The Most Dangerous Thing In The Western Hemisphere

The Most Dangerous Thing In The Western Hemisphere – Second Thought

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Citations and Further Reading:

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Malcolm X speech (contains section on liberals)

Harris Poll on MLK

Musings on liberalism and fascism

The Pitfalls of Liberalism

Blackshirts and Reds, Michael Parenti

Senate Dems vote

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About Second Thought:
Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a socilaist perspective. Welcome!

[SecondThought]

Howdy, friends! I started working on this video two weeks ago and so much has happened since - Biden spouting right-wing talking points about "illegals, " liberals patting themselves on the back for sending a handful of expired meals to Palestine (while continuing to support their ethnic cleansing campaign), Biden announcing the US will officially be occupying the region in order to build a "port" in Gaza (which will surely not be used for military purposes), it's almost too much to keep up with. Time to tell it like it is. Our liberal friends need a wakeup call.

[ChrisGuerra]

Said it before, I'll say it again: I never thought I'd live in a time when protecting innocent children was unpopular.

[fish_birb]

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." - Aaron Bushnell

[hueypautonoman]

"I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil." - Malcolm X

[RobertWGreaves]

I turned 18 in 1969. I registered as a Republican, I also discovered Christianity and became a fundamentalist. My parents were both liberals, I think. And I say, I think because they never talked openly about the political climate ever. But my mother, when I was a young boy, took me to see Bobby Kennedy speak. She didn’t have a babysitter and she wanted to go see his speech. Interestingly, after the speech, we were in a drugstore to pick up some supplies and there was Bobby Kennedy in the line at the cash register right in front of us. I had an opportunity to meet the man. My parents were also very well educated and growing up, I did see the advantages to being well educated over being generally ignorant. So moving in a conservative direction I was also very interested in critical thinking and scholarship.

To make a long story short, I became very studious, I ended up obtaining several college degrees. But I also found myself very disenchanted with my fellow conservatives who seemed to be unaware of too many inconvenient facts. And in my scholarship and the study of my religion, that created such cognitive dissonance that I eventually had to leave both. I did interact with a number of liberals, it was impossible not to especially if you were going to get educated. But I saw in them the same tendency towards lazy critical thinking.

I need to cut to the chase. I eventually had to leave conservatism and organized religion, but I could not join the liberals. I actually began participating with a number of activist organizations. I was surprised that there was one common thread that I found inside these “left leaning” activist organizations. They were disgusted with liberals and the common Democrat. They saw the honest danger of the right, but they also saw the hidden danger of the left.

[alexanderson]

MLK Jr wasn't murdered directly because of wanting to end segregation and racism, but shortly after he started speaking truth to power and tied the struggle of black Americans to the struggle of the working poor. Once he realized that racism went hand in hand with wealth disparity he was assassinated, because those with the most would sooner make him a martyr and co-op his message than ever allow fair wealth distribution to become a reality in this country. The struggle has always been a struggle of class, it's just those at the bottom rungs of society tend to be minorities that get ground to dust the fastest.

[RidgeWalker-jwrr]

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were absolutely correct.

[Skylivedk]

I remember being at a dinner with a liberal Californian who couldn't understand why my country was so ok with high taxes (even if it meant free education and healthcare). During the same dinner he gave a car to a friend because he couldn't fit all 8 cars into his two garages.

Thank you, I'll take the free education and healthcare for all of us, no violence in the streets, and bike to my job.

[thebelt]

This gave me flashbacks to Bernie’s push for universal healthcare. Liberals were in favor of the idea, but as soon as it had a real chance at going into a material state, we get no word spoken about it since the 2016 primary.

Man this video makes me angrier at liberals, like fuck. I never thought of it in that way but it makes so much sense.

[terminatorxp]

Captain Picard once said, “villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot, those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged”.

[filiplachance]

"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now." Phillip Gourevitch really nailed it.

[James_Wisniewski]

Also, as a Jew myself, the idea that protesting Israel is antisemitic would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. For one, tons of us do not and have never supported it. For another, people seem to forget that Arab Palestinians are, in fact, also Semitic people. (But then, these are the same people who insist on calling white people "Caucasian." Since when does the actual meaning of words matter?)

Anyway, there are multiple reasons for a Jew not to support Israel. For one, many of the Jews who have historically supported it have been secular Jews who don't care about our faith or traditions whatsoever. For two, it's outright sinful to take back the Holy Land ourselves or rebuild our own Temple. Only the Messiah can do that. For three, and perhaps most importantly, especially now, we've been the victims of pogroms and genocides for hundreds and thousands of years; there's nothing more sad or disturbing than Jews doing to others what has been done to us. We've always been on the side of the oppressed standing against tyranny. This is not us, and anyone who thinks it is is someone I don't wish to be associated with.

[itsminty]

As a wise man once said: "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now."

[bobhanson]

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

[MrBeiragua]

If I was a leftist in America and my only option is Joe Biden, I would be crying now. In my country, Biden would be a common right wing candidate. There's no real American left.

[LelaShines]

You’re not being overly harsh. You’re 100 percent correct.

[farmerone]

Hit with pro Israel propaganda commercials while watching this = priceless.

[furiousdestroyah]

Saying unironically "Why don't they just protest peacefully?" is either one of two things: very privileged or very ignorant

[BraincrushingRecord]

In France, we have a name for this kind of people, "l'extrême centre".

[synergy]

Expected to be angry by the title as I've never heard of this channel before. But instead I'm left a bit humbled and in self reflection. Very interesting thought provoking ideas presented here.