Monday, February 11, 2019

Yesterday's Victims can be Tomorrow's Oppressors

Being victimized  DOES NOT make you immune from victimizing others!

However, saying such comments can cause hysterical reactions such as .......


  • Really?!? "Intolerant social justice warriors"? Are they too intolerant of neo-Nazis? "Which is better or worse" how can you even group them together..? !? !

That comment was made in response to a facebook post related to how extreme left-wing so-called "justice" warriors bullied a liberal-leaning professor who questioned their tactics.

And that facebook post itself was posted by a Asian-American Bernie Sanders supporter "woke" in all the "right" (or in this case "left") causes.  She was concerned about how the So-called Justice Warriors  hurts the dialogue necessary to advance justice.

When a person of non-European ancestry makes a bigoted comment (or even commits a hate crime), the So-called Justice Warriors will scream "how dare you practice false equivalency, don't you know your history. A few non-white bigots don't compare to 400 years of slavery and segregation"

You want to talk about history?

Let's talk about history!

History is FILLED with former victims becoming victimizers.

One example is Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe. He fought against European domination of what was then called Rhodesia! He took over as a brutal dictator who caused massive human misery in his homeland. 

But had you criticize him back when Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia, you'll get hysterical reactions from people yelling "how dare you make him sound equivalent to the British imperialists who oppress us" . 

This isn't limited to Zimbabwe as Uganda's Idi Amin and Cambodia's Pol Pot were all born as subjects to European empires, but became mass-murdering dictators.

 The book "Animal Farm" illustrates that example so well!

This isn't an "Alt-Right" rant as I respect REAL justice warriors like Nelson Mandela who who said when he was on trial that he is just against black supremacy as he was against white supremacy. If someone says that now, they'll be accused of "false equivalency".

Nelson Mandela is definitely a role model for real social justice. He was very assertive in the face of the brutal apartheid regime. For his actions, he was forced into 27 years of imprisonment. When he was released, he did everything he could to calm tensions when many feared civil war. He spoke in favor of racial reconciliation.  He became the nation's first post-apartheid president back in 1994, and refused to run for re-election because he believed that the nation shouldn't under the rule of one person for too long. 

That is someone in favor of real justice.

The So-called Justice Warriors could learn a lot from him.