From Not the Bee:
If modern college students had their way, they’d just freeze to death so that evil straight men don’t invade their safe space with all their craftsmanship and toxic masculinity and the like:
Ohio college student ‘angry’ and ‘scared’ after ‘cisgender men’ installed radiator in dorms: ‘Safe space’
An Oberlin College student described being “scared” and “angry” after the school announced a work crew would be installing radiators in a “safe space” dormitory for women and trans students.
A student at Oberlin College in Ohio described being “scared” and “angry” after the school announced a work crew would be installing radiators in a “safe space” dormitory for women and trans students, explaining the crew would likely be “cisgender men.”
“I was angry, scared, and confused. Why didn’t the College complete the installation over the summer, when the building was empty? Why couldn’t they tell us precisely when the workers would be there? Why were they only notifying us the day before the installation was due to begin?” Oberlin student Peter Fray-Witzer wrote in an op-ed published in the college newspaper on Friday.
Go here to read the rest. As I have stated before, much of Left wing thought in this country is simple class warfare which allows upper class, in economic terms only, whites to pour vials of hate on the heads of lower class, in economic terms only, whites and to feel virtuous while doing so. The hilarious aspect of this example is that this future barista may well never earn a fraction of what the hardworking men who installed the radiators earn. Never mind, the fact that they do manual labor instantly makes them lower class in the eyes of our Mandarin academic class. As the son of a mother and father who physically toiled to put food on the table, I will end this before I give in to the temptation to use language I refrain from using in my scribblings.
Stuff like this convinces me that if a civil war did break out, it could be won decisively without a shot ever being fired.
I am tempted to think the same things at times, but underestimating the capabilities of the other side is a perennial feature of losing everything from a football game to a world war.
I always keep Senator James Chesnut of South Carolina in mind: he loudly pledged to drink all the blood that would flow from secession. Too many Southerners thought the Yankees either wouldn’t fight or couldn’t do so as well as they did. Southern valor can never be doubted–but they learned to great cost that the mechanics and mudsills of the Union had the same steel.
In fact, the Civil War is chock-a-block with regretted predictions–and a few dead-on ones.
For the latter, I point to another Southern Senator, Robert Toombs, who was the only Confederate cabinet member to object to the attack on Fort Sumter, calling it both suicide and murder.
Never overlook your opponent’s virtues, no matter how much they rub your nose in their flaws and vices.
The main problem for conservatives in a civil war is how few institutions they control. The main problem for the Left is geographic. Outside of New England and metro New York, they are blue urban islands in red seas.
May we avoid a Civil War. In Civil War I both sides thought the war would be brief, relatively bloodless and that their side would easily prevail. Grant believed a variant of this until Shiloh. Observing the raw courage of the Southern troops he realized that the War would be desperate and require the complete military conquest of the South. Both Davis and Lincoln realized by this time that it was a War to the death. May we not repeat the experience with millions of dead this time and a China eager to take advantage.
China and foreign intervention is by far the biggest concern. Sure the Right lacks institutions – but those they lack aren’t ones that produce any supplies or logistics. Somehow I’m doubting that CNN is going to be able to convert it’s headquarters into a bullet manufacturing shop overnight. As I saw one blogger point out: decades now after communism’s fall, and factories STILL have not returned to the nation. Once lost, how-to knowledge can be very difficult to obtain again – and the blue zones have been doing a lot for awhile now to drive out and ruin a lot of historical knowledge in their areas.
In the original civil war, both North and South still had a culture of guns, gun ownership, and even the factory jobs at the time were physically demanding enough to keep men in decent shape. When even exercise is getting politicized you have to start asking, “ok, so what are they going to fight with exactly?” Currently intensity and suicide bombing seems to be the only answers and well… history has shown how well that works out too.
Heck just examine containergate going on right now in California and it looks like the blue zones are set to blockade THEMSELVES before a war even kicks off.
The Left would have a real problem not trusting cops and National Guard outfits in blue areas, hopefully with good reason. They would also quickly learn that street toughs like Antifa aren’t of much use on the battlefield except as targets. In the Spanish Civil War the Republicans had endless problems producing a military, even though they had most of the troops and officers in their zone of control at the beginning of the War. Their attempt to build a new and politically reliable military only met with partial success by 1938 and by that time they confronted a Nationalist military that was simply better trained and led.
Peter Grant who has fought in actual conflicts in Africa before moving to America has written quite a lot of thoughts on this matter as well.
But then off-hand jokes spiraling into pedantic, overly-detailed discussions is a feature of the internet. 😉
“As the son of a mother and father who physically toiled to put food on the table, I will end this before I give in to the temptation to use language I refrain from using in my scribblings.”
Here here. So these snowflakes are assuming that any tradesman is a potential attacker. Wait till they hit the real world and they need to call on a plumber to have their washers replaced. They’ll be quaking in their boots.