The lefties are experts in at least one area: name-calling. They have perfected the art of calling their opponents names, of slinging mud, and of serving up lavish amounts of ad hominem attacks. That is how they “argue”. So bereft are they of any actual ideas, facts and truths, that they have resigned themselves to just calling people names.
They cannot win the war of ideas because they have no ideas – at least ideas of any substance. They have plenty of bad ideas of course, which no sensible person would embrace, so in order to push their radical agendas they resort to the same old tactic: demonise any and all opponents by name-calling.
Calling others names is how the left “argues”. It has become their only means of getting their views across. That alone tells us all we need to know about the poverty of their thought and the paucity of their intellect. And their name-calling goes arm in arm with lie-telling.
We have had yet more outstanding examples of this recently. Let me briefly highlight just a few. At the recent World Congress of Families conference the loony left was out in force, with all their incredible banners and signs, completely filled with name-calling and attacks on the truth. I wrote it up here at the time: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2014/08/30/wcf-freedom-and-democracy-versus-the-fascists/
There were all the usual screaming protestors there, telling us we were all a bunch of racists and sexists, etc. So utterly boring and so utterly predictable. One classic case of lying for the cause was one female activist interviewed by a MSM TV crew, who actually said we were a bunch of racists and sexists who believe that all women should be chained to the kitchen and never leave home!
Just make up anything you want and blurt it out. Truth means absolutely nothing to these folks. Our recent March for the Babies was also another clear case of this. Once again, the same rent-a-crowd was there, with the same stupid banners decrying racism, sexism, and so on. I wrote it up here: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2014/10/11/when-love-and-hate-collide/
As I mentioned in that article, the pro-death crowd was handing out a leaflet claiming that all of those involved in organising this march – including myself, even though I had nothing to do with organising it – were in fact “white supremacists”!
Once again we have a perfect example of how the left operates; tell outright and blatant lies, with zero regard for truth, and throw out the same old canards about sexism, racism, and so on. They have no arguments. They have no facts. And they have no brains it seems. So they simply throw out words like “racism” over and over again, hoping the mud will stick.
This is how they operate.
My final example of this is also a classic. You would have heard that Woolworths had patriotic shirts which were labelled “racist” by the loopy left and the Greens’ MP Adam Bandt. As a result of this idiotic campaign, they were actually pulled, even though the overwhelming majority of Australians think this is madness. As one media report opens:
Nearly ninety per cent of Daily Telegraph readers have condemned a social media campaign to drive patriotic shirts out of Woolworths. In a poll conducted on The Daily Telegraph’s website, the overwhelming majority of 8000 readers (as of 8.45am today) voted that the singlet tops were not racist. The backlash against Woolworths over the “accidental” stocking of the shirt promoting Australia has been described as “hypocritical” by a -government MP.
The supplier of the singlet — which sports the Australian flag and the words “If you don’t love it, leave” — also expressed concern over social media criticism of the shopping giant. Only two Woolworths stores, in Cairns and Sydney, sold the singlets and all stock was removed on Monday. Baulkham Hills MP David Elliott, parliamentary secretary to Premier Mike Baird, said he failed to see how the singlet could be labelled racist — a claim made by left-leaning critics — given that it appears to promote Australia.
This is such utter moonbattery. How in the world does a shirt urging us to love this great country in any way equal racism? What does race have to do with anything? But this is the typical kneejerk reaction of the left: brand anything they don’t like as racist, and force others to submit to their coercive agendas.
Fortunately some level-headed voices can be heard about all this nonsense. Miranda Devine for example said this:
The self-appointed tolerance tsars of Australia are having such a hard time proving Australia is a land of bigots they are now jumping at shadows. They see racism where most people see patriotism. They cry Islamophobia where there is none to be found. They hear dog whistles that never sounded. They are obviously losing their collective minds.
Take the “racist singlet” furore whipped up by Greens MP Adam Bandt. “If you don’t love it, leave” says the caption under an Australian flag emblazoned on a blue singlet sold at Woolworths. Nothing racist about that. It’s a call to patriotism. It’s also a message to whingers to stop complaining and do something positive about their situation. What could be more Australian? But to some warped people, even the flag is racist.
She concludes:
The truth is found in a beautiful video released last week by the Macquarie University Muslim Students’ Association. Billed “Muslim hate”, it was made as a social experiment to see just how Islamophobic Australians are. An actor posing as a bigot goes out onto the streets to harass and insult Muslims — women in hijabs and a boy — and the public reaction is filmed. In every case, passers-by stepped in and defended the victim. “Hey leave her alone”. “Back off mate”. “You’re [the one] not being Australian.” “How dare you treat him like that”.
The filmmaker has said he was blown away, that nowhere in the world has this happened. The truth is that Australia is the most successful immigrant nation in the world. There is no tolerance for people who abuse others, for whatever reason. So shame on those who slander this big-hearted country. It’s not a singlet causing division, but them.
And Andrew Bolt reminds us of some words spoken years ago by the then Federal Treasurer Peter Costello:
What I’ve said is that this is a country, which is founded on a democracy. According to our Constitution, we have a secular state. Our laws are made by the Australian Parliament. If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you. This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don’t feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they’d feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs.
Quite so. And there is nothing racist about that of course. Islam is a religion and a political ideology. It is not a race and has never been a race. But don’t let facts and truth get in the way of the left’s favourite pastime: name-calling and lie-telling.
12 Replies to “We Are All Racists Now – Or So We Are Told”
I thought the Greens were above cheap political point scoring. Aren’t they supposed to be the conscience of the nation?
I’m pretty sure that white westerners who convert to Islam will never be accepted in the same way an Arab will be – sort of like how the Koran is really only valid in Arabic. Where are the cries of racism here?
God divided humanity into different ethnicities just as he did sexes – naturally these realities stand as a barrier to the Marxist utopia that the left ever desires to push upon us and so they need to be abolished in favour homogeneity and submission…which explains their desperate love of and support for Islam.
If ever there was a group that combined brute force and homogeneity in a nice package, it’s Islam.
Can’t be patriotic but if you are ashamed to be Australian, you make the news:
Ok let see, I am a racist apparently, well seeing as I am Irish, Scottish, Danish, Chinese, North American Indian (Blackfoot tribe to be precise), does that mean I hate myself?
/Sarc on.
Well that this point, the only racist, bigot, Christphobe democratophobe, moralophobe,I can see is that satan worshiping, ba’al worshiping, baby murder supporter from the unaustralian/communist, democratic hating watermelon brant fellow. (hope everyone can understand the language that I use so the left can actually understand it, as it is the only language they understand).
HEHEHE, Lets see if Bill lets this dozy through the door.
/sarc off
But on a serious note, I hope this lets people see how hate filled the left are and start to wake up and come back to the sane side of politics, away from labour and greens. At least we might have some chance to slow down the destruction of the country and make the return of Christ not so bad in our lovely country.
It is simple, if you hate democracy, freedoms, equality between people under law, Christianity (which the country was based upon), then there are plenty of countries that have: sharia, communism, socialism, fascism, totalitarianism, Theocratic, that those who hate the west can go and live in, just to prove how evil and bad and useless we are.
And if we are so evil and bad, by what measure do you judge it upon? If it is not the God of the Holy Bible, Torah, then what, Chucky Darwin? Richard Dawkins? Even Dawkins said that he would not accept morals given by evolution, he uses Christian values to base his morals upon, even though he claims the Bible is a myth, fable, bunch of tales.
But back to this Brant person, I can usually know I am on the right path, if that path is in the opposite to what he sprouts.
Well done as always Bill, good to get the unbiased info out there so people can at least see what we are up against.
Let’s buy some of these t shirts and organise a group to go for a walk around Adam Bandt’s electorate.
Actually I do not see this as patriotic at all. It is quite confrontational and challenging. It is not saying anything to extol the virtues of Australia. It is ordering people to leave if they do not love it. That is quite a different thing. I do not see it as racist as it does not address its message to anyone in particular nor to any rade, culture or creed, it would therefore by default, equally apply to native Australians who happen to feel disaffected by their country of birth. So how can it be described as racist? However I do find its uncompromising and supercilious message sharp, dictatorial and offensive and do not feel it belongs in our society. And rest assured I am not a happy-clappy multi-culti leftie. I am very right wing and whilst I embrace our mix of ethnicities I do feel that there is a certain element that is failing to assimilate and who wish to subvert our democracy and way of life and expect far too much bending to their ways. I will leave readers to draw their own conclusions regarding to which element I refer.
I told Bandt on twitter exactly what I thought of him and his PC-tard bullying.
But the hypocrite wouldn’t say boo about a “f&*% Tony Abbott” t-shirt
I lived and worked in Australia during the 70s and 80s when the main group this same comment was aimed at was the pommie! I regularly heard Aussies say to the moaning English ‘if you don’t like it here, then go home’. No-one was outraged back then.
What a sad decline.
Thanks Tania, but I fail to see how the shirt is dictatorial. It is a simple plea for patriotism. Nothing at all wrong with that. I prefer the comments of Peter Costello on this.
All those people who clapped those who beat me in foot races were obviously racists.
This is how they operate.
I thought the Greens were above cheap political point scoring. Aren’t they supposed to be the conscience of the nation?
I’m pretty sure that white westerners who convert to Islam will never be accepted in the same way an Arab will be – sort of like how the Koran is really only valid in Arabic. Where are the cries of racism here?
God divided humanity into different ethnicities just as he did sexes – naturally these realities stand as a barrier to the Marxist utopia that the left ever desires to push upon us and so they need to be abolished in favour homogeneity and submission…which explains their desperate love of and support for Islam.
If ever there was a group that combined brute force and homogeneity in a nice package, it’s Islam.
Can’t be patriotic but if you are ashamed to be Australian, you make the news:
http://www.watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ashamed-to-be-australian-2014-man-booker-prize-winner-richard-flanagan-hits-out-at-abbott-governments-environment-policies-20141015-1169gc.html
If anyone wants to buy the T-shirt, despite Woolworths’ rejection, you can obtain it on-line through this website:
http://www.australian-native.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=2429
Let’s buy it and send a message to Woolworths and the Left at large!
Thanks for that Murray.
Ok let see, I am a racist apparently, well seeing as I am Irish, Scottish, Danish, Chinese, North American Indian (Blackfoot tribe to be precise), does that mean I hate myself?
/Sarc on.
Well that this point, the only racist, bigot, Christphobe democratophobe, moralophobe,I can see is that satan worshiping, ba’al worshiping, baby murder supporter from the unaustralian/communist, democratic hating watermelon brant fellow. (hope everyone can understand the language that I use so the left can actually understand it, as it is the only language they understand).
HEHEHE, Lets see if Bill lets this dozy through the door.
/sarc off
But on a serious note, I hope this lets people see how hate filled the left are and start to wake up and come back to the sane side of politics, away from labour and greens. At least we might have some chance to slow down the destruction of the country and make the return of Christ not so bad in our lovely country.
It is simple, if you hate democracy, freedoms, equality between people under law, Christianity (which the country was based upon), then there are plenty of countries that have: sharia, communism, socialism, fascism, totalitarianism, Theocratic, that those who hate the west can go and live in, just to prove how evil and bad and useless we are.
And if we are so evil and bad, by what measure do you judge it upon? If it is not the God of the Holy Bible, Torah, then what, Chucky Darwin? Richard Dawkins? Even Dawkins said that he would not accept morals given by evolution, he uses Christian values to base his morals upon, even though he claims the Bible is a myth, fable, bunch of tales.
But back to this Brant person, I can usually know I am on the right path, if that path is in the opposite to what he sprouts.
Well done as always Bill, good to get the unbiased info out there so people can at least see what we are up against.
Let’s buy some of these t shirts and organise a group to go for a walk around Adam Bandt’s electorate.
Actually I do not see this as patriotic at all. It is quite confrontational and challenging. It is not saying anything to extol the virtues of Australia. It is ordering people to leave if they do not love it. That is quite a different thing. I do not see it as racist as it does not address its message to anyone in particular nor to any rade, culture or creed, it would therefore by default, equally apply to native Australians who happen to feel disaffected by their country of birth. So how can it be described as racist? However I do find its uncompromising and supercilious message sharp, dictatorial and offensive and do not feel it belongs in our society. And rest assured I am not a happy-clappy multi-culti leftie. I am very right wing and whilst I embrace our mix of ethnicities I do feel that there is a certain element that is failing to assimilate and who wish to subvert our democracy and way of life and expect far too much bending to their ways. I will leave readers to draw their own conclusions regarding to which element I refer.
I told Bandt on twitter exactly what I thought of him and his PC-tard bullying.
But the hypocrite wouldn’t say boo about a “f&*% Tony Abbott” t-shirt
I lived and worked in Australia during the 70s and 80s when the main group this same comment was aimed at was the pommie! I regularly heard Aussies say to the moaning English ‘if you don’t like it here, then go home’. No-one was outraged back then.
What a sad decline.
Thanks Tania, but I fail to see how the shirt is dictatorial. It is a simple plea for patriotism. Nothing at all wrong with that. I prefer the comments of Peter Costello on this.
All those people who clapped those who beat me in foot races were obviously racists.