When ‘woke’ bullies attack — almost always as a mob — decent people tend to negotiate or backdown. But is this exactly the opposite of the most effective strategy for coping with the demands of virtue-signaling cry-bullies?
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25 replies on “How to Deal with Cry-Bullies: Standing Up to the ‘Woke’ Mob as the Only Path Forward”
In boot camp for the Navy, I was a pacifist trying to keep a low profile and not offend anybody. Of course that didn’t work because I became a target for all kinds of abuse. One big Irish guy from Boston latched on to me and became relentless in his bullying. After I got so mad at him to actually take a swing at him (and missed), he pulled in close, put his arm around me, and said “THAT’S what I was looking for! Now we are friends!” As luck would have it, we were assigned to the same squadron and remained friends until our hitch ended and we returned to civilian life. We said we would keep in touch, but that seldom happens unless guys have been in combat together. Whenever I’m in Boston, I keep my eyes open for him, but I don’t expect we’ll ever see each other again.
Bill,
Please give Alfonzo a reading list before you tape episodes with him. It was dreadfully obvious that he had never heard of the story you lead off with and thought you meant that the company’s policy of “No politics at work” was the company being a bully, rather than 1/3 of the company’s employees doing political advocacy at work instead of working.
reoccurring theme it seems.
Unfortunately the easiest way to raise kids and the best way to raise kids are diametrical opposites. It’s hard to raise a child correctly, it takes a lot of your time and attention and even then you’re going to make mistakes. You can only do the best you can do and then turn them loose on the world.
In the area of parenting, as I see it, it’s just too easy raise kids the wrong way. It’s easy and it’s socially acceptable to ignore discipline and dote on your “special” little bundle of joy. I notice, and this is of course anecdotal, that the more “progressive” the parent the worse job of turning their offspring into responsible adults becomes.
I work in a volunteer capacity for the NWS/NOAA as a certified advanced storm spotter. There is an hierarchical aspect of the organization and the guy who is in charge of my Area, (the Area Manager) is as flaming a fruitcake leftist “progressive” Democrat as you would ever hope not to run into. He’s almost 50 years old and has a daughter born sometime in his early to mid 40’s, she’s about 7 or 8 now. Everything is “my daughter this” and “my daughter that” with this guy. You’d think no human being ever successfully conceived and brought to term a female child if you went by how this guy carries on. But the over-the-top doting isn’t the problem …
If that kid wants something in the middle of a net activation, be it a training exercise or an actual formal hazardous weather scenario… It’s “Just a minute, my daughter blah blah blah … I’ll be right back.”
Not “I’m sorry sweetheart, Daddy is trying to save lives in the community by getting out information about deadly weather as quickly and accurately as possible. Go see your Mom about that.”
This is the problem with the left and raising kids. This guy is a good man as far as most standards go. He volunteers and except where his little precious is concerned he’s very conscientious about things. As far as I know he’s a good provider and keeps his family housed, clothed and fed. But …
He acts like the way he coddles his kid is normal. It’s not and don’t even think for one minute that kid hasn’t learned to play Daddy like a finely tuned piano. She knows exactly what buttons to push to get what she wants.
That’s not love, that’s taking the easy way out and calling it love.
He didn’t name the child “Veruca”, did he? I feel sorry for the kid as she will ultimately grow up into a useless adult who wants what she wants when she wants it. She is not going to handle “no” very well.
I don’t know what he named that kid but “Veruca” wouldn’t surprise me.
When I was growing up I had some relatives that were horrible parents who I often use as an example of such. They had a girl named “Reka”, (pronounced REE-kah) a wild eyed, usually filthy ginger.
(Don’t think I’m prejudiced regarding gingers, one of my kids is a ginger and ginger women are my weak spot. Which as you might figure is how I ended up with a ginger son being a blond Norseman myself. Good thing that certain unfriendlies never figured out I was putty in the hands of a good-looking redhead. Anyway …)
Reka was a total PITA to play with, she stole or broke almost every toy she ran across. The whole, very large family of kids on that side hated to see her show up at a family function.
She got in the habit of pulling the toaster off the table by the cord at her house. (Table against wall, toaster on table, cord hanging below the table along the wall.) Rather than teach her not to do that, her dad bolted the toaster to the table. Which is now synonymous with bad decisions in my family. As in —
“Are you going to do (XYZ) the right way or just bolt the toaster to the table and call it a day?”
If someone says something like that the rest of us know what is meant by it.
Reka grew up, moved to the big city, got hooked on drugs and died of an overdose alone. It’s probably just as well she didn’t give birth before that happened, the males she favored being no better than her and all. I have no idea if she was on the autism spectrum, had some other disorder or just that her folks didn’t give a shit about her enough to help her become a human being instead of the human shaped animal she spent her life as.
One thing is for certain, I have zero respect for anyone who doesn’t care enough about their own kids to raise them right and takes what they rationalize as the easy route. There’s no higher calling in life than to raise up children who will be good and true adults. It seems to me that calling is an easy one for some people to ignore.
This right here –
Been saying for years that too many think their job is to raise well-mannered children. Why do I want a bunch of 23 year old children around? That they don’t see that their kids are not even well-mannered is a sign of their obliviousness.
That ginger kid of mine I mentioned is the XO (Executive Officer, second in command) of a military base right at the moment.
As the saying goes — “The proof is in the pudding.”
I did the best I could with my kids and that wasn’t always the best imaginable. There are always other factors. I did “good enough” though and I never tire of telling them (2 boys) that they are the justification for my life and I’m very proud of them.
The funny thing is, I can’t take credit for what they are today. I didn’t make them into the men they have become, they did that themselves and they deserve every bit of the credit. That is the basis of my pride in them. If I deserved the credit then that pride would be misplaced. What I did was give them the tools and the guidance to make good decisions and to apply themselves wisely to the things they did. I smoothed out a few bumps in the road here and there and I intentionally made a few things hard for them too, but they are their own men and that is pure joy to me.
Give yourself some additional credit. Most of what we learn from our parents we learn through modelling; whether it is a good behavior or a bad behavior. Kids learn by example and it seems they had a good one.
COPS are bullies. the Supreme Court in Warren v DC, DeShaney vs. Winnebago and Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzales
said “it is NOT the duty of the police to protect you”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51df1CQ0IyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wSpamWB_ZQ rape for drugs https://thefreethoughtproject.com/pennsylvania-woman-suing-repeatedly-sexually-assaulted-doctors-nurses-police/ SO WHAT IS THEIR JOB if not protecting us?????
That’s true, it’s not the duty of Law Enforcement Officers to protect you, though it often ends up that they do so anyway. It is the job of Law Enforcement Officers to enforce the law. It’s right there in the title.
The reason it is not Law Enforcement Officers duty to protect you is that it would be impossible to fulfil such a duty as a legal obligation. In order to do that they would have to become Personal Protection Officers and not Law Enforcement Officers. They would have to stick to your side like bodyguards 24/7/365 and would be liable if something happened to you while they were under obligation to protect you.
So what Law Enforcement Officers do is enforce laws. THAT is THEIR JOB. If you call 911 and report an armed intruder in your home, technically the reason the police come roaring down the street with sirens blaring and lights flashing to your house is to enforce the law by taking the criminal who invaded your home into custody. Where he will subsequently face trial and upon conviction punishment.
If during the process of that happening you are also protected, that’s a plus for you.
You have an obligation to provide for your own protection and as has been pointed out many, many times in the past “When seconds count the police are only minutes away”. I have no problem shouldering the responsibility for protecting myself and harbor no desire whatsoever to be protected in a personal capacity by a bumbling, fumbling, bureaucratic government.
In the above described scenario with an armed home invader, he/she/it/they would already be cooling in a pool of their own blood on the floor by the time I dialed 911 and got the police enroute. The protection of my family and myself is the top priority and calling Law Enforcement to enforce the law is secondary or even tertiary to that priority.
The protection of your family, person and possessions is your own responsibility. It cannot and should not be delegated to any other, including government. It is right for the government to “Provide for the common defense” but the government is not your personal bodyguard and is not obligated to be such. Nor is it desirable that the government take on a role that they will perforce do badly when it’s something you should be doing for your own self. I have to seriously question the stones on a man who sees this sort of thing in any other way.
As I also question someone who cherry picks the very worst examples possible and represents those bad examples as the norm by saying “The Cops are bullies!”. That is exactly the kind of thinking that got us nearly a full year of burning cities, riots and murder in the name of a drug addled overdosed POS who happened to manage to die under the worst possible optics.
almost impossible to expand on your excellent post but i would add that police cannot be expected to predict the future when people are by definition unpredictable, erratic and liars by default.
I’m seeing more of that kind of post show up in here and it makes me suspicious that we’re being infiltrated by the opposition.
They do this so that they can get over-the-top, poorly thought out and badly reasoned responses that they can cite and post elsewhere on the internet. They do that to try to discredit our side by saying “Look at what this right wing racist said on BillWhittle.com!!!”
It’s never good to get too comfortable, though this may only be my suspicious nature I don’t think so. I’ve seen this kind of thing happen elsewhere too often.
There are two main threats to our forum here. One is infiltrators like I mentioned and the other is our own lunatic fringe on the right. Either is poison to a forum like this and worst of all they’ll feed on each other and establish a positive feedback loop if we let them.
How many police interactions with citizens each day? Thousands? Tens of thousands?
You list three lawsuits alleging misconduct by police and other officials, then paint all police with the brush of being abusive. You are doing the exact same thing that antifa and BLM do. Use the minority interactions to damn the majority.
Do you really expect us to take you seriously?
I think a big reason why the right-minded cave in so rapidly to the cry-bullies is that the cry-bullies accuse THEM of being the immoral, hateful, nasty ones. Of being the bullies.
Can you say “projection”?
And unfortunately too many cave because they’re afraid of looking like the cold, nasty, unfeeling, insensitive jerks.
First answer I’ve got to that: hold up a mirror and call them out on their hypocrisy.
Kids aren’t born “civilized”. Manners and good behavior are taught.
The entire Western world is entering the societal phase described in the The Lord of the Flies. The screaming, lunatic children are running the institutions. Unfortunately, there is no possibility for reform. The only viable solution is that which is taken by the aforementioned Stallion, because the deformities are unfixable.
When this video started, I thought it was the company that was the bully whom the employees were standing up to. Then it turns out that the employees are the bully for quitting their jobs and causing the company to retract? I don’t know. I don’t think this was a very clear example of bully and victim.
bill
the great failing of libertarian dogma…..there is no dogma.
the agenda of neville chamberlain was appeasement.
the soft underbelly of appeasement is live and let live.
the hyper drive of live and let live is capitulation.
the end result of capitulation is death by a thousand cuts.
and so here we are.
msm, supreme court, feminism, title 1X, reparations, equity over equality, equal outcome over equal opportunity, soy, estrogen, rhitalin, revisionist history, deep state, hollywood, family court, k-12…all tools of capitulation to appeasement. “can’t we all just get along?”
it appears not.
Oh, and I want Bill’s hair 😉
I’m sure that he’d provide the clippings for a small profit. 😉
I am so disappointed that the company caved.
they all cave…..follow the money.
I was genuinely surprised that for once we had a happy ending. So much for that
My true question is why did they really cave in?
Likely it wasn’t due to the ex-employee pressure, they should have been prepared for that issue. It would be more likely be pressure from some of their more prominent customer’s. In other words the woke companies, billion dollar elites, social media platforms, and political powers. There is also the direct threats from BLM/ANITFA especially when they are publicly being given free reign and get out of jail free cards.
You can stand up to a bully of equal standing, but when the bully is supported by authority (teachers, Mayors, DAs, Presidents, etc.) the likelihood of winning becomes void and even greater bullying repercussions are to follow.
Kind of hard for a kid to stand up to their bullies, when the bullies have power, positions of power, and the weapons to literally end their life and those of their family/friends.
Ever tried standing up to a bullying boss? Even if you win the argument, you will likely lose the war.