Guilt-Tripping Our Way to Self-Destruction
Why is this happening? Because we have allowed ourselves to be guilt-tripped into believing that demanding appropriate behavior and insisting upon objective academic standards is "white privilege," and that we must expiate our collective guilt as a nation by excusing the violence and catastrophic failures permeating our schools.
In states like California, Illinois and New York, shoplifting has become epidemic. Flash mobs steal thousands of dollars' worth of inventory and are not prosecuted. Retailers across the country lost $112 billion just in 2022. Homelessness has been allowed to explode in our major cities, contributing to crime, disease and filth that would have been unimaginable in America just 20 or 30 years ago. Stores and other retail establishments are closing in the downtowns of major cities due to theft, crime and generally unlivable conditions.
Why is this happening? Because we have been guilt-tripped into believing that involuntary commitment of the mentally ill isn't "compassionate," and that enforcing shoplifting laws protecting property is "systemic racism."
Men now insist that they can become women -- and vice versa; minor children and staggering numbers of preteen and teenage girls with clear mental illness are being railroaded into chemical sterilization and surgical mutilation. Teachers think it is appropriate to discuss their sexual proclivities with grade schoolers and expose them to pornography.
Why is this happening? Because Americans have been silenced by buzzwords like "cisprivilege," "heteronormative" and "transphobic."
Enough.
If these crises have been facilitated by our silence and our willingness to be cowed into submission, then they can be addressed when we refuse to be cowed; when we refuse to be silent; when we refuse to use the nonsense lingo that activists demand be injected into everyday parlance; when we stop apologizing for the sins and imperfections of those who lived generations ago; and when we vigorously defend the principles that represent the best of America.
Those principles built this country. Abandoning them will destroy it.
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