Well, it looks like the current Depression is at least having some positive side effects.
Hat tip to James O’Meara: “The sooner these overpaid doughnut fueled high school dropouts get shown the door the better. No more pot busts and speed traps. Instead, public spirited private citizens will enforce real law.”
My sentiments exactly.
The Populist Insurgency and Foreign Policy: Why Are Non-Interventionists Marginalized? by Leon T. Hadar
Obama Retreats by Maury2K
Maury sums it up pretty well:
While Democrats sit on their hands and Republicans play their waiting game, the Tea Party Movement has built up a head of steam. They denounce the status quo, talk “revolution,” demand the dismantling of the Federal Reserve and other radical sounding solutions.
The Tea Party folks display energy, enthusiasm and will power to reach their goal. However, their movement is starting to come unglued because of their own ideological short-comings. For example, they continually bash Obama’s alleged “socialism” when, in fact, he is as dedicated as Bush to corporate rule.
The Tea Party Movement ignores the myriad wars though they are wrecking the economy. Partly, this is out of a sense of faux-patriotism. But what is patriotic about sacrificing our brave men & women for something other than defense of the country?
We could go on but you know the drill.
We need street politics whereas I fear the Tea Party will end up as electoral cannon fodder for a bankrupt GOP.
Any supposed “radical” movement in North American that does not have a firm rejection of the Empire as one of its foremost principles is out of the game before it even starts. To those readers who are interested in working with these movements, my advice would be that you can probably be most effective by serving as a voice that can educate some of these people (at least the more reasonable and intelligent ones) as to the true nature of the Empire. My suggestion would be to avoid referring them to leftist, “anti-American” writers like Chomksy and Zinn and instead attempt to turn them on to neo-isolationists and the antiwar Right like Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Andrew Bacevich, Claes Ryn, Lew Rockwell, Eric Margolis, Justin Raimondo, and others. I have found from experience that the arguments made by Michael Scheuer are among the most effective when dealing run of the mill center-right types.
[Keith: Not bad stuff for an anarcho-leftoid.]
[Keith: The idea that handpicked neocon stooge and mouthpiece Sarah Palin is going to spearhead some kind of populist revolution is absurd. But the kind of "county rights" strategy outlined in this is probably the best way to push the center-right and the populist-right towards more radical ideas.]
http://vdare.com/gabb/100127_police_state.htm
by Dr. Sean Gabb
[Peter Brimelow writes: Nearly forty years ago, I was immensely impressed with The New Totalitarians a brilliant study of Swedish political culture by Roland Huntford, making the point that totalitarianism, in the sense of complete political control of society, can be brought about by bureaucracy as well as brute force. (To my amazement, this book’s influence on my own book on Canada, The Patriot Game, is cited—currently—in its Wikipedia entry.) Sean Gabb reports here that it’s coming soon to another common law country near you—Britain. Indeed, the British government’s current drive to force the anti-immigration British National Party to admit immigrant minorities to membership is the very essence of totalitarianism: no private sphere can be allowed; in Mussolini’s words “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”. This is why the passage of the so called Hate Crimes legislation, lauded by President Obama in his recent State of the Union address, was such a disaster—yet almost unopposed by the Beltway Right. It’s happening there. It can happen here.]
By Sean Gabb
At the moment in Britain, the Labor Government’s Equality Bill is completing its progress through Parliament. The purpose of the Bill is to bring all the various “equality” laws and rulings made since 1965—race, sex, sexual preference, age-based, religious, etc—within a single statute, and to enable a single scheme of enforcement, the quasi-judicial Human Rights Commission. It also tightens these laws so that such “discrimination” as has continued to exist will be made illegal.
The exact meaning of any proposed law is hard to judge in advance. We need to see the final Act of Parliament. We need to see the hundreds of pages of regulations that it enables through its delegated legislation sections. We need to see how it will be enforced by the authorities, and how the courts will rule on its interpretation.
But outlines of the law are already reasonably clear. It is, for example, illegal for a Jewish school not to accept gentile children. It is illegal for a Christian hotelier to refuse to let two homosexuals share a bed together. It is illegal for an employer to exclude job candidates who belong to a group of which he might—for whatever reason—disapprove, or to confine recruitment within those groups of which he does approve. The same applies to landlords.
It is also illegal for the British National Party to confine its membership to those it regards as indigenous to the British Isles—an unmistakeably totalitarian violation of the principle of freedom of association.
After a recent rare defeat in the House of Lords, the Government will not be able to force religious schools to employ teachers who are outside of or hostile to their religious values. But this defeat may be reversed when the Bill returns to the Commons in the next few weeks. Or it may be reversed by separate legislation. As said, a law cannot be exactly understood until it is in force.
Even so, the Equalities Bill must be regarded as one of the most important measures in the consolidation of what can only be described as the British police state, which has been emerging since the election of Tony Blair and his “New Labor” allies in 1997. (For more details, see my monograph Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back, downloadable for free here).
The problem with opposing this sort of law is that opponents can be smeared as opposed to equality in general, or even as bigots. This has completely cowed the opposition Conservative Party, which has offered only token resistance. (My own Libertarian Alliance’s opposition statement is here).
Needless to say, this is an illegitimate tactic. As with freedom, everyone nowadays believes in equality. The real question: what is meant by “equality”?
According to the liberal tradition, as it runs through Locke, Hume, Mill and Hayek, everyone has—or should be regarded as having—an equal right to his life, liberty and property.
This means that everyone should be equal before the law. A married woman should not lose the right to own property, unless she agrees in advance. A Roman Catholic should not be prohibited from inheriting under his father’s will. An atheist or Jew should not be denied justice because he will not swear as a witness on the New Testament. Everyone should have the same right of access to the courts. Everyone should have the same rights to freedom of thought and speech and faith, and to freedom of association, and to freedom from arbitrary fine or imprisonment.
And that is it. The liberal tradition does not insist that everyone should have the same right to a job, or residential letting, or service in a restaurant or hotel. No one should have the right to be loved or accepted by others.
If the owner of a business puts a note in his window advertising that he will not deal with Jews or homosexuals, or the disabled, that is his right. As a libertarian, I would regard this kind of announcement with distaste, and I might refuse, because of it, to deal with that business. But that is the limit of proper disapproval. It is not a matter for interference by the authorities.
Now, I have argued so far as if I assumed that the projectors of the Equalities Bill were people of good intentions but limited understanding. But I do not assume this for a moment. The people who rule my country are best described as evil. They have not been led astray by bad ideas. Rather, they are bad people who choose ideologies to justify their behaviour.
There are ideologies of the left —mutualism, for example, or Georgism, or syndicalism—that may often be silly or impracticable, but that are perfectly consistent with the dignity and independence of ordinary people.
These are not ideologies, however, of which those who now rule us in Britain have ever taken the smallest notice.
These people began as state socialists. When this became electorally embarrassing, they switched to Politically Correct multiculturalism. To the extent that this is becoming an embarrassment, they are experimenting with totalitarian environmentalism. But whether in local or in national government, their proclaimed ideologies have never prevented them from working smoothly with multinational big business, or with unaccountable multinational governing bodies.
It is reasonable to assume that, with these people, ideas are nothing more than a series of justifications for building a social and economic and political order within which they and theirs can have great wealth and unchallengeable power. Their object has been to deactivate all the mechanisms that once existed in Britain for holding its rulers accountable to the ruled.
And that is what they have been doing since the Labour Party won the 1997 election. To a degree that foreigners do not often realise, Britain has, during the past 13 years, been through a revolution. This has been brought about by the Labor Government and by its collaborators in the MainStream Media, in the civil service and judiciary, and in big business.
They have swept away the constitutional settlement of the 17th century. Our Ancient Constitution may have struck outsiders as a gigantic fancy dress ball. But it covered a serious and very important fact. This was an imperfect acceptance of the claim by Colonel Rainsborough, leader of the radical Leveller faction in the English Civil War, that “the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he”. It allowed this country to be at once highly conservative in its institutions and, at the same time, free.
All this has gone. Since 1997, we have had a bewildering 4,000 new criminal offences created—many dealing with censorship of speech and publication. They are usually enforced by a summary—and often arbitrary and even corrupt—process.
The traditional courts and their procedure have also been transformed, so that no one whose legal education ended before 1997 has the faintest idea of how to enforce his rights. We have been made formally subject to the European Union. The country has been deliberately flooded with immigrants, as former Blair speechwriter Andrew Neather recently boasted. And the purpose of mass immigration has been to break up the solidarity of the ruled.
I was born in a free country. People could speak as they pleased and live without constant supervision. If a policeman knocked on my parents’ front door, their only worry was that he might have bad news.
I now live in a police state. Recent legal reforms have completely displaced common law protections and all offenses are now arrestable. If I am accused of so much as dropping a sweet [VDARE.COM: U.S. = candy] wrapping on the ground, I can be arrested and taken to a police station. There, I shall have my fingerprints and a DNA sample taken. Even if I am released without charge, these records will be kept indefinitely. They will also be shared with several dozen foreign governments, who will often regard presence on a DNA database as evidence of a criminal record.
The natural response is that sensible men do all that is needed to avoid any police attention. That means prompt obedience to commands that may have no legal basis. And what is that but a police state?
I now live in a country where I have to be aware that private meetings and even private conversations are subject to paid informers and can lead to prosecution and professional ruin.
The Equality Bill is simply another step in the consolidation of this new order of things. It is a bribe to those groups—Muslims, Gays, racial minorities—whose electoral support is needed to keep Labor in power. It is one more excuse for making victims of known dissidents.
Above all, it is another message sent out to all of who is boss.
The only “equality” the rulers of Britain are working towards is equal fear of them—and of what they can do to us.
Dr. Sean Gabb [Email him] is a writer, academic, broadcaster and Director of the Libertarian Alliance in England. His monograph Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back is downloadable here. For his account of the Property and Freedom Society’s 2008 conference in Bodrum, Turkey, click here. For his address to the 2009 PFS conference, “What is the Ruling Class?”, click here; for videos of the other presentations, click here.
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com!
Community Organizing and National-Anarchism presentation by Andrew Yeoman
Tribal Anarchism Video Series Parts One, Two, Three, Four
United Anarchism Vs United Nationism
Quotes of the Week:
“Eric Foner notes that Paine had been struck during the years of 1775 and 1776 in America ‘that despite ‘the suspension of the old governments … everything was conducted’ with‘order and decorum.’ He consequently became convinced ‘that far less government was necessary than men were used to. Republican government, according to Paine, should be ‘nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.’”
-David Heleniak, “Rousseau and the Real Culture War“
“In trying to explain how things might work in a stateless society, anarchists usually point out that opposition to the state does not mean opposition to cooperation or organization. In trying to explain anarchism to non-anarchists, anarchists describe the ways that people can cooperate voluntarily to defend themselves against aggression and achieve positive common goals.
The non-anarchist’s first response, in most cases, is “But aren’t you just reinventing the wheel? If lots of people organize themselves into a cooperative organization to restrain aggressors and carry out social projects, isn’t that just government by another name?”
Well, no, it really isn’t. The main principle that distinguishes voluntary organization under anarchy from the state is that anarchists regard cooperative groupings, including groupings of a majority of people in a community, as being bound by the same moral principles that govern individuals. An individual has the right to defend himself against aggression, and to use what rightfully belongs to him in service to his goals. Groups of more than one person have the right to associate voluntarily to defend one another against violence, when their neighbors request it, and to associate voluntarily to use their resources to promote common ends.”
Kevin Carson, “Society Versus the State“
The State of the Empire by Justin Raimondo
It’s Happening There: Britain’s Emerging Police State by Sean Gabb
Howard Zinn, R.I.P. by Anthony Gregory
Howard Zinn, R.I.P. by Kevin Carson
Fire to the Prisons: An Insurrectionary Quarterly
Israel and Islamic Terrorism: A Study in Symbiosis by Justin Raimondo
The Price of Our Middle East Policy by Glenn Greenwald
Obama Spending Freeze to Exclude Military by Ed Henry
The Sanctity of Military Spending by Glenn Greenwald
September 11 and the Downward Arc of American Thought by Joseph Margulies
Nothing More Dangerous Than a “Recovering Realist”? by Stephen M. Walt
Political Assassinations of U.S. Citizens by Glenn Greenwald
The Populist Insurgency and Foreign Policy: Why Are the Non-Interventionists Marginalized? by Leon T. Hadar
Obama’s War for Oil in Colombia by Daniel Kovalik
Rule by the Rich by Paul Craig Roberts
Mr. Antiwar Republican by Justin Raimondo
We’ve Been Neoconned! by Ron Paul
Crisis of the Government Party by Pat Buchanan
The County-by-County Strategy by Gary North
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE-WINNER BARACK OBAMA UPS SPENDING ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO EVEN MORE THAN GEORGE BUSH by David Kramer
Tax-Feeder Brutality: Not Just for U.S. Citizens by Wilton Alston
Remember the Illegal Destruction of Iraq? by Glenn Greenwald
Spending Freeze Must Include “Defense” by Lawrence Korb
Sentiment Growing for a New Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy by David Carlson
Boxed In: The Constraints of U.S. Foreign Policy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
India’s Controversial New War Doctrine by Harsh V. Pant
The Oldest Game in Washington by Alexander Cockburn
A Memory of Howard Zinn by Daniel Ellsberg
The Ordeal of Cameron Douglas by Anthony Papa
Embrace Prejudice by James Jackson
Time for George Mitchell to Resign by Stephen M. Walt
War No Way to Afghan Women’s Rights by Doug Bandow
The Iranian Elephant in the Iraqi Room by Sreeram Chaulia
The Truth About Guantanamo by Moazzam Begg
The Antiwar Movement Needs a Restart by Kevin Zeese
Turning the Constitution On/Off by Nat Hentoff
Afghanistan: This War Won’t Work by Phyllis Bennis
Ending the War: A Manifesto by Robert Dreyfuss
Two Algerian Torture Victims Are Freed from Guantanamo by Andy Worthington
L.A. Book Fair Draws an Array of Anarchists by Kate Linthicum
Abu Ghraib, U.S.A. by William Norman Grigg
The PIGS Privilege to Kill, Our Duty to Die by William Norman Grigg
Another PIG Murder in Massachusetts by William Norman Grigg
PIGS Assault Pittsburgh Teenager by William Norman Grigg
The Never Ending Big Government/Big Business Scam by David Kramer
Do You Believe in Freedom? by Lew Rockwell
After the Old Fogies Leave interview with Neil Howe from The Casey Report
Uncommon Sense by Becky Akers
The Coming National School Curriculum by Derek Sheriff
The Film Minority Report Becomes a Minnesota Reality by David Kramer
Will Christianity Soon Be a Non-Western Religion? by Philip Jenkins
Darknet Economies by John Robb
Obama’s Secret Prisons by Anand Gopal and Tom Engelhardt
Baffle Them with Bull Feathers by Jeff Huber
The PIGS Were Lying by Radley Balko
The PIG Occupational Army by Rad Geek
Malcolm X and Anarchism by Wayne Price
The American Conservative Attacked by Vandals by Bede
Et Tu, ACLU? by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
The Hanging of the Henchman by Patrick Cockburn
The Supremes Bow to King Corporation by Ralph Nader
Pro-Life Hypocrisy (War Involves Taking Life, You Know) by Laurence Vance
Obama Is a Disappointment in the Middle East by Eric Margolis
Prohibiting Drunk Driving Is Not Self-Defense by Mark Crovelli
Colorado, South Dakota Firearms Freedom Act Introduced by Michael Boldin
The Horrific Social Effects of the Smoking Ban by Jeremy Clarkson
Legalize Competing Currencies by Ron Paul
Obama Moves Missiles and Troops to the Russian Border by Rick Rozoff
The Federal Reserve Sucks: Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders Agree by Nina Easton
From Neocon to Anarcho-Capitalist by Steve Klein
The Latest Insanity in the War on Discrimination by David Kramer
Pro-Lifers for Baby-Killing by Lew Rockwell
I Am Not a Liberal by Laurence Vance
Rape Rampant Among U.S. Military and Private Defense Contractors by David Kramer
PIGS Kill Man During a Domestic Argument by William Norman Grigg
Whose Life Is It Anyway? by David Kramer
Old War Bloggers Never Die…They’re Just Born Again as Obama Shills byJustin Raimondo
What Do Anarchists Read? by Ivan Fernandez
Populism by Ezra
The Evolution of Civilizations by John Robb
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Haiti by Jesse Walker
How Many Innocents Have Died at the Hands of the U.S. Military by Laurence Vance
The Diversity-Industrial Complex by Walter Williams
Is Obama a Conservative? by Anthony Gregory
Are You an Oppressed Smoker? by John Ostrowski
Just in Time Work by John Robb
“The Italians were called wops, the Jews were called hymies, I was of course a greaseball, and every Hispanic was a spic. Well, we all got along famously! It was rough, but it was fine.”
-Taki Theodoracopulos
Interview with Alain De Benoist, Part 2 by Tomislav Sunic
Nicolae Ceaucescu of Romania by M. Raphael Johnson
Against the New World Order by M. Raphael Johnson
Military Recruiters Lie Jonathan Williams interviewed by Scott Horton
The FBI Crime Wave James Bovard interviewed by Scott Horton
Obama Continues Unlawful Imprisonment Daphne Eviatar interviewed by Scott Horton
“The “clash of civilizations” is, in a very literal sense, a clash of God and Mammon. The Islamic revolutionaries are driven by a fanatical devotion to their god and the promises they believe he has made to them if only they take up arms on his behalf. The nations of the West are driven by an almost as fanatical devotion to Mammon, that is, to wealth, luxury, power, pleasure and privilege. Further, the culture of the West combines this unabashedly materialist ethos with rejection of strength and discipline in favor of a maternalistic emphasis on health, safety, “sensitivity”, “self-esteem”, “potential”, “personal growth”, “getting in touch with one’s inner child”, “feelings” and other concepts common to pop culture psychobabble. Of course, the socio-cultural ramifications of this is to create a society of weaklings, mediocrities and crybabies.”
-Keith Preston
Back Street Luv by Curved Air
The Witch by The Rattles
I Don’t Need No Doctor by Humble Pie
Inside Looking Out by Grand Funk Railroad
Black Night by Deep Purple
Whiskey in the Jar by Thin Lizzy
Black Swan by Coven with Tommy Bolin
In My Darkest Hour by Ursa Major
Defrosted/Black Lace by the Frigid Pink
Everybody’s Clown by Lucifer’s Friend
(Commentary from Maury2k)
Mass Immigration: The American Difference
Prostitutes and Politicians: The Perfect Pairing
Zombie Culture Means Zombie Politics
Tea Party Movement Getting Hosed
Obama’s State of the Cliches Address
(hat tip to Chris Donnellan for the following links)
“Life is war and conflict, struggle and strife, from conception till death…Never shall the lion lie down peacefully with the lamb…”
-Chris Donnellan
Father Coughlin Speaks Against the Federal Reserve
Research Sheds New Light on Ancient Greeks
Chicago School Economists After the Financial Meltdown
In Arizona, A Stream of Illegal Immigrants from China
Walk, Damn It! Is the Car an Enemy of Civilization?
John Paul II Used a Belt to Whip Himself
Welcome to the Plutocracy by John Medaille
The U.S. Economy Is Not Going to Recover
UK: Jail Time for Revving Engine in a Racist Manner
Genocide of Black Americans Via Illegal Immigration
(hat tip to Andrew Yeoman for the following links)
Pseudo-Operations and Counterinsurgencies: Lessons from Other Countries
New Jersey Cops Arrest Man with Weapons Stash, Map of Military Base
Man Accused of Selling Daughter for Cash, Beer
Teen Commits Suicide After Onslaught of Cyberbullying
One Third of Women in U.S. Military Raped
Immigrants More Likely to Have Jobs Than the Native Born
A Nation of Sheep, Ruled by Wolves, Owned by Pigs
The Revolution Within Anarchism
Forty Years in the Wilderness?
Liberty and Populism: Building An Effective Resistance Movement for North America
Organizing the Urban Lumpenproletariat
National Anarchy and the American Idea
“The king is most wounded by ridicule.” -Thomas Hobbes
In Part 2, Tom and Alain discuss Third World immigration into European countries, Islam’s current expansion, Alain’s critique of Capitalism and the “Americanization” of the world. The show includes:
About Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist was born on 11 December 1943. He is married and has two children. He has studied law, philosophy, sociology, and the history of religions in Paris, France. A journalist and a writer, he is the editor of two journals: Nouvelle Ecole (since 1968) and Krisis (since 1988). His main fields of interest include the history of ideas, political philosophy, classical philosophy, and archaeology. He has published more than fifty books and three thousand articles. He is also a regular contributor to many French and European publications, journals, and papers (including Valeurs Actuelles, Le Spectacle du Monde, Magazine-Hebdo, Le Figaro-Magazine, in France, Telos in the United States, and Junge Freiheit in Germany). In 1978 he received the Grand Prix de l’Essai from the Academie Francaise for his book Vu de droite: Anthologie critique des idees contemporaines (Copernic, 1977). He has also been a regular contributor to the radio program France-Culture and has appeared in numerous television debates.
To learn more about Alain de Benoist, read his insightful articles at his personal website and at The Alain De Benoist Collection.
Historian Howard Zinn, for decades a leading critic of the American Empire, has died at age 87. See his obit from the Boston paper here.
I first heard of Zinn twenty-two years ago when my anarchist punk-rocker roommate loaned me a copy of “A People’s History of the United States“. A short time later I discovered Noam Chomksy’s “The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism“. This was really the beginning of my ongoing critique of American imperialism and opposition to the same. Over the years, I would come to disagree with Chomsky and Zinn on many domestic issues, but on the question of the empire, these two have been among its foremost critics. R.I.P., Howard.
http://www.takimag.com/article/freak_friendly/
by Gavin McInnes
“You know, despite it all, it’s still really a miracle America elected a black man as president,” my 60-something neighbor said to me over beers recently. You get this a lot from people born before 1965. Apparently, America is a racist hellhole and the fact that they overcame this deep-seated hatred for blacks to allow one into the White House is physics defied. Um, as far as I can tell, a seemingly smart and in-control Democrat proceeded the most hated Republican president of all time. That’s not a “miracle.” It’s a “normal.”
I get insulted when Boomers tell me how racist my country is. I understand where they’re coming from, I guess. They grew up with survivors of the Great Depression: Grumpy old traditionalists that worked their fingers to the bone in isolation and never tried anything weird. That was then however, so please shut up about it. There is not a gigantic ogre of racism controlling our brains that took time off during the election but rears its ugly head every time we have a problem with, say, unprecedented taxation.
“When someone under 40 hears boomer anthems like, “There’s a land where the children are free,” we go, “What the hell is this song about? Where are the children NOT free?”’
Now, I’m sure you can dig up some redneck who still says nigger or half a dozen skinheads in the middle of nowhere but hate crimes are a miniscule percentage of total crimes in America and if you get into per capita, all races get it about equally. I heard some horrible stories about drinking fountains from forever ago and I saw a video where dogs were attacking some dude but that was a different universe than my generation’s America. We don’t care if people aren’t like us anymore. We don’t even get what you’re talking about.
When someone under 40 hears boomer anthems like, “There’s a land where the children are free,” we go, “What the hell is this song about? Where are the children NOT free?” Old people grew up in a climate where nuns gave the strap if you wrote with your left hand and young boys were verboten from going near dolls. Our generation yawns at such superstitious claptrap. If my son turns out to be gay, I will go into a deep depression for about seven minutes and then I’ll get over it. The boomers grew up in a world where their parents dry-heaved at the thought of a black man breathing the same air as them. Even the boomers, I’m told, were occasionally mocked for not being exactly like the majority. My American Indian mother-in-law was nicknamed jungle bunny in college. Not only do we find that hard to comprehend. We think it’s funny. As Harmony Korine said, “I crack up at the race riots.”
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It seems like every children’s book I’m forced to read to my kid is about some freak that everyone learned isn’t a freak after all. We never thought he was a freak in the first place you ancient babies. If Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer were born today, the other reindeers would high-five him and ask him what reindeer games they think he should play. In my school, the kid with Down Syndrome was the school hero and the football team adopted him as their favorite fan without a trace of irony. The pre-1970 people are unable to grasp this. They created movies like Mask where a boy with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, is mocked for his circus-like disfigurements. Or the show Square Pegs where the quirky, unusual kids were relegated to the bottom rung of the high school hierarchy. In my Secondary Education, all these people would have been rock stars.
The same goes with sexism. Why Men Earn More
We are the information generation. We know you’re born gay and there’s nothing you can do about it. We googled it. We know women can be just as capable at any job and we hire accordingly. We know freaks are not cursed by the almighty but just statistical inevitablilites. We are way too well-adjusted to push someone out of our life just because they don’t meet some strange parameters someone else invented so please stop doing a spit take when we don’t behave exactly like our grandfathers.
