{"id":115752,"date":"2020-02-18T00:31:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T07:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=115752"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:35:55","slug":"pseudo-profundity-from-fake-voltaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2020\/02\/pseudo-profundity-from-fake-voltaire.html","title":{"rendered":"Pseudo-Profundity from Fake Voltaire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of the marks of the Right Wing Herd of Independent Thinkers is its lockstep conformity in believing any lie their folk heroes tell them while being Deeply Skeptical of what Normals call \u201cactual journalism\u201d but they reactively declare to be \u201cFake News\u201d.\u00a0 Case in point:<\/p>\n

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This meme has been endlessly circulated by Alt Right and MAGA Big Brains who think it is profound to shout \u201cYOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!\u201d at anybody who demands they do their homework or think thoughts that make them uncomfortable as they screw on their red hats and march off to another Nuremburg Rally to chant the praises of the Dear Leader.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the problem.\u00a0 First, Voltaire never said it, something you\u2019d know if you had the guts to stick your head out of your mental bubble, O MAGA Cultist.\u00a0 Who did say it?\u00a0 We will get to that in a moment.\u00a0 But more important is that even if Voltaire had<\/em> said it, people who were able to think and not simply parrot words would be able to say, \u201cWait! That is idiotic, whoever said it!\u201d because people who can think<\/em> are capable of analyzing bunk and do not slavishly repeat nonsense as Eternal Truth simply because a meme attributes it to Famous Person X.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s reality: some people should not<\/em> be criticized, not because they rule over you, but because they are innocent victims and you are a dick who thinks you are daring for adding to their suffering.<\/p>\n

If you \u201ccourageously\u201d criticize Holocaust survivors and call them liars, or \u201ccourageously\u201d criticize a child porn victim for \u201chaving it coming\u201d, you are not throwing off the chains of oppression. You are laying those chains on to others more heavily than ever and you are a massive jerk, not a hero.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the real author of the quote: Kevin Alfred Strom<\/a>, a white supremacist child porn fan and Neo-Nazi who really did mean to say that the Jooooooos did not \u201callow\u201d people like him to lie about the Holocaust and who really did consume child porn.<\/p>\n

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The people who pass this garbage around, whoever they attribute it to, prove every day that nobody should trust their judgment or believe a word they say.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the marks of the Right Wing Herd of Independent Thinkers is its lockstep conformity in believing any lie their folk heroes tell them while being Deeply Skeptical of what Normals call \u201cactual journalism\u201d but they reactively declare to be \u201cFake News\u201d.\u00a0 Case in point: This meme has been endlessly circulated by Alt Right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1072],"class_list":["post-115752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-maga-cult"],"yoast_head":"\nPseudo-Profundity from Fake Voltaire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the marks of the Right Wing Herd of Independent Thinkers is its lockstep conformity in believing any lie their folk heroes tell them while being\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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