“Social Justice” As Governance
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 6 months ago
The new state of CHAZ has evolved. Over the past week, following Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan’s decision to abandon the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct Building, left-wing protesters have transformed the surrounding neighborhood into the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), hoping to create a new political authority based on social-justice principles. On its first night, the new micro-state was led by the armed paramilitaries of Antifa and the John Brown Gun Club, but after preventing the return of police and securing defined borders, the CHAZ has sought to implement civilian rule.
Almost immediately, activists established a social structure based on a “reverse hierarchy of oppression”: Native American, black, and trans women are the highest authority; diversity determines individual social status; and whites are called upon to perform rituals of atonement. Through a series of speeches and community gatherings, activists have sought to implement the social theory of “decolonization,” which, in the words of Black Lives Matter activist Nikkita Oliver, means overthrowing capitalism, eliminating the structures of “patriarchy, white supremacy, and classism,” and returning the land of the autonomous zone to displaced Native American tribes.
Let me be clear that I don’t think skinny bois would last two minutes against the various militias across America.
But that’s not the point. Right now, they have the support of the pols. And this is what the prog pols want.
Does that sound like something you can grok? If not, you’d better prepare now. You won’t have a chance to do it later.
On June 15, 2020 at 11:11 pm, wilson said:
For those who are not prepared by now, its too late.
On June 16, 2020 at 11:53 am, Jack Crabb said:
This sounds like its right out of a Kurt Schlichter novel.
On June 16, 2020 at 6:05 pm, Ron Milliken said:
I grok.
Kind of nice to see Heinlein’s verbiage in common use.
A very thoughtful man.
“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.” Robert Heinlein
On June 16, 2020 at 6:10 pm, Ron Milliken said:
And his quotations are strangely applicable to today’s issues also.
“The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That’s a personal evaluation, of course.” Robert Heinlein
He was good formative reading for me in my early teens, wish more kids were exposed to his philosophies.
Always misquoted (by being shortened:
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” Robert Heinlein