Better Publicity Through Censorship
May 28th, 2018British Judge Propels Silenced Activist to Unexpected Fame
I wonder how weird the news can get.
Today I read about a right-wing British activist who calls himself Tommy Robinson. He just got arrested for reporting on a pedophile human-trafficking trial in England. A news story says he was standing outside the court, live-streaming on Facebook. He was asking the defendants questions.
I don’t know much about Robinson, so don’t get the idea I’m endorsing him. He seems to be a career jailbird.
The defendants are Muslims. Robinson is a bit different from American conservatives. We are upset about illegal aliens. Robinson appears to be angry about legal immigration from Muslim countries, and he is not happy about the Muslim refugees that have poured into Europe legally.
Many Muslims behave very badly in Europe. There is a Muslim-rapist epidemic in some places. Paris has Muslim neighborhoods the police are afraid to enter. I can see why it makes sense for westerners to restrict Muslim immigration. I don’t think their efforts will go anywhere, however, because white western liberals have a lot of power, and like Jews, they are suicidal as a culture. They would rather be admired for unrestrained fawning over people perceived as minorities than hold onto their cultures or sovereignty.
Everyone who knows Muslim immigrants knows nice people who go to college, become professionals, and behave very well, and these are the people we hear about when there are complaints about Muslim immigration and travel. Thing is, the percentage of hostiles is very high, and you don’t need a lot of angry Muslims to cause very serious problems. The 911 attack only required 20 nuts. Two people bombed the Boston Marathon.
Here’s something funny. White people are criticized constantly for interfering with other people’s cultures. It would be colonialism if we went into the Amazon basin and rescued the ignorant inhabitants from disease, extremely high infant mortality rates, and so on. We even get in trouble for selling tacos and wearing Chinese dresses, if you can believe it. These things are true, yet it’s unacceptable to be concerned about the destruction of American and European cultures.
Hmm.
Our cultures are pretty good. They are the best, in fact. We have far better lives than other people, objectively. Exporting our cultures is one of the best things we’ve ever done for humanity. It’s odd that we are discouraged not only from exporting our cultures but from preserving them.
You don’t see many Americans talking about how they envy Africa’s illiterate, backward Maasai, who live in the dirt and eat cow urine mixed with curdled blood and milk. Not many of us want to live in India and get by on two dollars per day. On the other hand, people from other cultures risk death every day to get into our countries and share in our way of life. Random thing, I guess.
I’ll tell you something people ignore. The justification for discouraging the criticism of backward cultures has nothing to do with the equivalent value of those cultures. Our culture is flat-out superior. The primary reason we started restraining such criticism was to avoid offending people and causing unrest. The fact that criticizing, say, the culture of American Indians upsets people doesn’t mean the criticism is wrong.
We forget that most Europeans, who are now identified with civilized “white” values, sprang from backward cultures. The Romans forced things like literacy and laws on our ancestors. My ancestors were imbeciles who ran around in blue paint killing each other with bronze cleavers out of pure boredom. They were depraved savages. Thank God the Romans exported their culture to them. Western culture is Greek and Roman culture, seasoned with Christianity. We are all culture appropriators, and it has worked out great for us. It’s too bad people want to end the exportation of quality cultures and encourage the preservation and importation of cultures that are pathological.
We, ourselves, endorse the importation of superior cultural ideals every day. I don’t wear blue paint, even on weekends. I drive cars. I read and write using Roman letters. I use Arabic numerals. What did my stupid, drunken, violent ancestors invent? Nothing! Thank God I don’t have to depend on their impoverished legacy. Yet I am not allowed to share my imported, appropriated ideals with others who need them.
Okay, I’m wrong. Sure. The didgeridoo, which sounds like cow flatulence and only produces two notes, is a great musical instrument, just as good as a Steinway grand. Forgive me. Inca engineers, who never figured out the importance of the wheel, were just as important as Werner von Braun and John Moses Browning. I see it now. African languages which still have no written forms in 2018 are just as praiseworthy as modern English. No question about it.
Do you know why people argue about African history? Because there is no record. Africans have been illiterate for millennia. No writing, no history. No math, either. No science. Almost no accumulated wisdom at all. Every generation in Africa has had to rediscover solutions to simple problems instead of applying old solutions, so there has been no progress.
Systematized pedophilia in Afghanistan and New Guinea is just as healthy as traditional western heterosexual marriage. Mayan human sacrifice is no worse than chewing communion wafers, which requires the brutal murder of innocent wheat kernels. Traditional Chinese medicine works just fine, and powdered rhino horn really does cure impotence. No, I mean it. Not sure what I was thinking earlier.
I wonder why the Chinese keep building western-style medical schools and hospitals. It must be sarcasm.
I hate to state the painfully obvious, but leftists are tremendous hypocrites. They moan about the virtues of diversity all the time, while crucifying everyone who actually tries to implement it. Your daughter can’t buy a Chinese dress and take advantage of a different oriental aesthetic. College students can’t buy tacos in their dining halls and enjoy the Mexican take on corn and beef. Westerners aren’t allowed to preserve their culture and promote its obvious benefits to others.
Only a leftist could celebrate diversity by building a blacks-only student union.
I wonder what leftists are going to do about the millions of Samoan-style “tribal” tattoos that now adorn the arms of white people of questionable taste. Liberals themselves love those tattoos, just as much as they love oriental calligraphy tattoos they can’t read. Should we force people to go get lasered?
I ate a bagel with Nova and cream cheese this morning. I’m not Jewish! Maybe I should go vomit in front of a synagogue.
Wait…didn’t the Jews get smoked salmon from the Russians? I’m appropriating appropriation!
We ought to be adopting the good and shunning the bad. Make all the Mexican food you want, but don’t adopt their corruption and violence. Buy Chinese dresses, but reject China’s rigidity and totalitarianism. Accept quality immigrants, but reject those who are virtually certain to murder Americans or slice out their daughters’ clitorises on our soil.
When we invite people from screwed-up countries to live among us, we invite their problems, especially when we crush anyone who suggests they should assimilate and show proper gratitude. Sometimes the problems immigrants bring are so great, we need to consider selective immigration limits. That’s the simple truth. Blowing up skyscrapers and public events is not a trivial thing we should sit by and ignore.
Sadly, most people who want to move to western countries live in very screwed-up nations. If they didn’t, they would be happy to stay home.
Is Robinson being persecuted for talking about Islam and Muslims? Not exactly. In England, Canada, and Australia, free speech doesn’t really exist. Trial courts are allowed to ban reporting on certain types of trials. Robinson is reporting on a trial that belongs to one of those types. The courts believe they should protect the defendants and victims through censorship. The judge thinks she is advancing the cause of justice by imprisoning Robinson simply for talking.
Scary. And counterproductive. By trying to ban coverage by British journalists, the court forced the rest of the world’s journalists to jump on the story. Robinson’s arrest is public knowledge, we know the names of the defendants, and we know what the trial is about. But for the judge’s decision, the now-sensational case would be nearly unknown outside of her country.
I can’t go on Facebook and upload child pornography, and I’m not allowed to broadcast certain state secrets that fall into my hands, but other than that, I can say pretty much what I want. It must be strange to live in a country where you can be gagged so easily.
Why is Europe having so many problems with Muslims? Simple. Inversion of authority. Europeans used to acknowledge God. They did it poorly, but they made some effort. God used to back them against Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Toaists, Confucians, and people who practice whatever toxic, demonic religions they practice in Africa. God wanted to establish Europe and then America, for his own reasons. Now the connection between Europeans and God is tenuous. They don’t do much for God, so they lack unity with him. They don’t identify with God, so he doesn’t identify with them.
Is God supposed to get worked up when atheists, Muslims, and pagans fight? Not his circus, not his monkeys. God doesn’t hate Islam any more than he hates paganism and atheism. He may prefer it to some degree, since Muslims make some effort to recognize his existence. It makes sense that non-Christian Muslims would rise up and defeat other non-Christians.
It’s fine for secular activists to shake their fists and spout slogans, but it will never work unless they somehow get Satan on their side, and the price he will charge for his help will be too high. God isn’t going to help them. A lifestyle of true victory comes from God alone.
I always say I try not to get political, and here I am, writing about politics. Perhaps I can excuse myself by saying I’m not advocating a political solution to anything. Rallies and signs won’t help. Violence will turn us into what we hate. Blogs definitely won’t help. What a joke they’ve become! Our problems are supernatural. My big response to the rot and deception in our world is to expose it, analyze it, and pray. At home.
Speaking of God, I got a word today: “Thank you for beauty.” It’s about the way some things in this world function properly and bring pleasure. When you know God, a lot of things go right, and it’s very pleasing. It takes some of the pain out of watching the world at large crumble.
I’m having very strange experiences in my effort to get free of hostile spirits. I can feel the battle inside me. When a spirit gets expelled, part of my inner monologue goes away, because the being supplying it is silenced. In all seriousness, I wonder who I am. I made other beings part of me and repeated the things they spoke into my mind and took credit for them until, in a way, I was them. Now they’re being pushed out, and the Holy Spirit is taking their place. What is my real personality like, without freeloaders and illegal aliens shaping it? I don’t know the big picture. I know there will be more love and less fear and worry. I will have more authority, and things will work better. More beauty.
I feel like a gestating baby in a disintegrating uterus. The world is rotting away while I prosper.
May 28th, 2018 at 9:56 PM
Having been to Africa several times now,. I can tell you that the people who left the “Cradle of civilization” to populate the rest of the planet are the worthwhile ones, and the ones who remained behind are the genetic dead end. No matter how much a mission does to teach and improve the lives of “Natives” they are only a couple of generations away from being in loincloths again. All the missions and their supporters move out, and in forty years it’s mud huts again.
May 28th, 2018 at 11:10 PM
When people say things like this, it always reminds me of what my dad says about Eastern Kentucky: “Everyone who had any get-up-and-go got up and went.”
I think the liberal author Harry Caudill may have said that first.
May 29th, 2018 at 12:01 PM
I am also reminded of my college buddy who volunteered for the Peace Corps. Went to Senegal. Got like 10 kinds of diarrhea. Did not change the world.
Apparently, when you show up and start trying to get people excited about building a bridge or whatever, they go, “Yeah! Yeah! You do that, CIA guy!” Then they go back to sleeping in the shade.
My impression is that the Peace Corps is basically an ego-building exercise for liberals with messiah complexes.