Shortly after my accident 10 years ago, I was challenged on my politics. On examining different arguments on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, and white privilege, I had to change to a conservative! I felt duped on so many levels. First, I learned I had been deprived of the arguments for the existence of God. I had been fed that evolution was a fact, without ever being offered an opposing view. Second, I've been lied to about the political parties. The idea was conveyed that Republican = rich, white, racist and so the only political party for me was the Democrat. Actually, the first party I enrolled in was the Green party, but they were like the Democrats with an environmental focus. But if you ask any person of color in a major metropolitan area that's pretty much what they'll tell you. Never mind that we never learned the history of the political parties or their respective platforms. It was revolutionary for me to read "History of the United States" by Howard Zinn! It solidified this underlying contempt for this country. But after learning that blacks too owned slaves, whites were also slaves and it was actually the Democrats that were the party of slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow laws, it was like waking up from a long dream!
Since then, I've lost many friends (though being disabled helped that along). I've been called a racist with no evidence. I've been accused of hate speech for criticizing Islam--another politically charged topic! Even Christians shy away from political topics because many blacks and hispanic Christians still hold to the Democrat party. This has been years in the making but I believe it's ramped up in the last 15 years since I went to college.
I went to a liberal arts college where we had a mandatory course called "culture of respect." We were separated into our "identity groups," i.e. people of color, gay, women, etc. Then, the facilitators would deem the classroom as a "safe space" in which the minority groups can vent their resentment to their classmates of the dominant, oppressive White, Christian, Male identities. In turn, Whites in particular were forced to recognize their privilege and subconscious racism. Now throughout my dealings with whites in school, I never felt that they disliked me because of my race. I've had many white friends and never felt they harbored some 'subconscious' racism. I didn't understand this at the time, but this is what has made our country so polarized today on race and what I call the politics of victimology. It is at it's root, Cultural Marxist tactic of demonizing Western Civilization (our Constitutional Republic, Christian ethics, the nuclear family, Capitalism) while condemning the criticism of anyone else. This is why it is fine to call America a racist, oppressive country, but racist to criticize any other country with a different religion influencing it's ethics. This is called critical theory (which I studied in college) and has been slowly infiltrating our academia for nearly a hundred years. (Watch Bill Whittle's video explaining cultural marxism--it will blow your mind!)
Today, college campuses are so virulently against any opposing view that violence breaks out and events get shut down. Conservative professors are extremely rare and students are intimidated by leftist thugs. Antifa, short for 'Anti-fascist,' came out of communist Germany in the 1930's and now comprises of mostly white Socialist/communist/anarchists using violence to intimidate young conservatives. However, I have noticed a growing number of conservatives speaking out on YouTube, gaining popularity amongst college campuses like Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens. Last week, after Kanye West simply tweeted out "I like the way Candace Owens thinks," the Left went nuts and called her 'far' or 'alt-right'--synonymous for white supremacist/Nazi. This is an old Marxist tactic of demonizing and silencing conservatives. Thankfully, Kanye has not backed down but instead is rockin' the conservative tip in full force, even rapping about it. No doubt other black youth will now look up Candace Owens and get hip to the Democratic Game. What really got me is when my man quoted Thomas Sowell!
I'm still learning a heck of a lot these days. I decided to take a free course on the Constitution by Hillsdale College. I think it's important to learn and teach the Constitution if this country is to survive. Most people are too busy with work to see the drastic changes going on socially and politically, but I've been watching this in real time from my computer. I also feel this is spiritual in nature and that although God is doing a work, things will become increasingly difficult.
Keep pressing on..
Since then, I've lost many friends (though being disabled helped that along). I've been called a racist with no evidence. I've been accused of hate speech for criticizing Islam--another politically charged topic! Even Christians shy away from political topics because many blacks and hispanic Christians still hold to the Democrat party. This has been years in the making but I believe it's ramped up in the last 15 years since I went to college.
I went to a liberal arts college where we had a mandatory course called "culture of respect." We were separated into our "identity groups," i.e. people of color, gay, women, etc. Then, the facilitators would deem the classroom as a "safe space" in which the minority groups can vent their resentment to their classmates of the dominant, oppressive White, Christian, Male identities. In turn, Whites in particular were forced to recognize their privilege and subconscious racism. Now throughout my dealings with whites in school, I never felt that they disliked me because of my race. I've had many white friends and never felt they harbored some 'subconscious' racism. I didn't understand this at the time, but this is what has made our country so polarized today on race and what I call the politics of victimology. It is at it's root, Cultural Marxist tactic of demonizing Western Civilization (our Constitutional Republic, Christian ethics, the nuclear family, Capitalism) while condemning the criticism of anyone else. This is why it is fine to call America a racist, oppressive country, but racist to criticize any other country with a different religion influencing it's ethics. This is called critical theory (which I studied in college) and has been slowly infiltrating our academia for nearly a hundred years. (Watch Bill Whittle's video explaining cultural marxism--it will blow your mind!)
Today, college campuses are so virulently against any opposing view that violence breaks out and events get shut down. Conservative professors are extremely rare and students are intimidated by leftist thugs. Antifa, short for 'Anti-fascist,' came out of communist Germany in the 1930's and now comprises of mostly white Socialist/communist/anarchists using violence to intimidate young conservatives. However, I have noticed a growing number of conservatives speaking out on YouTube, gaining popularity amongst college campuses like Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens. Last week, after Kanye West simply tweeted out "I like the way Candace Owens thinks," the Left went nuts and called her 'far' or 'alt-right'--synonymous for white supremacist/Nazi. This is an old Marxist tactic of demonizing and silencing conservatives. Thankfully, Kanye has not backed down but instead is rockin' the conservative tip in full force, even rapping about it. No doubt other black youth will now look up Candace Owens and get hip to the Democratic Game. What really got me is when my man quoted Thomas Sowell!
I'm still learning a heck of a lot these days. I decided to take a free course on the Constitution by Hillsdale College. I think it's important to learn and teach the Constitution if this country is to survive. Most people are too busy with work to see the drastic changes going on socially and politically, but I've been watching this in real time from my computer. I also feel this is spiritual in nature and that although God is doing a work, things will become increasingly difficult.
Keep pressing on..
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