According to the Knish, Muslims despite their hatred of homosexuality and their oppression of women. Right underneath them are Blacks and let’s face it, that is the only reason why an incompetent Cook County hack such as Barack Obama ever was elected (and very well might be re-elected president. Disruptiveness is what gets you the the top of the V.V.I., people are afraid of Muslims because of their violent tendencies, they are not afraid of American Indians or Asians.
by Daniel Greenfield
Toward the end of Animal Farm when the formerly revolutionary seven commandments have been rewritten to “All Animals are Equal… But Some Animals are More Equal than Others”, what began with the promise of equality has reverted to an authoritarian caste system. America’s civil rights revolution similarly began with, “All Americans are Equal” and ended up with, “All Americans are Equal… But Some Americans are More Equal than Others.”
Liberals have seized the commanding heights of the moral high ground by presenting themselves as the protectors of minorities and vowing to replace one racist system with an equally racist, anti-racist system. But caste systems aren’t just black and white and the rainbow coalition has internal conflicts. What do liberals do when different groups within the rainbow coalition conflict and how do they make that determination?
It’s not a new question. Black men got the vote before white women did, and that very issue led to a heated debate over universal suffrage in the Fourteenth Amendment, which was written to include black men, but exclude women. Suffragists were told in Fredrick Douglass’ words, “This is the Negro’s hour.” To explain why that was the hour on the clock, Douglass brought out what would become the Victim Value Index.
“When women because they are women are dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp-posts… then they will have the urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own,” Douglass sneered. Women had been dragged out of their homes and subjected to horrors because they were women for far longer than the brief few centuries of African slavery in America, but Douglass’ real point was, “My suffering beats your suffering, so my rights beat your rights.” In contemporary progressivism this is expressed in the sneering “White Women’s Tears” meme.
Suffering is the central ideological component of the Victim Value Index
Suffering is the central ideological component of the Victim Value Index. “He Who Suffers Most Wins.” But suffering, as in the Douglass debate, is relative. Ego means that people feel their own pain first. And even when they feel someone else’s pain more than that of their own group, this is a personal egotistical identification, a selective empathy that derives from their own background and psychological makeup.
Historical suffering transmuted into guilt is the gold standard of liberalism, but suffering is relative. In our wonderful multi-everything society, there are so many groups with so many claims to pain. Everyone agrees that the Heteronormative Caucasian Patriarchy of Doom is to blame for all of it, but that still leaves the question of dividing up the spoils of the system and all the privileges to be gained from denouncing privilege. A caste system doesn’t work without priority, and calculating the priority of privilege claims by the perpetually underprivileged is complicated.
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Dirty little secret of the Victim Value Index
The first thing to understand is the dirty little secret of the Victim Value Index. While loud vocal assertions of suffering are very important, the substance of such suffering is unimportant when moving up the ladder of the Victim Value Index.
If historical justice for suffering were the barometer, American Indians would be at the head of the line. While conceptually they are, progressives respond to praises of America by bringing them up, in practice they are somewhere near the back end of the middle. The group currently at the head of the line, Muslims, have the least claim on historical justice, but are at the center of civil rights activism.
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The Victim Value Index is calculated based on one overriding factor: Disruptiveness. Those who are most disruptive go to the head of the line. This can be mistaken for a “Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease” phenomenon, and occasionally in the micro it is, but in the macro it goes to the question of why progressives value minorities and for what purpose.
To be a progressive is to be committed to perpetual reform in the name of perpetual grievance for perpetual power
To be a progressive is to be committed to perpetual reform in the name of perpetual grievance for perpetual power. Grievance is to their government feudalism what the Divine Right of Kings was to feudal rulers. It justifies their right to agitate and undermine, to seize power by any means necessary and to implement their programs legally or extra-legally.
Reformers need their bleeding sores, their cries of outrage and their muck to rake. Those who give them that often go to the head of the line acting as their secular clergy, blessing their rule and anointing them as the protectors of their faith in hope and change. But that’s just part of it.
Progressivism is a revolution in slow motion, and revolutions need revolutionaries. Disruption is more than just grievance, it’s violence. Those who are willing to attack the system head to overthrow it are the ones who go to the head of the line and the dais of honor on top. A little murder and mayhem, and progressives will trot out “moderate” versions of the murderers and mayhemists, usually linked to them, and offer to represent them and tamp down the violence in exchange for meeting their demands.
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If you think that’s farfetched, what do you think happened in 2008 when a completely inept hack blew through Hillary Clinton and John McCain on a pledge to end the wars and repair our relations with the Muslim world? Why exactly do you think the Democrats chose a man with no experience except a few books about growing up in a Muslim country and Hussein as his middle name? Why was that man then awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for no discernible accomplishment?
September 11 and its aftermath is why Muslims have gone to the top of the Victim Value Index. The left may swear up and down that they are interested in Muslim civil rights, but if the Muslims were Sikhs, they would merit a place somewhere in the back. Before Muslims began prominently blowing things up in the United States, the left barely paid any attention to them. Once they did, they began outweighing every other group in the country because killing 3,000 people is the gold standard of revolutionary mayhem.
The Victim Value Index places the most disruptive groups at the front, the somewhat disruptive groups in the middle and the least disruptive groups at the back. The status of groups within the Index can change with their behavior. Muslims used to be shelved in the back with Asians, Indians and Jews. The War on Terror dramatically upgraded their status. The other groups are stuck there because they are relatively successful and aren’t rioting or blowing things up.
Latinos are still somewhere in the middle. Native Americans are in the back along with most unclassified minorities. Homosexuals are somewhere near the front, but behind African-Americans. Their status tends to drift wildly depending on current events, but they cannot overtake African-Americans or fall behind Latinos. Not unless some drastic events take place that change their status. Women are, and have always been, in the back.
The practical value of the Victim Value Index is that it mediates internal conflicts
The practical value of the Victim Value Index is that it mediates internal conflicts. For example, a bias attack by a member of a high-value group on a member of a low-value group is much less likely to be treated as a hate crime. However, an ordinary attack by a member of a low-value group on a member of a high-value group is more likely to be treated as a bias attack even when it isn’t.
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White men have the lowest VVI status imaginable, and are fair game for racist jokes and bias attacks, but Asians, who have a fairly low VVI status, are also fair game. VVI status is group based but can be forfeited by an individual who engages in counterrevolutionary behavior, thereby forfeiting a status awarded to his group for its revolutionary disruptiveness. Any minority group member who aligns with conservatives is immediately assigned the same VVI status as a white male. A low-status VVI who offends a high-status VVI group may be treated the same way.
Speech codes are an easy way to determine VVI status
Speech codes are an easy way to determine VVI status. As a black man, Juan Williams was a high-status VVI, allowing him to make otherwise politically incorrect observations. He was only purged for offending Muslims, a group with a higher status VVI. But black sportscasters who make jokes about Asian men are rarely reprimanded because Asians have a lower VVI status. Jokes and politically incorrect remarks about lower-status VVI’s such as Asians, Jews or women are permitted within liberal circles. Making those same remarks about middle-status VVI’s is dangerous and generally frowned on. High-status VVI’s are completely off limits to anyone who is not a member of that same group.
This is more than just a guide on how to safely be politically incorrect, it’s a map of the caste system under which we live. The caste system determines what jobs we get, what things we can say and what is expected of us in everything from job performance to conspicuous displays of social justice. It is how we live now, and it is vitally important to understand that it really is this way in every place that falls under the shadow of government mandates and the progressive Kulturkampf against equality.
In the grip of the left, we have become a culture that rewards destruction and disruption, that feeds the worst behaviors and then blames their repetition on society’s failings, rather than their own calculated tactical assault on the country. We can be a country where all Americans are equal or we can be a country where all Americans are equal… but some Americans are more equal than others in the name of remedying inequality.
Read the rest - The Minority Victim Value Index
Tags: Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish
Who what happened to comments on the It Gets Worse thread? I’ve got a screen full of colored blocks.
way too many sheep in this country, all relying on the latest media buzz to determine their point of view…I’m a natural contrarian, opposed to excessive authority, distrustful, do not identify with groups and most importantly, mind my own damned business…I’m neither victim or perp, and when things go bad for me, it’s my own fault
heysoos wrote:
unless the gubermint is fucking me
so where do women who need gov’t provided contraception belong on this map?
brookly red wrote:
the govt has fucked me over a few time, so I fucked them over back….I won’t take any shit from those guys…I have not filed a tax return in 6 years, while my money piles up, and my health care is supreme
heysoos wrote:
So I’ve noticed!
USA vs Japan for gold medal is on now
for any lurkers here or any one else that
loves thier country and futbol. they are
playing in Wembley Stadium.
frakkin commies need not watch////>lol
eaglesoars wrote:
I would say they are at the front near The Muzz.
eaglesoars wrote:
Let them go to Walgreen’s and pick up a box of condoms for their guys -- that’s what someone said to Sandra Fluke.
USA scores in the 8th minute!!!!
@ Speranza:
Since when are free Contraceptives a right?
Speranza wrote:
it’s in my Corsican pirate blood….on the other hand I feel I’ve been very generous with my money and time toward those less fortunate than me…fuck the rules, play by them and you get raped
Asians, who value hard work and family loyalty -- do not act the part of “victims”.
heysoos wrote:
Any relation to one Napoleono Buonaparte?
Rodan wrote:
I’m not sure. Knish posits that the VVI is based on the tendency for disruptiveness, i.e., violence. I can’t see Sandra Fluke smuggling bombs
have to hit the store. C ya!
Speranza wrote:
heh…I don’t think so….but my family is a very tight knit mini mob, his gang was much bigger…we take care of each other, he wanted to control an empire
@ heysoos:
Hey I have Corsican in me as well. Part of my ancestry from Puerto Rico is Corsican. In fact, 1/4 of Puerto Rican last names are Corsican.
Here’s a good article about Corsican Puerto Ricans.
@ Speranza:
See my #17.
This is why many Puerto Ricans have Italian last names.
When Obama Care is totally implemented there will
be priorities & rationing.
People view it as an attack on the medical delivery
system & an economic disaster.
It is also social engineering. Ask yourself, is a White
Devil going to get treated ahead of a member of a
favored victim group?
@ RIX:
If it’s a Progressive White yes. If it’s a Conservative White no.
@ RIX:
Particularly after we start importing “doctors” from third world countries to replace all the ones who quit…
Rodan wrote:
then you might understand my outlaw view on life in America…I mostly toe the line, but I’ll go out of bounds if I feel I have to…I hate the feds
I wish more people could see what the government-run clinics in Kuwait are like.
Imagine what you’d see in a bus station in, say, Pakistan…
@ heysoos:
You want to laugh about historical ironies. Napoleon Bonaparte started off as a Corsican Nationalist. Then ended up French Emperor. Funny how that works.
@ RIX:
look up the latest CBO findings regarding insured numbers by 2022…still untold millions uninsured…you won’t see a post on that at LGF….it’s a disaster, and they worship the CBO over there
@ lobo91:
Obamacare is a backdoor way to bring in More Muzz. They are not going to bring doctors from India, South America or Europe. You saw the visa lottery commercials. Just imagine that x100!
@ heysoos:
They worship Obama as Domitian reincarnated!
heysoos wrote:
If Obama’s reelected, lack of health insurance will be the least of anyone’s problems in 2022…
Well, I’m off to bed.
74 hours until I’m paroled…
Rodan wrote:
when you conquer and loot like he did, anything is possible…oddly he was not into self promotion as we know it, beyond his proclaiming himself emperor, that is…strange fellow…did you know that more books have been written about him than any other human?
somehow related
@ heysoos:
Yes, I have read many books on Napoleon. He’s a very contradictory guy. He was an Imperialist, yet was a Classical Liberal (Libertarian-Conservative). He abolished Feudalism and ended segregation of Jews in Europe. He is not the demon that some have made him out to be.
@ Guggi:
That’s true. Muslims and nation of Islam are very anti-Gay. Yet the Left embraces it. Gay Marriage is just a way to club Conservatives over the head.
OK, Romney should not pick Paul Ryan. David Frum said so!
I’m sure Romney now will not select Ryan! David Frum has spoken!
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Rodan wrote:
It ain’t but you can get them on sale if you are a smart shopper.
Rodan wrote:
What nationality are you not a part of?
Roman, Lebanese, Colombian, Spanish, Dominican, and Serbian I seem to recall.
@ Speranza:
See my #34. David Frum has spoken!
Rodan wrote:
Yeah, the acceptable whites will have a code on their
ID’s
@ Rodan:
That makes me want Ryan even more. What does David Frum know? He’s no Republican. He’s all “No Labels”, right? Screw him.
lobo91 wrote:
When they bring those doctors in there will have to be
remedial courses to distinguish the human anatomy from
that of cattle. What could go wrong?
Rodan wrote:
David Frum, has completely beclowned himself the past few years whith his whiny pesudo-liberalism.
@ Speranza:
All Hispanics in Latin America are of mixed heritage.
Ok this is how it goes.
On my Mom’s side: Galician-Spaniard and Lebanese-Dominican. On my Dad side: Sicilian and Pureto Rican. That Puerto Rican is of Corsican, Montenegrin (Serbs) and Tinio Indian. My Stepdad is Colombian of Poertuguese-Jewish, Castilian and Chibcha Indian origins.
But talk to any Latin American they will tell you. Hey Vicente Fox and Alberto Fujimoris are not exactly Spanish names!
at the break USA 1 -- Japan nil
heysoos wrote:
The whole thing is a mess. Costs will go through the roof,
doctors will leave the profession & care will be rationed.
@ RIX:
They are enlightened Hip Whites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They will split Hispanics also. White Hispanics will be treated like White Conservatives.
Iron Fist wrote:
Yup. It’s so funny. He was pushing Romney the whole time and threatened to leave the GOP if we didn’t select it. Mitt is the nominee and Frum is still bitching.
Beware of Moderates!
@ RIX:
That is the whole point of ObamaCare. The want healthcare rationed. That way they can allocate it according to their desires. The politically unfavored need not apply.
Rodan wrote:
Just like they were pimping for McCain to be the nominee.
@ Iron Fist:
Eugenics is the end game!
@ Speranza:
Yup. They trick Republicans with the “if only you nominate a moderate.” That’s all the GOP has nominated since 1988. The only one you can make any argument for being Conservative is Bob Dole. But even that is a stretch.
USA 2 -- Japan nil
Rodan wrote:
No, he is Pharoah Puttmostest The First…aka “King Putt”.
The WHO says France has the best health care system
This is one of the most absurd studies you can find. Ah and btw: the infant death rate in France is 3.9 per 1,000 live births, compared with 7 in the U.S., because France starts counting only 6 months after the baby was born while the U.S.A. starts counting immediately after birth. So France doesn ‘t have all the babies in the statistics who die between birth and the first 6 months.
@ The Osprey:
All hail the god-king!!!!!!!!!!!
Fwogs are good for their bread….little else…
the Eiffel Tower is kinds cool tho
heysoos wrote:
Only the baguette if at all. The best bread you can get is from Austria. Kaisersemmeln, Salzstangerln, Salz/Kümmelweckerln, Kornspitz, Mohnweckerln, Schusterlaiberln, Kipferln, not to mention about 200+ kinds of brown bread.
when I cross paths with this Longman dude, he’s finished….every time he looks in a mirror he’ll remember Lolo…I swear it
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/08/09/lolo-jones-coach-no-comparison-to-kournikova-will-race-in-2016/
Guggi wrote:
heh…interesting, thanks
Rodan wrote:
Not just conservatives. The gay-rights movement was founded on the objective of destroying marriage, family, and religion. The movement has been at the forefront of destroying First Amendment protections for 40 years; it is behind the “speech codes” at universities, “hate crime” laws, etc.
The term “homophobia” is a pseudoscientific term intended to imply that anyone who disagrees with the gay-rights agenda of the moment is motivated by a “phobia”—a clinical term for a fear that rises to the level of a mental disease. The term was introduced to silence disagreement and open discussion, and to imply, with its every usage by whichever side in a discussion, that it is the opponents of the gay-rights lobby which are “the sick ones.”
The speech code/hate crime initiatives have so narrowed open discourse over time that any disagreement with the gay-rights agenda is reflexively dismissed as “hate,” as if “hate” were an absolute value. This was seen repeatedly in the last few weeks in the course of the Chick-Fil-A brouhaha. True hate, however, was on display in Dade County, Florida in 1977, when singer Anita Bryant got the Alinsky treatment for opposing the addition of “sexual or affectional preference” to the Dade County “rights law.” It was on display, too, in California in 2008, when opponents of same-sex marriage supported Proposition 8, in a state which already had one of the most comprehensive domestic partnership laws in the nation. The Mormon Church went on record in opposition to same-sex marriage, and came in for particular vilification; expect to see some of this revived as the election draws nearer, given Obama’s support for same-sex marriage and Mitt Romney’s religion.
The purpose of pushing same-sex marriage—the movement’s former must-destroy transposed into its now-absolutely-must-have—is to be able to attack traditional religious denominations on equal-protection grounds if they refuse to perform same-sex marriages or even teach the Bible. Already, there have been lawsuits against purveyors of flower arrangements, bed-and-breakfast proprietors and, I believe, banquet halls and caterers, who have declined same-sex marriage business. These attacks on private businesses both serve as a warning of what will come if same-sex marriage becomes more widespread, and show that the gay-rights lobby is getting perilously near to its decades-long effort to make homosexuals a “suspect class” akin to “race” under American constitutional law. This is particularly pernicious because, unlike blacks, who were denied the civil right to vote, there are no genuine civil rights denied those professing same-sex affection. It is entirely a human-rights movement, seeking special privileges for a particular subgroup.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
so if we as a culture embrace same sex marriage, problem solved and all the wild conspiracy theories become irrelevant….pretty simple
heysoos wrote:
Quite the opposite: if “we as a culture embrace same-sex marriage” it will destroy, as it is intended to do, the freedom of speech and freedom of religion currently protected by the First Amendment.
@ heysoos:
I refuse to accept something that goes against my beliefs just to get along. Screw that. How about they accept the fact that not all of us agree with them and they keep their private business to themselves….pretty simple.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
minor edit… hope you don’t mind
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
whoa…gays are out to destroy the Constitution?…that’s quite a leap….I’m sorry but I have to go have a good laugh….gayness has absolutely nothing to do with religion, especially in legal terms
NoThreat2U wrote:
they can’t do that, like religious fanatics their’s can be the only true way…
heysoos wrote:
You are grossly ignorant of the gay-rights movement, and what it has been up to since it was first started by Communists in this country in the years following WWII, not to mention what it has been up to since the movement was taken over by New Leftists and Maoists following the 1969 Stonewall riot.
In short, you have no idea what you are talking about.
@ brookly red:
Exactly why I refuse to go along just to get along.
NoThreat2U wrote:
well that’s the point, I agree…noisy gay revolutionaries deserve nothing more than silence…we all abide by the same laws…this whole argument is a matter of semantics…marriage is a civil union, call it whatever you want
heysoos wrote:
gays themselves? no. those that politicize gayness, I am afraid so
brookly red wrote:
Sadly, quite an accurate edit. The First Amendment is a hollow shell of what it was, in large part due to the gay-rights movement—and to the Islamist movement, which has copied the gay-rights playbook.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
heysoos wrote:
I think you are a paranoid freak…why don’t you mind your own business in terms of marriage and civil union?…gays will not change the constitution or take over America…your theory is laughable
@ heysoos:
There are two types of marriage…in a church, where the union is blessed by God and at the JP office, where he performs civil unions.
marriage has 2 components the civil and the spiritual. some can argue that the state can not confer it because it can not recognize the spiritual aspect only the civil. likewise the church can not confer the civil aspect (in a secular state)… soooo what to do?
heysoos wrote:
You refuse to comprehend that sloppy thinking and, worse, sloppy language is something that permits all sorts of pernicious activity to take root.
The names that things are given matters; as the old saying goes, “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?” The answer, of course, is four—because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
Leftists, and Leftism, encourage sloppy thinking and sloppy language, using appeals to “compassion” to cover the insidiousness that sloppy language and sloppy thinking permit. We are a nation of laws—and good laws define their terms as clearly as possible to discourage as much sloppy thinking and sloppy language, and therefore as many sloppy results, as possible.
Your saying “call it what you want” is throwing the doors of sloppy thinking wide open.
heysoos wrote:
And I think you are a muzzle-headed jerk—not because you disagree with me, but because your responses are too damned empty to be worth disagreeing with. As the saying goes, “You are not even wrong.” Your utterances are too blurry to be wrong, because they have NO fact, only empty opinion.
I have made statements here about the history of the gay-rights movement, about the processes of the gay-rights movement, about the results that the gay-rights movement has achieved, and is working to achieve. All of these are based on actual historical facts, actual statements by movement people, actual incidents. Your blatherings are based on nothing except your own opinion—which is, frankly, utterly worthless.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
all men are created equal…or was your god bullshitting you? and you decide what’s bullshit?….I don’t think so…let people live the way they want to…so your intolerance is mortal, rather than divine?…is that a Christian belief
heysoos wrote:
actually the concept that all men are equal in the eyes of the law is not a religious concept although it is the creation of Christians…
people have to over intellectualize to impress us of the lower strata…why not just let gays marry each other?…what’s the problem?…I hear a bunch of red neck theories, opinion and tripe…but what’s the problem?, gays are gonna trash the Constitution?….that’s nothing short of hysterical
brookly red wrote:
if god created man in his image, then gays are his children as well…deal with it
heysoos wrote:
oh yes indeed, I as a Christian believe God loves all equally. I have no opposition to civil unions in fact they would increase the tax base … my opposition is only to the term marriage. Biologically it can not be so.
@ brookly red:
@ brookly red:
words have meaning!….lol
and I will fight to the death over the definition of ‘marriage’!….how about legal, social bonding?….too dangerous?….this whole subject is a dead end
There had never been a single culture in history which had endorsed same sex marriage even when -- like most cultures -- homosexuality was accepted. Not even the pederasts in Greece.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Ditto on Heysoos and his debating skills. /lurk
heysoos wrote:
I try to be nice to you Steve, I really do.
@ heysoos:
Which is why God said “Love the sinner, hate the sin”. By your thinking God is a child rapist, murderer, etc.
Guggi wrote:
It’s not just the endorsement. It is forcing businesses and individuals to meet gay rights’ standards that is the problem. The political agenda of gay rights limits the rights of others. Intolerant.
While you’ve accomplished nothing when you’ve bested a fool, I will point out to the ignoramus “heysoos” that:
1) “All men are created equal” is a secular, not a religious statement. It appears in the Declaration of Independence, which does not have the force of law. It does not appear in the Constitution, which is a document intended to make that principle workable.
2) The Constitution nowhere discriminates against the homosexually-inclined. Therefore, there is no civil right which the homosexually-inclined are denied. Therefore, there is no basis for any gay-rights movement.
3) Marriage is not a civil right. Same-sex marriage, a concoction for which there is no historical precedent of any sort, has never been justified by the movement seeking it beyond “gimme.” That is not a basis for granting a legal privilege—and, even if it were, there exists no reason to grant such a privilege to a movement founded on the principle that marriage should be destroyed. Indeed, that foundation suggests that the entire agitation for same-sex marriage is merely a tactic towards achieving the original end.
4) The gay-rights movement has already damaged the First Amendment, and further granting of its agenda will only increase that damage. The gay-activists’ attacks on those who disagree with their wish list are unconscionable; their attacks on private businesses who reserve the right to refuse them service is also unconscionable.
5) Nobody has contested that God created man in his image. That has nothing to do with the issue. But if you are going to try and quote the Bible—I wouldn’t advise it, since atheist ignoramuses always make themselves look like asses when they try—then you cannot discard the proscriptions in that same book that forbid engaging in same-sex coupling.
yenta-fada wrote:
and schools… especially schools.
@ brookly red:
OMG. The early teaching of the normalization and specific descriptions that the Toronto District School Board has in their leftist curriculum is profane and amounts to child abuse IMHO.
NoThreat2U wrote:
It’s YOU. It’s really you! Hello toots.
@ yenta-fada:
Yes dear, ’tis I
It’s just a puff piece, but here you have Harry Belafonte telling black celebrities how they SHOULD act. More people telling you how to live.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2186100/Harry-Belafonte-says-Beyonc-Jay-Z-dont-minorities-Hollywood.html
NoThreat2U wrote:
How are you doing today?
While we’re on the subject, you may perhaps have wondered, in an idle moment, why “transgenders” are included in the LGBTQWXYZ alphabet soup. After all, “transgenders,” who claim to be “born the wrong sex,” are the very negation of the whole concocted “gay and proud” political identity—for what could be less “gay and proud” than someone who will mutilate his own genitals to be able to engage in a same-sex union?
The “transgenders”—and the political “gays”—will counter that these are not “gay people” but rather, truly persons who are “born the wrong sex.”
This is not merely nonsense—it is the ultimate negation of fact. It is the declaration that someone’s “feelings”—which is to say, their mental and emotional delusions—are more powerful a determinant than physical configuration and DNA. If one really, really believes one’s self to be Napoleon, one is still not Napoleon—even if one wears a Napoleonic uniform, tucks one’s hand in the overcoat, and speaks French. Likewise, if one really, really believes one’s self to be a man when one is a woman, or a woman if one is a man, that does not make you one—no matter how you choose to mutilate yourself to appear to conform to your fantasy.
The “transgender” delusion, and the mental-health professionals’ response to it, shows the impotence and uselessness of the mental-health profession. But “transgenders” are very, very useful to the gay-rights movement, even though they clearly stand as a reproachful negation of its tenets. First, because they provide an outer margin of weirdness which makes even some of the most over the top behavior in the “gay community” appear normal. Second, because they represent the ultimate negation of fact—and that is extremely important to a movement which is merely a political identity based upon 19th-century pseudoscience. Third, because “transgenders” are the stealth shock troops by which the gay-rights movement hopes to make same-sex marriage general; the “transgenders” demand recognition, using the endorsement of the most dubious wing of the medical profession. Once they get such recognition from the political establishment, mutilated women can marry women and mutilated men can marry men. It is a short step from that to the generalization of same-sex marriage.
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press
(AP:WASHINGTON) Labor unions plan to send out more than 300,000 volunteers later this month to canvass voters to support President Barack Obama’s re-election.
The effort begins on Aug. 25, when activists fan out across 27 states during a national “day of action.”
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says a record 400,000 union-based volunteers will be knocking on doors and talking to voters in all 50 states later this year.
For the first time, unions can use their funds to target non-union households as well as those with family members in a union. That change comes as a result of the Supreme Court’s landmark campaign finance decision in Citizens United.
Roughly two-thirds of voters in union households backed Obama in 2008
yenta-fada wrote:
and THAT is my issue. Gays are not a species, they can not reproduce biologically speaking, so to increase or even maintain their numbers they must recruit and damn them they start young.
@ yenta-fada:
Waiting for the sausage and meatballs to get done so I can enjoy a sandwich during tonite’s preseason football game!
Pretty well, thank you
yenta-fada wrote:
not to worry they are union workers they will cost much and produce little
brookly red wrote:
Ain’t that the truth!
I don’t mind people being against the gay political agenda but I do not care for any sort of gay bashing.
NoThreat2U wrote:
sausage & meat balls on one sandwich… for preseason? I don’t even want to think about your playoff spread.
@ brookly red:
It’s either/or. I will be going with the sausage sammich. YUM. I will pay for it later but oh well. lol
@ brookly red:
@ Speranza:
It appears that the “token booth clerks” in the NYC subway system are operating under a directive to not accept Metrocards and cash to add value to a card. Try and get a clerk to do this, and they will point you, with a very bad grace, to the machines which will also do this, with the excuse that they are otherwise busy.
“Otherwise busy?” Excuse me? Their entire function is to accept money and dispense cards—and they do it slowly, badly, and nastily. If they will no longer do that, then there is no reason whatever for them to be employed.
Some may say that loss of the “token” clerks will leave the subways more dangerous, because there will be no human being down there in the event of robbery, mugging, etc. True, sort of—the mere presence of another human might conceivably have an inhibiting effect on predators. But the clerks’ attention is almost impossible to get even when you’re standing in front of them trying to give them money; to think that they will actually do anything to succour another human being is a delusion.
Fire the token clerks and destroy the Transit Authority, and its unions.
Probably BBL
NoThreat2U wrote:
\sausage, peepers, onions a lil mozzarella, some sauce… Everyone pays for that later.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Bennetio! come ho desiderato per il vostro ritorno
@ buzzsawmonkey:
for Pete’s sake these people need to pass an exam and then be trained to be worthless
did you read in the Post the other day when 23 MTA worker were stuck for over 20 minutes when the escalator broke down?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Are these clerks Vogons?
brookly red wrote:
I’m not sure whether you’re kidding or not, but I can believe it.
The Osprey wrote:
‘Grunthos the Flatulent’. I feel a Chuckie moment coming on.
brookly red wrote:
Remember the bad old days when we could make ethnic jokes like that?
Here we called them ‘Newfie’ jokes.
@ brookly red:
You mean Mussolini?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The laziest people I ever met worked for the New York City Transit Authority.
Speranza wrote:
You mean “were employed by.”
buzzsawmonkey wrote: