The Privilege of the Oppressed

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A court clerk in Kentucky want to jail because she would not issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple. Keep in mind that, in 2004, an amendment to the Kentucky state constitution defining marriage as one man and one woman was approved by 75% of the voters. To this fact, our nation’s liberal elite answer: Damn the voters, damn Kentucky and damn Kim Davis for thinking that her religious beliefs should be respected. The liberal elite — in particular, Justice Anthony Kennedy and four of his Supreme Court colleagues — have decided that Christian belief must be forcibly eradicated, and that the voters of Kentucky are not fit to govern themselves. Therefore, Kim Davis is a criminal.

This is what our nation’s liberal elite demands in 2015, because the liberal elite believes in a radical egalitarian ideology in which only those who are deemed “oppressed” have any influence or protection in American society. The law must judge every conflict according to a simple question: “Who is the greater ‘victim of society’ here?” The victims always win, and therefore the only way to “win” is to present yourself as a helpless loser, in order to demand that “society” give you whatever you want as compensation for your oppressed condition. That this kind of “social justice” mentality incentivizes failure and inspires fraudulent claims of victimhood (everything is rape now) is bad enough. Yet it also serves to destroy society’s ability to protect itself against real harms, as evidenced by a recent federal court ruling:

A federal appeals court has ruled that an illegal immigrant and convicted felon can’t be deported back to Mexico because he identifies as a transgender woman, which leaves him vulnerable to torture back in his home country.
Edin Carey Avendano-Hernandez was born male in Mexico, and claims to have been raped by his brothers and suffered other torments. In 2000, he illegally entered the U.S. and took up residence in Fresno, California. Avendano-Hernandez also started taking female hormones and began living openly as a woman in 2005. In 2006, he committed two separate drunk driving offenses, the second of which injured two people and resulted in a felony conviction. After serving a year in jail, he was deported back to Mexico in 2007.
Back in Mexico, Avendano-Hernandez claims to have been subjected to more harassment from family and neighbors and to have been raped by members of the Mexican army. He illegally entered the U.S. again and, after being arrested, petitioned for sanctuary in the U.S. under the U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT), arguing that deporting him would violate the CAT because he would more likely than not experience torture at the hands of Mexican authorities. . . .
Now, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says Avendano-Hernandez must be allowed to stay in the U.S., because he “more likely than not” will be tortured if returned to Mexico.
Judge Jacqueline Nguyen, an Obama appointee, chastised immigration officials for improperly handling Avandano-Hernandez’s gender identity. . . .
The belief that Avendano-Hernandez was raped and tortured in Mexico appears to be based entirely on his own claims, which were deemed to be “credible” by his immigration judge.

Read the whole thing at The Daily Caller. You see the court has decided that this convicted criminal, who otherwise would be ineligible for residency in the United States, now must be granted residency, merely because his/her “gender identity” would make him/her a victim of Mexican society if he/she were to be deported. The United States therefore must accept every foreign transsexual who can make it across the border, because “social justice” requires it.

Christians in Kentucky have zero rights, so Kim Davis goes to jail, while a Mexican criminal pervert has a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.





 

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  2. The queers can accept the law or go home. SCOTUS can either restrict itself to it’s jurisdiction, or it become what it is now, lawless and illegitimate. When they reduce themselves to that state it is just a matter of time before they find themselves decorating lamp posts.

    The idea of rule of was established to avoid exactly what is happening now. The left, however, never grew up and will not accept anything but what it wants, and if the law is in the way, so what. they want what they want regardless of the consequences down stream. The left will suffer the most with the destruction of the rule of law.

  3. actually male homosexuals by nature do not tend toward long term stable monogamous relationships according to all I read.
    If said gay men want to engage in high risk behavior by cruising or frequenting bath houses, that’s their choice, but the rest of society holds no blame if they ruin their lives by engaging in unhealthy, unnatural pursuits.

  7. The loony left couldn’t care less who they insult. Blacks were just someone to use on the road to perdition and even Black people are beginning to wake up to their deal with the devil.

  9. I would be much better with decorating lamp posts. They’ve shown they can’t be trusted to live in a free society or share in its governance. They are simply termites.

  10. If you did, you would recognize the gay sanctimonious bullies (like yourself) who were standing in line at this particular courthouse excitedly waiting to make their sanctimonious bullying point, to wit: Christians must be punished and silenced, and the Constitution be damned.

    p.s. Acting precisely in line with one’s sincerely held religious beliefs is exactly the opposite of “hypocrite”.

  11. It has nothing to do with marriage rights. He wants to force people at gunpoint to applaud when he puts his wee-wee in another guy’s bum. Nothing short of full-on debasement of moral, decent people will do.

    But what he doesn’t realize is that his true beef isn’t with the people, it’s with God. He actually thinks that there’s anything gays or progressives can do to silence God. I would urge them all to learn a lesson from the tens of millions of Christians who streamed out from the dark when Soviet Russia fell.

    Paradoxically, the Church is always strengthened by persecution.

  12. Personally, I feel that the people who oppose gay marriage have abstracted the issue into one of “law”, when in fact their opposition is primal, and fear based.

    That is your opinion, and I don’t care.

    I don’t see this as dystopic, or fascist, or what have you. Try to remember people called Lincoln a tyrant for freeing the slaves, J. Edgar Hoover saw the civil rights movement as the greatest domestic threat we faced, and communist in nature, etc.

    Again, I don’t care.

    The greatest threat to Americans is the current, neoliberal economic order which has failed repeatedly, and continued to fail, especially on Wall Street, and the dawning police state that maintains it.

    You’re delusional if you think that can be fixed by the fifty states habitually submitting to the Feds, even when it is neither clear nor certain that they have to. You’re literally arguing against yourself.

  13. Yeah, but you’re not a gay atheist democrat

    Got it.

    BTW

    1. If you purposely defy an unjust law and are arrested and imprisoned, then you are stupid.
    2. MLK and Rosa Parks purposely defied an unjust law and were arrested and imprisoned,
    3. Therefore, MLK and Rosa Parks are stupid

    If 1 & 2 are true, 3 is logically and undeniably true; so 1 must be false

    Now go clean your fucking room

  15. What a muddle

    Epistemological entities can’t have interests but they can have agendas?

    Someone is slicing the baloney pretty damn thin

  17. Private businessmen ought to be able to choose who they serve, and let the market sort that out. A-holes will be driven out of business, so no problem, and no regulation needed. If they DO find a niche market, then so what? Bully for them, now they can pay taxes.

    Plus, the whole choosing who you serve deal doesn’t work now, as it only applies in one direction. If a white person refuses to serve a black person, he’s in big trouble. If the situation is reversed, nobody gives a rip. Don’t you see a problem with that? I do.

  18. […] A court clerk in Kentucky want to jail because she would not issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple. Keep in mind that, in 2004, an amendment to the Kentucky state constitution defining marriage as one man and one woman was approved by 75% of the voters. To this fact, our nation’s liberal elite answer: Damn the voters, damn Kentucky and damn Kim Davis for thinking that her religious beliefs should be respected. The liberal elite — in particular, Justice Anthony Kennedy and four of his Supreme Court colleagues — have decided that Christian belief must be forcibly eradicated, and that the voters of Kentucky are not fit to govern themselves. Therefore, Kim Davis is a criminal. […]

  19. How do you fire an Elected Official, except in the voting booth?

    Now, possibly, the Constitution of The Commonwealth of Kentucky has an Impeachment Provision that covers her position. It may also contain a Recall Provision.

    If neither are present, then, sorry pal, you have to wait until the next election.

  23. “Hate mongering”? Hate mongering is the 1.5% of the population who actually want to get married* forcing their will upon the majority, in direct Constitutional violation of their First Amendment rights, purely for the joy of persecuting Christians, not for making up some homilies out of whole cloth, but simply repeating the words of God. And hate mongering is also forcing a change to the definition of a millenia old institution, simply for the purpose of persecuting others.

    *And the majority of these 1.5% so-called marriages won’t last more than a couple of years, if that, because we’re talking about naturally promiscuous mentally ill people.

  24. I clearly stated: The union between one man and one woman is the necessary but not sufficient condition for the creation of new human life.

    Not every hetero couple can have kids, but every couple that does have kids is hetero.

    Not every person has five fingers per hand. So why do all of the gloves you buy at the store have five fingers? Discrimination and hatred lol? No, its because five fingers is NORMAL, just like heterosexuality.

    The major interest of The State in normal marriage is paternity. Paternity means a bread winner and a role model in the household. The community really doesn’t give a flying fuck about your orgasm and has no interest in Its attainment. Without the possibility of a sexual union having third party effects (potentially positive ones like properly socialized offspring; or absolutely negative ones like Improperly socialized offspring with AIDS), there is nothing to justify utilizing scarce resources to validate a union.

    Try phrasing your bullshit in such a way as to emphasize what’s in it for others, eapecially in the aggregate.

  26. And if you had been with Bob Kerrey when he ordered his troops to wipe out a Vietnamese village, your refusal should have gotten you fired?

    Because obeying orders is all that counts, right? I think I’ve heard that excuse before, shortly after WW II.

    There are times when disobedience to orders is the hero’s (or heroine’s) task.

  27. If you’re going to be a pedant, be consistent.

    1. Only individuals act
    2. Thinking is an act
    3. The act of thinking produces an idea/ideas
    4. Therefore only individuals have ideas
    5. An agenda is an idea
    6. The state is an epistemological/conceptual entity
    7. epistemological/conceptual entities are not individuals
    8. Therefore The State does not have an agenda
    8.Ppppppbbbbttttttttt….

    Cite Mises and prove me wrong apodictically

  28. It is trivial to introduce the notion of the metaperson as a metasystem of the system that is an individual. From that we can deduce the notion of a metamind, in which we are all neurons, and every community is a brain center.

    In which case, I declare that the U.S. is insane and could use a pre-frontal lobotomy.

  31. I haven’t as yet applied any rigor to this intuition, but I discern some noticeable consistencies in the language used by the unregistered trolls over the last few months.

    I suspect an intermittent regular troll keeps popping in and starting fresh with a new ID each time.

  36. some intellectually dishonest fool (*): “Totally ad hominem.”

    Prime Directive: “No, ad baculum… stupid :^)”

    that intellectually dishonest fool, again: “Now, that’s ad hominem..”

    Wouldn’t it be nice if these fools would at least learn how to use/apply ‘ad hominem’ correctly?

    (*) that’s a redundancy, by the way.

  37. Ugh…my chest…the pain…my left arm is going numb…I agreed with Neo twice in one year…and upvoted him…my heart…Elizabeth, I’m coming to join you!

  42. I can elaborate on my philosophy of metapeople, if it wasn’t as self-evident as I thought. Even professors of systems science have seemed to struggle with the concept, talking to them in person, so I could be completely wrong about how obvious it is.

  49. I think one is coming soon. Almost certainly a sort of electroshock therapy is going to be applied September 13/14th.

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