Ripostes

Two very different men travel very different roads to arrive at the same place- recognition of the war right-thinking folk are caught up in whether they like it or not. First, I present John C. Wright, probably one of the best scifi/fantasy writers to come along in my lifetime, talking about Thanksgiving and giving thanks-

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays for three reasons: first, it drives the Leftists crazy because it is a clearly and openly Christian holiday in the midst of a society they are fervidly attempting to dechristianize; second, it drives Leftists crazy because it is a holiday based on a historical fact, namely, Indian and Pilgrim cooperation, which flips the middle finger at the Leftist preferred narrative about non-civilized White men committing malign genocide on the non-savage Red men; and finally and most of all, it drives the Leftists crazy because the concept of being thankful, of feeling gratitude, of thanks for benefits never to be repaid, is utterly alien to their way of thinking and their way of life.What do you think?

One benefit that accrues to the Christian, even if all of history, logic, and revelation should turn out to be false, and God a myth no more real than Global Warming, nonetheless, is that we Christian men feel gratitude toward our Creator for the infinite gift of creation. A noble pagan can indeed receive a gift in his stockings at Christmas, and be grateful to the giver, but a Christian can feel grateful for the legs he puts into his stockings each morning, and the world on which he walks.1

The Left does not give thanks, not to anyone, human or divine, past or present, not for any reason.

Then there is Milo Yiannopoulos, a colorful Brit who writes on gamers and the gaming industry, specifically a kerfuffle called #gamergate, but which actually has ramifications far beyond computer games into the basic cultural divide that has grown up in the Anglosphere-

If you are a controversial public figure, you are going to receive threats. I am one; I do. Jack Thompson received death and rape threats on a regular basis. Prominent atheists constantly receive threats. Well-known YouTuber TotalBiscuit, who isn’t overtly political, says he receives them on a monthly basis. Most of these threats aren’t serious, and the FBI has confirmed there was never any serious danger to Sarkeesian in Utah: in fact, she chose to cancel her talk to make a political statement about that state’s concealed carry laws.
The response of most people, famous or otherwise, is to ignore trolls. They are just words on the internet. People like Sarkeesian, who drone on constantly about online harassment, aren’t doing so because they really feel threatened. If that were the case, they wouldn’t, as Brianna Wu did, advertise their precise location less than 48 hours after receiving a death threat. They are doing so because they have an agenda.
Whenever feminist groups have partnered with social media organisations, their censorship targets have been critics of feminism and not abusers. Their overarching aim is to press for government regulation of the internet, perhaps even targeting anonymity itself. That’s because anonymity is a place where cultural hegemony is challenged. With their media connections and celebrity support, social justice warriors are the cultural hegemony, regardless of how much they claim to be oppressed victims.
Your piece fails to mention that not a single arrest or prosecution has been brought as a result of alleged threats in which the GamerGate movement has been implicated—without, I should point out, a shred of evidence linking any GamerGate supporter to any threat. And it fails to acknowledge that radical far-left pseudo-academic feminist troublemakers use threats as currency online in a perverted sort of Olympics, showing off to one another and begging for funds with each round of new insults that, in many cases, observers suspect they have sent to themselves.

 

There is a war going on, and it’s far from Syria or Afghanistan. There is a war for the culture and soul of the West, heirs to the Enlightenment, that is being relentlessly perpetrated by the heirs of my old crowd- the radicals of the Sixties and Seventies, who themselves got their inspiration from the old-line Stalinists of the Forties and Fifties.

The old tropes of “peace, love, and understanding” have been twisted into a puritanical yet libertine philosophy that portrays Western culture as misogynistic, hateful, patriarchal… “anything goes” sexually but political thought must be within rigidly defined parameters or it is loudly and nastily condemned.

As a white southron male I am considered the fount of all evil, so I don’t expect my words to be heeded by any but those who already have arrived at the place I am in. But looking around at the actors in our current cultural play, from the President on down to the SJWs of GamerGate and the looters cying #ferguson, I am convinced it will come to no good end.

I suggest a little reading of history, especially of the forces unleashed at the end of the First World War. There will be a reckoning, and I suspect no one will be entirely happy with the outcome.

Or maybe just look up the Fall of Rome.