{"id":750,"date":"2022-05-22T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T23:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2022-05-23T07:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:06:50","slug":"when-hate-and-violence-are-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"When Hate and Violence Are Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Reid Fitzsimons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The office of a Wisconsin pro-life organization firebombed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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and vandalized<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We respond to bad things, especially the suffering of others, in different ways, ways often meant to shield us from uncomfortable realities about ourselves. Ignorance, either woeful or willful, is effective, and denial and avoidance also work pretty well. There are those who thrive on the suffering of others, and indeed create it. Sometimes these people are referred to as evil. I guess there are degrees of evil, where at the extreme evil people view not just their victims as a hated enemy, but also those who stand up for those they prey upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most profound and widely read books of the 19th century was an antebellum novel Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin. The author was abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the legend is that when she met Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, Lincoln said, \u201cSo you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.\" I contend that people who consider themselves well educated and informed should read this book (though I was over 60 when I finally did, so I\u2019m not sure how that reflects on me). The story is, of course, about slavery, but it\u2019s not some monolithic sermon against slavery, but rather includes all the pitfalls of human nature mentioned above when people confront, or more correctly ignore, evil. The ultimate antagonist is the brutal slave owner Simon Legree, at whose hands Tom is ultimately beaten to death because he was protecting slaves who had run away from the plantation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slavery, regardless of where it existed is one of too many examples in history where life was devalued so as to allow malevolence to be tolerated, and where those who refused to accept the inhumanity of it were marginalized and essentially became the enemy of the institutional powers: slavery is evil in its own right, but to justify hatred of those opposed to it took evil to higher level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the epitome of evil in more recent times was Nazi Germany, though Soviet Russia and communist China could certainly compete with them for the total numbers of corpses created. One could imagine an enthusiastic SS officer gleefully goose-stepping everyday to the job he so enjoyed, overseeing the transport of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other enemies of the State to the gas chambers. As we know, his enemies also included anyone who dared to standup against the evil of the Holocaust. Certainly part of the reason these atrocities were enabled was that Hitler and his National Socialist comrades spent much of the 1930s dehumanizing the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and various other enemies of the State. They had a word for them: Untermensch, roughly translated as subhuman. It was easier for the masses to look away when the people being slaughtered were sub-humans, and of course standing up for the victims of the Nazis was difficult due to government-sponsored terrorism: just because you\u2019re a blond haired Aryan doesn\u2019t mean you<\/em> are exempt from the ovens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up to the 1980s I was pro-abortion, even assisting in abortions during clinical rotations in school. What the heck: it\u2019s just a blob of tissue, keep your hands off my body, \u201cevery child a wanted child,\u201d it\u2019s my right to choose, etc. I should have known better, but I was willfully<\/em> ignorant, it being much easier to simply go along. Several experiences around that time made me question the prevailing cultural dogma, and I eventually found myself very much in the pro-life camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 20 years later I was the volunteer medical director of a remote clinic in Kenya, East Africa. Though malaria was by far the most prevalent disease and killer, this was during the true crisis of the African AIDS epidemic, and I witnessed suffering beyond comprehension of the vast majority of Americans. One night a very pregnant lady came to the clinic with abdominal pain. It was obvious she was in the midst of a miscarriage, and after some time she delivered a beautiful baby girl, perhaps weighing one pound: by all standards of the American political left she was perfectly abortable. In New York recently there were government-sponsored celebrations of a law that allowed babies to be aborted who were much further along than this little girl, in fact up to and even after delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this clinic we had a pit, the place where we discarded medical waste including AIDS saturated blood and pus, infected feces, and items like used needles and scalpels. I happened to be there with an American nurse who was also pro-life, and we discussed what to do with the body of the little girl; neither of us could imagine throwing her into the pit of pus and blood so we dug a little grave for her and buried her in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wanted and unwanted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The pro-abortion politicians and cultural aristocracy in the US have spent decades trying to strip the entity growing in a pregnant woman of all sense of humanity, propagating the idea that it is nothing or<\/em> worse, at times equating it with a tumor or a parasite; that the little African girl deserved<\/em> to be thrown into the pit of blood and pus and rot away. They even cut out parts from aborted babies and sell them, kind of \u201chey, business is business, why waste perfectly good human tissue when a profit can be made?\u201d This is evil, plain and simple, but something they deftly and disgracefully talk about under the guise of health care, women\u2019s rights, and \u201cchoice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to maintain their cultural hegemony, it\u2019s important for the elite abortion establishment to denigrate those who cannot bring themselves to deny the humanity of the child in utero. Hence, they whip up vitriol by accusing their opposition of being \u201canti-women,\u201d \u201cagainst health care for women, and \u201canti-choice, vacuous and disingenuous slogans that nevertheless appeal to the ears of those who want to justify the convenience of ending the lives of children not yet born. In fact, inciting visceral hatred against the pro-life community is a basic strategy, as we\u2019ve seen so pointedly since the illegal leak that a Supreme Court decision might overturn the hideous Roe versus Wade ruling of almost 50 years (and over 60 million children destroyed) ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hysteria associated with this possibility quickly resulted in the firebombing of an office of a pro-life organization, and interestingly a direct call to violence by one of the Democrat party\u2019s shining lights, the mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot, who issued a \u201ccall to arms\u201d and vowed that \u201cwe will not surrender our rights without a fight \u2014 a fight to victory!\u201d Ironically, especially considering the primary qualifications of Lightfoot are that she is a female, black, and lesbian, she sounds eerily similar to the Jim Crow racists when their utopian segregated society- where blacks knew their place- was threatened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I converted to the pro-life position 40-years ago, and in all that time I\u2019ve never known a single pro-life person (of which millions are women) who was \u201canti-women.\u201d The key to promulgating and sustaining atrocities such as slavery, genocide, and abortion is to strip their targets of humanity so that enough<\/em> people can accept the malevolence, so enough<\/em> people are willing to throw the little African girl into the pit filled with pus and infected feces, and still somehow look at themselves in the mirror. It certainly doesn\u2019t mean these people themselves are evil, it\u2019s just that they want so much to believe a wrong is okay that they are willing to accept the lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a pretty song from the late 1990s by singer\/songwriter Jewel entitled Hands. She had a reputation for composing songs with meaning, and one of the lines was, \u201cIn the end, only kindness matters.\u201d Perhaps not entirely true, but not a bad guiding principle. In the end, abortion is viewed by some as a solution to a temporary difficult situation; there may be desperation associated with abortion, but there is never kindness. No matter how determined the pro-abortion establishment tries to demonize the being that will soon become a born baby that can be held and cherished, abortion is a violent act. There is no kindness in hating the baby, and no kindness in reviling millions of people who stand up for him or her. All choice ends once the baby is sucked out of the womb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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