{"id":91267,"date":"2023-03-27T03:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=91267"},"modified":"2023-03-27T03:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:03:41","slug":"91267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=91267","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffgoldstein.substack.com\/p\/a-re-declaration-of-independence\">A Re-Declaration of Independence<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Tyranny is already upon us. To defeat it, we must first learn to reject its premises. And to say so aloud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Be it so understood:<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to \u201cunpack white violence.\u201d I reject the idea that my existence \u201cperpetuates white power structures.\u201d I will not \u2014 and in fact\u00a0<em>cannot<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 \u201cexamine my implicit biases.\u201d I\u2019m an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being. My meaning is mine. It is what makes me\u00a0<em>me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\">\n<div class=\"preamble\">\n<p>Thanks for reading protein wisdom reborn!! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not taking any \u201cjourney\u201d to \u201cdiscover\u201d the impact of my \u201cprivilege\u201d on \u201cblack and brown peoples.\u201d I will not become \u201canti-racist\u201d or \u201canti-fascist\u201d to satisfy your demands. I reject Cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I\u2019m not defined by my color, my religion, my sex. I\u2019m Jeff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I will not \u201crespect your pronouns\u201d or \u201ccelebrate\u201d your \u201cqueerness.\u201d I am hostile to your sexualizing of children. I reject your neologisms, your \u201ctriggers,\u201d and your desire to control my speech. I know who and what you are: you are my presumptive master, or else the Useful Idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you and your ideology no power over me.<\/p>\n<p>I reject \u201cequity\u201d because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject \u201cinclusivity\u201d because it is inorganic, superficial, and contrived. I reject mandated \u201cdiversity\u201d: I will not surrender to the Crayon Box Mafia, nor to the gender changelings who pretend I am a construct answerable to their whims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCultural appropriation\u201d is merely culture: it expands to include, and it makes up the very fabric of a pluralist society. There\u2019s no such thing as \u201cdigital blackface.\u201d My whiteness is not \u201cviolent\u201d; my sex is not \u201coppressive\u201d; my religion doesn\u2019t concern you; and my children are not yours to mold. Your beliefs will not be imposed on me. The State will not parent my sons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueer theory\u201d is \u201ccritical race theory\u201d is \u201ccritical consciousness\u201d is the Marxist rejection of the individual\u00a0<em>as individual<\/em>. Cultural Marxism is determined to raze norms, sow chaos, tear families asunder, and reduce being to collective conformity. I reject its premises as fully as I reject its adherents. I will not comply.<\/p>\n<p>I will not mouth your slogans. I will not denounce on command. I am not your tool, and you are not my minder. I reject your social hectoring. I find abhorrent your authoritarian urges. I laugh at your disingenuous outrage. From me you will receive no apologies. I reject your premises entirely, and I hereby reclaim my time.<\/p>\n<p>My speech is my own. I reject each of your excuses to silence me. I don\u2019t ask for your protections. I can filter information without your interference, and I despise your presumption to protect me from myself.<\/p>\n<p>I am your sworn enemy, as you are mine. I will not perform for you. I will not read from your script or dance in your follies. I utterly reject your revisionism, your ahistorical impertinence, your presentism, your self-appointed expertise. I will not bow before your theorists, nor admire your social prophets.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a disease. My existence doesn\u2019t \u201cwarm the planet.\u201d I\u2019m not interested in your \u201csustainability\u201d concerns. I am not yours to manage.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t eat your bugs, live in your pods, surrender my cars, or without consent be packed into your cities. I reject your charity. I unmask your intentions. I know what a woman is; I know that any member of any racial group can practice racism; I know that 2+2=4, regardless of how contingent you wish to make reality. I despise your ideology. I refuse your relativism. You are not the Elect, and I am not answerable to the various neuroses you wear as badges of honor.<\/p>\n<p>I know you better than you know yourselves. You are conditioned. Programmed. Automotons who believe themselves sentient beings. Your intolerance of \u201chate\u201d is not a virtue. It\u2019s a ruse. An excuse to practice your own intolerance and luxuriate in your own hatreds. You are a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are that which you claim to despise, and I am that which you claim to be.<\/p>\n<p>I see you. Clearly. And I aim to misbehave.<\/p>\n<p>I strive to be self-sufficient. I honor the founding ideals of my country, and I work to live up to their measure. I recognize the great fortune of my birth. History does not frighten me. I reject your blood libels: I am not responsible for that which I didn\u2019t do, nor are you victims of what was never done to you. I will not proclaim your goodness while knowing your evil.<\/p>\n<p>I am a free man. You wish to take me from me. You will fail. I will win. And God willing, I will live to spit on your graves.<\/p>\n<p>Outlaw.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Re-Declaration of Independence. Tyranny is already upon us. To defeat it, we must first learn to reject its premises. And to say so aloud. Be it so understood: I refuse to \u201cunpack white violence.\u201d I reject the idea that my existence \u201cperpetuates white power structures.\u201d I will not \u2014 and in fact\u00a0cannot\u00a0\u2014 \u201cexamine my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=91267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91268,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91267\/revisions\/91268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}