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In The Mailbox: 09.14.16

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.14.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Confessions Of An Ex-NFL Fan
EBL: Crooked Hillary Lied About Her E-Mails, Tried To Scapegoat Colin Powell
Michelle Malkin: Mulan Vs. The Diversity-Mongers
Twitchy: DNC Leak Exposes Pay-To-Play Politics, How The Clintons REALLY Feel About Obama
Louder With Crowder: “Black Rifles Matter”? Man Triggers Liberal Outrage In Maine
Monster Hunter Nation: Writers Should Be Cultural Appropriating All The Awesome Stuff


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Watching
American Power: Killings In Chicago Hit A 20-Year High
American Thinker: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – Goodbye, $15/hr; Hello, Zume Pizza
Don Surber: Dumbass Of The Day
Dustbury: Deliciously Tart
Jammie Wearing Fools: Desperate Spin On Clinton Turns Comical – “This Is A Woman Who Works Twenty Hours A Day”
Joe For America: NFL Will Fine Players Wearing 9/11 Tribute – NYPD Offers To Cover Fines
JustOneMinute: OMG Colin Powell
Pamela Geller: Australia’s Newest Senator Tells Non-Assimilating Muslims To Go Home
Power Line: Frequently Or Rarely?
Shark Tank: A Tale of Two “Deplorables”
Shot In The Dark: Indeed
The Jawa Report: Heartbreak! The Last Triceratops
The Lonely Conservative: Hillary Is OK, She Was Just Powering Through
The Political Hat: Common Sense Is Sexist And Kinda Rapey
This Ain’t Hell: Manning To Get Free Surgery In Return For His Selfless Service To His Country
Weasel Zippers: What Does The Post Office Waste Your Money On? Donating To The DNC, Duh!
Megan McArdle: Banks And Colleges Are Wasting Our Money


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#DNCLeaks: The Benghazi-ISIS Connection (Why Democrats Are Wrong)

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on #DNCLeaks: The Benghazi-ISIS Connection (Why Democrats Are Wrong)

“This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing do to with. It’s hard for the American people to make sense of that, because it is senseless, and it is totally unacceptable.”
— Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sept. 14, 2012, while standing over the caskets of the four Americans killed at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya

Why did ISIS emerge as a major terrorist threat in 2013? This is a question that Democrats don’t want Americans to consider a consequence of President Obama’s policies, as it quite obviously is. Nor does anyone in the Hillary Clinton campaign want to discuss how the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was connected to the rise of ISIS, although this connection is equally obvious.

The connection involves the so-called “Arab Spring” uprisings of 2011 that were supported by Clinton’s State Department. A major goal of the “Arab Spring” was the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s Ba’athist regime in Syria. In the wake of the successful U.S.-backed overthrow of Libyan dictator Moammar Ghaddafi, the Obama administration sought to recover the weapons it had provided to the Libyan rebels, and transfer them (via Turkey) to the rebels fighting in Syria, where Assad had managed to retain power. It was for this purpose — seeking a weapons “buyback” deal with a group of Libyan rebels — that U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens traveled to Benghazi on that fateful day in September 2012 when he was ambushed and murdered. The offer of a meeting with rebel leaders, it turned out, was the bait for a deadly trap. The anti-Ghaddafi rebel forces in Libya were dominated by Islamic radicals, including al-Qaeda operatives and, in just the same way, the anti-Assad forces in Syria came to be dominated by the radical Muslims of ISIS — and the Obama administration’s policies helped make this happen.

Concealing this truth about the policies that Hillary Clinton had approved and implemented was why she lied about Benghazi, promoting a false narrative about “an awful internet video” in order to distract from the reality of what had actually happened in Libya, and what was also happening in Syria. In its effort to arm the anti-Assad rebels, weapons were being shipped from Libya to Turkey, and then transported to Syria. ISIS was not the intended recipients of these weapons, but the situation in northern Syria was so unstable that many of these weapons certainly did end up in ISIS possession and, furthermore, the U.S.-backed uprising against Assad created the “perfect storm” of anarchy within which ISIS subsequently established its Raqqah-based “caliphate.”

All of this is background to the leaked 2014 email in which Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Policy Director Mike Ryan tries to provide a defensible explanation for the rise of ISIS. The 2003 invasion of Iraq “created the atmosphere for a Jordanian to start a Muslim sectarian war, which ultimately created ISIS,” Ryan wrote:

He goes on to disclose that Zarqawi entered Iraq during the invasion to establish a religious caliphate for just Sunni Muslims and to start a sectarian war against Shias.
The Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Maliki and supported by the U.S. made the situation worse, because Maliki was discriminatory towards Sunnis and helped rally extremists to Zarqawi.
“Malaki’s prejudicial governing style worsened after U.S. troops left Iraq, helping quickly deteriorate the situation further,” Ryan concludes.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Ryan’s explanation is simply a lie — deceit by omission, at the very least — because it wasn’t Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006, who created the situation that developed in Syria in 2013. Ryan’s explanation was a typical Democrat “blame Bush” excuse that ignores both (a) Obama’s disastrous decision to rapidly decrease U.S. troop strength in Iraq, and (b) the equally disastrous policy of arming the anti-Assad rebels in Syria. Ryan’s version of the ISIS story conveniently skips over the seven-year gap between Zarqawi’s death and the emergence of ISIS as a major threat in order to conceal the role that the Obama administration’s policies played in the rise of ISIS. Just a few relevant highlights from the Wikipedia article on ISIS:

In August 2011, following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, ISI, under the leadership of [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi, delegated a mission into Syria, which under the name Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli ash-Sham (or al-Nusra Front) established a large presence in Sunni-majority Al-Raqqah, Idlib, Deir ez-Zor, and Aleppo provinces. . . . .
In August [2011], al-Baghdadi began sending Syrian and Iraqi ISI members experienced in guerilla warfare across the border into Syria to establish an organisation there. Led by a Syrian known as Abu Muhammad al-Julani, this group began to recruit fighters and establish cells throughout the country. . . .
On 8 April 2013, al-Baghdadi released an audio statement in which he announced that the al-Nusra Front had been established, financed, and supported by the Islamic State of Iraq, and that the two groups were merging under the name “Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham”. . . .
Meanwhile, the ISIL campaign to free imprisoned ISIL members culminated in simultaneous raids on Taji and Abu Ghraib prisons in July 2013, freeing more than 500 prisoners, many of them veterans of the Iraqi insurgency. . . .
On 29 June 2014, the organisation proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate.

Now, from the Wikipedia article on Syrian Civil War:

On 11 January 2013, Islamist groups, including al-Nusra Front, took full control of the Taftanaz air base in the Idlib Governorate. . . . The leader of the al-Nusra Front said the amount of weapons they took was a “game changer”. . . .
On 2 March, intense clashes between rebels and the Syrian Army erupted in the city of Raqqah, with many reportedly killed on both sides. . . . By 3 March, rebels had overrun Raqqah’s central prison, allowing them to free hundreds of prisoners . . .
By 6 March, the rebels had captured the city of Raqqah, effectively making it the first provincial capital to be lost by the Assad government.

It is these events between 2011 and 2014, during Obama’s presidency, that Mike Ryan dishonestly omitted from his email to Democrats. After the death of Zarqawi and the 2007 U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, this ragtag coalition of Sunni extremists was not a threat beyond a few places in western Iraq. However, once the U.S.-backed “Arab Spring” uprising destabilized neighboring Syria — at the same time Obama had withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraq — this created a new opportunity for al-Baghdadi.

 

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Democrats don’t want to talk about the policy decisions that brought about the disaster in Benghazi, which is connected to the disasters in Iraq and Syria. Fiddling around with rival factions in Muslim countries is no substitute for exerting our own military strength directly in defense of our own interests. The Obama/Clinton policy was always naïve — as naïve, in its own way, as the idea that we could “make Anglo-Saxon republicans out of obscure desert savages,” as Kevin D. Williamson once described Bush-era “War on Terror” policy. It is not usually necessary for the U.S. to deploy 150,000 troops, to invade other countries and topple dictatorships, in order to influence foreign affairs. However, if we are never willing to deploy any troops, our influence will be minimal, our allies will have no reason to trust that we will defend them, and our adversaries will despise our cowardice.




 

Category: Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Islam, Libya, Syria, Terrorism

‘Bragging Rights’: Why Are Female Teachers Having Sex With Their Students?

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on ‘Bragging Rights’: Why Are Female Teachers Having Sex With Their Students?

 

Earlier this year, an episode of the Dr. Phil show highlighted the case of Tanya Ramirez, 31, a Texas teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old student. Ramirez then sued the student, Tristan Price, now 20, claiming that she was actually his victim:

A defiant Ramirez says the sex was consensual, Tristan is an adult and he was just fine after their encounter. In fact, her lawyer has claimed it only made him more popular, and led to his being named Homecoming King.
The 31-year-old former teacher says in the video that Price came to her house drunk one night for sex, surreptitiously recorded their amorous encounter on his cellphone without her knowledge, and then showed the video to 11 of his friends at school to earn bragging rights.
‘He wanted some kind of recognition for sleeping with a teacher,’ she tells Dr Phil.
According to the disgraced educator, the sex tape quickly ‘went viral,’ but Price’s mother, Kimberly Tademy, brusquely dismissed Ramirez’s claim.
‘It didn’t go viral. It wasn’t that good,’ Tademy says derisively in the promo, drawing peals of laughter from the crowd. ‘It was only 10 seconds, baby.’
Ramirez sued Tademy last August for calling her a ‘sexual predator’ and accusing her of sexual misconduct with other students, KRIS 5 reported.
Ramirez claims these comments caused her emotional distress and led to her losing a job at a local Jiu Jitsu academy.
Lawyers for the former teacher previously claimed Tristan Price was legally an adult when they had sex and he also was not her student, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported.

Ramirez is a convicted sex offender, and her accusations against Price look like DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) tactics, but this nevertheless raises questions about what motivates female teachers to commit such crimes, and how they choose their victims. Is it true, for example, that Price actually pursued Ramirez by going to her house in order to get the video for “bragging rights”? Is it true that this video enhanced Price’s popularity among his fellow students? Why would Ramirez have sex with Price, knowing that this was a crime that could destroy her career? Did she not realize that Price was likely to tell his friends about having sex with her? And really, why does a 31-year-old woman want to have sex with a teenage boy anyway?

Someone should ask Everyday Feminism managing editor Melissa Fabello to explain this, because this kind of behavior doesn’t seem to conform to feminist theory about sexuality under patriarchal oppression.

 

Category: Crime, Education

Haroon Ali-Syed Plotted Terror Attacks

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | 1 Comment

Religion of Peace™ Update:

A young Muslim man is accused of attempting to buy guns and a suicide vest for an Islamic State-inspired massacre at Buckingham Palace.
Haroon Ali-Syed, 19, was arrested by counter-terrorism officers amid fears he was on the brink of committing an atrocity.
The IT student is also suspected of trying to contact a bombmaker to build a nail bomb, and researching an Elton John concert in Hyde Park which took place on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
He is charged with planning to carry out an attack at a central London landmark, potentially Buckingham Palace or Oxford Street.
It is understood evidence against Ali-Syed was gathered in a joint operation between MI5 and Scotland Yard.
An undercover officer, posing as an extremist, infiltrated his circle and allegedly recorded exchanges of him preparing a terrorist attack.
Ali-Syed is accused of attempting to get hold of an improvised pressure cooker bomb built to instructions published online by Al Qaeda.
He allegedly made applications for loans worth £8,000 to finance his plans.
Yesterday, he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with preparing an act of terrorism between April 12 and September 9.
Prosecutor Thomas Halpin said Ali-Syed tried to contact someone online ‘to make an incendiary explosive device,’ asking an intermediary: ‘How many people this one bomb can kill or injure?’
He added: ‘His internet searches show he is searching busy places in London. Oxford Street, upcoming events in London. He is looking at internet searches. Where are soldiers in the UK, London’s top ten most crowded boroughs, Buckingham Palace, Royal Marines Reserve, City of London.’

Just another random coincidence . . .

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

Police Officers ‘Targeted’ in Phoenix

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on Police Officers ‘Targeted’ in Phoenix

 

Marc LaQuon Payne, 44, rammed his vehicle into three cops Tuesday:

An angry Phoenix Police Chief Joe Yahner played a video showing a vehicle pulling out of a parking space, circling the parking lot and then accelerating toward the police officers outside the convenience store.
In an early-afternoon press conference, Yahner said two officers were seriously injured and the driver will be booked on three charges of attempted first-degree murder.
“I’m very proud of the men and women of the Phoenix Police Department, and I’m outraged by this incident,” Yahner said.
“Our Phoenix police officers were targeted.”
A 33-year-old police officer who was on his first day of duty suffered a head injury, and a police sergeant, 41, suffered a broken leg. A third officer, 36, managed to jump out of the way but was injured during an extended struggle with the driver, Yahner said.
The video shows the rookie officer thrown several feet in the air and hitting the glass window of the QuikTrip. The officer, whom Yahner would identify only by his first name, Jeremy, then helped take Payne into custody, Yahner said.
The sergeant, who had fallen to the pavement, called for assistance, Yahner said.
The collision happened just before 2 a.m. at the store at 2535 W. Camelback Road, just off Interstate 17.
The sergeant had met the rookie at the QuikTrip to talk about expectations of performance, Yahner said. The three officers were standing in the parking lot in front of the store — “a well-lit area,” he said.
About 1:45 a.m., the man pulled into the QuikTrip and backed into a parking space, where he sat for several minutes, Yahner said. He then pulled out of the space, rounded the parking lot and accelerated as he crashed into the officers and then into the store, Yahner said.
The surveillance video speaks volumes, Yahner said.
“We are confident that this is an intentional act,” Yahner said. “This stuff needs to stop.”

“This stuff,” of course, is the Black Lives Matter movement, which has incited violence by deliberately demonizing police officers. Payne had previously been convicted of attacking police during a 1997 traffic stop: “The officers who were attacked told the court they believed the man would attack officers again if he were ever arrested.”

Criminals have always hated cops. Giving criminals a “social justice” excuse for hating cops is dangerous and irresponsible.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 


Category: Crime

Teacher Had Sex With 12-Year-Old Boy

Posted on | September 13, 2016 | Comments Off on Teacher Had Sex With 12-Year-Old Boy

Michelle Sulzicki pleaded guilty.

Bridgeport, Connecticut:

A former Stratford elementary school teacher is facing up to four years in prison after pleading guilty [Aug. 23] to having a 2-year sexual affair with a 13-year-old boy.
Dressed in a maroon dress, her blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, 29-year-old Michelle Sulzicki showed no emotion as she stood before Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin and pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child. . . .
Devlin told Sulzicki he will impose a sentence of no more than four years and no less than six months when he sentences her Oct. 28. . . .
Sulzicki could have faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted of the charges. . . .
Sulzicki, who taught special education at the Chapel Street School in Stratford the past four years, was fired following her arrest. . . .
Police said Sulzicki began having sex with the boy when he was 12 and she was tutoring him at his Stratford home.
They said the boy told them that the first time he did not wear a condom Sulzicki “forced him to have sex with her,” the arrest warrant affidavit states.
Over the next two years the boy said he had sex with Sulzicki up to 20 times, the affidavit states. When confronted, police said Sulzicki admitted she had sex with the boy once when he was 12.
“She said she did not charge the family for tutoring him,” the affidavit adds.

Meanwhile . . .

Michelle Smith White pleaded guilty.

Durham, North Carolina:

A former Durham high school teacher pleaded guilty [Sept. 2] to sex charges involving a student.
Authorities said Michelle Smith White formed a friendship with a female student in 2012, when the girl was 15, and it later evolved into a sexual relationship. White was the dance teacher at Jordan High School at the time.
The girl’s father called White “a practiced predator,” noting that, despite repeated warnings from the family, school officials and police to leave the girl alone, White continued to text her and even got a tattoo with the girl’s name in it.
The family had to move the girl out of Durham following the incident so she could get psychiatric treatment, the father said.
White, 39, of Penrith Drive in Durham, pleaded guilty to sex act with a student, two counts of indecent liberties with student, indecent liberties with a child and second-degree kidnapping. She was sentenced to 45 months to 123 months in prison and was ordered to register as a sex offender. The judge also issued a permanent “no contact” order for White regarding the girl and her family.

Meanwhile . . .

Rebecca Eileen Diebolt pleaded guilty.

Placentia, California:

A former Orange County high school teacher who had a long affair with a 15-year-old student has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Rebecca Eileen Diebolt, 37, of Brea, was sentenced [Aug. 26] and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
She pleaded guilty in January to sex acts with a minor.
Diebolt, a language arts teacher and swim and water polo coach at Valencia High School in Placentia, had a sexual relationship with the girl from 2004 to 2008, police said. The relationship carried on after the girl graduated from high school and went to college.
The victim reported the acts to police in 2014.
She told police that she and Diebolt had multiple sexual encounters that occurred in Diebolt’s classroom, as well as Diebolt’s home after school and on weekends.

Meanwhile . . .

Dionne Younce pleaded guilty.

St. Augustine, Florida:

A former Allen D. Nease High School teacher will spend a year in the St. Johns County jail for having sex with one of her students.
Dionne Marie Younce, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual activity with a certain minor before Judge Michael Traynor [Sept. 8]. Traynor sentenced her to 364 days in jail with credit given for two days of time served. Upon her release Younce will be required to register as a sex offender and will spend five years on probation with sex offender conditions.
The St. Johns County School District suspended Younce in January — and formally fired her in February — after the Sheriff’s Office began investigating allegations that she had engaged in inappropriate communications with at least two students.
She was arrested Feb. 25 on two counts of unlawful sexual activity with certain minors.
While Younce’s attorney, Raymond Forbess, and the 7th Circuit State Attorney’s Office were not able to reach a plea agreement in the case, the state did drop one of the charges against Younce after negotiations and agreed to cap the amount of time to be served at 364 days.
Assistant State Attorney Chris Ferebee said he felt Younce’s crime did deserve some time behind bars.
Ferebee told Traynor that Younce’s contact with the student, who was a month shy of turning 18, was “certainly a consensual relationship.”
“The problem is she is a teacher and she is in charge of our children and she can not interact with students this way,” Ferebee said.
“This is a case … that warrants some incarceration,” he added.

Meanwhile . . .

Nicole Wilfinger pleaded guilty.

Las Vegas, Nevada:

Nicole Wilfinger, 37, spoke softly as she told a judge she’s prepared to plead guilty [Aug. 24] to two counts in the case against her.
One count of a teacher having sex with a student and another of statutory seduction.
“You wish to accept those negotiations,” Judge Cynthia Cruz asked. “Yes ma’am,” said Wilfinger.
Wilfinger was originally charged with nine counts stemming from a sexual relationship with a student police say began June of 2015.
Court records show Wilfinger was a teacher at Molasky Middle School and met the student when he was in seventh grade.

Meanwhile . . .

Shelly Jensen pleaded guilty.

Green Bay, Wisconsin:

A former West De Pere High School teacher’s aide faces time in prison for having a sexual relationship with a student.
Shelly L. Jensen, 50, pleaded guilty Monday in Brown County Circuit Court to one count of sexual assault of a student by school staff. Two additional counts of sexually assaulting a student and three counts of child enticement were dismissed as a result of Jensen’s plea.
Jensen was arrested in June after her ex-husband told police their adult daughter and 7-year-old son had found her on separate occasions in bed with a 17-year-old boy at her home in Lawrence.
Court documents state Jensen had worked with the boy as a math and English tutor. The tutoring sessions first began at the school and later moved to Jensen’s home.
The boy told police he and Jensen had sex three times over a three week period.
Jensen initially denied they had sex, telling police she invited the victim to her home because she wanted to get him out of a bad home situation, according to a criminal complaint.
Jensen’s bond will remain at $250,000. She is scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 11.

Just a series of random coincidences . . .

 

Category: Crime, Education

In The Mailbox: 09.13.16

Posted on | September 13, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.13.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Basket Of Deplorable – Hillary & CNN’s Wicker Trap
Twitchy: Great Timing Or What? Hillary Graces The Pages Of This Magazine’s October Issue
Louder With Crowder: Gun Rights Advocates File Major Defamation Suit Against Katie Couric


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Paralympics Are Retarded
American Power: Mike Lofgren – The Deep State
American Thinker: Alien Retreat – The Rise Of The Deplorables
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
BLACKFIVE: God Bless The SAS
Da Tech Guy: Gaming The Disability System
Don Surber: What Happened To Her Landslide?
Dustbury: And It Will Stay Broken
Jammie Wearing Fools: Irony – University Of Houston #BlackLivesMatter Leader Robbed At Gunpoint By Black Man
Joe For America: Redskins Sprint From Sidelines, Do Surprising Thing During National Anthem
JustOneMinute: Stray “People Like Us” Reporting At The NYT
Pamela Geller: John Kerry’s State Department Funneled Millions To His Daughter’s Nonprofit
Power Line: Keith Ellison’s 9/11
Shark Tank: Clinton Leads With Florida Hispanics But May Lose State Anyway
Shot In The Dark: Report Card
STUMP: Actuarial Nuggets – Public Pensions And Financial Economics, Presidential Mortality, And More
The Jawa Report: CankleGate II!
The Political Hat: Queering Segregation
This Ain’t Hell: The Military’s Obesity Problem
Weasel Zippers: University Of South Carolina Bans “9/11: Never Forget” Posters As Offensive To Muslims, Bans College Republicans For Posting Them
Megan McArdle: Clinton Never Learns That The World Sees Every Stumble


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Feminism Is Anti-Male Hate Propaganda

Posted on | September 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

 

So I was scrolling through feminist blogs on Tumblr when I came across a post that began, “We can all easily agree that throughout history women and men were not equal.” To which I would reply:

  1. What do you mean by “equal”?
    and
  2. Nobody lives “throughout history.”

Are these points obvious enough, or am I the only one who sees this? All talk about “equality” between men and women, especially in the context of history, should bring immediately to mind the fact that the vast majority of people who have ever lived were quite poor. Especially if you are judging from the standpoint of someone living in a 21st-century industrialized Western democratic society, you are applying to men and women a measurement of “equality” that is absurd. Go back scarcely 100 years, and my own ancestors in rural Alabama were plowing their farms with mules. They had neither electricity nor indoor plumbing. They drew their water from a well and cooked over a wood-burning stove. Do you think my grandfather and grandmother circa 1916 had time and leisure to worry about whether they were “equal”? They were both working from sunup to sundown, and when I say “working,” I mean hard, physical labor, not sitting in front of a computer in an air-conditioned office building.

This Tumblr blogger’s casual invocation of “history” perfectly illustrates how feminism functions as anti-male hate propaganda. Much like other hate movements and totalitarian ideologies, feminism uses the past to provoke an exaggerated sense of collective grievance. Whether or not she has been the victim of any particular form of discrimination, violence, etc., the feminist can always conjure up horrific examples from the past to justify resentment of “male privilege.” No matter how privileged she may be herself, or how long ago a particular atrocity happened, the tale of historic male evil serves to fuel a sense of collective outrage at what women (yes, all women) have suffered at the hands of men (yes, all men). Individual responsibility disappears in this feminist narrative, leaving us to deal only with the categories of male oppressors and female victims.

The Tumblr blogger’s litany of historic male evil continues:

We can all agree women did not have basic human rights, we can all agree they were living as a lower class, servant class, if they wanted to live they were forced to enter a marriage with a man, and then were forced into domestic labor, sexual labor, raising children, producing food and fabric for entire family, their labor was taken for granted, they were not paid, they did not have the rights to vote, to have real, paid jobs, to control their own bodies and decide how many children they give birth to or when. They were massively murdered by men who wanted a new, younger wife, they were commonly beaten and terrified into obeying, marital rape was legal, beating your wife was legal.
This is what men wanted, this was organized through the means of religion and socialization.

Really. Whether all this beating and raping and killing happened yesterday, or the day before yesterday, if it did not happen to you — as an individual — then you are not a victim of it. And if I did not beat, rape or kill you, then you cannot blame these crimes on me.

Bad enough that men have to put up with all the feminists screeching about Brock Turner as if every man on the planet is a scholarship athlete at Stanford. I’ve never been anywhere near Palo Alto, and I sure as heck don’t have $47,940 a year for tuition, so how am I to blame for Brock Turner? Never mind — all men are Brock Turner, according to Feminist Logic™ and no man can be permitted to claim innocence.

For our Tumblr feminist to say that, in the past, “women did not have basic human rights” requires us to ignore the fact that “human rights” are a quite modern concept. People simply didn’t think that way prior to the 19th century, and then only in European cultures, and there are still plenty of places in the world — including Iran and North Korea — where your “basic human rights” are absolutely meaningless.

If you are going to make “history” the basis of your arguments, it might behoove you to study history, and not just recite whatever version of it you picked up from reading Mary Daly or Andrea Dworkin, or from taking a Women’s Studies course. Perhaps you might try reading Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. There you will learn that, when the Lacedaemonians captured Plataea in 427 B.C., they put to death every man in the city and “the women they sold as slaves.” Later, when the Athenians captured Melos, they killed every adult male “and made slaves of the children and women.” Considering that this was the common practice of war in Greece, one of the most civilized cultures in ancient history, what do you suppose life was like in less civilized cultures? Throughout thousands of years of history, humanity consisted of conquerors and the conquered, rulers and their subjects, and anyone who resisted the conquering power was subject to death or slavery.

It may be easy to take for granted the peace and prosperity we enjoy as Americans, but it is not wise to take it for granted. Rooting around in the past to find an excuse to feel sorry for yourself, to claim a share of collective victimhood in order to demonize others, is not the way to improve “basic human rights.” As I wrote nearly three years ago:

The various “-isms” of left-wing ideology are really just variations of a destructive anti-social nihilism, whose purpose was forever defined more than 150 years ago when, in their Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels declared: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” Once you understand this profound hostility to social order — the misfit’s appetite for anarchy — then you realize that whatever grievance they complain of is really just a pretext. They do not actually wish to reform society. Rather, they seek revenge against society, and don’t care that others are harmed by their acts of destruction, except insofar as they actively desire such harm.

If the Left ever succeeds in destroying America, I suspect our young feminists will painfully discover their “basic human rights” mean even less to the rest of the world than they meant in ancient Greece.




 

Category: History, Sex Trouble
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