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Marilyn Manson Does Not Know What Racism Is. Do You?
November 7, 2014
This blog had often commented on the debating technique the left stole from Hitler’s National Socialists, that of shutting down debate by screaming “racist” and “bigot” at anyone who challenges certain dogmas in their catechism (yes dogma and catechism are religious terms, has it not struck you that the ‘progressive left’ are like fanatical religious zealots?)
The Marilyn Manson incident, covering an exchange in an online intereview for The Bret Easton Ellis podcast, was reported in The Independent. As the interview went on two hours, I’ll just give the transcript of the relevant section rather than posing the video. At this stage Manson and the interviewer are discussing racism. Manson has been accused of racism by the screeching mob many times.(Spelling errors in the transcript have not been corrected.)
Ellis: “Getting back to the idea of racism and how it’s so widely applied to people now, it’s just gotten crazy.”
Manson: “I don’t even really know what to do with it. You know, it’s the old tradition of like, ‘Yeah man I got a lot of black friends, I got a lot of Jewish friends’ or whatever, it’s like, the people that I know that are my friends that are black are completely comfortable with my sense of humour because I think that racism is more about if something is like whatever, it’s a stupid word, it’s a made up word, it’s an ism. Jizm is an ism. (Um – no it’s not but we knoiw what you mean – Boggart Blog)
“But it’s like if you’re not doing something hateful to somebody, you’re not trying to hurt somebody, then it’s not really a problem. You can make comments about culture, don’t avoid the elephant in the room. Stand-up comedians can say whatever they want and somehow that’s a free reign but if you say it as a rockstar, say it as a writer, sometimes people misinterpret it – people interpret everything differently.
“But it’s a silly way of someone trying to the other lesson I learned in journalism class was if you criticise something it makes you sound like a better writer than if you compliment it.”
Ellis: “Of course that’s true and that’s why I think there’s so many haters on the internet, but racism, you know, let’s just clarify, does exist, in a big way.”
It is true to say racism exists but accusing people who advocate immigration controls of being motivated by racism is just an attempt to deny them the right to hold their opinions, just as left wing haters deliberate misinterpretation of UKIP’s policy of limiting immigration and enforcing the border controls that exist in law as an intention to ban all immigration is an attempt to shut down discussion. Sadly the left have to resort to this kind of thing because they have no coherent argument to support their position.
The left do exactly the same when intelligent and justified criticisms of the ‘gay rights’ lobby are shouted down with screams of homophobia.
It is satisfyingly ironic that in depth analysis of polling data shows it is the left’s hysterical hatred of British culture, British values and traditions, anything British and the British working and lower middle classes that is driving UKIP’s surge in opinion polls.
What Is Democracy? Alf and Vlad know.
March 28, 2014
Alf Garnett – picture source
I’ve been accused of being opposed to democracy (bloggers get accused of all sorts, we’re immune to criticism) for presenting the Russian point of view in my comments on the Ukraine crisis.
These people then tell me as if they are imparting some great news I was unaware of, that “Russia is not a democracy.”
I’m aware of that, I’m also aware that Britian, the EU nations and the USA are no more democratic in the classical sense than Russia. News is manipulated, access to information controlled (and what a great tool the internet has turned into for those whose interests are served by restricting access to information. No matter, who needs the truth as long as you have Boggart Blog.
But what is democracy in this modern technological world. We have come so far from the Athens of Artistotle or the Rome of Quintus Fabius or or Cornelius Scipio. Democratic rule does not really work very well after a community’s population passes about 250,000.
So when people tell me Russia is not a democracy it is, is it not, a case of pot calling kettle back.
What I object to is the way the media call anyone undemocratic the moment they fail to fall ino line and do as bidden by Barack Hussein Obama acting on behalf of his wall Street / BIS bosses. Who elected him to tell Russians what to do, or Europeans of Brits for that matter.
Well with a bit of luch we will be “having a democratic word” with Dave and Co. about their willingness to abdicate their responsibilities and surrender British sovereignty to unelected control freaks.
And if they ignore us, we should perhaps remind them of the words of that great political thinker Alf Garnett: “You can’t ‘ave proper democracy wivout killing people.”
As this Russian example demonstrates.
from The Daily Telegraph
Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch and critic of Vladimir Putin, may have been murdered, a coroner ruled.
Mr Berezovsky’s daughter, Elizaveta, had told how she feared that he had been assassinated by Kremlin “enemies” for warning that the Russian president was a “danger to the world”.
A forensic pathologist hired by Mr Berezovsky’s family also told the inquest that he believed the former billionaire had been strangled to death by a “third party”.
Mr Berezovsky, 67, was found dead in a bathroom at his former wife’s £20 million home in Ascot, Berks, in March last year. He had a ligature around his neck.
The inquest previously heard that a mystery fingerprint was found near the body and a paramedic’s radiation alarm had sounded upon entering the house, leading to speculation that the oligarch was killed by Russian enemies.
Do These People Really Have Superpowers?
November 19, 2013Just to lighten things up after a few heavy days in which we have been kept busy fighting off the attempts of lefties to abolish fun and criminalise free speech, here’s something to make you smile.
Do the seventeen people in these video clips really have super powers or are they just nutters who can do one trick and are determined to milk it for their fifteen minutes of fame?
Yes, I can hear the bansturbators now, throwing hissy fits about there being no such thing as Super Heroes.
Follow the link and in particular watch, well all of them. One or two are a tad boring but they only highlight the brilliance of the others.
From College Humor via Stumble Upon
17 People We are 99 per cent Sure Have Superpowers
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Freedom Of Speech
October 24, 2012Our right to Free Speech is under threat:
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. Winston’s heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earths centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to OBrien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell, 1984″
The Threat To Free Speech
June 12, 2012When the law forbids us to insult or offend somebody, to insult or offend a religion, race, skin colour or sexual preference, free speech and other important democratic rights are under threat.
When the law then goes on to say that anyone accused of these offences has no right to defend themselves and the word of the accuser is sufficient evidence on which to obtain a conviction then we have abandoned justice and returned to the law of the medieval witch hunts.
These stupid laws insult the public and threaten free speech
Beware the siren voices of the left who hide their abhorrence of freedom and invividuality behind a mask of political correctness. Everything we say and do could be interpreted by somebody as aggressive or insulting. There have been cases of a look being deemed racially or sexually harrassing.
Stand up for your right to express your opinions by being grown up enough to ignore things you overhear that might not even refer to you but could equally be said because you behaved like an arse towards somebody else.
Nobody promised life was fair. And making life sterile by imposing conformity on everybody will not actually make life any fairer.
Monty Neff
SJWs have been always the bad guys, but only now they started acting instead of only talking. “Social justice” is not justice. Justice is supposed to be blind – color of skin, religion or sex shouldn’t matter, everybody should be treated same. Social justice is, and always was, the exact opposite – based on your labels you have more or less rights, you are better or worse. If you happen to inherit worst sin of all – being white male – you are expendable subhuman and should be ashamed of your roots.
Stuart Coker
That is the stance of the SJWs. Whites are the main source of evil. If you are a White male, that is twice as bad and if you are White, Christian, Conservative male, you are the most vile creature to walk the earth.
Conservatives are concerned with individual rights. They look at the individual and judge them based on what they do and say.
Leftists look at your skin color, sex, religion, perceived “gender”, socioeconomic status, education level and any other measures in order to insert people into a group identity.
If you have Black skin, you must think and act “Black”. This is why leftists, especially Black leftists, have no problem attacking Blacks who are Conservative and stating they “aren’t really ‘black’” because every leftist knows that Blacks must be a leftist Democrat. It is why they say a woman who doesn’t believe in abortion as a method of birth control on demand is a “traitor” to her gender.
It is why they can claim they “fight for women’s rights” while simultaneously stating that gender is a social construct and a man can be a woman if he thinks he is a woman. Thus, a male who believes he is a woman has more standing in their eyes on gender issues than a conservative woman who believes gender is a scientific principle rather than an emotional or psychological issue.
It is why a White woman like Rachel Dozal, can appropriate Black culture, darken her skin, put dreds in and run a chapter of the NAACP and claim she is really Black and leftists are fine with her claiming to be “transracial” but will attack a real Black or White woman if they say anything against the idea that gender or race is a personal decision and who state that genetics might have more to do with race and gender than feelings.
It is why leftists gather everyone into their little groups and speak as if each group is a monolithic body that only thinks and believes certain way. If you dare step out of your group and speak out as an individual, you are attacked in order to force you back in line…or, at least, shut up and go away.
Leftists, and SJWs in particular, have no problem dividing us into racial subsets then attack Whites as being racist if we deal with people as individuals rather than as a “black” or “female” or “trans”. To them, the only subsets who do not deserve rights and an equal say are those who are “white”, biological and psychologically “male”, Christian and/or Conservative. They identify these groups as the source of all evil deserving of being silenced and suppressed unless they admit they are evil and fall in line with the leftist SJW agenda.