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Things Conservatives Don’t Have to Do
As a relatively new convert, here are some burdensome tasks I’ve been glad to let go:
- Trying to convince myself (or others) that Trevor Noah or Amy Schumer are funny.
- Trying to believe or saying how great Michelle Obama looks or how much style she has.
- Trying to believe the veil/hijab/niqab are just fine and not proof of membership to a backward sect antithetical to Western values and culture.
- Watching the Oscars (or any awards ceremony).
- Believing that “educated” people know things (burden of proof is on them and it isn’t an Ivy League diploma).
- Feeling sorry for people.
Feel free to add!
Published in General
Keeping track of the grievance hierarchy seems pretty hard. I mean, if there is a dispute between a Black Lesbian and a Hispanic Transgender, which one is the bigot?
But that’s when you become cool.
Hand-written? Ever notice that the left’s placards are frequently mass-produced in some union shop?
I loved how this sign was produced with an empty space so that the leftists could protest whoever the President nominated by just filling in the blank.
Also, the definition has shifted from a theory that involves the secrecy of an implausible number of people to anything that suggests people – well, government officials and liberals – aren’t being entirely honest.
I’m told that there’s a bit of a cascade effect for those leaving the left. You start by rejecting just one of their premises, and you free up your mind to reject several more. It’s like eating potato chips.
The straight white guy who’s not involved, obviously.
The Black Lesbian. However, trannies are only on the second rung. Muslims still hold the top position. If the Black Lesbian is also a Muslim, she wins.
Like.
I think of it as, conservatives can treat people as individuals rather than as representatives of one or another group.
Believing that celebrities and athletes are not vacuous narcissists who would be sex workers or laborers in a poorer society.
If so, she’s apparently stealing the wrong stuff.
If you’re not a Leftist, you’ll never have to participate in one of those stupid, tired “Hey, hey, ho ho” chants.
And you’ll never have to say “Latinx” or learn bizarre new pronouns.
Wow! He’s right. I just looked up pictures from 2000 v. today and she is…not small. I mean, she has always been exceptionally muscular but she has gained a lot of weight.
The degree of self abnegation that the left requires of straight white men these days is obscene. I can’t imagine anyone abiding by such abuse. Beyond that, it seems that everyone on the left is constantly walking on eggshells, in fear of not being woke enough all the time. What a miserable existence!
You. You are the bigot.
Find the energy to be outraged All. The. Damn. Time.
You also don’t have to pretend to be “open” to dating/having sex with a tranny.
That must be quite tiring.
When did Latino go to LatinX? Why did it go there?
It didn’t. Virtually no one who is Hispanic goes by Latinx. The press decided to push it to help the alphabet soup community by replacing the gendered nouns. Of course since Spanish itself is a gendered language this makes little sense.
Or pretend to find women’s professional sports as enthralling as men’s.*
*See acknowledging differences between men and women.
For me, the red pill moment was the campus “rape epidemic.” I’ve said it here before.
According to Señorx (where x may be null) Wikipedia (which see), it first appears on the internet in 2004, languishes, and becomes a thing on social media starting 2014. It’s the romance language agony of having nouns distinguished by endings called “masculine” and “feminine,” although this probably comes from trying to imitate an ancient Roman grammarian who was having a very bad day when he came up with that flight of fancy. Which is to say, people in all languages are very confused about grammatical terms used to describe the language (metalanguage) and endow them with a meaning beyond any they have. Or, more likely for most users of “latinx,” they’re both confused and offended by grammatical terms of a language they don’t speak. Which is very cosmopolitan. I lava las manos of the whole thing.
Tag-along comment on the OP (I’m lazy. Sue me). You gave up feeling sorry for people? Do you mean you agree with Nietzsche that “pity” is the crappy, patronizing, assertion of superiority version of “compassion?” Or that you feel that being conservative let’s you indulge your inner sociopath? Please read Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, if it’s the latter. Wonderful book. Nietzsche, of course, was right.
”Wow, gorgeous!”
I’d also say I enjoy with a clear conscience my safe, calm, conservative neighborhood with good schools, which possesses these attributes because residents vote right, not left.
I mean I don’t feel the obligatory liberal guilt. Pity isn’t the right word. Will change phrasing.
The claim by the Campus left that a woman is more likely to be raped on an American college campus than in active war zone. And they claim that they are “critical thinkers”.
Oooh, good one! Might be my favorite so far.
Sorry you still have to at least bear witness as a conservative. Everyday I hear it at work. Considering lining my cubicle with photos of great white men.
We don’t have to pretend that real communism has never been tried.