Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Chelsea Clinton Gets Red Pilled

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March 18, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Chelsea Clinton Gets Red Pilled

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	So as part of the continuing fallout of the Christchurch Mosque massacre, Chelsea Clinton was somehow blamed for it by radical left-wing activists that she had gotten into bed with and clearly is starting to regret.
	Look at this.
	What does I'm sorry you feel that we mean?
	What does that mean?
	So let's go through this in some detail because it's amazing the way that they're attacking her and it's also amazing the way that Chelsea is actually defending herself against these attacks.
	After all that you have done and all this on the photo that you have stoked.
	So right at the beginning, all that you have done.
	Well, what the hell has Chelsea Clinton done to Islam?
	I mean, she's not Sam Harris or something, is she?
	You know?
	Who can say what Chelsea Clinton's opinion on Islam is?
	But look at the way Chelsea Clinton responds to this, in the very measured tone and the very sort of closed in but formal body language that she presents.
	I'm so sorry, but certainly it's never my intention.
	I do believe words matter.
	Look at Chelsea's face when she's replying.
	She's actually suppressing a smile as if these people are just so laughable.
	But I think it's more than that.
	I think that what it is, is that she knows she actually has the adequate defense here.
	They can't actually go harder at her because she's just aggressively conceding everything that they say.
	Yes, words matter.
	Yes, you're right to feel this way.
	Yes, I completely agree with you in every way on this subject.
	I'm listening to you.
	But the thing is, I really don't think that she is.
	I think that what she's doing is effectively trying to diffuse a bomb in the far-left activists themselves because she's aware that these people aren't really, well, what I'd call sane.
	They've got particular problems and these are very specific and very ideological.
	As in, these are very conceptual problems.
	And Chelsea Clinton is just going to say what she needs to say in order to get them to shut up and go away.
	And Chelsea Clinton dropped straight into this with such ease that the activists are left with absolutely nothing to work with and therefore are completely blue-balled on their outrage mongering.
	We do matter, and this right here is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words you put out into the world.
	If you're wondering what Chelsea Clinton's high crimes against Islam are, The Independent believes that it's because she criticised Ilhan Omar after Omar suggested that the Israeli lobby had too much influence on US policy.
	Miss Clinton tweeted, we should expect all elected officials, regardless of party and public figures, to not traffic in anti-Semitism.
	I'm not even sure what the activist is really trying to say here.
	Is it that if the Muslims can't hate the Jews, then you're being Islamophobic.
	And I want you to know that and I want you to feel that deep inside.
	49 people died because of the rhetoric that you put out there.
	God, there is so much here to talk about.
	So the rhetoric that Chelsea Clinton puts out is unbelievably bland and corporate and completely safe at all turns.
	But what I love about this is the way she's like, I want you to feel it.
	They want to have dominion over the way you feel.
	They want you to feel the way that they decide.
	I can't even imagine going over to someone and having that kind of ownership over what they personally feel.
	To me, that is just such an alien notion.
	I really find it baffling.
	But finally, the clicks.
	The clicks.
	They don't clap because clapping is triggering, don't you know?
	And so they click instead.
	Because apparently that's far more inclusive.
	I don't think that's what I'm saying.
	What does I'm sorry you feel that way mean?
	What does that mean?
	Unfortunately, that's where the video cuts off, so we don't get to find out what Chelsea Clinton thinks I'm so sorry means, but it's quite obvious.
	It's a way of corralling and sort of isolating you from doing any more damage to someone's public reputation.
	If they've apologised and they've given you nothing otherwise to complain about, what you're kind of left with is a deep unsatisfaction with how that interaction has gone.
	You know you didn't get what you wanted there.
	You wanted Clinton sort of like bend her knees and bow and start crying and apologizing and begging for forgiveness.
	But she didn't.
	She instead took ownership of what's going on and met you with an absolute brick wall of platitudes.
	And now you're left saying, well, I mean, I don't even know what you mean when you say, I'm sorry you feel that way.
	What she's saying is she's sorry that she has to fucking deal with you.
	She is sorry that you've got yourselves in such a hyper-emotional state that you can't even stand to hear her condemn anti-Semitism.
	That's what she's saying.
	She's saying you were a waste of her time, an obstacle to be overcome, and she will smirk at you while she tells you the things that you've said you want to hear.
	And would you be surprised to find out that the two activists who confronted Chelsea Clinton are in fact BuzzFeed contributors?
	No, I didn't think you would.
	Lean Dweek and Rose Asaf, who are heroically confronting Chelsea Clinton on having her own opinion on politics.
	Yesterday, we posted a video of Lean confronting Chelsea Clinton at a vigil for the victims of the white supremacist New Zealand mosque massacre.
	Today we woke up to over 100,000 people talking about on Twitter.
	Needless to say, this is not what we expected.
	Bullshit.
	This was precisely your plan.
	The reason that you filmed yourselves confronting Chelsea Clinton like this and then posted it to Twitter was precisely so it could go viral and drum up outrage against her.
	Because, as everyone knows, because the radical left are trying to take over the corporate centrists in the Democratic Party and you are a part of that action.
	This was entirely according to that plan and you are entirely transparent about doing it.
	We went to the vigil for one reason.
	To grieve for the loss of innocent lives that were stolen from this world by vile hatred.
	Bullshit.
	You went to cause trouble.
	You went in order to self-aggrandize, to further attack your political enemies within the Democratic Party, of which Chelsea Clinton is one.
	We wanted to join our friends and colleagues in a time of heartbreak and agony to remember the 49 Muslims who are murdered for being Muslim.
	Okay, so I hear this a lot.
	Murdered for being Muslim.
	Well, okay.
	Is that worse than being murdered for another reason?
	The result is still the same.
	Is that really worse?
	Or is it just this is your particular canad, isn't it?
	As a Jewish American Israeli and a Palestinian Muslim, we understand far too well the consequences of anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim bigotry and white supremacy.
	Listen, right?
	I think you would have a hard time saying that there aren't people in Israel who are anti-Muslim and a lot of Muslims who are anti-Semitic.
	So I find it very unlikely that this Jewish-Israeli-Palestinian-Muslim alliance is going to last all that long.
	As soon as you've defeated Chelsea Clinton, what prevents you from turning on one another?
	We did a double take when we first noticed Chelsea Clinton was at the vigil.
	Just weeks before this tragedy, we bore witness to a bigoted anti-Muslim mob coming after Rep Ilhan Omar for speaking the truth about the massive influence of the Israel lobby in this country.
	Woo lad.
	I mean, I'm not saying it's false, I'm just saying suddenly you're on the same side as the Christchurch shooter.
	Just saying, it's weird how these things all start lining up, isn't it?
	As people in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and human rights, we were profoundly disappointed when Chelsea Clinton used her platform to fan those flames.
	We believe that Ilhan Omar did nothing wrong except challenge the status quo, but the way many people chose to criticize Omar made her vulnerable to anti-Muslim hatred and death threats.
	Well, okay, let's assume that that's true.
	Let's assume that the way people criticize others can make them vulnerable to anti-Muslim hatred and death threats.
	How exactly is any way like changing the criticism or not criticizing at all, how does that rend her immune to anti-Muslim hatred and death threats?
	I mean, anti-Muslim hatred presumably still exists, and the people who hate Muslims, presumably Ilhan Omar, can still send death threats.
	So how does Chelsea Clinton facilitate any of this from happening?
	It seems that this happens regardless of Chelsea Clinton's opinion.
	We were shocked when Clinton arrived at the vigil, given that she had not yet apologised to Rep Omar for the public vilification against her.
	Saying don't hate the Jews, Omar, is public vilification, apparently.
	This definitely feels like a case of, excuse me, we resemble that remark, doesn't it?
	But we thought it was inappropriate for her to show up to a vigil for a community that she had so recently stoked hatred against.
	Because she criticized Ilhan Omar, she was stoking up hatred against presumably the Muslim community.
	Total horseshit.
	Ilhan Omar is not beyond criticism, even if there are people out there who hate Muslims.
	It is not one in the same thing, and conflating this is just a means of bludgeoning rival activists.
	It is not any way of engaging in a fair or honest dialogue.
	It is a way of controlling people.
	But specifically, a way of controlling people using weakness.
	We were not alone in feeling uncomfortable.
	Many students were dismayed to see her there.
	Well, you and many students can get fucked, can't you?
	Your opinions are fucking irrelevant.
	Chelsea Clinton is allowed to go to some vigil if she wants, regardless of how you feel about her tweets about Ilhan Omar.
	You have absolutely no reason to do this, other than your already engaged political activism, which is all this is.
	So when we saw Chelsea, we saw an opportunity to have her ear and confront her on the false charge of anti-Semitism against our only black, Muslim, Somali, and refugee member of Congress.
	Yes, you saw a wonderful opportunity to enhance your own status on social media at the expense of Chelsea Clinton.
	The problem is, it didn't work, did it?
	She knew your attack was coming, and she deflected it by being an empty, opaque corporate face that you could get no satisfaction from.
	We took our chance to speak truth to power.
	Chelsea hurt our fight against white supremacy and then she stood by the petty weaponizers of anti-Semitism, showing no regard for Rep Omar and the hatred being directed at her.
	Oh my goodness, everything that isn't for me is against me.
	The entire world is my enemy and I am not honestly a new Calvinist for whom everything that is not mandated by God is sinful.
	We know that our only safety is through solidarity.
	The fight against anti-Muslim bigotry is the fight against anti-Semitism.
	Is the fight against racism?
	Is the fight against white supremacy?
	When someone attacks one of us, they attack all of us.
	We know that our struggles are intertwined, and for any of us to be safe, all of us must be safe.
	I know what she's saying here.
	It's not that she literally thinks that the fight against Islamophobia is also the fight against anti-Semitism.
	What it is, is the fight against people having opinions and differentiating one group from another.
	Because ultimately, that is the end goal of intersectionality.
	To kind of level everything.
	Where there is no particular defined category.
	As in going from one to another is completely permissible because not being able to simply arbitrarily define yourself as something because you feel like doing it is a form of oppression.
	And of course, for any of us to be safe, all of us must be safe.
	I mean, that sort of flies in the face of the common wisdom of herds of animals to group together to find safety in numbers.
	Because what you're saying there, there is no safety in numbers.
	If one person gets attacked, then everyone is being attacked.
	And so it doesn't matter how many of you there are.
	But really what this is, is a method of kind of maintaining the cult conditioning.
	Many have said that it was unfair to connect Chelsea's words to the massacre in Christchurch.
	Yeah, but fuck them.
	They're racists.
	Like, only a racist would think it was unfair to connect Chelsea's words to the massacre in Christchurch.
	Trust me.
	To them, we say that anti-Muslim bigotry must be addressed wherever it exists.
	That's right.
	And criticizing Ilhan Omar is anti-Muslim bigotry.
	You're getting it now, aren't you?
	This is not about left and right.
	This is about people who do and do not have power and how those with power use it.
	Because that is what all of this is about.
	It's just a naked power grab.
	It's all about power.
	It's obsessively about power.
	But the problem that I have with all of it, I mean, like, everyone, everyone in politics is looking for power.
	It's not unusual to say that.
	But what is unusual is to be so fucking brazen about it.
	But more importantly, it's to say there is literally no way of holding us accountable.
	You criticizing Omar is anti-Muslim bigotry.
	Therefore, you cannot do it.
	Therefore, you can't hold her accountable.
	And yet we still want all the power.
	A global environment of hatred and vilification against Muslims created this killer.
	Spurred on by professional bigots, anti-Muslim hate now permeates our culture and politics.
	And everyone, as a matter of urgency, should consider the role they play in enabling it.
	That includes Chelsea Clinton, one of the prime movers, I'm sure.
	But actually, that's not what created this guy as a radical.
	You can read his manifesto.
	He's very, very clear.
	It was his visit to France that radicalized him.
	Unsurprisingly, it wasn't Chelsea Clinton's Twitter feed.
	But we are not deterred.
	This is a turning point.
	And white supremacy and anti-Muslim bigotry must be defeated.
	It begins with keeping our own accountable.
	Our hearts are with the Muslim community and the victims' families.
	We will continue to fight for justice for everyone.
	Well, apart from Chelsea Clinton, who appears to have been dealt with in a particularly unjust way.
	And I love that your idea of keeping other people accountable is by using unaccountable methods.
	How do we keep you accountable without doing the same thing you're doing and never end it never breaking this kind of spiral of outrage?
	How do we do that?
	But you're not heroes.
	You know that, right?
	We will continue to fight for justice for everyone.
	Fuck off.
	You are perpetuating an injustice with what you are doing here.
	And finally, would it surprise you to find out that these ladies have never done a real job in all their lives?
	Rosa Saf is a senior at New York University, where she studies comparative politics and American studies.
	She is an Israeli-American Jewish woman and co-founded the Jewish Voice for Peace chapter at NYU.
	Lean Dwyke is a senior at New York University studying international relations and Middle Eastern Islamic studies.
	She is a Muslim Palestinian whose main organizing centers on Palestine solidarity efforts.
	They are just professional activists who pose as students, who stay within the university system for years and years and years because it means that they can get paid for not having a job and still continuing the activism that interests them the most.
	And one of the things that I really, really, really don't like is this kind of hyphenated American or defining by the previous country and nationality that they had.
	You know, I'm an Israeli American.
	Oh, I'm a Palestinian.
	Not even a Palestinian American.
	Just a Palestinian living in America.
	Call me cynical, but I really don't think that a country is going to be able to be made up of people who view themselves as being of other nations.
	And that was always part of the American identity, wasn't it?
	You come to America, you become an American.

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