A Letter to My Woke Friends

 

I don’t buy your narrative that America is a racist country. I think you are ignorant: you have a cramped and impoverished understanding of history, and no sense of proportion. I reject your “white privilege” palaver. I don’t slice and dice my fellow man into little groups based on superficial characteristics, and I won’t claim to know any more about a man based on his skin color than you know about me based on mine.

Diversity and inclusion? You can keep it. Diversity of views is lovely. Diversity of race, sexual orientation, color, and other trivial details of anatomy and preference is a crock. Every man is an identity group of one, so keep your woke bigotry. You obsess about it all you like, but I’m not interested.

I’m far from perfect but I’m free of the sin of which my color, you believe, makes me guilty. I don’t care what you think about it. I’m not joining you in reinventing racism. I want our laws and our public institutions to be color blind, without preference or bias toward any race. Beyond that, every man can decide for himself how noble or petty he wishes to be.

I reject your thesis, I reject your claim to moral superiority, I reject your demands and your obsession with identity, and I reject your efforts to reinvigorate racism. I don’t take you seriously, and I’m not going to pretend that I take you seriously.

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  1. EHerring Coolidge
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    A sheriff in a nearby county said he would not enforce any law that infringed on our rights. 

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  2. Henry Racette Member
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    EHerring (View Comment):

    A sheriff in a nearby county said he would not enforce any law that infringed on our rights.

    My general impression has been that law enforcement has been pretty good throughout this thing. One cop friend tells me that his department has a policy of simply stating that they don’t enforce COVID mandates. Various sheriffs and police chiefs have been open about resisting lockdowns and other draconian policies.

    I expect them to be similarly solid about Biden’s upcoming gun grab attempts.

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  3. EHerring Coolidge
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    EHerring (View Comment):

    A sheriff in a nearby county said he would not enforce any law that infringed on our rights.

    My general impression has been that law enforcement has been pretty good throughout this thing. One cop friend tells me that his department has a policy of simply stating that they don’t enforce COVID mandates. Various sheriffs and police chiefs have been open about resisting lockdowns and other draconian policies.

    I expect them to be similarly solid about Biden’s upcoming gun grab attempts.

    After all, Dems have already set the precedent that we don’t have to obey laws/enforce laws we don’t like. 

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  4. kedavis Coolidge
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    That’s all fine and dandy until George Soros funds their replacements.

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  5. Stina Inactive
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    EHerring (View Comment):

    A sheriff in a nearby county said he would not enforce any law that infringed on our rights.

    My general impression has been that law enforcement has been pretty good throughout this thing. One cop friend tells me that his department has a policy of simply stating that they don’t enforce COVID mandates. Various sheriffs and police chiefs have been open about resisting lockdowns and other draconian policies.

    I expect them to be similarly solid about Biden’s upcoming gun grab attempts.

    Sheriffs and police officers are going to be different.

    As prosecutors and mayors get worse, start expect the police left in the department not to be the ones you want there. The good ones, at some point, won’t be staying.

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  6. Henry Racette Member
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    Glenn Reynolds has it right: we need to push back hard. We need to become as aggressive in defending the cancelled as the woke crybabies are in attacking. We outnumber them. And we’re right.

    How to beat the woke: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder

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  7. kedavis Coolidge
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Glenn Reynolds has it right: we need to push back hard. We need to become as aggressive in defending the cancelled as the woke crybabies are in attacking. We outnumber them. And we’re right.

    How to beat the woke: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder

    Careful there, you’re sounding like Trump.  :-)

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  8. Henry Racette Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Glenn Reynolds has it right: we need to push back hard. We need to become as aggressive in defending the cancelled as the woke crybabies are in attacking. We outnumber them. And we’re right.

    How to beat the woke: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder

    Careful there, you’re sounding like Trump. :-)

    Hey, keep it civil.

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  9. Instugator Thatcher
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Glenn Reynolds has it right: we need to push back hard. We need to become as aggressive in defending the cancelled as the woke crybabies are in attacking. We outnumber them. And we’re right.

    How to beat the woke: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder

    Careful there, you’re sounding like Trump. :-)

    Hey, keep it civil.

    Nah, keep it clear – Trump brought clarity – as do you.

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