What sent us over the edge, you might say it was an aggression, was an article titled, “Hamas Threatens Israel as IDF Prepares for new Clashes,” where Israel not automatically transferring Qatari aid money to the terror enclave was called an “aggression” by Hamas. Egypt also has not leaped forward and transferred the money, but that does not rise to the level of an aggression, as Hamas hates Egypt measurably less than they do Israel and the Jews in general. But we are not concerned about Hamas in this article as there will be plenty of time and reasons along the way, it is the over-application of the word “Aggression” to virtually any situation where somebody decides that they are displeased with a statement, position, action or virtually anything in their lives. Aggression no longer requires a physical act or even direct verbal abuse intended for the aggrieved person. Ireland is thinking of passing legislation codifying the BDS Movement’s actions of singling out Israel for economic sanctions because, we figure, the Irish have suffered Israeli aggressions because of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Interestingly, none of the Arabs, terrorists included, seems to have raised the Irish ire to the level of aggression. But let us move from the Middle East to Europe and the United States.
Remember BREXIT? Well, there were articles who referred to the British even voting on whether they wished to remain in the European Union as an aggression. But the few references to the taking of a vote as an aggression were nothing after BREXIT passed. Now, as Britain actually follows through and pulls from the European Union, every step they take along the tediously long and drawn-out procedure for actually exiting the European Union will most certainly have some commentator referring to each step as an aggression against the brotherhood of nations which make up the European Union. But it gets worse when we look at many of the furthest left-leaning universities and colleges in the developed world, especially the United States. Freshmen are assaulted by the aggression police as soon as they arrive on campus. In many of these schools the freshmen are given a booklet about the do’s and don’ts about campus life and included are several pages listing the most common micro-aggressions. A micro-aggression is, according to Merriam Webster, “a comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority).” There are further definitions and a whole page of related subjects which we are sure are absolutely fascinating. Wait a minute, I bet belittling a whole page of related subjects has to have passed somebody’s threshold as a micro-aggression. From our experience, a micro-aggression can be anything that any minority can claim they felt insulted, ignored, generalized, misidentified, threatened, hurt, felt a twinge of anger, or just about anything they desire to define as a micro-aggression.
Since the person committing the micro-aggression does not even have to realize that they may have misspoke, until the aggrieved party informs them of their faux pas, their societal egregiously poor manners and complete lack of sensitivity will continue. Just for clarification, if one is a straight, white, religious, male who has no gender identity disorders, does not suffer PTSD and is healthy in body and mind (in theory), then there is absolutely no means of committing a micro-aggression or other forms of aggression against them because of straight-white-religious-healthy-male dominated world which has provided them with every advantage and made their lives simple, easy and facing few barriers to success which impede all of those others who have been victimized for thousands of years by this horrible straight-white-religious-healthy-male dominated social order better known as the established order. Just in case you had any doubts, the established order is evil, racist, sexist, gender critical and simply through and through rotted and must be torn asunder and replaced with a nice, all-inclusive, reordered and equalizing social order where those who have been deprived are now the ones receiving all the benefits of established order and the straight-white-religious-healthy-male is punished for the millennia of oppressions and all the horrific aggressions their species has committed. This new ordered world will be defined by the most easily offended such that nobody ever will need to feel overlooked, unimportant or in any way made to feel different, well, except for those contemptible-straight-white-religious-healthy-males.
Then there are these trigger words. These are the new swear words which must never be spoken even in hushed tones. The least sarcastic article about “micro-aggressions,” “trigger words” and “trigger warnings” (these are the warnings which need be placed with descriptions of course material which may be found to be threatening or harmful or when a professor has been found to use language somewhat carelessly and thus garnered their share of complaints from students that they were threatened or harmed by their lectures) was in Psychology Today titled, “Microaggressions and Trigger-Warnings.” I have taught mathematics and electronics and am so very glad that this was back when things were a little less sensitive and students listened carefully to lectures to learn and not to pick out and choose certain otherwise innocuous phrases from the lecture to rush and report to the school sensitivity director. When I taught there were neither sensitivity officers nor many of the specialists which are required in schools now. There needs to be an advisor for every possible nationality or combination there of. There need be counselors specializing in just about every area where current society has apparently diverged with someone taking care of gender identification difficulties such as the boy who thinks he might be happier if only he were a girl and of course the school must have an advisor, counselor to help with the problematic and sensitive period while he finds his way to becoming she and everyone who has made fun or said anything considered to be less than uplifting and helpful has been properly reprimanded and these bumps smoothed out. The gender identification is one problem which is so prone to humor, but that would be a severe micro-Aggression, but we decided to use the picture below anyway.
New York City has decided to make the bathroom on the far right necessary as they are permitting a new gender for birth certificates, “X” and we are not joking. You can read about it from CNN coverage. From what we have gleaned between the girlish giggling and snickering was that this will permit the child, as they are neither boy or girl, to decided when they are older which gender is most applicable and to their liking, or would comfort be a softer and more welcoming denotation. This leads to what will, in the future, make for some interesting court cases. First thing is that there will necessarily need to be an age at which, if they have yet to do so, choose their gender, a decision which will hopefully last a lifetime, but even that is not assured. With the rules about gender, which we are told we are forbidden to scoff and poke fun as gender is serious and far more than the simple boy or girl classifications we were limited to back in the day, apparently one can awaken feeling so refreshed and decide their female mind wants to tackle the day but then the boss is in a bad temper and your reaction is to instantly access your male mind in order to handle that situation. Then, after work, one may decide that they wish to return to their female influence. It really can get confusing with gender now something to be chosen in the same way one picks their clothes out in the morning; you can decide whether you need a dress shirt or a blouse. The real victims will be those children who are given a birth gender of “X” and have to try at an early age to make a decision over what their gender will be with parents who are likely telling the confused child that their birth organs do not delineate their real gender. Thinking about this gender confusion, Facebook offers, at a minimum, seventy-plus genders from which one can choose. Over seventy genders to choose from, that is over twice as many genders as Baskin-Robbins offers in flavor of ice cream and might even be more flavors of gender than brews of coffee at Starbucks. Who knew anything in life offered more choices than Starbucks.
All of these things and much more are the result of a society in which everything is relative and nothing can remain as that stuffy traditional definitions that our parents lived with. No, everything has to be completely upended just to make everybody comfortable with whatever their idiosyncrasies may happen to include. Nothing can be considered beyond the pale and there must never be borders which limit activities or the growing plethora of definitions replacing every tradition. The worst possible crime in modern day America and Europe is that if it originated in any fashion from the Judeo-Christian ethic, then it must be torn apart, restructured, defined to include all deviancies, and dash any resemblance to what is considered white, male and Christian. Another item which must be told is that with throwing out Christian, they also desire to rid themselves of Judaism, particularly Orthodox Judaism. Reform, Reconstructionist and even Conservative Judaism can be accepted providing the people are willing to denounce Israel as one of the worst and most cruel nations on Earth who are oppressive of the Palestinian Arabs and even the entire Arab world. Fortunately, Jay Leno recently was posted on Facebook making a comment about that exact situation, and we just could not resist posting it here, and will probably use it as often as we are able.
Here is the back-breaker of this entire leftist, progressive insanity where up is down and sideways can be forward or backward and it all does not matter. Well, for us normals, “normal,” that has come to have a denotation of evil about it in much of our crazed society, but for us normals, these new rules sound more like a game of make it all up as you go along. If you can give it a name, then it must be included as long as it goes against all traditions. The Bible is now considered to be some old book written by and for rich white people and thus to be discarded and replaced with anything which opposes those traditions. The United States Constitution, the British Magna Carta and just about every set of national founding documents, especially if they are written on parchment, are simply old stupid rules made up by rich white Christian (or Jewish) men and thus have no value. Shakespeare, Dumas, Chaucer, Dickens, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe and every traditional writer which used to be the core of the English language have all been banned as they were written by white males who were probably Christian. We are waiting for them to decide they can teach math and physics without the input of white males such as Descartes, Newton, Euclid, Hawking, Plato, Riemann and a great number of white males. Our world is being thrown into a blender and nothing which was normative is permitted to escape the indelible rewrite of all that is good and decent by the far left. They have taken society, chopped everything up, flung every barrier away, renamed everything in sight and made standards a thing of the past, even decided, in some cases of select colleges, to permit the students to choose their own grades. The world many of us knew has disappeared and been replaced with what seems more like a cartoon world where nothing is fixed and the standards are what each individual chooses for themselves. The fact that this cannot and will not work does not matter to the leftist leadership, just as long as they despair those who they decided required dispairment, frustrating everyone who was dependent upon the former rules which defined society and our lives. Not any longer, as there is a whole new game in town and it has only one ruleset, anything goes as long as it is counter to all Judeo-Christian traditions and will destroy the white males. This is part of the great love affair the extreme left has with Islam, they share a disdain for the Judeo-Christian ethic and swear they will drive Christianity from their regions which they believe will soon include most if not all of Europe and the United States along with Canada. These delusional leftists firmly believe that when the right moment comes, they will be capable of switching the Democrat Party or the Social Democrat Party platform for the Quran and reestablish a new Islam which holds to their New World Order. If they refuse to awaken and read the Quran and understand how it is believed and known by Muslims, they will find themselves facing a very poor ending. Islam has turned itself inward to such an extent that it cannot be altered in any way. It will remain determined to conquer the world and replace Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hindu and every other religion, and that most definitely includes Secular Humanism. Those on the left who are sworn to Secular Humanism need to understand how Islam defines their belief system. To Islam they are idolaters or apostates, and to be honest, we are unsure which would make for the worse choice. The one thing we do know, both are cured in Islam by very similar means and both result in death. When the far left finally discovers the reality about Islam, we can only pray for the sake of the developed world that there will be sufficient time and resources for the developed world to rebound and find its way back to its founding roots and do away with all this new age lunacy. If they do not, then they will very likely learn the real definition of aggression, Seventh Century style.
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