Ed Driscoll amplifies what Jeff Goldstein says over at Protein Wisdom Reborn!:
Tyranny is already upon us. To defeat it, we must first learn to reject its premises. And to say so aloud.
Let me put it another way – get in the grills of the Totalitarians that wish to control our speech, our behaviors, and our lives and scream (bullhorn optional but really handy at times) in their faces “UP YOURS!”. I particularly like what he says because I, too, am tired of these wannabees and fool who believe they can take possession of me, my life, and my loved ones.
Some of the good bits (emphasis mine, reformatted, abstracted). Taken as a whole at the link, a manifesto for we Normal people against the Woke Mob.
- I refuse to “unpack white violence.”
- I reject the idea that my existence “perpetuates white power structures.”
- I will not…“examine my implicit biases.”
- I’m not taking any “journey” to “discover” the impact of my “privilege” on “black and brown peoples.”
- I will not become “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” to satisfy your demands.
- I’m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex.
- I will not “respect your pronouns” or “celebrate” your “queerness.”
- I am hostile to your sexualizing of children.
- I reject your neologisms, your “triggers,” and your desire to control my speech.
I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master
- I reject “equity” because it is collectivism disguised as virtue.
- I reject “inclusivity” because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived.
- I reject mandated “diversity”: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.
- My whiteness is not “violent”; my sex is not “oppressive”; my religion doesn’t concern you; and my children are not yours to mold.
“Queer theory” is “critical race theory” is “critical consciousness” is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined to raze norms, sow chaos, tear families asunder, and reduce being to collective conformity.
I reject its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I will not comply.
- I reject your social hectoring. I find abhorrent your authoritarian urges.
- I laugh at your disingenuous outrage.
- From me you will receive no apologies.
I reject your premises entirely, and I hereby reclaim my time.
- I despise your presumption to protect me from myself.
I am your sworn enemy, as you are mine…I utterly reject your revisionism, your ahistorical impertinence, your presentism, your self-appointed expertise. I will not bow before your theorists, nor admire your social prophets.
- I am not a disease. My existence doesn’t “warm the planet.” I’m not interested in your “sustainability” concerns. I am not yours to manage.
- I won’t eat your bugs, live in your pods, surrender my cars, or without consent be packed into your cities.
- I unmask your intentions. I know what a woman is; I know that any member of any racial group can practice racism; I know that 2+2=4, regardless of how contingent you wish to make reality.
- I despise your ideology.
- I refuse your relativism.
- You are not the Elect, and I am not answerable to the various neuroses you wear as badges of honor.
- Your intolerance of “hate” is not a virtue. It’s a ruse. An excuse to practice your own intolerance and luxuriate in your own hatreds.
I see you. Clearly. And I aim to misbehave.
- I honor the founding ideals of my country, and I work to live up to their measure.
- I recognize the great fortune of my birth.
- History does not frighten me.
I am not responsible for that which I didn’t do, nor are you victims of what was never done to you. I will not proclaim your goodness while knowing your evil.
I am a free man. You wish to take me from me. You will fail. I will win. And God willing, I will live to spit on your graves.
If nothing else, Goldstein is giving us a quick view of how surrounding and enveloping their efforts are. Ask yourself – what parts of your “self” are being attacked by their values which are antithetical to your own? Your ability to express yourself freely via speech? Nope, they insist on you using only THEIR words and their styling. Not just the stupid ones like “birthing people and “chest feeders” but inserting new words that posses their new nuances to replace what worked quite well: “cis” for “straight”. While straight people (it annoys me to know end to even have to state the definition: men who are attracted to women and women who are attracted to men) are by far the majority, the use of “cis” in the panoply of sexual irrationality is denigrated to make it seem that WE are the minority and should give way to sexual degeneracy and chaos.
And chaos, from the above and what I have been writing about now for years, is the intended endpoint. For once close-to-complete-chaos is achieved, we won’t understand or know what to believe anymore. 2+2=5 or even 2+2= a black dog. What’s the difference since both are wrong and nonsensical to a rational being. And there’s the rub – they wish to so alter the meanings of things is that there can be no rationality left to believe in or hold onto.
And that’s when they can “radically transform America” in the way that Obama wanted. The way that Progressive/Socialists have yearned for since the 1890s. And they won’t stop pushing as they are starting to see their goal in sight because too many of us are dispirited by their “dense pack” efforts to overwhelm our traditional American mores.
Again, at each and every turn. Thus, we need to be those soldiers on the wall and on post to protect that which drives us – our families, our friends, and our values. We WILL be lost if we don’t don’t because appeasement never works. In fact, appeasement is nothing more than total surrender from you which they will see as abject weakness, and then will torture you by demanding more of and from you knowing that it will be impossible but it will make them happy. You see, your family will see you giving up on them in doing so.
They win if they are never shoved backwards onto their butts. And it will take all of us acting in concert. Let us become the anti-Fascist-Antifa, the anti-BLM-racists, the anti-Trans-Authoritarians, and the anti-Socialist/Communists at each and every turn of our lives (for they are seeking to control every turn of our lives).
For all of us, this needs to be inculcated into our beings. It is a manifesto – at the link, it lists like a manifesto like the listings of the evil and harms that King George had visited upon the Colonists which they enumerated (“To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”)
Make no mistake, this “cold” Cultural Civil War has gone hot in any number of ways.
What is your response?
(H/T: Instapundit)
