“Who will save us from the ‘liberal’ haters?”

I can’t clearly remember what platform I was deliberating on when someone asked me,

“Who will save us from the ‘liberal’ haters?”

“What liberal haters?” I answered her. I did not see any truth in this stranger’s question. After being called a libtard, and suffering the widely accepted new definition of ‘liberal’ on Conservapedia, I was certain that it was conservatives who were the haters, and not the other way around.

Ironically, for me, it was facing my liberal racism that made me understand my liberal bias against conservatives. How could I accept that my victimization of “non-whites” was a form of oppression, and not acknowledge that my behavior was also cornerstone of conservative criticism against liberal racism? A criticism I had written off as an “I’m rubber, you’re glue” response to being racist themselves. And yes, it is a denial/blame response, but the criticism was no less true.

Just like facing my own racism, facing my “little l” liberal bias against conservatives took down a wall of ignorance and denial, and let me see truths about conservatives that I was unwilling to see before. Namely, that conservatives had some very good points on important national debates, like racism, and that liberals had not been listening as a matter of principle, because, conservatives are “bad” people, and should be locked out of important discussions, especially on social issues — obviously.

My change in perspective — being more understanding toward conservatives, and more critical of ‘liberals’ — exposed me to scary, and damaging, judgements by extreme ‘liberals’.

Liberal Elitism is Real

“You need to change your mind.” “We don’t know what you are saying when we are not listening.” “Our friends should really be leading this.” “You sound like a conservative.” “I am not comfortable working with you, because of some of your opinions.”

Theses are just a few examples of things ‘liberals’ connected to a nearby University said to me in my work to “Undo Racism(TM)” in our communities. In the process, the material I was working with was plagiarized, I was publicly attacked, and personally bullied. Ultimately, a year of my work was destroyed by ‘liberal’ elites who abhorred criticism, and simply had to be in control, or destroy the ‘competition’.

Perhaps it was karma, but I became very familiar with ‘liberal’ haters — elitist ‘liberal’ haters. They are real, and their behavior is alarming. If I am a conservative to these ‘liberals’, then how do they behave toward actual conservatives?

More alarming is that groups of ‘liberal’ elites, like the ones I encountered, are often supported by a network of strong institutions, dominated by ‘their own’. Walk into a university, or social justice rally and ask, “are there any conservatives on your teams?” The answer is likely no, and you might even hear the same phrases I did:

“No, but they wouldn’t be here, would they?”

“Conservatives are the problem.”

“Conservatives are wired to be bigots.”

Liberal Haters are Radicalizing and Militarizing

There are at least two sides to the violent instability in the US right now. One of those sides is ‘liberal’ extremism.

Fast-forward about a year, and what started out as “I am right, agree with us or you do not deserve a voice, or a place in the community” to “I am right, if you don’t agree, you are an enemy, and you deserve to be physically assaulted.”

I have been labeled a Nazi by ‘Antifa’ members at least two dozen times in the past year or so, on Twitter. This poses no immediate threat to me, as a virtual communication, but ‘Antifa’ is clearly out targeting people with violence, based on their perception of whether a person (or property) is good or bad. Again, if I am a Nazi, then who isn’t?

I truly am not sure how our society came to accept a random group of people, nevermind very young people, making such weighty decisions, or giving such a group authority to punish fellow citizens, but that is where we are. Democratic leaders like Keith Ellison and Cornell West have directly supported the anarchist group, and the media have made it heresy to even suggest that “there are two sides” to the violence erupting in our streets.

Has anyone given a second thought to the attack on the Republican baseball team, and shooting of Steve Scalise? It certainly made no appearance during the ‘no two sides’ argument.

Elitism and Humility

Elitism might be the purest form of intolerance, bigotry, and oppression. As an antidote, humility can serve us all.

Perhaps we got here by excluding conservative voices in our education systems.

Perhaps we are all living with thick walls of ignorance and denial, too afraid to face ourselves, and the shame we deserve to feel for all that we have allowed to transpire in our histories — in our communities, our nation, and our world.

If you are a ‘liberal’ and find yourself rationalizing how my words in this article prove me the enemy, or a Nazi sympathizer — I ask, who will save me, or the myriad of ‘others’ you misjudge — from you?