Tell SJW to Go Pound Sand

Kurt Schlichter has some important advice for Republicans and conservatives: Tell the Social Justice Warriors To Go Pound Sand. It is good advice, so I encourage gentle readers of this blog to go read his article at Townhall.com.  Along the way, of course, he also mocks and makes fun of Democrats and that breed of Republican that would rather throw good men and women to the wolves than to fight back.  Kurt is right to fight back, because often these SJW outbreaks of hysteria are nothing more than politically timed attempts to tar and feather someone on our side.  The fact that it is happening to Democrats today is a popcorn worthy event.

The proximate cause of the SJW outrage machine going into high gear is the "discovery" of Virginia governor Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page showing Northam either wearing blackface or a KKK robe.  The year was 1984, around the same time that the movie Blazing Saddles was came out. Blazing Saddles was Mel Brooks' classic anti-racist spoof that included references to a number of serious Westerns and a few WWII movies. It was and is hilarious, and should be studied by students for all time along with of course Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.  Schlichter is correct that people can change in 30 years.  People can grow up and become responsible adults.

The problem for both Northam and the SJW outrage machine is that their outrage is focused on the wrong things.  Blackface?  So?  He was young and stupid, and young and stupid people do stupid things.  What should spin up this crowd is that he defended...no endorsed...infanticide in the present.  But no one was upset about that, which tells you everything you need to know about the SJW.

Schlichter closes with this:

But that’s rare. And it does not include someone who decades ago did something silly, stupid, offensive, or even ugly, that did not hurt anyone, and who has subsequently demonstrated nothing showing low character. People make mistakes. They change and grow-up. We conservatives are supposed to be the ideology based upon real world experience, which includes changing and growing, unlike the totalitarian thought police of the left who savor the opportunity to spin themselves into a social media mob.

So let the Democrat autophagy begin. Your Virginia governor is a garbage person who did garbage things and told garbage lies not only about the garbage things he did – he was merely honoring Michael Jackson, folks – but about his GOP opponents. Let them eat their own. Perhaps they will learn through pain to be better people. Perhaps they will simply devour themselves. Hey, it’s all good.

But we Republicans should be different. We should be a party both of standards and forgiveness, of perspective and judgment, not of cowardly concessions to mobs out to crucify Catholic kids for smirkcrimes in the face of drum-beating fake ‘Nam vets.

The next time the SJWs come to us with some ridiculous demand to sacrifice one of our own on their altar of arbitrary outrage, we should tell them to put on their pounding gear and head to the beach.