Daniel Greenfield exposes a “privilege” the left enjoys and must have ripped from them – Anger Privilege.
If you want to know who has privilege in a society and who doesn’t, follow the anger.
There are people in this country who can safely express their anger. And those who can’t. If you’re angry that Trump won, your anger is socially acceptable. If you were angry that Obama won, it wasn’t.
James Hodgkinson’s rage was socially acceptable. It continued to be socially acceptable until he crossed the line into murder. And he’s not alone. There’s Micah Xavier Johnson, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Dallas, and Gavin Long, the Black Lives Matter cop-killer in Baton Rouge. If you’re black and angry about the police, your anger is celebrated. If you’re white and angry about the Terror travel ban, the Paris Climate treaty, ObamaCare repeal or any leftist cause, you’re on the side of the angry angels.
But if you’re white and angry that your job is going to China or that you just missed being killed in a Muslim suicide bombing, your anger is unacceptable.
If you’re an angry leftist, your party leader, Tom Perez will scream and curse into a microphone, and your aspiring presidential candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand, will curse along, to channel the anger of the base. But if you’re an angry conservative, then Trump channeling your anger is “dangerous” because you aren’t allowed to be angry.
Not all anger is created equal. Some anger is privileged rage.
Good anger gets you a gig as a CNN commentator. Bad anger gets you hounded out of your job. Good anger isn’t described as anger at all. Instead it’s linguistically whitewashed as “passionate” or “courageous”. Bad anger however is “worrying” or “dangerous”. Angry left-wing protesters “call out”, angry right-wing protesters “threaten”. Good anger is left-wing. Bad anger is right-wing.
Socially acceptable displays of anger, from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter riots to the anti-Trump marches to the furious campus protests, are invariably left-wing.
Left-wing anger over the elections of Bush and Trump was sanctified. Right-wing outrage over Obama’s victory was demonized. Now that left-wing anger led a Bernie Sanders volunteer to open fire at a Republican charity baseball practice outing. And the media reluctantly concedes that maybe both sides should moderate their rhetoric. Before listing examples that lean to the right like “Lock her up”.
Why were chants of “Lock her up” immoderate, but not Bush era cries of “Jail to the chief”? Why were Tea Party rallies “ominous” but the latest We Hate Trump march is “courageous”? Why is killing Trump on stage the hottest thing to hit Shakespeare while a rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask was hounded by everyone from the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri to the NAACP?
Not all anger is created equal. Anger, like everything else, is ideologically coded. Left-wing anger is good because its ideological foundations are good. Right-wing anger is bad because its ideology is bad.
It’s not the level of anger, its intensity or its threatening nature that makes it good or bad.
And that is why the left so easily slips into violence. All its ideological ends are good. Therefore its means, from mass starvation to gulags to riots and tyranny, must be good. If I slash your tires because of your Obama bumper sticker”, I’m a monster. But if you key my car because of my Trump bumper sticker, you’re fighting racism and fascism. Your tactics might be in error, but your viewpoint isn’t.
” Decocrats ” Wer’e the Easiest Thing to Be !
Bookmarking this! I know a Chicago Lib with a Facebook page that is a mirror of Scalise’s shooter. The dude took a break from his endless Trump hate posts (I suspect his wife said, “Hon, you need to tone it down a wee bit.” He did- for a whole 8 hours.
Yeah, the old socialist “high road”. When followed along its natural course invariably leads, at its very, very bitter end, to a mountain of skulls. These people need to be severely throttled and their “privilege” enthusiastically and comprehensively checked.
When sanctimonious psychopathy is mistaken for moral indignation, only the thickest of propaganda can act as a fig leaf.
Venezuela!
Vuvuzela!
The top comment from that article is also a keeper.
Keep angry you lefties. I want to watch you drop one by one from cerebral embolisms. Thanks for the laughs.
I think the leftist rage entitlement first went public with the “F the President” stickers in the W era. Previous to that, Democrats were careful to maintain a thin veneer of civility. Don’t be surprised to see SeveredTrumpHead air-fresheners hanging from the rear view mirror.
When there is no moderating influence to draw firm boundaries around acceptable and unacceptable behavior — whether it’s within a family or within an entire country — the emotional drama, anger, meanness, and resulting dysfunction ensue. It erodes the soul and ends in despair.
They own Loon too.