{"id":97319,"date":"2023-10-31T12:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97319"},"modified":"2023-10-31T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:45:38","slug":"97319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97319","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything the social justice crowd told us was a lie.<\/a><\/p>\n

E<\/span>verything the social justice crowd has said for the past 15 years has been a lie.<\/p>\n

The movement gained a foothold in American\u00a0culture<\/a>\u00a0around 2008, riding a wave of popular reexaminations of\u00a0race<\/a>\u00a0relations, political divisions, and systemic disparities. It styled itself as an honorable call to right the wrongs of society, both\u00a0historical<\/a>\u00a0and contemporaneous.<\/p>\n

The past three weeks, however, have served as definitive proof that the benevolent emperor is a naked tyrant. The warriors for the oppressed are not so noble and selfless as they claim. Neither are they singularly motivated by the ideals of “inclusivity,” “equity,” and “diversity.” They\u2019re as greedy, vicious, prejudiced, and hateful as the oppressors they accuse.<\/p>\n

The \u201csocial justice\u201d crowd has only ever cared about acquiring power and influence, creeping toward this goal via emotional blackmail, intimidation campaigns, and even occasional violence.<\/strong> Theirs is not a cause for justice, but for self-enrichment; a relatively bloodless conquest for power and treasure. They simply disguise their self-interest in the language of \u201cjustice\u201d and altruism, all the while plotting new ways to seize for themselves the \u201cprivilege\u201d and \u201cpower\u201d they envy in others.<\/p>\n

Nothing has done so fine a job of laying bare this reality as Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 slaughter of 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians, including children. Since that day of mass murder, social justice activists have flooded city streets and college campuses across the West, cheering war crimes and calling for the destruction of Israel.<\/p>\n

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They chant explicit calls for ethnic cleansing, including \u201c\u00a0From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free<\/a>\u00a0,\u201d \u201c\u00a0There is only one solution, intifada revolution<\/a>\u00a0,\u201d and \u201c\u00a0We can\u2019t wait for the caliphate<\/a>\u00a0!\u201d They proudly display signs showing the Star of David in a wastebasket, accompanied by the caption, \u201c\u00a0Please keep the world clean<\/a>\u00a0.\u201d They\u00a0tear down posters<\/a>\u00a0featuring the faces of Israeli adults and children held hostage by Hamas. They use projectors to display messages such as \u201c\u00a0GLORY TO OUR MARTYRS<\/a>\u00a0\u201d onto school buildings.<\/p>\n

These are the same people who claim they\u2019re traumatized by \u201cviolent\u201d rhetoric. These are the people who turned terms such as \u201csafe space\u201d and \u201ctrigger warning\u201d into everyday cliches. These are the people who ruthlessly enforce DEI policies and ideology in the name of protecting marginalized peoples. They\u2019re left-wing academics, students, activists, and bureaucrats, and they proudly endorse violence and terror.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re having an effect.<\/p>\n

Jews in New York City have been told to\u00a0avoid certain areas<\/a>\u00a0for fear of targeted violence. Some\u00a0Jewish schools in the United States closed<\/a>\u00a0on Oct. 13 after Hamas leadership called for a \u201cDay of Rage.\u201d At America\u2019s institutions of higher learning, some Jewish students\u00a0are going into hiding<\/a>\u00a0as their classmates hold\u00a0vigils for the Palestinian \u201cmartyrs<\/a>\u00a0\u201d of Oct. 7. College administrators have been slow to condemn the pro-terrorist demonstrations that have descended on their campuses. They\u2019ve been even slower\u00a0to offer protections for Jewish students<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

The team that claims it cherishes \u201cinclusivity\u201d and \u201cdiversity\u201d more than anything else has embraced Hamas and its mission to annihilate a marginalized group. They\u2019ve effectively become acolytes for Hamas.<\/p>\n

Yet these students, academics, and activists tell us they stand against \u201cviolent\u201d language. They tell us certain rhetoric should be punished and even outlawed. They tell us rhetoric is sometimes literal violence. They tell us they hear racist dog whistles every time the Right criticizes Democratic governance. They hound private citizens for perceived \u201cmicroaggressions,\u201d including the wearing of \u201coffensive\u201d Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n

They accuse the Right of waging “literal genocide” against the LGBT community. They even browbeat the NFL\u2019s Redskins and the MLB\u2019s Indians into changing their names to the Commanders and the Guardians, respectively. They call anyone who hints at disagreement a literal Nazi. They invented an entire industry to comfort and coddle students, employees, activists, etc., who claim they’ve been “traumatized” by conservative rhetoric. They endlessly accuse the Right of promoting antisemitism and antisemitic tropes, gorging themselves on news and media commentary\u00a0that alleges the same<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Given these stated values, how are they cheering actual war crimes, holding vigils for actual terrorists, and engaging in the most stridently antisemitic and fascistic behavior and rhetoric\u00a0this side of World War II<\/a>\u00a0? When it comes to Jews, where are those \u201csafe spaces\u201d?\u00a0The attic<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>? What happened to all that \u201cHate has no home here\u201d pablum?\u00a0In this house<\/a>\u00a0, do we not defend the Jewish people from calls for their extermination?<\/p>\n

For the people who\u2019ve berated the country for the past 15 years about inclusion and diversity, the answer is clearly a resounding no.<\/p>\n

The Jews do not count. Jewish lives don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

The secret to understanding these contradictory positions is this: The \u201csocial justice\u201d types don\u2019t actually oppose hateful language and dangerous rhetoric. They don\u2019t care about equity and inclusivity. Attempts to censor speech, dogpiling nobodies for even the most banal \u201cmicroaggressions,\u201d physically intimidating ideological opponents \u2014 these are nothing more than exercises in raw power, some pointed and some simple exertions of control. These are the methods by which they elbow out, shut down, and eventually destroy altogether those with whom they disagree and those whose destruction could provide them and their kind with more opportunities and \u201cprivilege.\u201d<\/p>\n

To the left-wing social justice activist, Jews are just a subset of \u201cwhite oppressors.\u201d And it\u2019s both right and just to strip the \u201cwhite oppressor\u201d of his \u201cpower\u201d and \u201cprivilege\u201d \u201cby any means necessary.\u201d This is the stated goal of the social justice movement, as expressed in increasingly explicit terms over the years. The rallies in support of Hamas aren\u2019t surprising, then, when one understands the stated aims of the \u201csocial justice\u201d movement. For the movement, Hamas presents yet another opportunity for the tearing down and marginalization of an \u201cacceptably\u201d hated group and the reassignment of its \u201cprivilege\u201d to better and more deserving stewards.<\/p>\n

Everything the social \u201cjustice\u201d crowd has told us about working for a more peaceable and inclusive tomorrow has been a lie. And nothing has revealed this so clearly as the spectacle of them standing shoulder to shoulder with a hyperviolent antisemitic death cult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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