LGBT+ allies should monitor calls for violence within their community
/By Rubashov
People make more of words than of actions. A councilman in Hopatcong gets a headline in the Star-Ledger for angrily complaining about the $8 million in cuts to children’s education in his town.
Apparently, nobody is interested enough to take the man behind the most recent cuts – Governor Phil Murphy – to task. Cuts to education are simply accepted, even though they represent an historic case of bait-and-switch. Back when the income tax was proposed, voters were promised that if they accepted the income tax, their property taxes would go down. Instead, government promptly reneged on its promise and voters got higher property taxes on top of the new income tax.
So now New Jersey has one of the highest income taxes in America and the nation’s highest property taxes. But that’s not a story. Somebody complaining about it is.
Oh, but they’ll argue, that naughty councilman used “bad” words. Wow. What year is this? We thought America got past its puritan obsession with “bad” language back in the 1960s. Didn’t comedian George Carlin cure us of all that? He’s the funny guy who got up on stage and read out a whole list of “bad” words that you couldn’t say – but he did – and in doing so, broke the taboo. But it looks like the taboo is back.
And speaking of comedians…
Jimmy Dore is a comedian and a Left-wing political activist. Dore was a big supporter of Bernie Sanders for President in 2016 and 2020.
In the aftermath of actor Will Smith’s attack on comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars, Dore noted that members of the “trans” and LGBTQ+ “communities” targeted comedian Dave Chappelle in social media statements advocating violence against him. And, of course, we all know that recently such violence actually happened.
Dore points out that some of these social media statements got more than 50,000 “likes” but were not removed – even though they targeted someone with violence. Which is kind of what is happening to some of America’s Supreme Court Justices on the basis of a leaked draft.
Is this what happens when you are so certain that you are right? Is violence – political violence – the child of certainty?
