So, last night, the BF says to me, “I don’t think I’m a liberal any more.”
What brought this on? Well, since graduating from college, he has been working in university administration, and has grown increasingly contemptuous of the PC-bullsheet he has to put up with on a daily basis. Because in the university environment, “micro-aggressions” “Safe Space” and disputes over whether a transgendered she-man can be a diversity coordinator are super-serious issues. I think the last straw was when a co-worker called him a “racist” for being skeptical of the leftist dogma of “White privilege.”
Then, over dinner with his roommate and her boyfriend, the topic of Trayvon Martin came up. And the BF said, “I know it’s wrong, but I never got outraged over it the way everybody else did. It’s sad for his family that he died, but how was his death more newsworthy than anyone else who gets shot?” The roommate’s boyfriend would have none of it, and blammered something about young black men not being safe and white people being able to shoot black people and get away with it. (Kind of funny that a straight white guy was the most liberal person in the room, isn’t it? {Granted, he’s a grad student majoring in Philosophy.})
The dawning of awareness comes when a thinking man realizes that a lot of the things the left believes as Dogma are bullsheet; aided by ILC’s observation that a lot of leftists are straight up d-bags.
Yeah, I am totally buying one of these.
For once, GP made me laugh!
Social Justice Kittens. *snerk* *snort*
You have to read the description. And don’t drink anything while reading unless you want your keyboard and screen sprayed.
Oh, I know two relatives who are getting this for Christmas — one will love it, the other will not. Frankly, the one who will not needs it far more than the one who will actually laugh at it.
A conservative is a “liberal who was mugged by reality.” 🙂
““I know it’s wrong, but I never got outraged over it the way everybody else did. It’s sad for his family that he died, but how was his death more newsworthy than anyone else who gets shot?””
The teen was killed by the State for jaywalking, while the folks who are supposed to be for limited gov dismiss it.
Classic.
Proof again of the hypocrisy of the conservative mind.
That calendar is awesome! I might have to post each gif as the month arrives.
Trayvon Martin? (the reference in V’s original post) Nuh-uh. Totally different case. Google “Trayvon Martin”.
If you were thinking of Michael Brown: Both forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony indicate that he was killed, when and because he assaulted a police officer. Get caught up on your news.
If you were thinking of Kajieme Powell: I condemned the police killing of him, here.
“The teen was killed by the State for jaywalking,”
I think you’re getting your outrageous outrages mixed up Danny. The case you’re sloppily trying to squeeze into the conversation is Mike “
Gentle GiantCigarillo Thug” Brown. And as the media is now reluctantly admitting, he wasn’t merely ‘shot for jaywalking’There was a bit more to it–the commission of at least 3 felonies in the span of 20 minutes or so:
— Strongarm robbery
— Felonious assault on a police officer
— Attempting to steal the officers service pistol during aforementioned assault
— Resiting arrest (presuming Officer Wilson got that far in his stop of Brown before the assault began)
— Attempting to flee
Missed those, didn’t ya? But, as ILC mentioned above, do yourself a favor and educate yourself on the Trayvon Martin case.
To quote the famous hymn-
“I once was blind but now I see.”
I’m also a recovered liberal who figured out liberals were most hypocrite when I was pregnant with my first child (my light came first over abortion then moved into other areas and with my eyes opened I realized many of the liberal ideals I had blindly believed were completely bankrupt).
I forgot about the case you mentioned ILC…and yes, the police earned every bit of scorn thrown their way for the killing of Powell.
It’s hilarious that Danny would attempt to use that lesser-known case in a strawman attempt to attack small-government conservatives. AFAIK, we’re still a nation of laws, and while the police are not perfect, they have a very difficult job to do.
AF_Vet: Powell also wasn’t a case of a “teen jaywalking”. So I’m pretty sure that Danny meant Brown, and your riposte at #8 is spot-on.
I’m on the side of the police, in probably 4 out of 5 of these cases that make the news. I just think it’s important that, as genuine small-government guys, we criticize them when criticism is due.
Also:
….in which the leftie ignored the fact that George Zimmerman is Hispanic.
Or at least, is every bit as Hispanic as President Obama is black: one half.
Leftists don’t believe in facts, they believe in the narrative.
They believe the narrative that Trayvon was an innocent little schoolboy shot by a trigger happy white supremacist; not the fact that according to eyewitnesses and forensic evidence, he was shot by the man whose head he was pummeling on a concrete pavement. (The roommate’s boyfriend refused to even consider such evidence.)
They believe the narrative that the gentleman scholar, Mike Brown, was just minding his own business walking down the street when he was shot by a trigger happy white supremacist cop. No amount of evidence or testimony will convince them otherwise.
Yep.
It’s funny watching whitey liberal “Danny” shriek about the police, when every week in Chicago actual children and innocent people are shot by gangbangers who vote for and endorse Obama and “Danny” doesn’t say a word.
You see, liberals like “Danny” don’t actually care if black people are killed. They just want bodies to use for race-baiting. That’s why they oppose any type of law enforcement against the gangbangers and instead want the police hung.
Didn’t know you had a boyfriend. Surprising that you are with a man that has values different from your own.
Your BF is probably morphing into a true liberal, now known as a libertarian.
I think I should get props for not saying anything about Trayvon coming in second at playing the Knockout Game when the conversation turned stupid.
OK….props! 🙂
I term it, he learned ‘never bring a sidewalk to a gun fight.’
V-K-Does your boyfriend know about this blog?
@Danny- Check out the full liquor store robbery video and see the group that was on TV saying he was shot in the black with his hands up where all part of the robbery edited out of the beginning by lame stream media. The big gold bracelet seen on the liquor store video is on the ground next to the cop car. If you watch the video until Skittles2 leaves the store you will see what he did to the cop.
Even Better show the Skittles1 girlfriend Rachel Jeantel’s testimony the first day of the GZ trial on youtube, she said that Skittles thought GZ was gay and checking him out making it a failed gay bashing.
Danny should not blame the police for shooting young black men. The real blame lies with the Progressive/Liberal Democratic politicians whose laws to combat poverty make the young black man worthless by replacing him with the State. Those are the real killers and criminals. The police and young black men are only playing the roles that they have been forced into.