People like me who have had the “hate” label pinned on them face a dilemma: we can defend ourselves and say, “I don’t hate anyone. I just don’t agree with you.” In my experience, this strategy goes nowhere. The more we attempt to defend ourselves, the more we appear, well, defensive. Hence, not believable.
Our other choice is to say, “The heck with it. I know I’m not a hater, bigot or racist. I officially no longer care what anyone thinks of me.” This second course has a certain nobility to it. But it presents dangers of its own. People can easily become jaded and cynical about the whole concept of “hate” and “bigotry.”
In the interests of full disclosure, I should reveal that this has been my preferred strategy. You see, the organization I lead, the Ruth Institute, is listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map.” I don’t know how one gets on the SPLC’s “Hate Map.” And I certainly do not know how one gets off it.
Our “opinion-makers” in the media, academia and assorted left-wing think tanks are playing a dangerous game. They have told us that the views of many ordinary decent Americans are the equivalent of racism. Some of those same ordinary decent Americans are fed up. They know they are not racists, haters or bigots. But we no longer have an adequate public vocabulary to describe actual haters, bigots and racists.
As I said, I categorically condemn the Alt-Right, white supremacy, racism, Nazism and all violent totalitarian political movements. You may search the Ruth Institute’s website all day long, and never find a racist word. Instead, what you will find are reasons and evidence to support sentiments that align with the vast majority of Americans, black and white, male and female. Children need their own parents. Men and women are different. Sex makes babies and therefore society has every right to expect people to control their sexual impulses.
The advocates of the Sexual Revolution cannot defend their ideas. That is why people with my views end up on their “Hate Map.”
The Ruth Institute is a global non-profit organization creating a mass social movement to end family breakdown, by energizing the Survivors of the Sexual Revolution. We especially focus on the impact of family breakdown on children: understanding it, healing it, ending it.
Founded by world-renowned author, speaker and academic Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the Ruth Institute’s Resource Center provides decades of research and educational tools to support individuals and families harmed by divorce, the hook-up culture and other forms of family breakdown.
Our Ruth Refuge and Tell Ruth the Truth blog offers a safe community for people to share their life stories with others online as a means for healing and preventing the cycle of divorce.
Full story at Ruth Institute Blog.
How Often do you Beat Your (Wife / Husband / Puppy / Kitty…)?
The rhetorical scam of forcing someone to Deny behaviors they have never engaged in, and defining rational thinking as ‘hateful’, is a tired Alinskyite tactic (though he did not think it up, just popularized it through the likes of ‘Presumed President Pantsuit’ in her thesis) – that only works if you descend in to the pit with them
No matter what response is given, the scam is to keep the focus on the Target’s (Hate / Ism-Obia…) and force repeated reference to the false accusation, so that the audience eventually develops a connection, if only through repetition of the accusation in various forms and repudiation using the same terms
As the corrupt Roman Lawyer…
As the Corrupt Roman Lawyer Cicero advised (during the Fall of that Empire): “When you have no basis for an argument, Abuse the Plaintiff”.
BTW – Cicero would have fit in with the Leftist Demi-Krat machine quite well, particularly the scams of the ObamAcorns (like trading ‘Carbon Offsets’ for Political Donations), as he once was accused of taking Bribes in a case.
Cicero proudly admitted the truth, but said that because he took bribes from both sides, he was able to be Fair
Strong words lose their power when they are used wrongly and repeatedly. How much power did an accusation of “communist” have in 1970 versus 1920? Real Communism was no less evil 50 years later, but the word was abused by McCarthy and others and lost its power. The Left is draining powerful words for real evils by their own current overuse (and misuse). The real beneficiaries of this “crying wolf” will be the genuine wolves.
Joe McCarthy had many flaws (the worst was using the thieving homosex liar Roy Cohn as his advisor) – but his Communist ‘witch hunt’ was actually a very necessary investigation of the infiltration of Stalinist Spies in the US State Department and other places (like stealing the atom bomb from the Manhattan Project), which were not witches but real enemies of America.
The recent book ‘Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy’ about Ernest Hemingway shows the He and others were Genuine Soviet Says (via NKVD – pre runner to KGB), and Joe was taken down in order to protect such sources and ‘fellow travelers / pinkos’. (Pink is almost Red)
Joe botched it for a number of reasons, but the threat was Real
I love The Ruth Institute and Dr Jennifer Roback-Morse. She is so smart, witty and practically-minded. God bless and protect her.
Speak out whenever you are accused of hate, you hate what some people say and do, but you do not hate the people.
Time to put the SPLC onto the ash heap of history. They have strayed soooo far from their original mission and are now trying to use their sway to bully any person or group not in lockstep with them. They are just another far far left group and should be dismissed.
The manipulation of our University System / Academentia – Against Women of Principle, is a seldom mentioned propaganda pogrom
While Pretending to speak for Women, radicals controlling access & allegedly free speech are vicious in shutting the door to Women like Morse from any participation in the public debate at public institutions. The recent scam at UC Irvine is a great example:
“Civil War Against Women by Progressive/ Democrat Totalitarians Continues
https://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/civil-war-against-women-by-progressive-democrat-totalitarians-continues/
The president of the University of California, Irvine College Republicans was denied access to the UC Women’s Caucus Leadership Conference because…
The president of the University of California, Irvine College Republicans was denied access to the UC Women’s Caucus Leadership Conference because she wasn’t there for “the right reasons.”
The conference is hosted jointly by the Associated Students of UCI and Associated Graduate Students, and is described as “a political coalition that serves to represent the gender needs and interests of women, trans individuals, and allies across the UC system” by exploring topics such as “women in politics,” “erasing the glass ceiling effect in the workplace,” “health relationships/domestic violence,” and more.
The Campus Gaystapo in Academentia is so viciously Hateful that they support Violence, provided it is agains someone they disagree with:
“Dartmouth faculty supports professor’s comments justifying Antifa violence
https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/30/dartmouth-faculty-supports-professors-comments-promoting-antifa-violence.html
More than 100 Dartmouth College faculty members rushed to support a controversial fellow professor who repeatedly justified Antifa’s violent tactics — despite the Dartmouth president’s condemnation of the professor’s support for the so-called anti-fascist group…”