A Slight Word of Caution to Activists - You may Regret Your Provocations

A word to leftist activists:

As you provoke others, you may want to pause and consider:

 You may think you are immune to being targeted for harassment. But you may not be.

Part of the sophisticated elite, you will never identify with anyone who is pained at the dismissal of some place, object,  action, mode of dress or time span that is regarded as holy; always positioned on the correct side of the political fence, so enlightened, you are above and beyond, immune to mockery or provocation.

Or, another choice is that you will simply switch horses mid stream the minute that something you do hold as sacred is threatened; sensing the impending loss, you will jump ship - though you probably never held on  tight as you never know what politically correct wave will wash over us yet, desensitized, as those who are willing to mock others are, you will simply switch and go along with the current at hand.

Leading so-called "feminists" switched horses fast and now support men  who claim to be women taking away sports prizes from women. Now that is a betrayal, but it is happening.  

You can copy them -  plan to be ready to switch horses. Divest yourself of sacred scruples and you will be safe and a member of that elite.

 Or will you?

There may come a day in which you will find that there are objects, places, people, situations, time frames, actions, that are inviolate and must be defended. Perhaps a loved one is getting pressured to abort a baby she wants, but others in her life do not, perhaps abortion up to the minute before birth bothers you, though if you have skillfully turned a blind eye to that one - I doubt that  maternal death as a result of late term abortions, just days before a healthy delivery was probable, would leave you unruffled.

Maybe you are fine with the trans movement in theory, but can you really turn a blind eye to the removing of body parts of healthy teens in order to allegedly transform their gender, and ignore the regret from those whose bodies were mutilated before they even had the right to drive a car?

Or it may be a patch of land from your home town, a nature reserve that you know is critical to be preserved - there will be the day that something you hold has sacred will be threatened, but, having taken part in the modern secular relativist project of desensitization expressed, no one will be there to come to your rescue, no one will sympathize, desensitized as they are, as you allowed yourself to become, in response to the cacophony of political correctness. 

You will  stand alone grasping for someone to advocate for your feeling that a line is being crossed, you will seek help, but find yourself abandoned; having mocked others, you will in turn be mocked, and then you will gasp and wonder, “what have I done?”

 

 

There are liberals who have no sympathy for sex abuse, I am witness.

"Oona really appreciates the support you showed her, and she was taken aback that Amy did not show any interest or sympathy." Summer job, late 1980's, Boston Massachusetts, involved driving elderly to day trips and shopping for them. 

 

Oona parked the car that we used for work in the garage. She came to the office and said that a man flashed her, 

 

Oona was upset, and understandably so. I accompanied her to report the incident and showed her sympathy and support. 

 

We were liberal and therefore enlightened. Well I was starting to keep the Jewish Sabbath and kosher and attend an orthodox synagogue, but one thing all people agree upon is how wrong sex abuse is, right? Not so fast. Amy had embarked upon a mission that sexual promiscuity is a vehicle for bringing down a patriarchy that dictates marriage. 

 

She bragged about her bisexual relationships, though I remember in high school that she wanted to marry her boyfriend. Then, in college, she turned to bisexual promiscuity. She also bragged about how much that hurt one of her boyfriends, I thought, why is he with her then? All is fair in love and war, I felt some sympathy for him, but to a limited extent. If sexual relationships are mutually consensual, then although I think these situations are hurtful, I also thought - well that was his choice. She also told me that she sleeps with women, she said this with a look of extreme contempt and scorn on her face, followed by a triumphant flush. I just ignored it, I knew she was trying to provoke. 

But we all agree that a man should not flash a woman right? Again, Judith quipped to me the above, that Amy DID NOT CARE that Oona was flashed. I began to understand that there is a sub-movement among the sexually promiscuous, and that is to desensitize the sacredness or special-ness of sexual activity to the extent that sex abuse matters little. I looked Amy up, She has written a book about gender. 

 

So I know for a fact that at least one of these "gender studies" graduates care absolutely nothing about sex abuse. I am witness.