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Extremism -- The Scarlet ‘E’
We’ve already learned that all of us—with the exception of our rulers—are racists, sexists, etc. That’s a valuable lesson because it means, effectively, these accusations are substantively
We’ve already learned that all of us—with the exception of our rulers—are racists, sexists, etc. That’s a valuable lesson because it means, effectively, these accusations are substantively
The Scarlet ‘E’ › American Greatness
Asking Americans to label one another “extremists” is the most ruinous thing that the woke oligarchy’s malevolent morons are doing to our country. They mean to criminalize insufficient deference to…
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Asking Americans to label one another “extremists” is the most ruinous thing that the woke oligarchy’s malevolent morons are doing to our country. They mean to criminalize insufficient deference to themselves. But a bit of courage is all it takes to expose their demand’s transparent absurdity.
Guidance comes from what happened in Denmark under Nazi occupation, 1940-1943. The Nazis, having demanded that Danish Jews be forced to wear a yellow star in public, so goes the story, were startled to find that Danish King Christian X put on the star. His subjects having done the same, and everyone having designated himself a Jew, there were no Jews. Only Danes. The Nazis had no way of discriminating against anyone.
The story is factually false. But its telling points to the deeper fact that saved Denmark’s Jews and serves as guidance to us today: The Nazis never made the demand because they had reason to believe that, had they done so, the Danes would have done something like what the story says. It would have deprived them of leverage as well as given them another black eye. The Danish people—king, parliament, and commoners refused to curry favor with the evil ones. The Danes knew each other, and stuck by one another. In so doing, they ostracized the Nazis.
In today’s America, every fount of power and privilege—from the FBI and the armed forces to our employers and Facebook—asks us anonymously to place the label “extremist,” a scarlet “E” of infamy, on whomever we choose to hurt, for whatever reason. They ask us to commit this most cowardly and self-serving of acts so they may use that “E” as a premise for “investigations” and classifications that amount to punishments. It also serves them by sowing suspicions and fostering enmities among Americans, leaving themselves as sources of fear and of precarious safety.
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Today’s America, unlike Denmark in 1940, is a largely anonymous society. Americans no longer know each other well enough, or have enough personal attachment to one another, to vouch for each other. Too easily, we fall prey to anonymous accusations.
But if we recognize what our oligarchy’s malevolent morons are trying to do to us by calling for anonymous accusations of extremism, we can turn the tables on them by using that very anonymity for a collective, anonymous, act of faith in one another—and against them.
They want us to add each others’ names to their lists? OK. Let us send in the names of all of them who harass us. Just as important, let us order millions of bumper stickers for our cars and mailboxes, each with the scarlet letter “E,” and proudly declare ourselves “Extremists” according to the oligarchy’s definition: people skeptical of their claims, and proud of our country.
We have already learned that all of us—with the exception of our rulers—are racists, sexists, etc. That is a valuable lesson because it means, effectively, these accusations are substantively empty. Recognizing, declaring, and defanging the accusation of “extremism” is equally in our power.
Comment:
I enjoyed Professor Codevilla's use of recurring phrase "...the woke oligarchy's malevolent morons..." And, being a Patriot and a man stained with the mark of "E," I offer this as an extremist example (a bit of alliteration there): The weak and wobbling wokerati often require obeisance to odious and obnoxious orders such as the wearing of mandatory Mao masks.
On a serious note, the Chinese submission sacks we've been forced to submit to are a sign of the times. For more than a year, all Americans submitted to silly and Constitution-shredding "edicts" issued by rogue governors exercising "temporary powers" due to "the arrival of Covid." Now, the edicts easing, those who are vaccinated are allowed to go about without a mask on. Those who have not submitted to the orders from central authority are required to wear, outside and inside, the "mark of 'E'," those silly masks we're all familiar with. Agents of the omnipotent state are soon to be going door-to-door to compel compliance.
This won't end well. More of us should have resisted when the first days of "flattening the curve" started.
Yes, we saw this happen in Norway 1941to 1943, Stalinist Russia, China and again in East Germany with the STASI. Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Leftists seek to repeat this once again. That is why we see the aboslute mandate of maks, 'Critical Race Theory" being taught to our children by Marxist teachers in our Elementary, Middle and High Schools. Why it's even being extended to the corporate workplace. What could go wrong?
It seem that now our government seeks to monitor even our very thoughts.....
