For as long as violence, crime, and perfidy in the name of “social justice” has been a sort of rite of passage for young, white, middle-class Americans who obey their professors, it has been framed as “activism” that, although unhelpful, is somehow proportionate to imagined abuses committed by chimeric right-wing cabals lurking always behind them as they speak drunkenly about President Bush being Hitler in some live/work space located in a newly gentrified corner of the city. White kid crime is “speech,” somehow.
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I have been involved with ProtestWarrior in Chicago for something close to two years. Since the attacks detailed in the piece were committed against someone else’s Web site, the only further light I can shed on the incident is that it came about towards the end of an escalating string of attacks from social justice activists in Chicago which were intended to intimidate, threaten, and harass my friends and me. In fact, the threat to shut down our Web site was first announced to PW in Chicago in March of 2004. The exact date of the attack was given, indicating that it had been planned for some time.
Shortly prior to the 2004 RNC in New York I received an unsolicited phone call anonymously warning me that I was “surrounded” and that I shouldn’t go to New York. I soon discovered that my name, along with my home address and phone number, had been posted to the Web site from which the buses that would take protesters to the RNC were being organized.
By saying that, it’s not my intention to convey that progressives and Nazis are the same thing, but rather I mention it in the hopes that we can bring the rhetoric back down to reality. About 80 percent of these spasms of hatred from the social justice movement are indeed just words, but words move men to deeds. If we are to equate our brothers, sisters, friends, and neighbors with Adolf Hitler simply because they have their own opinions, then we grant ourselves license to treat them like any morally firm person would treat Adolf Hitler. All of the times we have been threatened and attacked I’ve never doubted that the attacker was acting with the approval of their own conscience and felt that whatever crimes may be committed against us would be only half of what we deserved; all for breaking the mirage of consensus which hovers over our cities. This righteous, self-justified atavism is worthy of serious concern.
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