Hey, if you want to continue to use a service that violates people’s rights (kinda like Jim Crow Laws, but for the digital age, and ideology instead of race), than that’s on you. Since you don’t think violating people’s rights on the internet isn’t a big enough deal to act, then, at least, at a minimum, take SOME sort of action, any sort of action, in the name of liberty and freedom; do SOMETHING if anything:
UNFOLLOW mainstream media outlets, yes, even Faux News, if you are following them.
HIDE mainstream media outlets. Just tap the three dots on the top right corner of a post, and then tap “Hide all from…” Don’t “Snooze,” they won’t change their bias in the next 30 days…
REPORT pages and people. NOT to effect them, because FB won’t do anything to them anyway, but this brings up the option to label it as “spam” for your algorithm, and then also gives you the option to BLOCK or UNFOLLOW. Blocking is always better because it stops trash from popping up in your freed if someone else shares it again.
Blocks, Hide, Unfollows, and reports of Spam all play a role in the FB algorithm. It also reduces engagements and views, which also impact the algorithm. Use Facebook’s trash algorithm against the ideology that created it.
All politicians that have been in power for over 10 years.
They thrive on how many “engagements” and “follows” they have. Facebook gets paid, by them, for shoving their paid for ads and posts in your face. A drop in “engagements” and “follows” makes them question the ads they pay for. They pay for less ads, Facebook makes less money, and so on.
ADVERTISING SETTINGS
With this in mind, there is a Settings section that I’m sure you are not aware of. An entire arena of Advertising Settings, that are auto selected for you until you go through it yourself… THIS is their bread and butter, advertising effectiveness. This is also, YOUR power to change their ad effectiveness too.
TURN ALL THAT SHIT OFF!
Access your personal information, EVEN WHEN YOUR NOT ON FACEBOOK! Their app protocols when you install the app on the your phone, force you to grant access to all kinds of things that collected data, even when you are NOT on Facebook and NOT part of the Facebook App.
OR, just delete all that personal information about you off your profile. Even if it is “only me” setting, they can still access it…
Make it difficult for advertisers to get reliable data. Screws with their ad research and can impact how they invest in advertising on Facebook.
SUPPORTIVE SETTINGS, THINGS TO DO:
Things you CAN do to HELP the few remaining open minded, freedom oriented pages and people:
Tap the “hamburger” menu button, and scroll through “Most Recent” news feed. Better chance of seeing something that was reduced (censored) by Facebook algorithms.
Also, go to your News Feed settings and add a couple freedom minded pages to your priorities, and then unfollow some commie pages.
If you DON’T do these, then you are completely at the mercy of Facebook algorithm that does, in fact, limits YOU from seeing some pages you might enjoy or support. AND at the end of the day, you are hurting freedom on social media instead of supporting it.
Then, you have these people:
“Oh but don’t you support a private business rights too?”
Our follow up question is, Why, do you support private businesses to violate people’s civil/constitutional and human rights?
Defending Facebook’s censorship, is defending businesses that enforced Jim Crow laws… move along hypocrites. Nazis and communists defend suppressing free speech…
“Oh but aren’t you guys still using Facebook?”
Yeah, to reach morons that ask these kinds of pathetic sheeple questions… and to take an active role within the platform to impact it, even in the slightest.
Now, us maintaining a page and profile and NOT taking an active role in combating its anti freedom would make us hypocritical, but, as seen above, we are being active within it to influence some sort of freedom. What are you doing to fight censorship and the violation of civil rights of your friends and family on Facebook?
OR just get off Facebook. Move to Minds.com, Gab.com, or Parler.com… support TRUE FREEDOM AND LIBERTY ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
So, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter are coming down hard on free speech. They are enacting some real authoritarian, anti-freedom measures, and the government won’t be doing anything about it. So, what that said: Connect at THESE MORE Free sites, and follow us.
WTF is wrong with the “patriots” of today?! “Follow the rule of law” oh ya? Like all the laws that oppress? Did the Patriots of the Revolutionary War follow the rule of law?! Did the founders of America follow their current rule of law?! “Condemn these acts of violence” oh ya? Like the violent acts of our Founding Fathers, you know, killing and burning the government of their day? With mass censorship and all kinds of illegal unconstitutional violations, WITH the court system utterly failing… what is the modern patriot’s response; vote harder? WTF is wrong with you pathetic fake false patriots?!
History is written by the victors. This is true. The ancient Egyptians were notorious for it. Babylonians and Persians were too scared to record negative historical events of their rulers. Romans always added a ‘glory of Rome’ slant and bias in recording some of their historical events. But, in the more common era, how did the Nazis handle their nations history and how did they record their own events?
We must first understand HOW the Nazi party came to power.
Let’s first look at The Nazi party of Germany before they began World War 2. But, first, we must call them by their own actual party name: The National Socialist German Workers Party. They were made official in 1921 and unknown Hitler joined it that year. At their founding, they were actually just called the German Workers Party, but were socialist in principle. Hitler soon emerged as a charismatic public speaker and began attracting new members with speeches blaming Jews and Marxists for Germany’s problems. The tactic of deflecting, blaming, and vilifying opponents and opposing opinions. His popularity grew and by mid 1921, he was the leader of the officially renamed National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitler gave speech after speech in which he stated that unemployment, rampant inflation, hunger and economic stagnation in postwar Germany would continue until there was a total revolution in German life. Most problems could be solved, he explained, if communists and Jews were driven from the nation. His fiery speeches swelled the ranks of the Nazi Party, especially among young, economically disadvantaged Germans.
In 1923, Hitler and his followers used armed groups (SA toughs) to provide security at their rallies and to stir up unrest elsewhere in the country. They were then used to staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. Hitler had hoped that the “putsch,” or coup d’etat, would spark a larger revolution against the national government [kinda like Antifa and CHAZ/CHOP of Seattle and Porland]. 9 November 1923, Hitler led a demonstration through the streets of Munich, aiming to take control of the war ministry building. Armed police blocked their route, and violence broke out on both sides. Fourteen Nazis and four policemen were killed. He was jailed for that. Hitler’s subsequent trial for treason and imprisonment made him a national figure. A judge sympathetic to the Nazis’ nationalist message allowed Hitler and his followers to show open contempt for the Weimar Republic, which they referred to as a “Jew government.” After his release from prison, he set about rebuilding the Nazi Party and attempting to gain power through the election process. Never again would he attempt an armed uprising. Instead, the Nazis would use the rights guaranteed by the Weimar Constitution—freedom of the press, the right to assemble, and freedom of speech—to win control of Germany.
How much of this is similar to today? A lot.
In 1929, Germany entered a period of severe economic depression and widespread unemployment. The Nazis capitalized on the situation by criticizing the ruling government and began to win elections. They promised to restore Germany’s standing in the world and Germans’ pride in their nation as well as end the depression, campaigning with slogans such as “Work, Freedom, and Bread!” In the July 1932 elections, they captured 230 out of 608 seats in the “Reichstag,” or German parliament. Big-business circles had begun to finance the Nazi electoral campaigns, and swelling bands of SA toughs increasingly dominated the street fighting with opposition groups that accompanied such campaigns.
Are we seeing this today? Yep.
The German republic President, Paul von Hindenburg, named Hitler as chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Hitler used the powers of his office to solidify the Nazis’ position in the government during the following months. Hermann Göring’s role in particular was very important. He was a minister without portfolio who got to control the police force of Prussia, the larger part of Germany. For the Nazis, this was reason to celebrate their ‘national revolution’. Then the arrests and intimidation were increased. The government banned the Communist Party. By 15 March, 10,000 communists had been arrested. In order to house all these political prisoners, the first concentration camps were opened. College students and schools encouraged and assisted in book burning of non-German writings. Mass censorship of books, writings, speeches, organizations, and anything that disagreed with the Nazi party was imposed [kinda like Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon today].
Nazis tore down statues too. Fragments of a statue of mounted Polish King Wladyslaw II Jagiello lie on the ground after it was destroyed by Nazi troops following the 1939 invasion of Poland.
Then, Nazi troops await the order to pull down a bust of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938.
Nazis then ordered the destruction of French statues once they invited and occupied France. Even forced the French to do it themselves.
Tearing down statues is not just a Nazi thing, the head of a monument to Russian Tsar Alexander III during its dismantling in central Moscow. The gigantic statue was ripped down soon after the 1917 revolution that led to communist rule in Russia.
Even the Taliban destroyed history. A landscape of Bamiyan shows the gap in the rock where Afghanistan’s famous giant Buddha stood for centuries before being destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, a move the group said was “in accordance with Islamic law.” And Islamic State militants pushes over a statue inside a museum in Mosul, northern Iraq, in 2014 or 2015. The Muslim extremists smashed several ancient treasures in the museum — which the militants deemed “idolatrous” — with sledgehammers and power tools.
Sounding familiar today? Yep.
The Nazis started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ‘Bread and Work’, aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman. Jews and Communists also featured heavily in the Nazi propaganda as enemies of the German people. Goebbels used a combination of modern media, such as films and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of Hitler as a strong, stable leader that Germany needed to become a great power again.
The elections of March 5, 1933—precipitated by the burning of the Reichstag building only days earlier—gave the Nazi Party 44 percent of the votes, and further unscrupulous tactics on Hitler’s part turned the voting balance in the Reichstag in the Nazis’ favour. On March 23, 1933, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which “enabled” Hitler’s government to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and the presidency; Hitler in effect assumed dictatorial powers.
On July 14, 1933, his government declared the Nazi Party to be the only political party in Germany. The idea that their party is most righteous and most justified, a party of absolute self-righteousness. An idea that is very present in far-left movements.
Hitler also reduced the authority and influence of the regional German police departments and instituted his own police force to impose his ideals on the people. Known as the ‘brown shirts” and where from the SS came out of. Makes me wonder what the left will put in place if they defund the police?
Nazi Party membership became mandatory for all higher civil servants and bureaucrats, and the gauleiters became powerful figures in the state governments. This is sadly true in America, in some areas, the only way to get nominated and possibly elected is by having to join the Democrat or Republican party… it is essentially mandatory or you don’t meet the rules or qualifications and don’t have a chance of election.
Labor unions that did not adhere to nazism were dismissed and dismantled. The loyal nazi unions then were used to influence the workers and prevent any sort of strikes or opposition to the goals of the party. The Nazi party then organized and supported boycotts of Jewish products and businesses. Kinda like religious and gun rights businesses and organizations today.
Its vast and complex hierarchy was structured like a pyramid, with party-controlled mass organizations for youth, women, workers, Unions, media, press, the arts, and other groups at the bottom, party members and officials in the middle, and Hitler and his closest associates at the top wielding undisputed authority. Very similar to socialist leftist organizations now.
Nazi ideology: the belief in race science and the superiority of the so-called Aryan race (or “German blood”). For the Nazis, so-called “German blood” determined whether one was considered a citizen. The Nazis believed that citizenship should not only bestow on a person certain rights (such as voting, running for office, or owning a newspaper); it also came with the guarantee of a job, food, and land on which to live. Those without “German blood” were not citizens and therefore should be deprived of these rights and benefits.
Now, think for a second, how do we determine if someone is “black” or “white”? It is primary assumed by their skin color. And “blackness” and “whiteness” is determined some cultural superior academic who studies “race science.” Who then pushes that down on the populous. Then, certain ‘rights’ or specialist treatment is then bestowed and granted to someone who satisfies that superior academical consensus on “blackness.” Which then, has a negative effect on someone who that superior academic imposes “whiteness” on, and racial prejudice and “positive” discrimination is “justified.” In Germany, it was positive prejudice for “German blood,” and negative prejudice for Jews; in America, it it positive prejudice for “Blackness.” and negative prejudice for “Whiteness.” The logical similarities are worrisome.
Why are Americans now, acting like Nazis?
Don’t worry, the same can be said about communists. They were also masters of history revision, censorship, propaganda, and tearing down statues; but since majority of young Americans have a decent to favorable view of communism, hopefully the similarities of Nazism will get them thinking.
There have been reasons to boycott. Some have been successful, others not so successful. What are justified reasons to boycott and how do you make them successful?
The colonialists conducted some very successful boycotts of British goods. They hurt British owned companies and suppliers who were compliant with British tariffs. Boycotts are part of American history and were effective tools in their resistance of oppression.
The Civil Rights movement also had successful boycotts which impacted the oppressive systems.
Here we are today with companies imposing their own ethics on people. But how do we, as a people, make boycotts effective and successful to cause change?
Why Boycott today?
The government deems you and or your family and friends as nonessential, and forces the closure of your and or their livelihoods. The police enforce church closures and punishing those to attend worship. Walmart and Korger only allow you to buy 1 thing of meat. All the while businesses and corporations comply, willing to hurt their own employees and communities. Now, even the freedom to think and speak is violated by monopolizing corporations. Google censors your search results, and allows you to see only what they want you to see. Facebook and Twitter censor your feed, only showing you what they want you to see and even censors your posts, your friends and family posts, and delete pages of freedom minded businesses. Then, when a company who represents freedom starts gaining momentum, Google, Apple, and Amazon suppress their success and censor their free efforts. We are in the United States of Communist China. Are you okay with you and your friends and family being treated this way?
Unity
A unified effort in avoiding a specific good and service is key. This is an original tactic of the founding fathers and Patriots of America and was extremely effective during the Civil Rights movement. The community must, in unison, actively avoid certain products, companies, and services, and support their opposing or more just products, companies, and services. If there is no suitable alternative then the community must come together and be willing to, in essence, suffer without the unjust products, companies, and services as long as necessary. Also, consider DONATING money to alternate companies.
The Effect
Companies that are being boycotted must suffer financial hardships. Companies are all about money. They exist to make money. When their products are not being purchased, their profits suffer. The government can swoop in and “bail out” these boycotted companies with subsidies but the people, again, must then boycott politicians who support these subsidies by not voting for them. So the mission of boycotting is to hurt the ‘bottom line’ and their profits.
Constantly sharing negative information about the company helps in this as well. As the companies stock price falls, selling off stocks is another useful tool to drive down the stock price even more. On top of poor performance reports of those stocks will compound with the companies poor sales due to the boycott.
The Goal
Hurting the profits of a company to force them to change their unjust ethics is the goal. The Civil Rights movement boycotted public transportation for years. This took away profits from fees and hurt their revenue. The local governments eventually were forced to cave due to the lack of funding as a direct result to the boycotts. But, the community had to come together and in unison, boycott the public transportation system. They helped each other in sharing transportation resources instead of pay busing fees.
Justified Moral Grounds for Boycotts
True racist and racism promoted by companies are justified reasons to boycott a company. Notice we stated “true racism.” A more recent example of pseudo grounds of protest is the Aunt Jemima brand. THE COMPANY decided to remove their ‘logo’ or image because THEY felt her likeness was racist, when, in fact, it wasn’t. She was a real person who became the image of her brand that was bought and sold on her behalf essentially. She was the FIRST black millionaire. The reality is, the company removed her likeness from HER brand because she was black. And THAT is racist. It is HER legacy and HER families legacy. A proud example of black success. But, she was removed because she was black.
Because the company removed her because she is black IS GROUNDS to boycott that racists company decision. Aunt Jemima is currently owned by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago, now a subsidiary of PepsiCo. But apparently the company doesn’t feel it is wrong to use the stereotypical image of white Quaters… They do feel it is wrong to have a black person as an image for their brand. That is the hypocritical racist view of this company. Now, PepsiCo is not directly involved in this poor racist decision, but Quaker Oats Company is. Therefore, Quaker Oats Company needs to be boycotted.
Alternatives to Quaker Oats Company are: Kelloggs, Goya Foods, and General Mills
Another valid justified reason to boycott is a company is when the company rejects freedom and takes an active stance against the public’s constitutional rights. Yes they are free to do discriminate but that does not mean they are free from repercussions of their discrimination. Religious rights and 2nd Amendment rights are the new battle grounds. Financial institutions do not remain neutral in social politics. Much like PayPal, Bank of America also stands against the American people’s right to bare arms. They take an active stance against firearms companies. Some retail stores also stand against the right to bare arms. Dick’s Sporting Goods is another example of this. They willingly stop selling products direly related to their platform. Though they sell hunting goods, they refuse to sell firearms…
PayPal stops payments for firearm purchases and business payment processing. Yet these companies have no problem informing law enforcement about unlawful purchase who use GUNS to enforce the laws.
Alternatives to PayPal are: Payoneer, GiveSendGo, and Wepay Alternatives to Bank of America: Wells Fargo Alternatives to Dick’s Sporting Goods: Academy Sports and Outdoors.
In a free market of ideas, censorship is the absolute enemy of free thought. Thus, companies that target and censor the free exchange of ideas are actually enemies of freedom. Yes, as private, even though publicly traded, companies are free to pick and choose what ideals they support and promote; they are not free from the repercussions of their discrimination. Social media platforms are the new battle grounds for the freedom of the free exchange of ideas. The major and predominate social media giants are all in unison when it comes to censorship (just like nazism and communism, though separate in philosophy, same in the pursuit of censorship opposition ideas). Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google have proven to be enemies of free thought.
Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter: Minds.com, Gab.com, Parler.com, Steemit Alternatives to Google: Startpage.com and DuckDuckGo.com Alternatives to YouTube: DTube, Rumble, and bitchute.com
How can YOU help boycott these immoral unethical anti-freedom companies?
Refuse to purchase products from the stores on the Boycott List.
Take your friends and family to the the alternative stores.
Share negative information about the companies on the boycott list on your social media and tell your friends and family, and share positive information about the companies on the support list.
Give the stores in your local area poor reviews on yelp; and give the stores in your area on the support list positive reviews.
Support through sharing information and your money.
Support local small business and community banks.
THE BOYCOTT LIST:
Bank of America – stop banking with them.
Quaker Oats Company – stop buying their products, dump their stocks.
PayPal – Avoid using them and services that use them.
Facebook, Twitter – Post only your alternate profile links, or just delete your account all to gether
Google, YouTube – Don’t use or share any of their links.
Let’s face it, your nice and sweet peaceful protests have done absolutely thing. You protest abortion, and guess what, millions of babies are still killed every year. You protest Gun Control, and guess what, laws that infringe on the 2nd Amendment keep growing. It’s a nice show to put on with big names, but in actuality, it does not change anything.
Remember the Tea Party Protests in the early 2000s? What happened. Well, quite frankly, they didn’t change anything. Look at where America is today. What did they change? The party they overwhelmingly support lost the House and is on the verge of losing the Senate. “Oh but they got Trump elected” some might try to argue, but what has his influence done to abortion and gun control? Nothing. In fact, he supports Gun Control laws lol. “Oh but Trump will get to nominate traditionalist Supreme Court justices” they might also try to argue, but how has that turned out? Not good. The latest Supreme Court decision has opened the door for even more limitations on religious institutions, not to mention their avoidance of cases that would effect the police state and abortion.
Look at the large gun rights rally in Virginia in 2019. They were so peaceful and so compliant they managed to get the state of Virginia to pass even more Gun Control laws after the rally. III%s and Oath Keepers were all there, and, what did they help with? Nothing.
We still have troops in Iraq, and Afghanistan fighting this endless war that has nothing to do with YOUR freedom here. Instead these endless wars take away fathers, mothers, and your children from their families and sends them overseas to fight for someone else’s’ imposed “freedom” while you sit at home and have to worry about getting robbed, shot, stabbed, or find a job because the government declared you as non-essential. How are those parent-less homes working out for America?
Then, some of you (the peaceful republican protestors) condemn the more aggressive protesting (not talking about the looters) as of recent, such as the Black Lives Matters protests (again, not talking about the looters). Yet, THOSE protests have yielded more fruit than your “conservative, patriotic” protests. Police departments are under heavy scrutiny and facing some federal bills and potential more oversight. Cities and states have taken steps in changing their practices. Those protests have yielded fruit! Their mission is being more successful.
Aggressive protesting IS PATRIOTIC! Study the actions of the colonialist before the revolution. Study the Civil Rights Movement. THOSE were effective fruitful protests, not yours.
Your single party loyalty is pathetic and shameful. Your tribalism is part of the problem.
You preach “Vote Red” and get “conservative” politicians like Mitt Romney elected year after year. Quite honestly, most Republicans are BIG GOVERNMENT politicians. Which Republican didn’t impose some sort of Bill of Rights restriction (and still) during the COVID-19 fearmongering? Then, you try to justify the suspension of the Bill of Rights in an attempt to support your Red candidate…
You are no different than people who are against racism who vote for racist candidates (Democrat voters and Joe Biden). You claim to be for liberty and freedom but then vote for candidates that will declare you as non-essential and impose limitations to your rights. You support Police… who enforce Gun Control laws and enforce the Stay-at-home orders…
And if you unlike and unfollow us on social media because of rebukes likes this, that just proves you are the one close minded to the reality that you are part of the problem. Please do some self reflection.
Why aren’t you voting for people to demand a balanced budget amendment and national debt reduction? It’s almost like you enjoy all the government subsidies and handouts too. Your dependence on the federal government makes you a BIG GOVERNMENT supporter too.
Why are you protesting? What are you protesting? Who are you protesting?
Your police pals need to be protesting WITH YOU.
Your friends and family in the National Guard need to be protesting WITH YOU.
You need to be protesting at the door steps of the problem, all day, everyday, until REAL change happens. “But we have jobs” cool, good, then protest after work. And if it is a real concern for you, if the lives of babies are really that important to you, take some days off of work. Bring your community together, share resources, and cause change.
Your show-boat protesting is useless and invalid.
Oohhh scary you bring rifles with you to your peaceful Hawaiian shirt protests. What are you going to do with those rifles? Nothing. You will even let the police disarm you and arrest you, which has been happening. You show up to businesses that are not complying with the order to close (as they should, not comply) during COVID-19 armed, and then the police show up and arrest everyone lol. What was the point of that? It’s all a show. A show that isn’t causing any real change.
You wave around flags that say “Come and Take It” and “Don’t Tread On Me” but they, the police, whom you support, do just that, tread all over you and come and take your guns lol. And you do nothing. You obey and comply rendering your entire protest invalid lol.
Either stfu with your hypocritical useless peaceful protesting or actually take a principled stand on something.
There is a lot of discussion about the Confederate Flag; whether it represents racism or heritage. But, considering it from a rational logical stand point, we can see through the feelings and determine it’s actual meaning.
We will look at both sides of the argument. The view that the flag represents racism and the view that the flag represents southern heritage. Then, like always, we will inject our stance on the matter.
Represents Racism
The Confederate Flag was flown as the official flag of the Confederate States that seceded from the union. This is just a historical fact, right or wrong. So we must ask, as the official flag, HOW did it represent the Confederate States.
First, this flag was used as a Battle flag. There were a few other confederate flags but this was the one most widely used during the Civil War. This flag was flown to represent the Soldier’s allegiance to their cause, a symbolic battle cry. In modern times, it is a symbol of Southern Pride.
The south has its own culture. Deep southern states have vastly different cultural norms and even accents. But, one primary element of this culture was the historical use of slave labor for their economic structure. The culture, mostly all the southern states, later adopted a cultural separation of “whites” and “blacks” in the local communities and south society.
The primary reason for their secession from the union was the challenge to their own economic system which was dependent on slave labor as the abolitionist movement gained more and more traction in the north. Once that was squashed after the civil war, federal government action, and passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments, the challenge then came to their southern societal norms of segregation and Jim Crow laws. These were too squashed by more federal government actions, Supreme Court decisions, and the civil rights movement.
The flag was flown during a time of racial oppression. Once the south was reincorporated back into the union, the flag was rendered obsolete as the United States Flag is the flag and symbol of all the states, united. Therefore that flag actually represents a time period that was primarily focused on racial oppression.
So, what is “Southern Heritage?”
The types of foods, lingo, and accents are just the minor details of southern culture. The primary, ingrained issue within southern heritage has been a fight to defend their way of life, which directly included racial prejudice and racism. When discussing this, it is logically impossible to avoid this.
Thus, the flag that represents Southern pride has the stigma of racism always and forever attached to it, inseparable. It is this fact that makes people offended by the sight of it. They see the flag and also see the historical racism associated with it. And they aren’t wrong. Racism is historically attached to that symbol. So for some, that flag does, in fact, represent a racist element of society, and their feelings are justified.
Represents Southern Pride
Now, you don’t have to be racist to have pride in living in the south. Even some African Americans have pride in living in the south. So, when they think of Southern Pride, they aren’t including the horrific mistakes of the south’s history. People can look at an offensive symbol and subscribe a different meaning or subtract the negative associations of it.
When people buy a Mercedes Benz, they don’t associate the fact that Mercedes Benz made bomber engines for the Nazi party during WW2 that was used to kill allied forces and bomb England. This is a historical fact with the brand, but people to not subscribe that to it. The Volkswagen Beetle was a nationally built car at the push of the Nazi party. Do you hear people demanding other people not drive a Nazi Beetle? Nike is known for using “cheap” child labor in China to make their expensive shoes. There are some calls for them to reform, but the band really hasn’t and athletes who claim to be against oppression are still more than willing to be sponsored by them. Even they look past these issues and take pride in the brand.
So it is possible for people to look past things that played a role in horrible historical events. This is not a denial of historical horrors, but a looking past them. Especially when those who have pride in it, are not directly associated to the atrocities (aside from buying Nike, which gives money to a company that builds child labor factories still). Buying a Mercedes Benz or Volkswagen does not fund the Nazi war machine anymore. Having Southern Pride does not directly support slave labor or Jim Crow laws anymore.
Therefore, it is possible to have Southern Pride, represented by the Confederate Flag, and not directly support or condone the horrors of the past.
So, it is possible to view the Confederate Flag as racist or not. Some may incorporate the history of racism with it and others may look past it and only incorporate the subtle cultural nuances of the south, and have pride in that.
What We Think
We are first and foremost support the freedoms for all. People are free to hate the flag and people are free to take pride in the flag (for the reasons stated above). People are free to offend. All people should be free to express themselves. That is the essence of true equality and freedom.
But.
We do incorporate the horrible history of that flag to it. And here’s why:
Let’s do this logical experiment:
X people group did X historical atrocity and the X flag was their symbol at that time.
Now, if you replace “X people” with “Southerner,” replace “X historical atrocity” with “racism” and “X Flag” with “Confederate flag” and you have the topic we are talking about.
Now, use that very same logical expression and replace the “X”s with Nazism, and ask, should Germans be proud to fly the Nazi Swastika? Is the Swastika something to be proud of? It’s German heritage isn’t it? That flag was only flown during the darkest time in human history and become obsolete after the Nazi regime fell. What use is it now besides symbolically reverting back to a dark time in history? Now apply the same logical, equally, to the Confederate Flag.
Also.
People fly all sorts of flags that are offensive. Some immigrants fly flags of their nation that offend other immigrants of a nation that was also oppressed by that nation. The gay pride flag is offensive to certain religions. And just about every country has a dark past but their flags can be flown as well; the flag of Columbia for example. No one gets bent out of shape of all those atrocities the communist government did. The flag of China, the country with the most human rights violations and most murderous founding in human history is another. The South African flag is proudly flown despite its oppressive colonialist past and its modern white oppression. French don’t demand English take down flags of England despite their horrific past. The flag of communism has killed more people under it than of any other symbol in human history, no one riots about that.
So why is the Confederate Flag such a hated target?
People, any people, all people, should be free to fly whatever flag the desire. That’s the price of freedom. And those who get totally hurt and bent out of shape about a flag are really mentally weak and lack self-control. We absolutely disagree the Nazi flag, but we won’t riot over it. We absolutely disagree the confederate flag, but we won’t riot over it either. We absolutely disagree with flying communist flags, as they are the most murderous of all, historically, but we won’t riot over it either.
Maintaining self-control and mental fortitude leads to greater discussions and opens more minds.
According to Democrats, if you are a minority, you must act and think a certain way, based on your skin color and culture. And if you don’t think or act the way they think you should, you’re wrong, because they, a different skin color and in their superiority, know better than you do.
So really, the party that made up the majority of the KKK, still hasn’t changed all that much. We can see this just by their actions and their own words.
Their chosen front runner and party leader, Joe Biden, exhibits this just about every time to opens his mouth. He explicitly stated that if YOU don’t support him, and you’re black, then, “you ain’t black.” How can he tell people who are black, their not, if they don’t support him? Simply because of his own perceived superiority.
He thinks blacks should act and think a certain way. And if they don’t, he discredits them, marginalizes them, even vilifies them.
How can he be FOR a racial group if, throughout his political career, he has supported and co-authored legislation that actually harms racial groups? For 40 plus years, data has shown the harmfulness of his own policies. He has had 40 plus years to address this, why didn’t he? He chooses his own career over their issues. Only when it benefits his party and his own career, he then talks about race issues and supports very minor reforms. Again, his care isn’t about the black community, but himself.
You have politicians like (D) Bill Clinton who championed the 1994 crime bill. You even have Hillary Clinton state “they all look alike” at a conference comparing Eric Holder with Corry Booker. The fact that people came out in defense of her claiming all kinds of things from framing some sort of ‘context’ of her racist joke is shameful. Even if it was a joke, it was racist.
Remember, it was the democrat party that supported Jim Crow laws. As blacks voted for more republicans and when blacks began to really start voting that they changed their approach. Then they pushed for mass incarceration (1994 crime bill) which directly harmed the black community. They got a couple black civil rights leaders on board and changed their image to look like they were for the black community. They pushed this idea and image that democrats were the party of minorities, even though their policies greatly harm those communities. Then, as they got more of the power back, they used that image to maintain power.
The real problems facing the black community is black on black crime and abortion. These two violence cause the most loss of life in the black community and do serious harm to families. What is the Democratic solution? Support aborting even more black babies, over-criminalize, mass incarcerate of more blacks, and force blacks to be more dependent on the system…
Then Why Are There Black Democrats?
The love of power. It’s as simple as that. You have the ‘ghetto pimps’ who just pander to the people of their community to maintain their level of power and prestige.
Some of the most heavily populated cities with the largest black population have continuously elected democrats for decades. But, for decades, their issues have not been reformed. Yet, they keep getting re-elected. Every election cycle they give speeches and promises of change, but no change ever amounts to any real individual independence and benefit for their community.
They USE the problems of their community for their own re-election and to maintain their power and position. They NEED these problems so they can use them to get elected. They use the problems as a tool to campaign against their political rivals. They paint their rivals as someone who will cause problems, yet, they, themselves, do not solve the problems they were elected to solve.
Changing names of streets and buildings do not really change the problem. They just hide the problem. Removing statues do not actually change any problems, they just hide the past and keep people from learning from the mistakes of the past. All the policies and laws that have harmed the black communities, are still in effect, under the watch of all those black politicians who get continuously elected.
How Do They Keep Getting Elected?
Pushing their “image” of being for minorities and using the ‘ghetto pimps’ to further their self proclaimed image, they get people to think how they want them to think. They TELL the community how to act and think with all kinds of promises and handouts. The problems in the community are never really solved. So the is a perpetual existence of disparities in these communities that are never really addressed directly. Instead, government problems are offered as a sort of bandaid to the problems.
Since Joe Biden is racist in his idea that through his superiority, tells black people how they should act and think; how can blacks vote for him? THAT is a huge question. It’s puzzling that so many blacks who are fighting for equality and fighting against injustice and racism, support a guy and a party that has racial prejudice ingrained in their party platform. They support a party that puts black people in a box. That limit their individuality to what the party thinks they should and should not support. It’s clear black Democrats like this “box” because first, they are immune to it because they have made it out of the box and now use their position of power to shape the box and maintain their own power. But, again, how can impoverish, low-income, lower socioeconomic class minorities, even moderate and middle-income minorities, support such racially prejudice policies and agree with the box they are placed in?
The pseudo feeling of empowerment is like a mental drug. When the government subsidy hits the bank account, it feels great. Everyone loves government stimulus checks. They don’t consider who, how, or where it came from. Organizations that thrive on government subsidies use only a percentage of the money for their actual cause. The voters don’t hear about the high standards to qualify for the small business grants. All they hear about is how much money is out there. They also don’t detail how some of these grants are only for certain groups and aren’t even available, equally, all small businesses of the same industry. Some grants are only for women. That means and entire group of small business owners can’t even qualify for them simply based on their sex. Others are minority specific, which is good, but the consequence to this is that non-minority small business owners, who employ minorities, can not qualify for them either. If they need them, but can’t get them, and go out of business, that means those minority employees are also out of a job. So, a male small business owner who employs a majority of minorities can not qualify for a bunch of grants; which risks the jobs of minorities still. How can people fight inequality, while simultaneously support inequality of grant distribution? Again, it comes back to that pseudo feeling of empowerment; when it actuality is systemic government dependence.
Modern Enslavement
Being financially dependent on government is modern civilized enslavement. This is the tool of democrats. To expand government programs with the image of “helping” those communities. But what that has done has just forced them to become dependent on these programs and to rely on government assistance. Once trapped in the cycle of government support, any effort to change these government subsidies is easily labeled as “anti-minority.” This is another tool of democrats. To vilify and frame government subsidy reforms as racist and harmful to the black communities; when, in fact, it is the very thing that has enslaved minorities. It almost secures votes.
Now, after decades and generations who have grown accustomed to government subsidies, it is viewed as ‘normal’ and ‘needed.’ Those who came out of this are indoctrinated with the idea that it was the government subsidies that helped them achieve personal success. They then in turn perpetuate the idea that government subsidies are a good thing for their community. And the generational cycle of government dependence continues; securing long term voting blocks for Democrats.
There still exists mass incarceration party due to mandatory minimum sentences imposed by the Democrat’s 1994 crime bill and subsequent amendments. Over-criminalization places greater hardships on people to be successful on their own. Mass government oversight and regulations make becoming financially independent and owning your own business even harder and more expensive. Massive costs of education caused by government subsidies to colleges leads to greater student loan debt and financial hardships for individuals. ALL of this almost forces people to fall back on the government for more help. Harder to find jobs with over-criminalization. Harder to start your own business. Regulations and taxes drive up the costs of daily goods. ALL of this forces people to struggle. All of this forces people to be government dependent. Democrats simply support economic slavery.
Then, they paint all of THEIR polices as some abstract ‘systemic racism’ of which THEY create, support, and avoid solving.
There is overwhelming evidences that shows the more government subsidizes something, the more expensive it becomes. This is a fact in the agriculture and education sectors. As government funds more of the industry, the more the costs of the industry rise. Then people are complaining that things are getting too expensive; so what do they do? They vote for more politicians who grow the government subsidies and are shocked when prices still go up even higher.
Meanwhile, these politicians send their kids to private schools, get them hired on a high paying jobs that they don’t even qualify for, have private chiefs, and have the best, highest quality health care; who aren’t even using the very subsidized things they advocate for. Yet, the people keep voting for these very politicians, year after year.
Republicans Aren’t Free From Criticisms Either
Republicans were started out of the Abolitionist (Abolishment of slavery) movement and their first leader was Abraham freak’n Lincoln. A guy that was way ahead of his time. Who fought supreme court decisions (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857) and fought to amend the Constitution (13th and 14th Amendment). Republicans fought for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that Democrats filibustered. They were the party that deregulated a lot of industries that allowed for greater economic growth of private businesses and small business. They were for smaller limited government and empowering the individual to be successful. They rallied voters rights and voter registration drives that the Democrats fought against. They ran against Jim Crow politicians in the south. WTF happened?
Well, as time went on, and as government subsidies became more culturally normal and acceptable, these new generations of Republicans accepted them as useful too. And now, as it is painted by government dependent groups that government subsidies are ‘helpful,’ they embraced them for the furtherance of their career or protect it too. It’s virtually political suicide now to support reducing public subsidies. If they do this, Democrats and government dependent communities jump all over them as ‘racist” and “anti-minority.” Even non-minority communities have grown to depend on them and support the government subsidies.
Black Non-Democrats
Yes, there are a lot of blacks who are NOT Democrat. And, according to Joe Biden, they aren’t black. Literally, that’s what he said from his own mouth (see the video for yourself above).
In the late 1800s you had leaders like Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. The Democratic party did soften it’s stance against blacks and segregation which allowed for the inclusion of blacks in the Democratic party. But these Democrats were classical liberals, which, more reflects the Republican party now anyway. Just look at what party all the blacks were with after the Civil War up to the 1930s (https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Black-American-Representatives-and-Senators-by-Congress/). Once Jim Crow laws were really being enforced, suddenly, the only way to win was to join the Democrats. As Jim Crow laws were being resisted and dismantled, you start seeing blacks being elected as Republicans again. Hubert Humphrey (D), basically split the Democratic party in two with his 1948 Democratic National Convention speech calling for equal rights for all. Voting for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 40% of Democrats still opposed it. Minority Leader Republican Everett Dirksen led the fight to end the Democrat filibuster of this monumental Act. But by that time, the Democrats had started changing their image. It was the Republicans who fought the hardest for equality, from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act; that’s 100 years of fighting for equal rights. Not the Democrats.
Now, the Democratic party is heavily leaning toward extreme liberalism which is collectivist in their view of minorities. In 1960, the NAACP President Benjamin Hooks was invited to address the Republican National Convention. President Reagan appoints Clarence Thomas as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who later become the first black Supreme Court Justice. President Reagan appoints Alan Keyes the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. Condoleezza Rice was appointed by Bush as Senior Director of the National Security Council for Soviet and East European Affairs. And there are hundreds of predominate blacks who are not Democrats (but still only see minorities as a defined group within a box). Some, aren’t affiliated with the Republican party either. Odd how it’s racist to assume all black people play basketball but not racist to assume all blacks are Democrat… And it’s not Republican VS Democrat. There are other political parties, such as the Libertarian Party. Ironically, The Libertarian Party now most closely resembles the old Republican Party of the late 1800s.
Tim Scott (SC, Senator)
Allen West (LTC, FL Senator)
Herman Cain, who ran for president as a Republican
Dr. Ben Carson, who ran for president as a Republican
Dr. Thomas Sowell (Economist)
Shelby Steele
Armstrong Williams
Dr. Walter E. Williams (Professor of Economics, George Mason University; syndicated columnist)
Naomi Churchill Earp
Artur Genestre Davis (Ex-Democrat)
Mia Love (UT, Congress)
Will Hurd (TX, Congress)
Alveda King (Member of the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission)
Richard Wright
Larry Elder (talk radio host; best-selling author)
Brian Higgins (radio host, XM Satelite Radio – Boston, MA)
Star Parker (author; founder, Coalition on Urban Affairs)
Gerald Reynolds (Chairman, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights)
Michael Steele (Republican National Committee Chairman)
Dr. James Robinson (freelance writer; former Professor of Political Science)
Judge Janice Rogers Brown (U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, DC Circuit)
Larry Sharpe
Rigoberto Stewart (Institute for Liberty and Analysis of Policy in Government)
Maj Toure (Activist, Founder of Black Guns Matter)
Dr. Anne Wortham (author; Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University)
Bruce LeVell
Michael Barnett ( Diversity coalition and chairman of the Republican Executive Committee in Palm Beach County, Florida)
Dr. Darrell Scott
Candace Owens
Henry Childs II (Attorney and president of the Texas Federation of African-American Republicans)
Don King (Former promoter of boxing champions from Muhammad Ali to Mike Tyson)
That’s just to name a few.
And if you don’t know any of these people, or maybe just heard of a few, you are limiting your mind and opinions. You may be holding yourself in the box of minorities that the democrats have told you to be in.
But this proves that blacks don’t have to conform to the Democrat imposed definition of what it is to be black. They are free to think and act how they personally choose to. They can be Republican, Libertarian, Independent, or form their own party. But dismantling the generational indoctrination of Democrats deciding what is best for blacks will take generations as well, and it will take even longer since blacks are so conditioned to continually only vote Democrat.
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