Stop Violencing Me with Your Facial Expression
Don’t make a face around an SJW. They might launch a preemptive strike against your glowering violence. Once that poor kid from the Catholic school somewhere down south (AKA Racism Racist Oppressiony Land if you’re of the leftist persuasion) was exonerated by the facts surrounding his encounter with the Native American activist, the left didn’t backpedal, pump the breaks, or apologize. No, they deflected (Siri told them to take a slight right) and said that his smirk symbolized years and years of white supremacy, oppression, and all the other blah blah bloxes on the liberal talking point checklist. They even talked as if this kid knew what he was doing, and that white parents, yes, listen to this, spend the formative years of their children’s lives indoctrinating them with the idea that they own the earth and every corner of it. If that is true, white folks are doing a terrible job of the whole owning and dominating part.
Nothing smacks of dogged pride like jumping on a turbo-charged, hemi-infused bandwagon, being proven wrong about the facts, and changing the subject to a topic no one involved was even close to considering. It shouldn’t need to be said, but the kid is 17 years old. 17 year old kids (so I’m told, I did a lot of mind-altering Mountain Dew in, well, my whole life) find things funny. Sometimes inappropriately, I will concede. He already admitted that he was confused by the situation, not knowing exactly how to process it. Once he did start processing it (i.e. as the video goes on, like a normal human being) his countenance changed, and his smile faded.
The kid wasn’t considering his position of racial power over the man. He wasn’t relaxing in his high-back chair, creepily stroking a cat while emitting a villainous laugh at having finally nabbed Inspector Gadget. For the love of petulant Husky howling, Leftists act like white people all meet in a chat room in the morning to discuss the day’s agenda of oppression and no-goodery for the day. And I’m a conservative who actually believes in white privilege. I just don’t believe in arguing from talking points so intangible one might as well sell squares on who will win the next big match-up between a unicorn and his leprechaun nemesis.
So leftists boycott Ben Shapiro and force him to cancel speaking engagements because his words and ideas are “violent”. He doesn’t engage in hate speech, but they believe actual hate speech should not be protected under the 1st Amendment because it gives them the sads and frightens them out of their crocs. We all understand hate speech should be protected (until it incites violence) so that we rational and well-adjusted folk can more easily recognize the enemies of freedom. I don’t believe calling names is productive but when a conservative like Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter calls a name for comedic/shock effect, the reaction is as if a bomb was dropped on a daycare. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has to be shouted out of a restaurant because the owner doesn’t like her boss (didn’t we recently have some controversy over food preparation business refusing service to potential patrons?). Any conservative wishing to engage in civil debate must be shouted down with insults, not-so-catchy chants, identity politics, and hollow platitudes. And now, a 17 year old kid who hasn’t even approached figuring things out must have his life ruined because he smirked. Time to dox that little blankety blank blank. Grab your torch and pitchfork because we don’t believe in guns! What’s next? Ruin someone’s life because you feel you can predict how they are going to facially react to your progressive opinion before you’ve even uttered it? How far can we take this before we end up in comic book fantasy territory? I wish I could warp to Bizarro World so I can have my sense of normalcy back. All these forms of violence that come from the right, and yet they can’t figure out that ripping a baby from the womb is a form of violence. (Sorry, but I have a personal rule of making an anti-abortion dig in each blog post)
Rightists (it’s going to catch on. I didn’t even hyphenate that one) can do violence with words, ideas, existing, breathing, eating, and making normally occurring faces. I guess we all have to have our mouths zippered and faces bagged if we presume to walk out into public and do things in this Brave New World.
