Art of Conservatism---Micro-Aggression?

March 28, 2016

One of the problems which Conservatives deal with on an almost daily basis, is the left's virtually unstoppable zeal to shut them up. Rush and the other Conservative commentators are right when they state that the left certainly knows that it's ideas can't begin to compete with those of the Right, so they seek to stifle any opposing views through many methods aimed at controlling the flow of information, and as such, the dissemination of those Horribly Politically Correct ideas. One of these tactics is in use of 'weakness'. Perhaps we Conservatives should start cataloging and categorizing these methods, with the aim of creating effective antidotes to them---and I use that word, 'antidotes', advisedly.

While I'm sure you all can think of a lot of ways in which the left seeks to control information and minds in this world (and I've already mentioned the use, or rather the misuse, of the word 'racism' in an earlier blog) I'd like to start with the term 'micro-aggression'.

Imagine a child of, say seven or eight, who hears something that said little kid doesn't like. It matters not whether what the weak little tyke hears is the truth about him, her, or it---whatever. The point is that the first inclination of said little person is to suppress it. So, the little person runs to the 'safety' of someone in charge, or that failing, running to the safety of the herd, the crowd, mob, or sometimes the media, to scream to high heaven, or to the masses, whichever comes first, that “so-and-so abused me” even though that the nasty, mean 'beast over there' did nothing more than to tell the Poor Little Person something that said PLP didn't want to hear. Thus either the authority figure or the mob or the media cudgel is incited to take out revenge on that nasty micro-aggressor and figuratively, or sometimes literally, beat it into submission, even sometimes to death. Now imagine that same sort of thing happens but instead of a seven- or eight-year-old, it's a seven- or eight-year-old mind, within the body of an alleged adult, such as a young adult on a college campus.

That's the essence of the process of political correctness. It's right out of the 'Rules for Radicals' playbook, it's called 'marginalizing', and it's a form of tyranny. Thankfully, We The People are beginning to awaken to just what's going on with political correctness.

So.... let's see how to combat it.

First of all, there's the term 'micro-aggression' itself. Anyone who is supposedly 'intimidated' by anything 'mico' is a mental small-fry, and shouldn't be trusted with sharp objects or matches, let alone anything approaching anything having to do with leadership of anything. Such self-made 'victims' of 'micro-aggressions' conveniently forget that the operative part of the term is the 'micro' rather than the 'aggression'. By its very construction, a micro-anything can and should be ignored, but it's not. 

That the 'abused' have to run to the local authority figure, or the mob, to get proper 'justice' (read that, 'punishment) against the 'accused', is in itself far more aggression rather than micro, since often the alleged aggression is based on the truth rather than aggression, the truth is overwhelmed, and the result is abject tyranny against the alleged 'aggressor', who in truth becomes the actual victim---especially when the herd is brought to bear. It's all out of the 'Rules for Radicals' playbook, and there's a word for it---marginalization. The truth-teller or inadvertent 'micro-aggressor' is thrown out of the circle, society, or worse yet, imprisoned or made to pay a heavy financial penalty.

All of this is because the left knows that, in the arena of ideas, their ideas cannot stand the scrutiny of those who know the truth, so those nasty old bullies must be driven out of existence by those who are themselves the true bullies. What the left tends to forget, however, is that the 'arena of ideas' implies an audience, a crowd looking on, a crowd which is likely to see the alleged micro-aggression and the reaction to it for what both are---and who are more and more likely to see the side of that alleged 'accused' more sympathetically than they are to the side of the 'abused'. That's starting to become apparent to We The People now. How better to explain the rise of Donald Trump than as a negative reaction to the ascendancy of political correctness in this country? I can't help but wonder if he saw 'paying to play' as a form of 'political correctness', and just got fed up with it. 

Even so, I believe that the shining of the hard light of The Truth on Political Correctness is how the concept is going to best be defeated. After all, the more exposed it becomes to enough people who are truly grown up, and who have been through the school of hard knocks, the more likely that it will become seen for what it is, and thus repugnant enough to fall out of the main stream of political thought. 

I realize that it will take a great deal of time to defeat the political correctness which has pervaded this country. After all, political correctness is a major component of that War by Other Means. The thing is, We The People are going to have to start to recognize that political correctness is far more pervasive than most of us believe, and that much of the power of political correctness revolves around the ability of the left to control the language, and thus our rhetoric. Once that is recognized, the next step is to call out any signs of political correctness for what it is, and attack them, just like would be the case with any other form of tyranny, or lies backed up by aggression. 

Political correctness can also be attacked by calling it a form of weakness, which it is. Make sure that that those who practice political correctness are made known to the community for what they are, so that they can be thwarted in their ability to gain or maintain any kind of political power. It means learning how to be educated consumers of information---including removing support from those members of the news media who practice political correctness. It will also mean getting more and more Conservatives elected to our state legislatures, with the aim of taking back control of our institutions of higher learning from those who are indoctrinating our children with Left Wing political correctness. Don't get rid of all of them. Just get control of the colleges and universities away from them. 

As I said, it will be a long, hard fight, but it is a major step which needs to be taken if Conservatism is going to win back this country from those who would destroy it.

For Art of Conservatism, I'm Art Reis