We Want Equality

by C Douglas Love Love

  For their part, politicians on the left are suppressing their opponents by calling Trump a white supremacist and linking all Republicans to Trump. It doesn’t matter that Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and others have clashed with Trump, they are all complicit in his racism. Of course, they don’t have any evidence of his racism, but that doesn’t matter. In fact, the Left doesn’t even know what racism is anymore. This is why a temporary ban on some countries is racist, even though most Muslim majority countries are not included and non-Muslims from the countries included are also banned.

  With all of this momentum, they can say anything and it is taken as fact. They say that the tax cuts only help the rich. The numbers prove that is not true but their followers believe it. They say deporting illegal immigrants is racist. Overnight, allowing anyone to stay in the country is the civil rights issue of our time.

  Some politicians go beyond challenging policy. Maxine Waters has been yelling, “Impeach 45!” since the beginning of his presidency. Obviously, she had no evidence, there wasn’t even an investigation at the time. Now she’s upped the ante. She recently called for people to confront and shout down any member of Trump’s administration saying, “… tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”182 She is not alone in her inflammatory rhetoric.

  Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal said in a Facebook post, “I hope Trump is assassinated.” As of this writing, she is still a state senator. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and others have also gone to extreme lengths to attack the president and his administration. Hillary Clinton, who famously called Trump supporters ‘deplorables,’ has continued her attacks. While speaking in India, Clinton said she won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, and moving forward. She went on, “You didn’t like black people getting rights; you don’t like women, you know, getting jobs; you don’t want to, you know, see that Indian American succeeding more than you are,” implying these are the people who voted for Trump.

  On the entertainment front, celebrities have been attacking Trump and his supporters since the campaign. Stephen Colbert was in last place in the late-night race until he made his show a one-stop shop for Trump bashing. Jimmy Kimmel spent months attacking the administration. At least most of his attacks were on policy. He was wrong, but it was a welcomed change to the barrage of personal attacks. Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a feckless c**t on live TV, and these are the ones who didn’t incite violence.

  Madonna famously said she felt like blowing up the White House, one day after the inauguration. Johnny Depp sardonically asked, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” Kathy Griffin posed with Trump’s severed head, Snoop Dogg conducted a mock assassination in a video, and Peter Fonda suggested Trump’s 12-year old son should be ripped from his mother’s arms and put in a cage with pedophiles.

  The last group intimidating the opposition is business leaders. Some do it directly, like the GrubHub CEO telling employees to resign. Others find indirect ways to do it. When Samantha Bee made the vile comment referenced above, she was working for a cable network. Management could have pulled her show like they did Roseanne but chose not to. The same goes for the studio releasing Fonda’s movie. Both comments were far more incendiary than Barr’s tweet.

  When ESPN personalities started to engage in political commentary, no one was there to stop it. Jemele Hill tweeted a racist comment about the president and she was not suspended. Even though Curt Shilling was suspended and subsequently fired for sending far more innocuous tweets. In fact, they recently rehired Keith Olbermann, a man who tweets nasty, profanity-laced tweets at the president regularly. He even wrote a book titled, Trump Is F*cking Crazy (This is not a joke). Only leaders on the Left would allow this behavior.

  These actions by the media, politicians, entertainment, and business leaders are proof that the Left is far more oppressive than Donald Trump or anyone on the Right can be. Their actions have also created a mob mentality among their acolytes. This mob has been whipped into a frenzy and lack the information or understanding necessary to act rationally. Their attacks are one-sided, and conservatives pay the price.

  The mob goes after anyone who doesn’t conform to leftist ideology. This results in bad behavior being condoned and people shouting down free speech. The first casualty happens to be college campuses. Years ago, the universities were the base of operations for free speech protection. Now that the Left has taken over the country’s educational system, the universities are some of the most intolerant places in the country.

  College Republicans need legal assistance and security just to get a conservative speaker accepted at many colleges. But acceptance is only the first hurdle, actually making it through the event is a different story. Conservative speakers are routinely disrespected on college campuses across the country. They are disinvited (Condoleezza Rice), have the events moved (Ann Coulter), are shouted down (Dennis Prager), or booed (Betsy DeVos). These are the successful events. Some result in violence.

  When conservative author Charles Murray came to Middlebury College in Vermont to speak, he got more than he expected. He was shouted down and protestors rushed the stage. The professor who invited him was injured. When he couldn’t complete the talk, administrators allowed him to finish the talk online. On his way out of the building, he was confronted by angry students donning bandanas to cover their faces.

  When Milo Yiannopoulos showed up at UC Berkeley to speak, he was met with protests. The speech was canceled after riots broke out. Antifa, accusing him of being a racist fascist, vandalized the campus and started fires. This is becoming increasingly common. Score one for mob rule.

  This divisive climate is worsening the already declining culture. The media continually ran the audio of Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood tape. After the election, attendees of the Women’s March wore pussy hats. Trump allegedly called some countries “s**tholes” (in private); CNN took the opportunity to say the word many times in its reporting, in spite of the lack of any audio. Respect and decorum have been declining for years, but it has gotten worse with the election of President Trump; he brings out the worst in people.

  People now celebrate bad behavior. A congressional intern yelled obscenities at the president and was not terminated. When De Niro opened his presentation at the Tony Awards with f**k Trump, he received a standing ovation. Friendships are ending and family members are cutting each other off over political affiliations. This is a terrible trend and it would be naïve to think things will go back to normal when the president is no longer in office.

  Now the divide is so great, the Left doesn’t even make consistent arguments. They demand that businesses don’t discriminate, while liberal judges rule you can ban people wearing MAGA hats from your establishment. They argue how hateful and un-American it is for a bakery, who serves gays, to refuse to design a wedding cake for a gay couple. Does this belief extend to coffee shops?

  In October of 2017, an anti-abortion group called Abolish Human Abortion was passing out flyers in a Seattle neighborhood. They went into a coffee shop and the owner, who had observed them passing out their flyers, approached them. He demanded that they leave saying, “I have a right to be offended, so I have a right to say get out … Can you tolerate my presence? If I go get my boyfriend right now and f**k him in the ass right here, you’re going to tolerate that? Leave, all of you. Tell all of your f**king friends not to f**king come here!”

  When one of the group members said, on his way out of the door, “Christ can save you from that lifestyle.” Borgman said, “Yeah, I like ass, I’m not going to be saved by anything. I’d f**k Christ in the ass, OK? He’s hot!” The video can be found in the endnotes. I chose the post from Out magazine because the writer was supportive of the owner; giving him kudos and saying amen to his retort about Christ. As sick as this is, I point to this for consistency. When will the Supreme Court hear the case Christians who want coffee v. Angry gay shop owner? The answer is never, because the Christians w
ouldn’t sue and discrimination is fine if done by protected groups.

  I remember a time when nearly every business had a sign that stated, “We reserve the right to refuse service.” Every business owner had the power, few of them used it. Now people with little time on their hands are suing to take away freedoms. People are suing to force businesses that treated them like crap to serve them. It’s like they’re saying, “Judge, please make this guy who hates me give me bad service and use the proceeds to support causes I don’t believe in.” Why would anyone want to eat food prepared by a cook who wishes he could put you out? In any event, it seems that the Left can refuse to serve anyone while conservatives have to get permission.

  One of the strangest cultural shifts is the hatred of men. More specifically white men. It’s about as hip a fad as skinny jeans, but it doesn’t make sense. These men are our friends, co-workers, and beloved actors and musicians. They are fathers, sons, brothers, pastors, doctors, and chefs. We love them, as individuals. Yet, as a group, they are toxic, vile, immoral, and should die.

  It may say something that many of the culprits are academics. It’s just another example of universities aiding in the cultural demise. Tommy Curry, an associate professor at Texas A&M wrote, “When is it OK to Kill Whites?” Trinity College Professor Johnny Eric Williams called whites “inhuman a**holes” and said, “let them die.” Recently, Louisville’s Ricky Jones asked in an article, “Was James Baldwin right when he called white Americans moral monsters?”

  The New York Times recently hired Sarah Jeong to their editorial board. She was quickly attacked by conservatives as a racist for many tweets that resurfaced of her making racist, despicable comments. What’s interesting is the multiple articles explaining why she’s not racist. Among the defenses are, ‘she was replying to trolls’ and ‘she didn’t mean them literally.’ Aren’t these the same things Trump supporters say about him? The difference is, he has never said anything resembling, “oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men,” or “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?” These things take thought.

  In June of 2018, the Washington Post ran an op-ed piece by Suzanna Danuta Walters entitled, “Why can’t we hate men?” In it, she took some truly awful actions by a small number of men, mixed in some generalities and wrapped all of that in many of the myths we covered in the chapter on gender. For this, she’s been lauded as strong and honest. The fact that the article passed editorial review proves that there is an effort to advance this narrative.

  Those examples were of blacks and women but white men like to get in on the action too. A Drexel University professor, George Ciccariello-Maher, tweeted on Christmas Eve, “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.” Rutgers history professor James Livingston ‘resigns’ from the white race after run-in with ‘caucasian a**sholes’ in Harlem.

  The biggest issue with these attacks is not that they are so over the top, or that it shows how angry we’ve become. It’s the number of people who celebrate and defend the comments. It is very telling that people view these professors as credible. If a black man said he wanted all black men to die, people would rightfully, question his mental stability. But since their attacks are directed at white men, people view them as strong men speaking the truth. In fact, they say those who take offense to these comments don’t understand race.

  Earlier we discussed the lack of free speech on college campuses. There is also a new trend of making totalitarian demands of the administration, faculty, and other students. A group of black students at UC Santa Cruz staged a sit-in. Their demands were to guarantee four years of housing for all black students, to require diversity training for incoming students, and to paint the Rosa Parks African Theme House the colors of the black liberation flag. After three days, the administration agreed to them.

  In a perfect lesson for the administrators who capitulate to blackmail, the problem wasn’t resolved. Shocked by the victory, the students added three new demands. They now wanted the university to purchase a property to serve as low income housing for historically disadvantaged students, allocate $100,000 for Santa Cruz’s “SOMeCA” student organization support department, and create either a Black Studies department or a Black Studies minor or major.

  This is now common behavior on campuses. They demand safe spaces and cry rooms. It is now offensive to hear ideas one disagrees with. The grandchildren of those heroes who fought to end segregation are creating segregated graduations. In response, cowardly administrators acquiesce. They remove Shakespeare from the curriculum of English majors, ban whiteboards, and offer full scholarships to refugees.

  In 2017, Harvard announced that any male or female student who chooses to join a ‘single-gender’ club will be penalized. They held off on the push to ban the groups but denounced the existence of these groups as pernicious. To be clear, they are penalizing students for joining fraternities and sororities.

  This constant push for diversity and preference has consequences, and when achieving diversity is your primary focus, you miss the fact that it is causing disastrous effects. You may think it’s wrong to deport illegals, but the answer should not be favoring them over citizens in need.

  In Oregon, a judge helped an illegal immigrant charged with a DUI escape ICE. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned illegals about an impending ICE raid, several of whom had been convicted of violent felonies. Finally, NYC Governor Andrew Cuomo pardoned seven illegals to prevent them from being deported. Blacks constantly talk about the criminal justice system treating them unfairly. I’d like to ask when was the last time they can recall blacks getting this level of service from government officials?

  We discussed the crisis the country faces with its boys earlier. There is a shortage of role models, and it seems we’re making the situation worse. Half of them grow up with no male in the house, the schools are treating them like wild horses that need to be broken; now there is a systematic move to get rid of all of all single-gender organizations. When they’re all gone, we’ll have a win for diversity but at what cost? If the number of men at home raising boys is decreasing and they can’t join any groups to bond with other boys and learn from men, where will this much-needed development come from?

  The anti-police crowd wants less policing in minority neighborhoods; this results in more crime. A recent report from Baltimore shows what the consequences of less policing are.183After the high profile death of Freddie Gray and its subsequent riots, Baltimore saw first hand the dire results of the ‘Ferguson Effect’. This is the highly disputed argument that in Ferguson, Missouri police relaxed their efforts against crime after the riots that followed Michael Brown’s death. Some disputed this argument while others said it was simply too early to tell. Now that three years have gone by since Freddie Gray’s death, there is enough data to make a conclusion and the results are glaring.

  The USA Today reviewed police records and found that incidents where officers questioned people without being called dropped 70%. As the investigator said, “Police officers reported seeing fewer drug dealers on street corners. They encountered fewer people who had open arrest warrants. Police questioned fewer people on the street. They stopped fewer cars.” Donald Norris, an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, who reviewed USA TODAY's analysis added, “The outcome of that change in policing has been a lot more crime in Baltimore, especially murders, and people are getting away with those murders.”

  Under the guise of inclusiveness, the Left is celebrating gender fluidity. It’s one thing to support transgender people, it’s another thing to encourage the behavior. Parents are increasingly allowing their children to choose their sex. In some cases, the child says he or she is the opposite sex and they confirm it. In others, they remove all mentions of gender. A recent NBC News report followed a new trend of parents who are raising ‘theybies’: genderless babies.184 In
creasingly, it’s the government who is promoting the cultural decline.

  In Delaware, the Department of Education will allow children, as young as five, to choose their race and gender, without the consent of the parents.185 In late 2015, a Texas teacher was fired for not addressing a six-year old girl as a boy, in the middle of the school year.186 Recently, leftist judges, who follow social trends rather than the law or common sense, place the rights of a biological boy who wants to shower with the girls over the girls who are uncomfortable with it. When in doubt, always side against normative behavior.

  Many, like me, have been complaining that children aren’t being taught accountability anymore. How can we expect them to learn it when their teachers aren’t good examples? The NYC schools implemented a literacy test to measure the competency of their teachers. They decided to scrap the test because they found that a disproportionate number of minority teachers failed it.

  This is problematic on many levels. My first concern is that the minority performance was the biggest focus. Does this mean if the white teachers failed too, there would have been no problem? Then there’s the fact that they don’t understand what it means to measure. The whole point was to find out the competency levels and improve accordingly. You don’t scrap a teaching tool because it shows improvement is needed. The worst part is that white teachers only scored 64% on the test, so it seems that few of the teachers are prepared to teach regardless of their race.

  Finally, we are no longer able to say any behavior is bad. Recently, a black man was killed by police in Chicago. People immediately protested. News spread that the police had shot another unarmed man. That was quickly proven false. The police released bodycam footage of the man with a gun. The protestors then said he was carrying the gun legally; that too was false. This is where it gets crazy. The protests persisted. His defenders said that they needed to hear the audio because the police may have incited him. Some claim that he may have been ‘unaware’ he could not legally carry the firearm.