people to use the bathroom which corresponds to the sex they identify with on a given day—meaning someone might feel like a man today and a woman tomorrow, switching bathrooms at will.

Yet even the NCAA doesn’t allow such casual gender identity for participation in collegiate athletics. The NCAA Policy on Transgender Student-Athlete Participation states, “Any transgender student-athlete who is not taking hormone treatment related to gender transition may participate in sex-separated sports activities in accordance with his or her assigned birth gender.” This is precisely what supporters of HB 2 have been requesting—that people use public restrooms in accordance with their assigned birth gender.

I think I represent the views of millions who would rather preserve gender-specific public bathrooms—a mainstay for generations—than to attend a football game in my state to determine the champion of a conference governed by politically-correct, morally hypocritical academics.

Well, I can’t make that promise as I don’t watch college level sports.  And yes, I did see that a couple of the New England Patriots decided to join the “protest” last Sunday so I can and will not be watching them going forward.

Commissioner, in your statement today you said, “the ACC Council of Presidents made it clear that the core values of this league are of the utmost importance, and the opposition to any form of discrimination is paramount. Today’s decision is one of principle.” Will this same paramount “opposition to any form of discrimination” have you now sever ties with Toyota or Dr. Pepper?

They have no core principles because if they did, they’d be cleaning and aligning their outward facing principles to those they actually implement internally.  As Rev. Graham is candidly and brutally pointing out, they aren’t.  And they won’t, either.  They’ll just continue to be a corporate SJW if ot no other reason that their member school administrations don’t have the stones to stand up to their precious snowflake children.  In that, the Academy shows that it has truly become self-righteous, self-indignant scolds that can’t manage their own house.

I am a big sports fan. My only daughter married a college football star that went on to play in the NFL. But I would rather defend the biological definition of the two genders as created by the Creator of the universe than to attend—or even watch on TV—a football or basketball game to determine the ACC champion.

Commissioner Swofford, you maintain your conference’s decision is “one of principle” and that “core values…are of utmost importance.” Well, millions of us who oppose your decision do so as a matter of principle and core values—values of privacy, safety and protection of our sons and daughters in public restrooms, and the principle that God created just two genders and assigned them at birth.

Please don’t make political pawns of student-athletes who just want to play football or basketball in North Carolina, and don’t continue to offend millions of Americans who endorse thousands of years of gender-specific bathrooms while you continue to accept corporate sponsorship money from companies proudly conducting their business in countries that discriminate against homosexuals to the point of death.

And yes, I am offended by these people who believe they have the right to punish others simply because of a lack of adherence to the Left’s agenda.  But that’s what and how this works – as Andrew Brietbart observed, politics is downstream of culture.  The marxists, communists, the Frankfurt School, and Alinsky all figured out that to get the political outcome they desired (Socialism at worst, Communism at best) all they had to do was to seize the high points of American culture and turn it against itself.  I posit they have now done so, successfully.

Sincerely,

Franklin Graham

President & CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

President & CEO of Samaritan’s Purse

FG/jd cc: Presidents of the 15 member schools

When you think about it, this new “inclusive” isn’t all that inclusive of traditional values, is it? And that is the goal of Cultural Marxism – to overthrow traditions by using double speak and transforming the language / values to double back on itself for marxist agenda.  And when that happens, the expected vacuum comes into existence and guess who wants to fill that with values that aren’t American ones.  It is well planned and seemingly well executed – for those values (and the people who hold them) are now being Alinsky’d and if you have been watching here, anyone in their sights aren’t just disagreed with – they must be destroyed.  And given our government indoctrinational educational system pressing full steam ahead on this new morality, it is clear that we will see this more and more.  A traditional person of faith that just wishes to live your life?  Surprise – you’ve already been targeted.  It will not hold that you will be allowed to worship and belief as you wish – to think otherwise is naive. However, many Christians I know are just hunkering down and becoming insular in thinking that adopting the “I only have to outrun you to get away from the bear” or “I’m an ostrich and there’s the sand” will be their lamb’s blood on the mantle to have the cultural Angel of Death pass by their door.

That ain’t happening – too many are unlike Reverend Graham and will not use their Big Flashlights and speaking / calling out the SJW crybullies.  And that is what they depend on.

This relativism is not a bug of Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism but a feature – and the end goal.  If you can force a society to lose ALL of its values and societal norms, then anything is possible – and will be.  At some point a political / cultural singularity will be attained in which complete relativism is invested in all areas, chaos will be rampant – again, a feature and not a bug.  And that’s when the hammer will come down and we will have been transformed.  We will cease to be the America that our forefathers gave blood for.

In no small part, that transformation will (and is currently in motion) cause internal beliefs and self-governing to be abandoned (or a forcing thereof) and our morality will be that imposed upon by government.  Merely saying that we are the “Land of the Free” and “We’re America – that can’t happen here” is a belief in our history that is no longer shared by Leftist activists.  “You will be made to care” as Erick Erickson’s meme goes – and you will obey.

1984 and Atlas Shrugged were supposed to be works of fiction – not as to-do methodologies to be implemented.

The Left brooks no dissent and its brown shirted SJWs are the shock troops.

(H/T: RedState)

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