The Virtue of Being Offensive
The Virtue of Being
Offensive
THE QUESTION: Why are atheists, and most of the loony-left,
so easily offended, and find being offended ‘indefensible’ and ‘unacceptable’
when they don’t even believe in any objective morality?
Consider the
terminal fate these famous people met because they offended atheists and
loony-leftists.
Justine
Sacco
Public Director for Ask.com and Match.com, was
fired in late 2013 after she made a public relations gaffe of her own. Sacco
tweeted, "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm
white!" just before boarding an 11-hour flight. She was sacked before the
plane landed.
This rising star was fired as the love interest in
the Transformers movie
franchise in 2009 after calling the film's director, Michael Bay,
"Hitler." But it wasn't Bay that called for her firing; it was fellow
director Steven Spielberg who demanded that she be fired. His demand was not
ignored.
Even popular
atheists and lefties are fired if they go against the fascist loony-left mafia.
This popular lefty and political satirist and
television host lost his show "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher"
shortly after agreeing with politically incorrect comments shared on the show.
Maher agreed with a pundit that the 9/11 terrorists were not cowardly, instead
the Americans "have been the cowards." Added with earlier comments
comparing his dogs to "retarded children," Maher's show was axed just
a few months later.
Kevin Hart
And the latest is a
popular black comedian was booted from the 2018 Oscars host spot by the rabid
Academy Awards board of directors for offending homosexuals…years ago.
So, no one is safe
from this unspeakable, unpardonable sin of offending by political correctness? Why? Being offensive is actually a virtue to be praised, imitated and taught to
our children as a great social principle and value. Why? Let us count the ways.
#1. SOME PEOPLE NEED TO BE OFFENDED
A holy book tells us
that the very founder of Christian love, compassion, mercy, charity,
forgiveness, forbearance, kindness, and humility. Jesus Christ went into the temple of God, and cast out all
them that sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers,
and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, “It is written, my
house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of
thieves.” Thieves! Wow! Those
moneychangers sure were offended, but they deserved it. Good for Jesus. He’d
had enough of their bullshit. Moral principles and values are not right or
wrong because some academic finds them acceptable or unacceptable. Moral
principles and values are intuitively right or wrong. Consider the moral
principle, ‘If you don’t know who you are, how can you know what you want to
do? Force feeding hormone-blockers to a 5 year-old boy to make him think and
act like a 5 year-old girl is intuitively wrong no matter who agrees or
disagrees with that principle. It’s child abuse. It’s a crime. Or, at least, it
should be.
#2. FACTS DO NOT CEASE TO BE TRUE BECAUSE THEY HURT
SOMEONE’S FEELINGS
Wars, weapons, flags, soldiers, and military culture
offend a lot of people, yet they are necessary to control human nature’s
excesses. Unless we find a way to take the profit of blood, dirt and treasure
out of human lust, then war is inevitable. Until then, the things of war are
necessary, but never sufficient for peace to be permanent. You can be offended by the thought of your own
death, but the fact remains you will die. Efforts to prolong life artificially
will not bring human happiness. Who wants to be a decrepit 200 year-old living
corpse sucking lunch through a non-plastic straw? Others are offended that members
of their tribe are not as ‘privileged’ as member of other tribes, but the fact
remains that not everyone wins the lottery of life. Not all of us are endowed
at birth with superior mental and/or physical talents, skills, and competitive
abilities. Some of us, as is the case in all of nature, are inferior specimens by these
metrics. Some of us, according to Darwin, are losers. Resenting the winners
will never make a loser into a winner.
#3. SPEAKING THE TRUTH IS NEITHER BIGOTED NOR
HATEFUL
Bigotry is the
intolerance of others who do not share your point view, or your circumstantial characteristics.
Of all the bigotries in the human condition; Racism,
Sexism, Homophobia, Antisemitism, Heterosexism (what’s that?) Islamophobia, Ageism,
Economic/Social Classism, t each is held by individuals who then gather in
tribes around their bigotries. The result is stereotypical bigotry. Does that
exculpate all accuser individual members of those tribes from being bigots
themselves? Of course not. Here’s a FORMS OF OPPRESSION table from the training
materials of a global education (indoctrination) organization called JUST COMMUNITIES. They
claim that members of the tribe in the middle column are de facto ‘privileged oppressors’
of tribe members in the ‘oppressed target group’
(Just Communities Training
Manual/PowerPoint)
So, who is the bigot
here? Members of the Privilege Group? Member of the Target Group? Both?
Neither? Even a grade school child knows
that merely because an individual in a member of one group or another does not
mean that they must have the ‘oppressor’ or ‘target’ attributed to all members
of that group. To reason such is to commit
a fallacy of reasoning; either composition/division. JUST COMMUNITIES ‘teaches’ children as young as
kindergarten that America is a racist society. They teach that all white, male,
able-bodied, heterosexual, well-off, 18-65 year-olds, and Christians are ALL
oppressors to anyone not in those tribes. Balderdash. Tummy-rot. Eyewash. The
fact is that telling the truth does not always entail automatic bigotry. The
fact is merely being identified as a member of a group does not entail bigotry.
But any one who does make those claims is, by definition, a bigot. JUST
COMMUNITIES preach bigotry in their training manuals. That does not mean that
every member of JUST COMMUNITIES is a bigot.
#4. OFFENSIVE BREAKS SILENCE OF THE SHAMS
What makes this discussion
bemusing is that there are no ‘races’ in human biology, so there can be no
‘racism’ in human society either. The term ‘racism’ is only recent from 1903.
Those playing the ‘race card’ are not interested in justice. They only want
power through guilt. Just because you don’t like vanilla ice cream does not mean
the you are ‘vanillaphobic’. Phobia
is a ‘fear’ not a dislike.
“And they take us very far
from the definitions given in modern dictionaries. According to the Oxford
English Dictionary, “racism” means: “a belief that one’s own racial or ethnic
group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s
cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being.” Furthermore, this
relatively new word—the first example OED offers is from 1903—denotes
“prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against people of other
racial or ethnic groups.” The first definition offered by the Merriam Webster
Dictionary stresses the same elements: “a belief that race is the primary
determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce
an inherent superiority of a particular race.” operative word….’belief’. — By:
William Voegeli
“Propaganda should be popular, not
intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover
intellectual truths. Those are found in other circumstances, I find them when
thinking at my desk, but not in the meeting hall.” Joseph Goebbels Speech on 9
January 1928 to an audience of party members at the “Hochschule für Politik”, a
series of training talks for Nazi party members in Berlin.
5. THE ‘N-WORD’ INCITES
OFFENSIVE BIGOTRY
More bemusing still is the
use of ‘the-N-word’ phrase. It would be difficult to think of a better way to
foster anger and bigotry than to coerce everyone, except blacks of course by
double-standard, to never speak the ‘N’ word itself out of a contrived sense of guilt for slavery
in America. Since my first day in a college classroom as a professor of
philosophy 52 years ago, I’ve taught that slavery is the cancer that will
ultimately destroy America. I never expected nor predicted that the distant
descendants of African slaves would convince non-Africans to use such a phrase.
Why? For the simple reason that although those on the guilt-train verbalize the
phrase ‘the-N-word’ , they all mentally articulate the word and thus perpetuate
its coinage in the currency of bigotry. Thus, the unutterable word carries its
stigmata, and curse of banishment or worse should that word ever leak out of
the brain and onto the floor of academic analysis. Imagine having the power to
coerce self-censorship of a word…any word…but only one word in particular.
That’s real power. They have out done Joseph Goebbels.
“Propaganda should be popular,
not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover
intellectual truths. Those are found in other circumstances, I find them when
thinking at my desk, but not in the meeting hall.” --- [Joseph Goebbels Speech
on 9 January 1928 to an audience of party members at the “Hochschule für
Politik”, a series of training talks for Nazi party members in Berlin.]
Being offensive is
the best way to find out who the true bigots are.
The Meddlesome Priest
--- Mark
McIntire
SBCC Philosophy Department,
Retired
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