I've noticed that a lot people today who follow me, who refer to themselves as liberal or left-wing, now prefer the term Progressive, presumably because now it sounds more progressive. But there's a difference between being liberal and being progressive. I like liberals, but I don't like progressives. Even lefties are OK, if they're the right sort of leftie, but progressives give me the creeps.
Progressive sounds like a positive word, doesn't it, brimming with the promise of bright new tomorrows; in reality it means moving gradually, progressively, bit by bit, towards an ever more regulated, controlled and less free society, where group identity trumps all, and every casual remark is a potential .... hate crime.
We have more and more equality, and more and more fairness, and when we've had all the equality and fairness we can stomach --- and then some --- we'll have some more, whether we like it or not.
It's the same agenda as revolutionary Marxism, only they want to do it gradually, progressively, you know, like a disease.
A liberal is a person who will defend your right to free speech, even when they disagree with you. A progressive is a person who will defend someone else's right to shut you up, because they find you offensive.
A liberal sees the value in the free exchange of ideas and opinions, a progressive views these things as a threat to community cohesion.
Liberals do what they believe is right, progressives do what they believe it correct. Right and wrong don't come into it.
Liberals tend to live and let live, progressives tend to regulate, and censor, and meddle, and interfere, because progressives always know what's best for everyone --- it's a gift they have.
To a liberal, language is a tool; to a progressive language is a weapon, the actual meaning of words is irrelevant, as long as the can be used as heavy blunt instruments to shut people up; because progressives regard themselves as the sole arbiters of what people should and shouldn't be allowed to think and say, and they feel perfectly entitled to shout down opinions they disapprove of so nobody else can hear them --- progressive students are particularly keen on this.
In contrast a liberal is open to another point of view, to a progressive, there is no other point of view; if you're not progressive you must be far-right and if you take different view of Islam, you must be a racist --- end of story!
So which are you, liberal or progressive? You can't' be both, the two words are opposites, the same way sanity an insanity are opposites.
Multiculturalism is the ultimate progressive marquee word, of course, a rainbow colored confection, that's like all progressive words, including the word progressive, means the opposite of what it says.
There is nothing multicultural about an Islamic ghetto, and here in progressive Europe, Islamic ghettos have been the principle fruits of multiculturalism --- as a result, Jews can no longer walk around several European cities without being attacked by gangs of Muslim immigrants, but nobody in the media wants to talk about it, it's not progressive enough.
Besides, a progressive journalist would describe an unprovoked attack on a solitary Jew by a gang of Muslim thugs, if they reported it all, as a conflict between communities, because progressive journalists are not interested in the truth, if the truth is incorrect.
And this particularly applies to Scandinavia, whose media is impeccably progressive, and therefore impeccably Halal [Islamic term for controlled behavior], and full of the same kind of cultural hypocrites who got Pim Fortyn [a man who said Islam is a backwards religion] murdered in the Netherlands, and then pretended to be shocked about it afterwards.
In Sweden the press is directly subsidized by their progressive government to hide the truth about the effects of the suicidally progressive immigration policy, they don't want people to know that their formally civilized and peaceful country is now the rape capitol of Europe. A situation exacerbated by the media's refusal to ethnically identity criminals, because that information is not progressive. It might be helpful to the public and ethically right and proper to give people a true picture of reality, but it's not progressive, so it must be wrong, the truth must be wrong, if the truth is incorrect. As a consequence, statistically, one in four Swedish women will now be violently raped during their lifetime, and every one of them can thank a progressive journalist.
But if you thought Swedish journalists were the progressives scum of earth, and the absolute moral dregs of humanity, you would of course be correct --- but say hello to a couple of new contenders, from across the water in Denmark. You won't have heard about this story anywhere in the western media, because for all their belly-aching about free speech, they're too busy digging up celebrity gossip to do anything real to protect it; meanwhile people are doing something [about the upcoming subject], at considerable risk to their own safety, are routinely depicted in the media as extremists and hate-mongers --- yet who is the extremist? A man who expresses a non-violent opinion, or the so-called journalist, who chases him through the streets, hoping to pinpoint his location for a future Islamic assassin?
Recently when Danish free-thinker Lars Hedegaard [founder of Denmark Free Press Society], was forced to move house, after an assassination attempt, at this front door, by an Islamic fanatic, the removal van was followed by the unprincipled pieces of human vermin, masquerading as a journalist and photographer, who wanted to reveal his new location, and were only prevented form doing so, when they were pulled over, twice, by the police, and they were most indignant about it to, as if the police had somehow, prevented, justice form being done.
Am I the only one who thinks that these two goons should be in jail for what they tried to do? At the very least, their very mug shots should be on the front-page of every newspaper in the free world, instead we got nothing, not a whisper, not a peep ... if not for the internet nobody would even know this outrage had taken place, yet we know all there is to know about every empty-headed celebrity!?
Free speech is becoming a very dangerous business in Europe, and the media are on the wrong side. Ultimately however, what is there to say about such a spiteful and irresponsible mentality; maybe there's a word in Danish that would do justice to such ugly minded pieces of human trash, but, I can't think of one in English --- cockroach doesn't do it, that's a gross insult to cockroaches, who are noble in comparison. Scumbag, scuzzbucket, slimeball ... none of these words even close --- ah of course, you beat me to it --- Progressive!
