The Pilgrims Were English Ethno-Nationalists
America wasn't 'founded by immigrants' but by English settlers who carried their culture across the Atlantic and established a new nation.America wasn't 'founded by immigrants' but by English settlers who carried their culture across the Atlantic and established a new nation.‘Grandpa was Antifa’ may be the dumbest meme of the decade
The whangdoodles are at it again — raging on X, posting grainy photos of World War II soldiers, and proclaiming, “Grandpa was Antifa!”
Because, you see, Grandpa fought Hitler. Or Hirohito. Or Mussolini. They were fascists, Grandpa was anti-fascist, and since “anti-fascist” shortens to “Antifa,” presto — Grandpa was Antifa.
What these self-styled internet historians are doing is a digital form of stolen valor. ... Grandpa would be appalled.
Right.
Before scourging the ignorant cockwombles pounding keyboards across the internet, let’s define what fascism actually meant.
What fascism meant
Beyond the obvious militarism of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hirohito’s Japan, the fascist regimes of the 20th century shared three defining traits. First, a top-down command economy controlled by a central planning body. Second, an integrated industrial and banking system. Third, a relatively homogeneous population under rigid state control.
Now ask yourself: Does the United States fit that mold? No central economic planning agency, no state-directed industrial-banking complex (ask the Fed and the Securities and Exchange Commission), and certainly no single, homogeneous racial population.
What we do have is an ever-multiplying swarm of willfully obtuse, historically illiterate useful idiots eager to join whatever digital mob happens to be trending this week.
The kind who think “being a furry” is a lifestyle choice worth defending.
You know — morons.
Grandpa fought for the Constitution
Among them are the smug keyboard warriors who post their grandfather’s old war photo without knowing a thing about his unit, his history, or the weapon he lugged across Europe — a Thompson M1A1 submachine gun chambered in .45 ACP.
These same people casually toss Grandpa’s honorable service into the same slime bucket as the modern-day anarcho-communists who call themselves “Antifa.” They hijack his image to dignify an extremist movement that despises everything he swore to defend.
Grandpa honored and fought under the American flag. Antifa burns it. They literally call it a “fascist symbol.”
Grandpa didn’t fight for a slogan. He fought for the Constitution. He raised his right hand and swore an oath — to protect and defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. If that meant bombing Tojo’s Japan, invading Hitler’s Germany, or crushing Mussolini’s Italy, so be it.
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Generations after him have sworn the same oath. Those men fought communism in Korea and Vietnam, and later took the fight to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and, after 9/11, to al-Qaeda and ISIS across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.
Stolen valor for the hashtag age
What these self-styled internet historians are doing is a digital form of stolen valor. They wrap themselves in the virtue of men who actually faced fire, men who earned their medals the hard way — not with a post and a hashtag.
Grandpa would be appalled at his grandkids’ ignorance.
But give it time. Some nimrod, eager for another viral hit, will post a photo of his dad in Afghanistan with the caption: “Dad was intersectional.”
And the whangdoodles will cheer — none the wiser, and none the braver.
Fowl play: American Ornithological Society announces it’s renaming birds to avoid being racist
What’s considered “racist” seems to be an ever-expanding list. Apparently, that list now includes birds. Yes, birds – the avian creatures with beaks and feathered wings.
Citing an NPR article titled, “These American birds and dozens more will be renamed to remove human monikers,” Stu Burguiere reads:
“Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of familiar bird names, like Anna’s hummingbird, Gambel’s quail, Lewis’s woodpecker, Bewick’s wren, Bullock’s oriole, and more. That’s because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names deemed offensive or exclusionary. The move comes as part of a broader effort to diversify birding and make it more welcoming to people of all races and backgrounds.”
It’s one thing to reconsider bird names that were coined by John James Audubon, for example, who admittedly “said some bad things,” says Stu.
However, they’re renaming “birds that were named after people that they don't think said anything wrong” because “they're worried that at some point, someone might say that something bad came from these people, so they're wiping out all the names right now,” he explains.
Additionally, “they don’t want the names to sound … too European because that’s exclusionary to other people, who might be like, ‘I was going to get into birding because I've always wanted to take binoculars and look around for birds, but then I heard a European name, so I stopped myself,’” mocks Stu. “There's so many people going through that mental process right now.”
The article also references biologist Erica Nol, who was apparently visiting some salt marshes when she came across a bird called a Wilson’s snipe.
Nol thought to herself, “What a terrible name. … Wilson was the father of modern ornithology in North America, but this bird has so many other evocative characteristics.”
Translation: “That’s a crappy name because … his name sounds too European,” says Stu.
“You’d think you’d want the bird named after the guy who's the founding father of modern ornithology, but apparently no, because he was too white. Whitey does not get a name for a bird,” laughs Stu at the utter absurdity of what’s clearly just another example of virtue-signaling.
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San Francisco's Democratic mayor blasts 'offensive' school district plan to rename schools during pandemic
The Democratic mayor of San Francisco on Friday blasted the city school district's plan during the pandemic to rename public schools that have "inappropriate" names, calling the effort during a pandemic "offensive."
Mayor London N. Breed on Friday issued a statement condemning the San Francisco Unified School District for telling school officials to focus their time and resources on brainstorming new names for 44 school buildings identified by the San Francisco School Names Advisory Committee as having offensive names.
"Schools have been allowed to open in San Francisco under public health orders issued at the beginning of September and while many private schools are open today, our public schools have still not yet made a firm plan to open. Parents are frustrated and looking for answers," Breed said.
"And now, in the midst of this once in a century challenge, to hear that the District is focusing energy and resources on renaming schools — schools that they haven't even opened — is offensive," she continued. "It's offensive to parents who are juggling their children's daily at-home learning schedules with doing their own jobs and maintaining their sanity. It's offensive to me as someone who went to our public schools, who loves our public schools, and who knows how those years in the classroom are what lifted me out of poverty and into college. It's offensive to our kids who are staring at screens day after day instead of learning and growing with their classmates and friends."
The San Francisco School Names Advisory Committee was formed in January to research school names in San Francisco and identify buildings named for individuals or anything associated with slavery, genocide, colonization, exploitation, or oppression to be renamed. The committee came up with a list of 44 schools they deemed had inappropriate names, including schools named for Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as well as one school named for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
The committee presented its recommendations to the school board, which informed the schools on the list to submit suggestions for new names by Dec. 18, to be voted on by the board next year.
The timing of the committee's report and the school board's commitment of resources to the effort during a pandemic is drawing criticism from the mayor and others.
"Look, I believe in equity. It's at the forefront of my administration and we've made historic investments to address the systemic racism confronting our city," Breed said. "But the fact that our kids aren't in school is what's driving inequity in our City. Not the name of a school. We are in a pandemic right now that is forcing us all to prioritize what truly matters. Conversations around school names can be had once the critical work of educating our young people in person is underway. Once that is happening, then we can talk about everything else. Until those doors are open, the School Board and the District should be focused on getting our kids back in the classroom."
Today I issued a statement on the need for our School District to focus on reopening our public schools, not renami… https://t.co/iTZ5N17PiX— London Breed (@London Breed)1602869982.0
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