This week, a lot of very spoiled, very privileged, very stupid people on the left aimed their hate at a brilliant African-American neurosurgeon; a man who grew up on the rough streets of Detroit to become not just the country’s foremost pediatric brain surgeon but a leading contender for the 2016 Republican nomination.
The Democrats are pretty upset that this “uppity boy” doesn’t know his place. But what really riled them up were a couple of positions he has taken of late.
1. Mohammedan Shariah is not compatible with the American Constitution.
2. Self-Defense is a Human Right.
Which led to this nuanced perspective from Gayman Quarterly.
Fuck Ben Carson
You know, the only thing more alarming than Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential field is the fact that Ben Carson is the guy right behind him. While establishment puds like Jeb! Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) can’t decide if they want to beat Trump or emulate him, the Good Doctor made it clear this week that he is not only willing to replicate Trump’s signature brand of hot-garbage-spewing, but he’ll say even DUMBER shit.
Ben Carson’s success makes it harder to attack Republicans as racists; but it sure has brought out the racism on the left.
The vampires of political correctness have a deadly fear of integrity and humility.
Racism is fine and dandy with the left as long as the target is one of those “Uncle Tom, Oreos” in the GOP.
What’s sad is the left is going after his wife because she isn’t glamorous like Michelle.
The left is full of hypocrits when it comes to racism and if a white professor referred to Obama as a “coon” on social media is there any doubt that white professor would have an appointment at the unemployment office?
I have two comments to make.
The democrats revile minorities and women when they become prominent republicans, because they don’t want any blacks or women to think “hey here’s someone just like me with a different view of things. Maybe republicans aren’t bigots. And maybe I should at least hear and think about what they say”. They understand that if people start doing that, they are doomed.
Why do liberals turn to inarticulate screams as their contribution to discourse? F BEN CARSON. Coon of the year. Give her a Pap smear myself. Hit him in the penis for his comments. I’d like to gay rape Michelle Bachmann’s husband. etc etc.
Hey I know! Let’s start a list of inarticulate screams from the left.
The race card is an exclusive privilege granted to leftist politicians and criminals. (Yes, I know, the former group is a subset of the latter.) Black Americans who work, pay taxes, and obey the law are fair game.
Class is just as important to the media as race or political issues. The yuppie journalists can see themselves in the Obamas. Dr. Carson and his wife are not arrogant, flippant, glamorous, jet-setting hipsters.
When you are fifteen, being cool and glamorous are more important than values like honesty and integrity. And, emotionally and intellectually, Hollywood and the news media are about fifteen years old.
What we have here is permitted racism. It is permitted when
What we have here is permitted racism. It is permitted when spoken about black, conservative Chriistian, Republican. PC is suspended. The latest, and most vile, was written and misinterpreted the good doctor’s remarks about how would react in a similar situation as occurred at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Who would dare to use a racial epithet on Elijah Cummings, Cory Booker, or Sheila Jackson? Your life would become miserable by the PC police.
Now if Dr. Carson were a liberal Democrat, his comment on self defense would be praised as heroic.
@JustMe, the white professor would not be fired for calling Carson a coon. They would simply be chided, “Now, now, that’s not the kind of talk we like to promote here…”
On the other hand, if a white professor had called Obama a coon, he’d be fired before he finished the word.
#5 was an accident.
“…but he’ll say even DUMBER shit.”
Alas, dumb is the mean and dumber is the mode of discourse in America. Ben Carson is a shining beacon.
And, I followed the link to Gaymen’s Quarterly and thence to GQ. I really don’t want to know the Six Thinks You Need To Know Before You Buy A Bomber Jacket.
VtK, I’m glad you re-named (or repeated the other name for) that magazine. Nobody who prints offensive words like that should be mentioned in the same breath as the word “gentleman”. (Yes, I know the old line that a gentleman is never unintentionally rude, but this abuses the privilege.) I’m glad they’ve gone to just GQ for their name. Odious article as well.
Since cries of “cultural appropriation” are spewed by the left when the wrong people admit to liking or using things from other than their own ethnic group, does that give those with military ties the right to complain about what the trendy set is doing to “bomber jackets”? (I grew up calling them flight jackets–my father was military, but not in aviation.)
I have doubts about Ben Carson as President, but he is a very intelligent man with great character. I hate to see him maligned as the Left is doing.
On Gun Laws:
This is my view: I think Obama is talking about “more gun laws”, because it is a last ditch speech, since his term as President is ending soon.
He has nothing to lose by saying this thing.
It’s like a teenage kid being thrown out of a classroom, because he called the teacher a lot of dirty names.
And while the kid is walking out of the classroom, he decides: [ Hey, I might as well REALLY do it all, and give my teacher “the finger”, while I’m going out the door!]
Obama, + his friends in the press, have already decided that Obama is ” a Big Hero” in the past- so if Obama gets a few gun laws bumped up, he can call that a win in front of his press friends. And if he can’t bump up some gun laws, then he’ll still be ” a Big Hero” to him + his press buddies.
This would be another gold star for Obama, if he could be a success in this effort.
But this is a last minute, hail-mary-type of football pass.
He probably knows that he won’t get immense changes done in these laws, so, he probably thinks- that he might as well do a plan that is almost certain to fail, and then he can say: I was a big hero for trying to succeed, in my last days on the job.
This looks like another boondoggle, a boondoggle that’s being done- to make him look successful in his last days in office. It doesn’t look really impressive.
Excluding the photosets, which are pretty much always a must-see (wink wink), GQ is a waste of tree. More productive uses of that paper: boats for Viking-style funerals, material for hardwood floors, beams for houses, paper for classical literature, fiber for toilet paper… really, any wood/paper derived product is better than a whole GQ. Especially considering the fact that the good parts are readily accessible via Internet nowadays.
If Obama were running for another term at office, the attacks on Carson would be even worse; he would have to be slandered and destroyed as Herman Cain was slandered and destroyed, because as a self-made black American he shows Obama up as the sick joke that he is.
IMO Carson is not and Cain was not the most suitable candidate because they had no grasp of politics and world affairs, but those problems could be rectified if they chose a talented team. I think Carson understands this.
The real viciousness will come if the contest is Fiorina vs. Clinton. I think it’s quite possible at that stage that the Democrats will overreach themselves and their “war on women” attack will be exposed as the hypocritical BS smokescreen that it is.
In Carson gets too much attention people on the left might think its ok to earn money instead of welfare.
@10 Six Thinks You Need To Know Before You Buy A Bomber Jacket
I thought they only came in vests.
As a thought experiment: If Ben Carson were (for example) a vocal supporter of same-sex marriage and was hypothetically willing to vote for a Muslim President, but in every other respect was a staunch conservative, would he still be getting grief for these comments about 2nd Amendment rights?
I mean to ask, is he being attacked because, generally speaking, he’s a black guy who left the Democratic Plantation, or is he being attacked because he “failed” one or two very specific and currently faddish litmus tests? (Namely, you must Love teh LGBTQs and Love teh Mohammadans.)
@ Throbert McGee: Could be either or both. Progressives hate it when any member of a “designated” Democrat-leaning group holds contrary opinions (the only time “faggot” has been directed at me has been from angry SJWs for daring to support gun rights and being skeptical of the authenticity of gay rights activists). Then again, a lot of Progressive activism nowadays is based on “virtue signaling,” which is the act of making a very loud display of how much you love a group, or how much you hate somebody for having doubleplus ungood thoughts. This has been popularized by the SJW community, who typically lack the resources, courage, abilities, or motivation to do anything meaningful about an issue, so they make a lot of impassioned all-caps Tumblr and Twitter posts about an issue to assuage their consciences.
@Throbert McGee
I’ve actually thought about what you said, and come to conclusion that the answer is “both and neither”. Certainly those two things are indeed things that the left would be inspired to attack him for, but so is the fact that he’s a black guy who left the Democratic Plantation, but also is the fact that he would dare to go against their will for 2nd Amendment rights. In short, there’s those reasons and a dozen more besides that the left could find to attack him, and I daresay there’s an even more important element.
The left is attacking him because he’s a Republican presidential frontrunner, that he’s outside the current establishment system, and that he’s got conservative views at all, that last point being the crux of the whole thing. While the other issues might bring focus and priority to their vitriol, I’ve come to the conclusion that a title is all that the left needs to find reason to attack people. For example: Jeb Bush might very well find more things to agree with on the left than he would amongst staunch conservatives, but upon looking into what the left thinks of him, they only seem to “like” him in the sense that they know that they can beat him in an election, otherwise they claim that he’s as much a “RIGHT WING EXTREMIST!!!!1!11!!!!11ELEVEN!” as anyone else in the roster, making no differentiation between extremes.
Basically, all they need to justify their crusade against conservatives is that someone fly under a banner that’s commonly used by conservatives. With the left, one should never bother trying to look beyond the surface. What makes a choice good to a leftist? Whether it feels good. What makes someone innately good to a leftist? Whether they belong to a group that it makes them feel good to “protect”. What makes a someone bad to a leftist? Whether they belong to a group that makes them feel bad.
With them, party loyalty is absolutely everything, and anyone who isn’t a liberal is a deadly enemy that needs purging from the public sphere.
@ #2 Just Me and #4 Tom, I have seen no references in the media about Ben Carson’s wife anywhere, do you have any references for your assertion?
@ #6, agree, if that actually took place, except it really goes against what he was saying. In the incident he describes, he did not lead an all-out attack on the man, he merely pointed him toward another person. The other person’s life had no meaning to him? Guess I am seeing inconsistency here.
#12, on gun laws, I really think your post is incoherent, would like to understand you. Please try again
#14, Obama can’t run again, so this is pure hyperbole. Why even contemplate this…do you really need more to make your blood boil than the reality?
#16, back to guns, guns, guns again……jeez, is that all you think about? Do you sleep with your guns, have sex with them or something, clean the barrel with your cum???? Ben Carson made his point about the dangers of disarming completely. But it is not binary. People can still have guns, and I, as a conservative, don’t mind putting up with a few restrictions so that my family is safer. Never will be 100%, but what in life is ever is 100%?
@18:
I will admit, my post on Ben Carson, + his views on the 2nd amendment/guns, + Obama’s views on the 2nd amendment, might not be 100% connected to [this blog’s entry, above, on Ben Carson].
However, my post was in reaction to all of these events: 1) Obama’s reaction to the recent murders/spree killings in a college in Oregon which made-
2) Ben Carson, I believe, say that Obama’s reaction was wrong, + more gun control was not the answer, and made Ben Carson-
[ say something like- gun control doesn’t work…case in point, if [the Jewish people in Nazi Germany had owned their own guns, then they would’ve been able to do self defense against the Nazis, + Ben Carson [believes?] that if they had guns for SD, then the WW2 holocaust that killed Jewish people, would have resulted in less Jewish people killed in the WW2-era holocaust, which made-
GQ magazine react in the manner, the manner listed above in the blog post, which resulted in-
A writer on Gay patriot make the blog article that we see above.
Taking all of these events in mind, along with [what looks like] Pres. Obama’s recent push for more gun laws…after the spree shooting/murders at the Oregon college, lead me to believe that-
Obama is making a political push for [more gun control in the USA, + laws that would make less ownership of guns by some in the USA]-
a political push or campaign that I feel he could have done with meeting with leaders from law enforcement, leaders from anti-gun groups, + leaders from pro-gun groups, + Congress people, and I feel he could have gotten some background check laws, + more laws governing gun sellers, if he had had such a meeting years ago.
I feel it would have been a more productive move, for him to do such a meeting + [possibly] get more gun laws, than to do the mostly-speeches-campaign for more gun control that he is doing now, with only a year and a couple of months left in his Presidential term.
Just to clarify an idea: I do not agree with what Ben Carson said about: the Jewish people [would have done better in the WW2 holocaust if they had had guns during the holocaust], meaning that: I’m not an expert on WW2 that could say with much certainty that: the Jewish people would have fared better with more or less guns, in Europe, in that era.
I think he was trying to make a point, but his examples seem a little perplexing, when I look at them.
@ TR, I fully agree with you. There is evidence outside the US that stricter gun controls actually work (e.g., Australia), but will they work in the US is unknown. This is not a binary issue, the issue of gun control is serious, and important to human lives. And it is complex given the make-up of the country. I don’t think Obama understands that, but he has not put forth a real plan, and especially not a bipartisan plan, which may be impossible to support. Some of us assume what his plan will be gun control, which I do not believe is the only solution. Wish we could takwe the next step without the encampment mentality.
@ TR, I fully agree with you. There is evidence outside the US that stricter gun controls actually work (e.g., Australia), but will they work in the US is unknown. This is not a binary issue, the issue of gun control is serious, and important to human lives. And it is complex given the make-up of the country. I don’t think Obama understands that, but he has not put forth a real plan, and especially not a bipartisan plan, which may be impossible to support. Some of us assume what his plan will be gun control, which I do not believe is the only solution. Wish we could takwe the next step without the encampment mentality.
@ 22/ Kevin,
Very well put.
Your post, I think- is very well constructed, and has some very thought provoking ideas.
It’s very simple, Kevin.
The Second Amendment is the most straightforward and direct of the Amendments, and it makes it very clear that the right of the individual is paramount.
If you can’t understand the simplest of the Amendments, you’ll never get the rest; if you will abrogate the right of the individual to arm and defend themselves in the name of “safety”, then you will surrender any and all liberties.
Hatred of the Second Amendment is positively correlated with two things in my experience: one, a deep distrust and mislike of other people and two, a strong sense of unworthiness. You don’t trust others — namely because you know YOU cannot be trusted.
I still do not understand how anyone can seriously think that being a pediatric neurosurgeon with no executive, governmental or business experience is qualified to immediately become President of the United States.
Kevin it’s a pretty solid condemnation of the MSM that you haven’t heard of it. If any GOP or well known conservative called Obama a “coon” the media would be leading with it and asking every conservative to disavow the said racist.
Here’s a link to the NRO article I read it in-there is a link to the screenshot if you refuse to consider anything written by conservative media (liberals are like that-the liberal media refuses to cover certain stories and liberals refuse to read anything that is t written in said liberal media).
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425141/ben-carson-ivy-league-professor-racial-slur
Ted B., I’d say a neurosurgeon is better qualified than a community organizer with no experience in the private sector. Wouldn’t you think so?
Most of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights is for the protection of the individual from the abuses contained in the Coercive Act and renewing of thr Quartering Act by the British in1774. As for the qualification of Dr. Carson, all one has to do is read his book, One Nation, to know that there is a lot more in his brain than that of BHO. His latest order that prohibits pork from being served in penitentiaries (I suppose federal only) is discrimination. True the muslims have been recruiting black prisioners, but there must be many black, the white and the few asian prisioners who will miss pork chops and pulled pork on their plates. They should be protesting this form of tyrrany by the minority muslim inmate.
The most effective measure to prevent mental cases from access to firearms, is to scew the ACLU, and establish mental hospitals.
It’s a 2-3%er national socialist/communist thing………..