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Rank Hypocrisy

This is what my best friend from my first years of college wrote in the summer of 2020 on Facebook:

"If we as a society have determined that the loss of people's 'properties' are more worthy of our focus, rage, and grief than the constant loss of black lives, then we truly haven't made any progress from the days of slavery when black lives were forced into being 'properties' of others."

If you truly parse what he wrote, he said that if people care about property damage (via looting and rioting), then our society is no better than a slave-owning society. Let that sink in.

When one person politely tried to make the case that some black people were even outraged by the looting, my college friend started with, "As I am not black, I don't think it's my place to determine whether the rioting is overboard or not even remotely enough."

At the end of that follow-up comment, he linked to an article named, "In Defense of Looting". I have not read it, nor do I intend to. I believe the title says it all.

My friend from back in college is Asian. He has not posted yet about the Capitol breach, but if he does, I doubt he will say, "As I am not white, I don't think it's my place to determine whether the rioting is overboard or not even remotely enough."

Things only work one way for many. Looting and rioting were kosher in 2020. Only when the side changed did the entire establishment destroy all semblance of freedom to destroy the looters and rioters, identify them all, and make sure that they do not see the light of day again.

My father watches MSNBC for hours each day. He is a great father to me. And he was yelling to the TV, "Shoot 'em!" during the Capitol breach. He never yelled that in 2020, as cities burned to the ground. And if someone had yelled that in 2020 during the burning of US cities, he likely would have thought that they were bigots.

Progressives (like many minorities, my dad isn't even one, though he thinks he is) seem to have an incredibly easy time pretending that they never did what they did, and they never thought what they thought.

Since 2016 up until present day, progressives have claimed that the election was stolen (with the help of Russia). They supported rioting and looting (for good causes, of course). They never accepted the elected president. Now, in early 2021, they claim that US elections can't be stolen. Rioting is terrorism, and all even glimpsed at the area where a riot took place must have their lives destroyed. And it is incumbent on all civilized humans to accept the (next) president without question. The hypocrisy is outstanding.

They, with their social media partners, are ready to crush all dissent to an even greater degree than they did when they did not wield complete power. They now make American McCarthyism (which existed during Stalin's reign over Eastern Europe) seem like a walk in the park, and are resembling actual Stalinism more day by day.

The sham impeachment, if successful, would have removed a duly elected president from office ostensibly for simply inquiring about the blatant corruption of his running mate. In reality, the impeachment would have occurred for any reason they could concoct. A coup d'état on public display.

I don't think there will ever be a time in the future of the US when the right restricts the left's freedom of speech as much as the left have restricted others'. So they don't have much to fear there. But their complete disregard of the Constitution and America's now-extinguished Enlightenment principles of being able to tolerate others who think differently are not likely to get them the results that they want, and instead bring us unnervingly close to a second Civil War.

America was never about getting one's way or having society believe as you do. It was about building a society in which people could coexist and express themselves without fear. And that day is over.

The above are my thoughts. The below is a link to a Babylon Bee article:

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