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Look for the ‘Hate’ Label (or, Why Everybody’s a ‘Far-Right’ Extremist Now)

Posted on | June 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Who is Kevin Panetta? He is the writer behind a comic book called Zodiac Starforce, which looks a lot like a ripoff of Sailor Moon, but that’s irrelevant to his role as a volunteer with the Thought Police. Panetta got more than 45,000 retweets and more than 80,000 likes for his assertion that disagreeing with SJWs is “just hate.” Notice his all-inclusive laundry list of Thought Crimes which, he declares, are not “political views” and therefore need to be silenced. Now ask, “What do these words mean?”

What is “racism,” and how is it to be distinguished from “white supremacy”? Or what is “sexism”? Is it “islamophobia” to point out that Islamic doctrine is both sexist and homophobic? And considering the conflict between transgender activists and feminists (e.g., Julie Bindel and Meghan Murphy), how do we unravel the separate strands of “just hate” to distinguish between “sexism,” “homophobia” and “transphobia”?

Is it even permissible to ask such questions? Are we allowed to question the SJW Thought Police about the definitions of “just hate” or (as I rather suspect) will we be condemned as guilty merely for questioning their authority to define these terms to suit their own purposes?

George Orwell wrote in Politics and the English Language:

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. Words like romantic, plastic, values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality, as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless, in the sense that they not only do not point to any discoverable object, but are hardly ever expected to do so by the reader. . . . Many political words are similarly abused. The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Allowing an explosive term like “white supremacy” to be redefined in such a way that anyone who criticized, e.g., the Black Lives Matter protests could be accused of it, is a very dangerous practice.

The progressive Left is using “hate” labels to prohibit rational argument about important issues of public policy. Go read Ryan Anderson’s critique of the transgender agenda, for example, and then tell me that his argument is “just hate.” SJWs are liars, trying to silence the truth.

Ryan Broderick’s Buzzfeed headline about “far-right activists” on YouTube focuses in the lead on Lauren Southern, a 22-year-old who is described by Broderick as “part of a sprawling new universe of far-right internet personalities who have aligned themselves with a ‘new right’ or ‘alt-right’ or ‘new far-right’ political youth movement.” Broderick’s article uses some not-very-subtle guilt-by-association to link Lauren Southern to personalities like Richard Spencer with whom she has no known association. Southern gained Internet fame a couple of years ago for declaring that the feminist movement doesn’t speak for her. She has since spoken out against unrestricted immigration, but is it necessarily “far-right” to oppose open-borders policies? Aren’t there legitimate social and economic issues involved in immigration policy that justify such opposition? Never mind such questions, Broderick declares Lauren Southern “dangerous,” more or less implying she’s a neo-Nazi, and at the end of his article, includes this paragraph:

Despite all of this, Southern still believes approaching far-right activism as a social media influencer is the way to go. She’s excited about recent controversies, like YouTube and Disney’s Maker Studios dropping video game YouTuber PewDiePie over anti-Semitic jokes, YouTube comedian JonTron doing interviews with Breitbart and far-right YouTuber Sargon of Akkad, or sexual education vlogger Laci Green making videos playing with alt-right themes. To Southern, these are signs that she’s on the right side of things.

You see the ransom-note method of links-and-ties Broderick is employing here. Lauren Southern is “alt-right” and is therefore “linked” to every other person who can be labeled “alt-right,” so that when Laci Green begins to have second thoughts about her SJW allegiances, this is portrayed as signifying that she is linked, for example, to the Etayyim Brothers whose shtick was to “take a camera into predominantly black communities in Brooklyn and antagonize residents.” This is a complete non sequitur, which Broderick throws into his article as part of his sloppy guilt-by-association smear. There is no reason to believe Laci Green would ever do such a thing, nor do we have any reason to think of the Etayyim Brothers as part of an “alt-right” to which Green (or Lauren Southern) belongs. But of course, Broderick is a hypocrite, throwing stones from a glass house, because a few years ago, as Ian Miles Cheong points out, Broderick produced YouTube videos in which “the BuzzFeed writer wore a Nazi uniform while brandishing a swastika on his arm alongside a man dressed as a Jewish prisoner.”

Well, nobody has ever accused Laci Green or Lauren Southern of brandishing swastikas in their videos, so maybe this “far-right” thing isn’t as dangerous as Buzzfeed would have us believe. However, by using the term “far-right” so haphazardly as to include anyone who doesn’t vote Democrat, left-wingers like Ryan Broderick are actually arguing for censorship. Lauren Southern is “dangerous” and she is “going to get people hurt,” Buzzfeed readers are led to believe, and isn’t Broderick suggesting that YouTube suppress her “far-right” videos? Isn’t he arguing that crowdfunding platforms like Patreon and GoFundMe should exclude anyone labeled “far-right” by the Thought Police? Banishing their opponents from online discourse, depriving conservatives of access to platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, is very much a part of the SJW agenda, and they’re doing this the same way the Left has abolished free speech on campus, by making “hate” a synonym for “Republican”:

Anything that is not liberal is labeled “hate,” and anything which is not about promoting the Democrat Party is “right-wing” or “far right.” Any appearance on a college campus by anyone associated with conservative or Republican (i.e., “far right”) political ideas is funded by “right-wing billionaires,” and this “hate” is “putting students in danger.”
The Left deliberately encourages this simple-minded intolerance, demonizing their political opponents, even while they accuse Republicans of “extremism,” “hate” and being “ideologically driven.”

Because I have been exposing left-wing totalitarianism for years (and have, of course, been labeled a “white supremacist,” etc., for doing so), I am glad to see others finally becoming aware of the Thought Police tactics the Left employs to suppress online dissent. We’re all “far-right” now. Readers are invited to hit the freaking tip jar, while it’s still legal.



 

 

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2 Responses to “Look for the ‘Hate’ Label (or, Why Everybody’s a ‘Far-Right’ Extremist Now)”

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    June 25th, 2017 @ 3:49 pm

    […] Look for the “Hate” Label (or, Why Everybody’s a “Far-Right” Extremist… Who is Kevin Panetta? He is the writer behind a comic book called Zodiac Starforce, which looks a lot like a ripoff of Sailor Moon, but that’s irrelevant to his role as a volunteer with the Thought Police. Panetta got more than 45,000 retweets and more than 80,000 likes for his assertion that disagreeing with SJWs is “just hate.” Notice his all-inclusive laundry list of Thought Crimes which, he declares, are not “political views” and therefore need to be silenced. Now ask, “What do these words mean?” […]

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    June 25th, 2017 @ 11:14 pm

    […] Now ask, “What do these words mean?” […]