The Week in Pictures: Systemic Meme Edition
Power Line,
by
Steven Hayward
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/14/2020 4:29:27 AM
Everything these days is “systemic.” But what is that “system”? I think it must be capitalism, when you get right down to it. Just think, the basic accounting terminology of capitalism is rife with implicit racism. Just think about it: when a business is losing money, we say it is “in the red.” An obvious slur at native Americans. And when a business is doing well and making profits, we say it is “in the. . .” Oh, wait. It should be “white” shouldn’t it?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/14/2020 6:15:19 AM (No. 444073)
I keep seeing the word racism flung everywhere, but I never see any definition of what the flingers are talking about. It mystifies me that every other race that comes into this country is able to get ahead, and without any affirmations, or money thrown their way. The Vietnamese take over our fishing industry, their children now doctors and dentists overcharging all of us, but despite billions, and racial privilege, many blacks seem unable to perform, except in excelling at extortion and mayhem. I think that is because black males are not taking the responsibilities for the families they produce. I notice some of the baby producers on the Houston Texans protesting, after multiple families formed and abandoned, then blaming their problems on slave owners. Interesting that the slave owners now pay them $10 million dollars a year for 6 months work in the NFL.
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Agreed #1. I have a Vietnamese friend whose family came here with literally only what they could wear and carry. Most could not speak english. Yet they adapted, got to work, and thrived. It all comes down to culture and attitude.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Firefly 6/14/2020 8:30:51 AM (No. 444179)
I was born in 1950. I was beyond my years in the world of vocabulary. Words, to me, were more than just letters. I read every book, magazine, and cereal box I could find. Through the years I could see how the Enemy, the Father of all Lies, works.
The poison of postmodernism crept into our school system before I went to college but its deadly effects were clear: words were weapons. They were especially useful if one could make any particular word mean whatever one wanted it to mean. Shades of George Orwell, reason and clarity were seen as racist, misogynistic, and even sexist.
During the '60s, I remember talking with a fellow student who just happened to be a bra-burning feminist. She fairly boiled with rage over 'oppression' at the hands of men. Being a student of history, I mused at her statements. When compared to the lives of women in the past and especially other nations, she had made in the shade. But this girl had read all the marxist literature she could lay her hands on and there was no talking with her.
Today we have blacks who rage and fume over their 'oppression'. Same story, different victim. I have to hand it to the democrats. The have pulled off one of the biggest revisions of history and thus switched the blacks hats into the white hats. A cursory study of history will reveal the fact that the democrat party and its members were in the vanguard of racism from the very beginning.
But most young folks and a lot of older folks who never read a book think the Democrat party was conceived in 1854 to combat slavery and racism. The truth, of course, is the opposite. It was the GOP that had ending slavery as one of its core tenants, but try to find a college person, black or white, who knows that.
If you do stumble upon on, he or she will confidently tell you, "yes, that's true but the parties have switched their positions and now it is the GOP that is the party of oppression". You can see their eyes widen in disbelief when I lay out the historical facts to the contrary. Stubborn opposition to my words makes its appearance and you realize that you just wasted your time.
Unless you bet them $100.00. This changes everything. It is a tactic I have deployed on marxists, black activists, and democrats of all color. Money shuts them up. In the last 30 years, which is how long I have practiced the money trick, not one liberal, lefty, black or Hispanic person has taken my bet. Not one.
And you, gentle reader, know exactly what that means: the left doesn't really believe their nonsense. Now some do, but when you put large cash on the line, they begin stuttering and they get a confused look on their faces. Nobody challenges these loons. I do and enjoy every minute of their discomfort.
Cash, it seems, makes them 'woke'. LOL......I could not help myself there.
Poster #1 makes a point few people want to make: what other racial/ethnic group goes on a burning, looting, and killing spree after one of their group or tribe gets killed? The Italians? The Viet Namese? How about the Navajo? I won't even bother mentioning white people. It seems from what I can see a curious tradition of negroes. I am open to correction, however. I could be wrong.
What did Candace Owens say? "We're the only people who celebrate our criminals." I could have the quote wrong, but I am close.
Finally, I will tell you that 5 decades of ceaseless indoctrination by the colleges and the media have made most white people afraid of telling the truth about race. And you know exactly what I mean. Not only that. The average white person who is an American feels guilty of being white and being American. My own children echoed the marxist tripe by Howard Zinn. Only my son actually 'woke' up and realized the truth. My daughter? Not so much. He went to work. She went to college. I feel the damage is done and permanent. She parrots the same self-defeating and self-loathing slogans she heard for 4 years in her classes and the student union.
Words are weapons. The left wants you to play poker with them. However, in this very serious game, they are the dealer and the book of poker rules that lies next to their chips is written in pencil lead and can be erased and modified to keep you, gentle reader, always losing.
I will leave you with this: what is it about Donald J Trump that enrages the left and causes involuntary spasms of hate of him in them? You, gentle reader, really already know the answer, you just don't want to be a target of the reflexive rage from any nearby leftist. Amiright? Trump breaks their self-serving rules. He came to the poker table with a copy of Hoyles and refuses to let them bully him. Every American of any ethnicity or race should be grateful we have him in office.
The Alinksy-designed mobs and the Deep State apparatchiks in Washington, DC want to change the United States of America into the United States of Venezuela. There is one man standing in their way. His name?
Donald J Trump.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/14/2020 8:31:52 AM (No. 444181)
This series is a must for me every week. Who doesn't need a good laugh, especially lately. The pirate one actually made me laugh out loud.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
3D-Chess 6/14/2020 8:38:49 AM (No. 444187)
Poster #1 ➡ Your comment is spot on❗
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
foxglove 6/14/2020 8:59:32 AM (No. 444211)
Thanks for posting. Some of these memes are reminders of how odd things are but there are so many funny ones! Trying not to wake my husband with laughing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/14/2020 9:22:39 AM (No. 444220)
Statistically, blacks who come from Africa or the Caribbean are less violent and do better in school than American blacks. So it must be cultural. Right?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/14/2020 10:01:20 AM (No. 444258)
I saved the one about the broken joke: A priest, a minister and a rabbi.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/14/2020 11:33:40 AM (No. 444362)
Along with Lucianne, the Powerline blog is a Must Read site for me, and their Saturday feature of The Week in Pictures is the one I look forward to all week. Really brilliant. Really funny. And deadly accurate.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JackBurton 6/14/2020 12:50:21 PM (No. 444457)
What a great post. Going thru this article just made me feel better.. about almost everything. I expect to 'quote' a number of the 'paragraphs' on my social media page.
Thanks, Plu.
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