Wrestling With The Beast

Today just a quick update on life, and an observation that I made years ago manifested in recent news here in the U.S.

Some of you may know, I've been battling not feeling well for a couple of weeks. My partner began feeling ill about 4 days ago. So we took the Covid tests and both came up positive.

I'm feeling a little better now, but still weak and under the weather. I actually got yesterday off from work because of it, and looks like they may let me trade my Saturday night for Sunday. They also let me take a little over 5 hours of PTO I have accumulated for last night, so my pay will only be short about 3 hours on my next check.

I wasn't going to take the test, but after my partner took hers and was positive I decided to go ahead and take one too. Surprisingly my company isn't writing me up for an unexcused absence for last night.

I also got word that I'm approved for a new apartment in a couple of months. It's in yet another state, so despite some of the headaches that comes with moving, let alone in another state that stress is now behind me. Now comes the fun of finding a new job in the coming months there that don't require one to have the injection. It's one of the more liberal states so obviously they have built a cult up around the injections. Never mind those of us who have natural immunity. As with the definition of vaccines being changed so that the experimental injection qualifies, natural immunity is old science and is misinformation to those belonging to the injection cult.

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Always seems to be some beast waiting for us to grapple with in life. So glad I have the beast of apartment approval past and now seem to slowly be mending from whatever sickness I have that tests positive for Covid. And I say that in all seriousness. I'm not sure I believe what they say is causing it, but as one who has had it twice now, I can say for sure something is happening that isn't fun.

Ok, now onto my weird observation. It Involves

Whoopie Goldberg

Here in the U.S. and I see now Canada as well, there is a crazy narrative that has been building for many years now. It's an attack against all white people. The narrative goes that all white people are inherently evil and racist, and all the worlds problems spring from us white folks. It is taken to an absurd level to say that ONLY WHITE PEOPLE are capable of racism.

Now without hashing over the obvious fallacies such as if white folks were so bad we wouldn't be seeing so many non white people migrating to our countries, or the group who actually fought a war against ourselves to stop slavery etc, I wish to move instead to my observation.

Here in the U.S., I believe largely because of the liberal narrative about evil whitey, in the more economically distressed African communities here there has for many years been a game they will play called the knock out game.

This game consists of a group of black men walking past a white man, and surprisingly one of the young men will sucker punch the white man to see if he can be knocked out with one punch. A quite deadly game, one that the media has tried ignoring as much as they can. I reckon because I feel it is in large part due to their being one of the promoters of this blind hatred that is being taught to these young men towards whitey.

So anyway, a few years ago, there was outrage in New York in the media. The outrage stemming from suddenly there were some Jewish men getting the lucky nod as participants in this knock out game. The outrage being that supposedly the young black men were now targeting Jewish men.

I remember laughing when I read that. I knew immediately they weren't being target because they were Jewish. They were being targeted because they were white.

It took me back years ago to a Judaism chat room I was a regular in when i was studying Judaism. The topic of the Palestinians had come up, and I expressed sympathy for the Palestinians. To my shock, I was told be several in that room that I was now anti-semitic.

To which I replied that wasn't possible. That most of the Jews I know are as white as I am, and it would actually make me anti-semitic to side with the white Jews over the Semitic Palestinians.

There obviously was no logical repsonse to this, other than "you know what I meant" to which I replied, no I don't know what you meant.

So anyway, Whoopie confirmed my observations the other day when she got suspended for her views on the holocaust.

She said that the holocaust wasn't a racial event, just one group of white folks killing another group of white folks.

I dislike Whoopie very much, as I think she is insane with many of her far left beliefs and her conduct as a person.

In this case though she got punished for sharing a belief that many hold as well, especially in the African American community.

When one sees a Jew like William Shatner for example ( I could list so many as an example) most like myself only found out after seeing him he was Jewish. I certainly don't see a semitic person when I see him, I see a white man.

I for once found myself agreeing with Whoopie as she followed up with this observation that the holocaust was

an example of man’s inhumanity to man.

Yes!!!!!!

That's exactly what it was.

As an American where the insane folks on the left want to make everything about identity politics and award victim points based on ones race or gender or whatever micro reason they can find, it dehumanizes the process and creates a scale of acceptability based on ones past injustices, regardless of participation. Based solely on group dynamics that all of us being judged on were most likely not actual participants in.

All of my life I've heard of America, the great melting pot.

Yet this so called melting pot is filled with so much hatred, distrust and anger those creating and enforcing these narratives ensure there can be no melting of the pot for most of us who are open to embracing such a thing.

It's time we stop allowing them to separate us like this.

Pain is pain, regardless of ones skin color. Regardless of ones gender. And contrary to news outlets who ignore the many white men who've been knocked out by the game I mentioned above, only growing concerned when it suddenly became to them an anit semitic crime, everyone who was knocked out by this game felt the same pain roughly. It didn't matter what label they have attached as far as race.

The same way all black people who have encountered the same violence at the hands of mobs targeting them for their skin.

ALL OF THEM

felt the same terror, the same pain.

This is indeed what Whoopie called it.

an example of man’s inhumanity to man.

I mentioned in a recent post that even those who are wrong most of the time can be right as well, and regardless of whether i find them sickening as a person I have to acknowledge when they are right, because

well, because they are right.

Whoopie was right. We have to understand we all have the same frailties, the same fragility of body and spirit regardless of these superficial surface appearances. To use what Dr. King talked of when he said he dreamt of a day where a man would be judged by his character and not the color of his skin.

In that world, we won't be blaming all who share a characteristic such as white or black etc as a barometer of evil or an excuse that it's ok to terrorize them because of said shared characteristic.

That it saddens and outrages us when evil is being perpetrated, regardless of who the perpetrator is, regardless of the victim.

It should never have mattered that the victims were suddenly Jewish, it's been horrifying for all the victims.

It also needs to stop being a narrative that seeks to excuse crime as being a right one has racially because of injustices done by a small percentage of one group against another small percentage, all taking place before most were even alive today.

None of these separations are good soil for love to blossom. All they produce is anger, mistrust and hatred. Nothing that would ever allow a melting pot to be more than a boiling pot as all inside speed up against one another violently.