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Rich Terrell |
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Rich Terrell |
The Postil "Until recently, the word “woke” seemed to belong to vocabulary reserved for American campuses, and really only for the most radical among them. It referred to a particularly active fringe of American students believing themselves to be in a crusade for social justice and more particularly concerned with questions of “race” and “gender,” and who were determined, in a way, to carry out a definitive lawsuit against the Western world, and more particularly, against the white man who incarnated in himself all his abjectness. This movement was recognized for its extremism, and even, for its fanaticism, being convinced that it had, and still has, a monopoly on the true, the just and the good. Barack Obama, in 2019, had warned the students claiming this: he could see that the claim they had to be awake, in front of a sleeping mass, or enlightened, in front of a people deep in the darkness from the past, could only increase tensions in an already very polarized society. A man of the left, to be sure, Obama nevertheless sought to remind these young minds that human nature is murky, and that social conflict cannot be reduced to a fight between good and evil.
"In some respects, we see in Wokism the new wave of the movement associated with political correctness, which from the 1980s wanted to decolonize the American university and its knowledge by getting rid of the figure of the Dead White Male. Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare and so many others had all to be sent packing; their overwhelming presence had contributed to the marginalization of minority knowledge and perspectives, from which it would be possible to lead an epistemological and political revolution against Western civilization. A new relationship with the world had to be imposed." . . . More...
About The Postil Magazine; "We seek to feed the mind with good ideas, in that good ideas are expressions of a celebratory soul. The West needs reseeding with good ideas because it is in the process of losing its soul. There is a heavy pall of cultural fatigue smothering the West. It is a true Dark Age, where wisdom is confused with information, truth is problematized as spin, faith is ridiculed as superstition, language is tightly controlled, and reason is shouted down by weaponized emotion. We recognize that human beings cannot live without ideals, without transcendence, without truth. In effect, there can be no humanity without God."
RedState "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have very strange views of Americans.
"It’s hard to pick from among the odd, racist views that Biden has expressed over the years. But perhaps one of the worst was when he was asked about slavery and reparations, and responded that parents (implying black parents) didn’t know how to raise their children, that they needed to keep the record player on at night." . . .
. . . "Kamala Harris refuses to say if she would agree to voter ID. But, she seemed to be trying to come up with some other way to ding voter ID requirements — when she tripped all over her own perceptions of rural Americans. Listen as she explains that it’s “almost impossible” for rural Americans to photocopy their IDs.". . .
American Thinker "Today, though, when Dr. King’s words calling for a color-blind America are considered racist, we have surely lost our way. This is both frightening and destructive.
"The Democrats’ divisions, of course, go deeper than race, with people divided by sex, sexuality, and disability, among other things. This too is dangerous. Over one hundred years ago, in 1915, Teddy Roosevelt stated that America cannot become a hyphenated nation: “There is no room in this country for a hyphenated Americanism.”
"While Roosevelt was speaking then of those claiming to be Irish-American, Italian-American, or Catholic-American, he saw how dangerous it was for Americans to categorize themselves by race, ethnicity, religion, and color. Add in gender and sexuality and the divisions begin to run very deep.
. . . "We must not let Lincoln’s warning or Khrushchev’s boast prove correct. While some Americans may be Lenin’s famous “useful idiots,” our enemies are no fools. They profit from, and therefore help foment, our dissension. A divided nation falls more easily than a unified one and a democracy must die when it breaks into fighting tribal factions. Our enemies know this. Meanwhile...Dr. King and Dr. Graham weep."
But there's one indisputable fact that's as certain as the sun rising in the morning and politicians spending more money: Progressives are almost always guilty of doing exactly what they accuse their opponents of doing.
. . . "The biggest lie that has been repeated ad nauseam by the left over the past eighteen months is that this country is "systemically racist." Enter Rep. Cori Bush (Marxist-Mo.), arguably the most vile, racist lunatic in the United States Congress. (Actually, it's probably a six-way tie, as the other five members of the so-called "Squad" are equally repugnant.) Bush solidified her spot as a top America-hater and racist when she posted a series of disgusting tweets over the July 4 weekend. A prime example was her ludicrous assertion that blacks are still not free in America.
"When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom," she ranted, "remember this: the freedom they're referring to is for white people. This land is stolen land and Black people still aren't free."
That may come as a surprise to the likes of Barry and Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James, Don Lemon, et al., all of whom are fabulously wealthy and idolized by millions of people from all races. But since all of them are "woke," you won't hear even a whisper of dissent directed at Rep. Bush. In fact, they're likely to agree with her. Then they'll make lucrative donations to Black Lives Matter, allowing the founder to purchase a few more luxury homes. Not bad for a Marxist who lives in a slave state.
"But Rep. Bush was far from being done. Though no name was mentioned, she next targeted Tucker Carlson.
Sean Fitzgerald