What My Neighborhood Needs:
Fewer Virtue Signaling Lawn Signs
American Thinker,
by
Clarice Feldman
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
6/21/2020 6:52:28 AM
Because of the number of diplomatic offices and residences in my neighborhood, the uniformed division of the U.S. Secret Service patrols much of this Ward (Ward 3). (Snip) You would think we have everything a person might need here: Safety, decent public and private schools, easy shopping, fine restaurants, lots of easy transportation options. But you’d be wrong. What we need is fewer virtue-signaling lawn signs and a greater appreciation of the blessings all Americans have.
As soon as the mayhem began in Minnesota, a number of houses on the next block sprouted commercially prepared lawn signs supporting Black Lives Matter.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 6/21/2020 7:17:15 AM (No. 451584)
As usual, an excellent article from Clarice. I myself chafe under the Diversity emails that pollute my inbox at work, which would be classified as moral cruelty. June is the month, you know. I was also enlightened that the acronym is now LGBTQ+. Better get up to speed. The tolerant libs keep me on my toes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 6/21/2020 7:35:09 AM (No. 451592)
In a nutshell - why I deleted Instagram Tuesday before last.
I’ll go to church if I need a sermon
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
smcchk 6/21/2020 7:48:13 AM (No. 451603)
Yes, #2, Instagram became political lately. Or scolding, Full of scoldings “How to...” “Examine yourself...” “Sa their names...!” The smugness and superiority of it all!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/21/2020 8:19:53 AM (No. 451623)
Just make up some bumper stickers that say "Please eat me last!" and slap one one every virtue-signalling yard sign.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/21/2020 8:41:40 AM (No. 451641)
#4, that's precisely what those signs already are. Basically, they are there to tell the thugs not to burn or loot their place.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MuncsSister 6/21/2020 8:58:47 AM (No. 451662)
Millennial white women in manicured mostly white urban/suburban areas are the absolute worst. (I know this because I am one and am surrounded by vicious idiots.) They think they are smarter than everyone else. They have totally neutered their “male-feminist” husbands (who were prepped for the procedure by their helicopter boomer mothers.) They channel positive female traits like organizing, fundraising, and crafting into leftist causes for popularity. They mean-girl conservative women by weaponizing friendships and ostracizing them.
It’s ugly out here, and I don’t think men fully understand it. They don’t fight this way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Puggirl 6/21/2020 9:02:40 AM (No. 451671)
This should be a must read. #2 and 3 I completely agree.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/21/2020 9:30:58 AM (No. 451699)
Wise words from Clarice. Some of our biggest corporations have been beclowning themselves in attempting to get all of us on the bandwagon. It is producing exactly the opposite effect. Amazon not only puts the BLM banner up top to remind all of us how selfish we are, they have been injecting books on how to fight racism on my Kindle list like I need to be reeducated. Firefox has the same stupid and juvenile reminder. GM, Wendy's and others are dumping cash on the BLM group which, of course, finances their further mayhem. Even the intelligent group known as Mensa gave in to their emotions and attempted to project the entire group as highly in favor of the BLM and Antifa desire to "Change the World." That is going to cost them a bunch of members because smart people especially don't like words being put into their mouths. Regardless, all of this propaganda will only result in further alienating the clowns who would rather live under socialism and anarchy without having the slightest idea of what they are getting into.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 6/21/2020 10:05:04 AM (No. 451737)
There's a guy who lives over the hill from me who has a big sign in his yard advertising his accounting business, which he runs out of the house. Some years ago right next to the big sign was an Obama sign. It stayed up for over a year.
When I needed an accountant I thought of him, and then remembered the Obama sign. Kept looking. It shouldn't have mattered but it did. I don't put signs in my yard or on my car.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kiwinews 6/21/2020 11:05:15 AM (No. 451799)
Those signs are hoping to serve as splashes of lamb's blood on the door lintel when the last plague comes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/21/2020 11:17:17 AM (No. 451817)
Love the chocolate for breakfast as only Clarice can serve it. Yes, there is a kind of virtue that is cheap. It differs little from purchased affection from a stranger on a street corner where the red light beams. We argue about words as if a spade is not a spade nor a shovel, a shovel. Can you believe your eyes? Incidentally, the e-mails I am most sick of are the companies who e-mail me about all they have done to keep me safe from COVID-19. Nor can I open many websites without their virtuous chest-beating bleats of how they comply right before your very eyes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ramona 6/21/2020 11:25:48 AM (No. 451840)
A lesbian activist realtor in my neighborhood has lead to a large number of gays buying houses here. So we see many rainbow flags; one house has a set of rainbow colored flamingos on the front lawn, and of course the signs ("I believe science- Love is Love- etc). I told a Catholic neighbor that I would never put out a rainbow flag but if anyone asks me I am happy to tell them that it is an egregious act of cultural and religious misappropriation to use the rainbow in this way.
I also don't have to wonder what would happen if a group of Christian or Jewish realtors formed a group to promote their own "kind" as a marketing ploy.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 6/21/2020 12:57:28 PM (No. 451962)
Husband and I went for a joy ride yesterday in his antique car. We live just outside of an uber liberal, virtue signaling bastion in MA.
it was so much fun to give all the homes with virtue signs the one finger salute as we drove by. Last week was especially thrilling as we drove through a lefty rally flipping them all off.
You should have seen their faces! They were stunned, stunned I tell you, that not only don't we share their politics, we won't be quiet about it either.
Ah, nothing like a joy ride in an open top car through a rally to enjoy the simple pleasures of life!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GO3 6/21/2020 1:38:05 PM (No. 451987)
There was an article in AT a while back about the social network site Next Door Neighbor. It's the same thing as people putting the signs out in the yard or slamming people with all sorts of diversity emails and Covid propaganda. I've tried really hard in two different neighborhoods to make use of this site and gave up both times. It's in the same league as Fakebook, Twitter, and Pentagram. Avoid at all costs.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sehall 6/21/2020 1:50:02 PM (No. 451997)
I see the latest corporate virtue-signalling comes from the makers of Eskimo Pies. I just knew that one was coming!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/21/2020 5:17:38 PM (No. 452178)
The only useful lawn sign I've ever seen said:
SoCiAlisM
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Be sure to read the part about the moral cruelty committed by those who claim to hate oppression. And no one stands up for us.