How To Deal With The Brainwashed....

[Denali]

http://takimag.com/article/how_to_de...ashed_jim_goad

I awoke this morning to the creaking sound of the Western mind closing shut. I felt it squeezing in on me like a car crusher. Public discourse is more controlled and political dissent more squashed than at any point in memory. Try as I may, all the evidence suggests we are on the brink of an ideological Dark Age the likes of which America has never seen. It seems we’re only inches away from living in a world where stating the obvious will be criminalized.

Online, the chief enablers of this situation are the smirking young progtards, who are unwilling to even touch any viewpoint that hasn’t been spoon-fed to them in school or beamed into their eyeballs via TV. Their brains have never hatched a single original idea in their lives. They are mere hollow carriers of infectious ideas, not so much Trojan horses as little pink Trojan ponies.

The modern young leftist is a weak, wretched, psychotic creature, at once nasty and cowardly. Notice how these bespectacled, bearded nerdlings didn’t have one shred of bravado until they had the full weight of the government, media, and academia on their side. They are the sort of cowards who were terrified to make a peep until it was absolutely risk-free. They are extremely bold—at least behind a keyboard—until directly confronted when there’s no crowd around to protect them. A lone earthworm has more spine than any hundred of them.

We used to refer to this as, "the generation gap" way back in the sixties and seventies, a reference to the "absolutist closed mindedness" of the more senior generations. Bizarrely, this absolutist closed minded mentality is now tattooed into the consciousness of almost every youth, not all of them, but most, today we know better then to think of this as a generation gap, it's an IQ gap....This scathing little essay is well worth your attention spans....

[Outlander Systems]

http://diehipster.wordpress.com

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[brushy bill]

We used to refer to this as, "the generation gap" way back in the sixties and seventies, a reference to the "absolutist closed mindedness" of the more senior generations. Bizarrely, this absolutist closed minded mentality is now tattooed into the consciousness of almost every youth, not all of them, but most, today we know better then to think of this as a generation gap, it's an IQ gap....This scathing little essay is well worth your attention spans....

Original quote was brilliant. Your subsequent post left me confused, as f you are suggesting the boomers had better insight than the greatest generation...much the contrary in my opinion. In fact, I attribute many of our current problems to the boomers and the counter culture movement they spawned.

[Denali]

Original quote was brilliant. Your subsequent post left me confused, as f you are suggesting the boomers had better insight than the greatest generation...much the contrary in my opinion. In fact, I attribute many of our current problems to the boomers and the counter culture movement they spawned.

I am not impugning the "greatest generation" in any manner, just noting the flip flop in perception between my youth, and adulthood...Noting that the closed mindedness that we had so confidently convicted our parents and grandparents of, has come back to bite us in the ass with a vengeance....

[ColtSeavers]

God I hate hipsters. At least hippies, in my experience, will actually hear other sides to an argument. Hell, I've actually outargued some of them and changed their views.
But hipsters are the Mutawas of the hippie nation.

I remember being in the Hard Rock Cafe in San Francisco with my wife (she still collects pins from them), she asked me which pin she should get and I mentioned getting one that looked fairly memorable and had a black girl on it. The only reason I remeber that much is because I was immediately told by some Amish straw hat, thrift store button down shirt, skinny 12yo girl prison bitch pants wearing hipster that "Uh, she's an African American, you don't call her black." I told the Hipster that there is no such thing as an African American, you are either an African, or you are an American and that's without even beginning to get into the actual legalities of nationality and how the USA does not recognize dual citizenships unless you've gotten citizenship in another country before getting citizenship in the USA. He then leans towards me and repeats more firmly that you do not call them black, you call them african Americans. I bowed up and leaned in with my fists on the glass countertop and chin outstrecthed a bit praying that he would take the bait with my next reply but my wife grabbed me and ruined it by very loudly thanking the cashier that had finished ringing up her button purchase a second ago and escorting me out the door.

I stay the hell away from them now. For everyone's safety.

[ABNAK]

God I hate hipsters. At least hippies, in my experience, will actually hear other sides to an argument. Hell, I've actually outargued some of them and changed their views.
But hipsters are the Mutawas of the hippie nation.

I remember being in the Hard Rock Cafe in San Francisco with my wife (she still collects pins from them), she asked me which pin she should get and I mentioned getting one that looked fairly memorable and had a black girl on it. The only reason I remeber that much is because I was immediately told by some Amish straw hat, thrift store button down shirt, skinny 12yo girl prison bitch pants wearing hipster that "Uh, she's an African American, you don't call her black." I told the Hipster that there is no such thing as an African American, you are either an African, or you are an American and that's without even beginning to get into the actual legalities of nationality and how the USA does not recognize dual citizenships unless you've gotten citizenship in another country before getting citizenship in the USA. He then leans towards me and repeats more firmly that you do not call them black, you call them african Americans. I bowed up and leaned in with my fists on the glass countertop and chin outstrecthed a bit praying that he would take the bait with my next reply but my wife grabbed me and ruined it by very loudly thanking the cashier that had finished ringing up her button purchase a second ago and escorting me out the door.

I stay the hell away from them now. For everyone's safety.

You know, when I took martial arts I recall being told that grabbing someone by the throat was a bad idea if they knew what they were doing (and was subsequently shown why!). However, resisting the urge to grab that hipster by his scrawny chicken neck would've been almost impossible. Smug POS.

[scooter22]

God I hate hipsters. At least hippies, in my experience, will actually hear other sides to an argument. Hell, I've actually outargued some of them and changed their views.
But hipsters are the Mutawas of the hippie nation.

I remember being in the Hard Rock Cafe in San Francisco with my wife (she still collects pins from them), she asked me which pin she should get and I mentioned getting one that looked fairly memorable and had a black girl on it. The only reason I remeber that much is because I was immediately told by some Amish straw hat, thrift store button down shirt, skinny 12yo girl prison bitch pants wearing hipster that "Uh, she's an African American, you don't call her black." I told the Hipster that there is no such thing as an African American, you are either an African, or you are an American and that's without even beginning to get into the actual legalities of nationality and how the USA does not recognize dual citizenships unless you've gotten citizenship in another country before getting citizenship in the USA. He then leans towards me and repeats more firmly that you do not call them black, you call them african Americans. I bowed up and leaned in with my fists on the glass countertop and chin outstrecthed a bit praying that he would take the bait with my next reply but my wife grabbed me and ruined it by very loudly thanking the cashier that had finished ringing up her button purchase a second ago and escorting me out the door.

I stay the hell away from them now. For everyone's safety.

I'm not trying to start an argument, but don't you think that's a little overreactive?

What's wrong with 'African American'?

[No.6]

I'm not trying to start an argument, but don't you think that's a little overreactive?

What's wrong with 'African American'?

Part of the greatness that is America is the fact that we as a nation are a melting pot of cultures and heritages. When you melt something it blends all together and individual component parts don't remain separate. Calling someone a "-American" is nothing more than a means to divide what otherwise should not be.

[.46caliber]

I'm not trying to start an argument, but don't you think that's a little overreactive?

What's wrong with 'African American'?

Bill Cosby's got an interesting stance on the term. I don't have the link on hand, but in a nutshell, he thinks its asinine. He goes on to state that his parents, grandparents etc, were born and raised here and he has no real connection to Africa at all. His words put it more effectively than I can, if I find it I'll link it here.

ETA:

It's been published in multiple locations, this is a more complete version than others I've seen. I appreciate how honestly he speaks on his thoughts. No PC sugarcoating.

http://guardianlv.com/2013/07/bill-c...mmunity-video/

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[Outlander Systems]

God I hate hipsters. At least hippies, in my experience, will actually hear other sides to an argument. Hell, I've actually outargued some of them and changed their views.
But hipsters are the Mutawas of the hippie nation.

I stay the hell away from them now. For everyone's safety.

Hipsters are the direct byproduct of the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality. Throw in a worthless liberal arts degree, and a sense of entitlement, and you have created a group of self-important losers.