'No one's treading on you, sweetie." Where's the tyranny?

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/08/no-ones-treading-on-you-sweetheart.html

Where have the rights of any conservative, Evangelical, white, Christian person in the United States been "trampled on" by anyone from the far left? I can point to all kinds of examples where the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ persons have been trampled, and denied, and where they've been forced to accept choices that are not good for their own mental or physical health. I could point to hundreds of volumes written about discrimination against blacks, Latinos, Asians, Eastern Europeans, and just about any other ethnicity that exists in America, or against the practitioners of religious faiths or philosophies that are not Christian.

So if I'm going to be convinced that there is some kind of oppression against white, conservative, Evangelical Christians that justifies civil war and the destruction of the United States as we know it, I need to have that pointed out to me. If I'm to be subjected to violence beyond my control, then I should be informed of a legitimate cause for inciting it.

And I'll point out that I'm a white, male, past 50, raised in a conservative, Evangelical church (though I no longer claim that label), who, if all of these claims from the far right are true, should have experienced this oppressive trampling on my rights. I belong to the demographic that is supposed to have "suffered" the most. And frankly, I can't say I've ever noticed it at all.

That's because this is a deceptive, duplicitous, straw man argument.

[unblock]

1. they've morphed the concepts of liberty, freedom, and rights to be entirely self-serving

without any shred of respect or responsibility to others or acceptance that other have rights as well.

once you see things through that lens, anyone else's exercise of their rights becomes tyranny and oppression to you.

these self-centered, arrogant jerks think that a sitcom starring a gay person who isn't being bashed every episode is an infringement on their right to never see gay people treated in a remotely positive, or even neutral, way.

seriously, they think the existence of abortion, the existence of trans people, the existence of atheists, every hearing even just a spanish accent, etc., are tyranny to their vision of a pure white, male-dominated, cis-straight-christian controlled world.


once you believe in an unworkable worldview where you're the only people entitled to any respect or rights, the real world become just a whole lot of oppression and tyranny.

[LizBeth]

2. They think if they drink a Bud Light they will turn gay. No reasoning with that.

[Skittles]

3. they think of any challenge to the white male hierarchy as tyranny

biggest snowflakes on the planet

[slightlv]

4. I think they believe that any spiritual path... any belief

not taught in their overly narrow vision of religion is a devil's bargain, and those of us who follow other paths are demons come to tempt them to stray and sin.

[FakeNoose]

5. In worm-brain language, "Don't tread on me" actually means, "Don't disagree with me"

[Martin Eden]

6. They believe they are being oppressed when they're not allowed

To impose their own narrow minded version of Christianity on others.

They will never learn to mind their own damn business!