Enforcers of China’s Cultural Revolution in action. My latest in FrontPage:
Orwell’s Thought Police and the enforcers of China’s Cultural Revolution had nothing on today’s Social Justice Warriors. Their latest target for self-recrimination and reeducation is C.J. Nitkowski, a former Major League pitcher and now broadcaster for the Texas Rangers. Nitkowski’s crime: retweeting a tweet from the Proud Boys, which describes itself as “a pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world; aka Western Chauvinists.”
Proud Boys declares “anti-racism” as one of its values, and it’s clear that Nitkowski doesn’t know the Proud Boys from Shinola, but that didn’t stop the guardians of acceptable opinion for coming after him. Nitkowski, according to SportsDay, “on Monday deleted his tweets and protected his account after being accused of a racist attitude for a liking, of all things, a tweeted photo of the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team.”
That’s right: not a photo of Klansmen in robes and hoods or goosestepping Nazis with the caption “I’m with them!” Not even a photo of the man that the Left would have us believe every decent person despises, Mr. Donald J. Trump. No. A photo of the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team. But SportsDay goes on to inform us that “it wasn’t the photo that caused the controversy, but the account that sent the tweet. The account, @ProudBoysUSA, has been labeled an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Even worse, “the photo in question shows the team celebrating its win with an unidentified team member, circled in red, making a circular sign with two fingers and three others extended. In sports, the sign is often considered an inside ‘got ya,’ joke. But it is also similar to one associated with the white power movement.” What is this symbol associated with the white power movement? The OK sign, which everyone from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi has been photographed making, but which now, in the mythology of the Left, means white power, especially when it comes from groups such as the Proud Boys.
On its page on the Proud Boys, the SPLC claims that “their disavowals of bigotry are belied by their actions.” And so Nitkowski had to be brought to heel. Never mind that the SPLC is notorious for defaming legitimate individuals and groups by lumping them in with the likes of neo-Nazis and the KKK. Never mind that the SPLC refuses to list Antifa, a genuine and violent hate group, on its “hate group” list, which is notably short of Leftist hate organizations. Never mind that clearly the SPLC itself is a far-Left hate group, dedicated to destroying legitimate conservative organizations. As far as the establishment media is concerned, it’s a reliable source, and so Nitkowski had to answer to the Thought Police.
Blindsided, Nitkowski obliged. Asked to deny that he was a white supremacist, he replied: “Of course, that’s a given. But that never even crosses my mind. That’s not how I was raised. I’ve just never had to prove that I’m not [racist]. I had no idea about this.” He also issued an abject apology: “My intention was simply to like a tweet of a team photo of the gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team. I did not know the group that posted the photo takes positions on some issues that are offensive to me and others. I don’t endorse the group and have unfollowed the account. I apologize for not being more careful on social media and in turn, if I offended some of my followers, especially Rangers fans.”
Thus far this groveling has placated the slavering mob, and Nitkowski will keep his job, but you can be sure that if he goes off the reservation again, his career will be over.
Mass hysteria has gripped the public sphere many times in history; the best analogy for what the Left is doing today is the Salem Witch Trials. The Proud Boys are witches, as are all those who dissent from the Leftist agenda, and must be shunned by all decent people. C.J. Nitkowski is now vehemently suspected of witchcraft, and will be on a short leash from now until the day he dies.
This is all happening in a land that professes to protect and defend the freedom of speech. In Germany in 1933, Adolf Hitler was able to dismantle the Weimar Republic and install a dictatorship within six months of taking power. I always thought that was so easy for him because Germany had no strong traditions of democracy or free speech. But in America today, we see how easy it is for totalitarian speech restrictions to descend upon a people. The American Left has empowered those who are determined to implement Saul Alinsky’s 13th Rule for Radicals: “‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.’ Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”
The Left consistently does this; Nitkowski is just the latest to suffer this tactic. The objective is to ensure that no one, ever, in any walk of life and under any circumstances, dares to step out of line. And establishment conservatives, unaware of what is happening or not daring to be targeted themselves, have always willingly played along, allowing their associations and allies to be dictated by their enemies.
Yet these cowardly conservatives will not be spared. What is happening today to C.J. Nitkowski will one day happen to them. This advancing beast will devour everything and everyone in its path until it is stopped. But who has the courage and the will to stop it?
mortimer says
The Leftards support every DEGENERACY no matter how degrading as long as it destroys European civilization.
The emotional subtext of Leftardation and Islam is the same: SADOMASOCHISM.
Both have the emotional subtext of GIVING and RECEIVING pain. They both LIVE FOR PAIN.
Joy D. Brower says
I LOVE the word (that you coined?), “Leftardation!!” My God, that’s a beaut – and one I think I’ll use liberally when describing Creatures from the Left Lagoon!!
Stacy Girl says
The SPLC carpetbaggers have denounced the Catholic Church, yet our local diocesan authors routinely quote them. Today, pushback against these liars is rare, to say nothing of the world’s general lack of curiosity. This is why Jihad Watch excels at educating with facts.
CRUSADER says
At recent ANTI-SHARIAH Rallies, the Proud Boys showed up, and thank goodness they did!
They balanced The Force, so to speak. They helped form a ring of defensive security while speakers
tried to inform the crowd and media about Shariah and its incompatibility with US Constitutionality.
The Leftists and Antifa elements were horrendous with their loud noise and rude behavior against very All American style of Free Speech and soundly presented history lessons pronounced by the Rally speakers.
Among USA signs and American Flags and Freedom logos and a myriad of diversity the Rallies took place, despite being outnumbered and outshouted by the despicable LEFTists.
The Proud Boys later might’ve been involved with clashes, but only because as they met with Antifa or Left-wing elements, they were brought into a scuffle or melee, not of their choosing, but they didn’t back down from it.
This is how we go from Boston Tea Party, and Boston Massacre, Stamp Acts, to something larger.
LET FREEDOM RING !
RichardL says
I couldn’t get the photo, but is the hand sign the same as the divers’ sign for everything is ok? I think most Americans are sane people and soon business scams like the SPLC will be recognised as the fraudsters they are.
The Proud Boys look like hipsters to me.
Wellington says
Just as Islam and freedom are incompatible so is it the case that Leftism and freedom are as well.
Stacy Girl says
Agreed, Wellington. It’s so disingenuous that they present themselves as lovers of freedom when bondage and violence are their true aims.
Peter says
SPLC = Socialist Propaganda and Lies Commissariat
Antifa = Animal Farm Fascists (or Big Brother wannabes)
DHazard says
Like so many of us, CJ Nitkowski was born with at least 2 strikes against him; white and male. He belongs to the subset of humanity that live under the microscopic and warped lens of leftism. If a single hair from a member of one of the SPLC’s “hate” groups falls somewhere near any white man then that man is automatically a racist, fascist, misogynistic, homophobic, white supremacist. It doesn’t matter how it got there or if the accused knew anything about it. Once the evidence of that remote link is established then they go in for the kill.
Under the rules of this “religion” of hate (like Islam) anything is allowed. This appetite for publicly destroying innocent people is insatiable, which is why lefties are always looking for the “trace” evidence of a “crime”. The accused can never be forgiven and must, at the very least, spend the rest of their lives repenting a minor, inadvertent, temporary connection to a group of people another group of people don’t like. The momentum leftists have generated among the populace is enough to ruin lives, which is something they and their fellow Marxists enjoy.
Can you imagine the police state that would accompany these people if they held all the reins of power? Well you don’t have to. Just learn a little bit about the history of the 20th century and what happened to the hundreds of millions of people who stood in the way of the Marxist utopia. People like Nitkowski, who was born a member of the bad people (white men) and had an extremely remote connection to a group of people deemed by the priests (SPLC) of the new religion to be dangerous heretics.
Maybe that’s one of the reasons the left gives a pass to Muslims. They both are built on hate, they both hate the same people (more or less) and they both believe they have a special understanding of the world’s problems and how to solve them. But if you can’t solve them, then at least hurt people and feel good about it.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Nice post.
Indiana Tom says
C.J. Nitkowski is now vehemently suspected of witchcraft, and will be on a short leash from now until the day he dies. But is Spectral Evidence allowed in the Witch Hunting Court?
Indiana Tom says
Yet these cowardly conservatives will not be spared. What is happening today to C.J. Nitkowski will one day happen to them.
The brightly painted cattle cars await.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Leftists Batter Nitkowski, Drive Him From the Game
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Wait–now being an American and applauding an American win at the Winter Olympics is “racist”?
CRUSADER says
Everything is “racist” for the LEFTist agenda underway.
You know, the Hillary Rodham crowd….
Saul Alinsky manual on how to dismantle and disintegrate.
“The Rules for Radicals” :
– “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
– “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
– “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
– “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
– “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
– “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
– “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
– “Keep the pressure on.”
– “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
– “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
– “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside”
– “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
– “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Phil Copson says
Well – obviously – in Lefty La-La Land, the sheer fact that an American team could even think of taking part in any competition against other nations, proves that they must be racists – winning is just an exercise in fascist aggression – and celebrating the win is evidence of white supremacism.
On the other hand, the World Series/NFL/Nascar etc where foreign teams DON’T take part, is surely proof of xenophobia……
Steve K says
This shows how messed up the American left is on race
A white ballplayer retweets congratulations to the Women’s US hockey Team, and apologies are demanded and retribution threatened.
But Keith Ellison a big player in the democrat party meets with Louis frrakhan multiple times and endorses antifa and its “move along nothing to see here”
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_H11F7WDI
Jacqueline says
What frightens me most about the encroaching communist agenda is that the major TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN) totally endorse it. The unsuspecting masses are fed daily doses of managed news. I know very nice people, who just want to be fair to everybody, who buy into this leftist bologna. These stations provide their prime time entertainment (well not CNN) and glide seamlessly into the news. The masses unconsciously trust what these stations lay out for them and refuse to analyze their motives.