� 2001 by Deborah Lagarde
I could be wrong, of course--but I truly believe that most readers will hate this article! There is something in here to offend most people, sooooo...
1. political correctness: Most writers (not all, but most, and fortunately, most OmegaZine! readers do not fit into this category) are intolerant of anything to the right of Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton on race issues--I'll never forget a response to a Bush supporter's article (on Themestream--Ed.) that absolutely SCREAMED of hatred for Dubya and Republicans! He or she said he/she was "SICK, SICK, SICK!" or words to that effect of Bush and conservatism, because supposedly Bush was a "racist". Yeh, and like the NAACP commerical having Dubya driving the truck that dragged James Byrd in Jasper, Texas (BTW: We went through there on a vacation a few months after Byrd was murdered and SAW THE BLOOD IN THE ROAD!), this person felt the same way--Bush was an evil racist!
In the same vein, it seems most writers on Themestream like to parrot the official versions on issues and events--meaning they believe all the stuff they read in the liberal press like the so-called "paper of record" the NEW YORK TIMES. Well, I got a link for you: Smarter Times. Dare to go to this site for a bit of the truth about the desert between the Times' ears and covers.
One last thing about political correctness: did you know that the notion of political correctness began with Mao Tse Tung (now spelled Mao Zedong) during the Chinese "Great Proletarian" Cultural Revolution? You may have heard of that, those days in the sixties when --just when all those radical chic types were extolling free speech here, and defending Communism to boot in Vietnam--thank you, Jane Fonda!--her Commie cronies in China were wiping out millions of lives and millions of free speakers! Well, Themestream writers (and OmegaZine! readers--Ed.) , if you want to support this kind of thing, I'm not going to stop you! Go ahead, hate this article!
2.Hatred of white people: It is absolutely amazing how Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton, those "shakedown artists" (that's not original with me, but overheard being said by folks involved with Jackson Rainbow/Push Coalition's Wall St. Project ostensibly to help blacks (HAH!)), have convinced most blacks AND MANY WHITES that all whites (who haven't contributed to his coalition, that is) are the scum of the earth!
You know, in the late sixties and early seventies I was not only a left-wing radical, I was also--dare I say this--a COMMUNIST! I hung around a group of Maoists (thus I know all about what Mao was doing, read "Peking Review" and the "Red Book" to boot, and demonstrated in front of the UN Building to get the PRC into the UN--my pix was even in the New York Daily News!) called American Communist Workers Movement, Marxist - Leninist--some of you may even have heard of this group, especially you Canadians, who have a similar group STILL run by Hardial Bains, the Communist Party of Canada (M-L).
It was during these times that I told myself that one day the racism situation would be reversed, that whites would be hated because they are white. So, you white folks who have bought into the notion that because your ancestors hated blacks and "oppressed" them, then you need a dose of the same and can't or won't get over that "guilt" of yours--WELL, GET OVER IT! Good God, most of your ancestors weren't even here in the USA when blacks were slaves, why in bloody hell are you feeling guilty? Why are you letting Jackson/Sharpton mentally shake you down?
3.Hatred of Christians: All religious groups are persecuted in one way or another at various times, but I can't believe that today's Christians are being stopped from expressing themselves--because of events that happened several hundred years ago? COME ON NOW! You haters of believers in Jesus Christ hate them because some Spanish overlords used their power to quash dissent (the Spanish Inquisition); because some Spanish Conquistadores tried to wipe out the natives of Mexico, Central and South America "in the name of Our Lord"? Because Christians are "so uptight" and won't let their sons and daughters date before they are fifteen and don't want their daughters getting pregnant at thirteen--and, Heaven forbid--won't let them get abortions if they do? Good God these folks are so terrible, aren't they! Real scum of the earth, these Christians! Hang 'em all unless they become gay or lesbian and hang out in Hollywood!
4. All men are scum: Okay, you feminists (I won't call you feminazis like some do, okay?), you think men--okay, white male heterosexuals--are so terrible? Then WHY IN THE WORLD DO YOU LOVE CLINTON SO MUCH??? You know, the RAPIST??? And WHY DO YOU LOVE ABORTION SO MUCH?
I think I've said enough here on this subject--just how can you feminists hate yourself and your womenkind so much as to love a rapist and hate unborn children?
Could it be because most of you are so darned unattractive?
5. Haters of Freedom: What I am basically saying here is that I think so many of you hate freedom. You sound as if you hate America, and everything it stands for, and want to make the USA into something akin to Commie China, the old Soviet Union or even North Korea--yeh, maybe we should starve 90% percent of our people--more room for trees and critters, thus more trees to hug (yes, you eco-activists who want to destroy private property rights can also count yourselves among those who hate this article, I wouldn't want to leave you folks out since you basically hate all humanity!).
Well, darned it all, if I had the money--do you think Alec Baldwin or Babs Streisand will lend me some?--I would put it all over the Internet: Everyone who hates America, sign up here, and let's get together and find a place to go where we can be PC-white-hating-Christian-hating-heterosexual-hating-racist-tree-hugging folks all trying to see which ones of us can control the rest of us. Don't worry, you won't go to North Korea (though the notion is appealing), Commie China, Russia, Cuba or any other oppressive nation (though maybe sending you white-hating blacks to Zimbabwe might be stimulating--let's see how long you will survive in a country where 95% of it has no indoor plumbing!).
This article, you must know by now, is part of an experiment: just how much free speech will Themestream really allow?
Answer: Not much!
Stay tuned. In the meantime, HATE THIS ARTICLE!