By Phyllis Chesler, AM THINKER
We are fast becoming the Disunited Identities of America. American embassies may now fly the gay rainbow flag along with the American flag. What next? A Transgender Flag? A Black Transgender “Sex Worker” Flag? A “Palestinian” Flag? A special flag for American non-binaries and asexuals? How about separate flags for every possible ethnicity that American citizens represent? Better still, a special flag for the illegal/undocumented — they’re here, too.
I happen to like the rainbow flag very much and for more than one reason. I like what rainbows biblically represent, namely, a forever truce between God and humanity. No matter how vain or venal our behavior may be, God is resigned to accepting the fact that we are all made of “crooked timber” and will sin, again and again, but God will never again unleash a deadly flood to destroy all mankind.
Originally, the gay pride/rainbow flag had at least eight colors. Over time, that number has both increased and decreased. Each group, newly self-identified, proudly, the latest victim on the block, adopts a unique color.
Walt Whitman, that very gay male and so-American poet, proclaimed that he (and we all) “contain multitudes.” Why diminish us, why limit us to only one identity and an identity that only proclaims our sexual proclivities — and nothing else, nothing more?
I wrote an entire chapter about the dangers of such balkanization and self-minimization for a book of mine. The publisher (who shall remain nameless) censored it. What I was writing was deemed too “politically incorrect.”
A mighty wind is powering this flag of identity, rending asunder all hope of unity, dividing citizen against citizen, making political alliances difficult if not impossible.
Where is the flag for the victims of sex slavery — that would be female sex slaves, they are the majority, all others, whether male or transgender, however trendy, are in the minority. Where is the flag for rape victims — that too would mainly be female victims of male rape. A flag for the mainly female victims of domestic violence?
Prick us, will we not bleed?
Where is the flag for African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Indian Americans, Native Americans, South Asian Americans — just on and on?
Yes, I know, I’ve been told over and over again, that we are mighty sinners when it comes to racial integration. That America was founded on slave labor and that we are now at a time of righteous reckoning and reparations. However true this may be, I cannot bear the angry “peaceful” rioters and the intensity of the racialized narrative everywhere I turn.
For example, my hometown newspaper, the New York Times, has been on quite a roll. For more than a year, maybe longer, every single day, 3/4 of the stories, at least 1/2 of the op-eds and letters, and perhaps 70% of all photos concern race issues in America. Black and brown faces and issues massively dominate the news, the obituaries, and the arts: Suddenly, playwrights, painters, opera singers, jazz singers, actors, dancers, choreographers, models, fashion designers, cooks, homemakers, business owners are all people of color. Almost overnight, they have replaced the formerly mainly white faces.
Of course, the role once played by black Africans in the black African slave trade, the existence of contemporary black African slavery and anti-black racism among ethnic Arab Muslims is never given as context or perspective.
But, back to my daily morning newspaper. Perhaps this is a rightful introduction to those whose work has formerly been disappeared due to racism? A smart way to normalize and accustom white folk to the reality of a multicolored world? National redemption? What if this message of black and brown primacy is misinterpreted and leads to angry mobs attacking the owners of local NYC restaurants simply because they are white? Or to the torching of white-owned buildings… oh, wait. That was last summer.
O People my People: What ever happened to the idea that we were one nation indivisible? A nation that ingeniously absorbed “multitudes” and slowly, carefully, “melded” them all into one “pot”? Was that a complete and utter lie?
And now, we are told that Caitlyn Jenner will be running for governor of California. ‘Twas only a matter of time. Jenner’s run is part of the celebrity culture takeover/takedown of meritocracy. If you are famous enough and/or trendy enough you can do… anything. Pilot a spaceship, pilot a United Airlines plane, run a corporate enterprise on diversity training. Run for political office, too.
Just as an old, white, man (wait, that would be President Biden) cannot represent a gay man or a transgender woman — and who looks nothing like a lesbian or like a modest Muslim woman wearing hijab or a Sikh in a turban — now, celebrities who follow Orwell’s Newspeak script will serve as our political leaders, just as if they’re acting in a movie.
No political, intellectual, government, diplomatic, or administrative experience necessary as long as you are the right color, claim to sleep with only the right people, and sport the rainbow flag.
@ Michael S:
Yes, Michael, the word miraculous is well positioned in this comment to express what would be necessary for these faithful warriors to be successful in anything they have designed here. They have had some serious early successes in AZ and also, Wisconsin is beginning their own audit. But the real game of chance lies in the higher courts, and, of course, The High Court, (SCOTUS). But I hold little hope for the miracle that SCOTUS will prove themselves different from what they have clearly shown themselves to be. The real chance of success lies in changing the public’s perception of the events in Nov. 2020 and their acceptance of the truth. This could cause a wide cascade of change even within the courts. But, we will see. Perhaps, too, SCOTUS will surprise us all and rule against the Chinese led cabal that has taken control of the nation. But thiswould take a miracle, I think.
@ Michael S:
The first link didn’t work. Here’s another one:
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@ peloni1986:
” So I would suspect, without some great upset, 2022, 2024 and forever forward are already decided. That is unless we miraculously see something along the lines of what Lindell, Powell, Flynn et. al. hope to achieve in the courts(this logic I find incomprehensible) or possibly the military intervention described by Ward, Kel, Parkes, et.al. which is claimed to be just around the corner but seems eternally delayed. Or perhaps some other unspoken or unseen event may materialize to change our situation. I hope one of these story-lines comes to fruition and soon.”
Hi, Peloni. I highlighted “miraculously”, because that’s what it boils down to. Hashem is Israel’s protector, and the protector of all (like me) who trust in Him. He will not let us down. The US Administration will let us down, viz:
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/04/29/wbEDITORIAL_wideweb__430x253.jpg
Saigon 1975
and
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/pentagon-pulls-us-military-personnel-from-israel-out-of-caution-668205
But God foreknew us before the Big Bang, before he formed one atom. His plan is, and was from the beginning, to create of us one man, changed into His image, to glorify His name — not, as our enemies wish to do, to wipe out our memory.
That’s the important “news of the day”. The rest, the “fake news” that comes at us like a flood, is just meant to confuse us. As for that “rainbow flag”, I see that I have just become a new color: the color of the “unvaccinated”, the “medical deplorables”, the “lepers” of today, to be socially shunned and legally discriminated against. This, too, shall pass.
The Left is looking to crash land America so their oligarchical support structure can buy everything for a song and then sell it for a big profit later on. To do that they have to destroy America’s identity so no one will fight back. Ergo, gun control, and the end of US culture Gun control is following the Nazi pattern. The Nazis never outlawed guns, they allowed them for qualified gun owners. The only people qualified were members in good standing of the Nazi party. Get the drift?
The multiple flags is another ongoing project to destroy Americas’ identity. The long-term goal will be to say that America is so bad, racist, sexist, and every other “ist” you can create, that it doesn’t deserve a flag. It doesn’t deserve a country, and, finally, that it doesn’t deserve a population. End of story. The Democrats and their subject media, courts, and legal system will cheer wildly. The Republicans will read some script saying that genocide is not very collegial and then retire to the bar. If people can remember Martin Niemoller then they are doomed to follow the Nazi path to hell.
Speaking as one who is not yet to the age of 65, I would, humbly, request that you lower the age considerably by which you suggest limits support for Israel – there are, in fact many of us who support of Israel is very great who have not yet approached the 60-something age requirement you list and others are a great deal younger than that (I also do not know for certain that the support of the masses of the liberal Jews whose leaders are all Leftist ideologues are lost to our cause but it is, in fact, fair to question as to where they stand) . Furthermore, I believe your lack of confidence in the support we can expect of our goyish American friends is unfairly lowered, at least for the time being. Beyond this, I would strongly agree with your statement, should we be able to rectify the issue of the confounding complication presented by the machines which are the tyrannical implements that have fixed Americans into the perplexing situation where they have a gov’t but no voice…brings back thoughts of that annoying but effective slogan ‘taxation without representation;…Taking these facts into consideration reveals that America is currently being overseen by a tyranny funded both near and afar by foes which are far sinister than anything along the lines of good King George III that faced our founders. They will not relinquish this newly stolen power easily or soon of their own accord. So I would suspect, without some great upset, 2022, 2024 and forever forward are already decided. That is unless we miraculously see something along the lines of what Lindell, Powell, Flynn et. al. hope to achieve in the courts(this logic I find incomprehensible) or possibly the military intervention described by Ward, Kel, Parkes, et.al. which is claimed to be just around the corner but seems eternally delayed. Or perhaps some other unspoken or unseen event may materialize to change our situation. I hope one of these story-lines comes to fruition and soon. Else our future, all of our futures, seem very bleak and 2022/2024 will to materialize into being just a mirage which will dissipate into the ether of time revealing further disappointments and far greater tragedies yet to unfold.
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As the American Left could not comprehend how their shoo-in for president in 2016, Hillary Clinton, so totally lost, they vowed revenge against Trump, coalescing their forces dominating the media, Big Tech, Wall Street, academia, and Hollywood. Despite their wealth and far too numerous credentials, the Left failed to explain the simple fact-beyond the bi-coastal self-declared elites, everybody else judged Hillary to serve herself over the nation; a fraud; certainly not ready for high office.
Despite this fact, why did American Jews despise Trump, ignoring all he did for Israel; how today they turn a blind eye towards the Left’s tribalism at the expense of the Jews; how the American campus scene shuns Jewish students as if they have a plague?
The real question now is if America has the verve to survive the Marxist takeover of the House in Congress and Biden’s Administration? Can we tread water until taking back the House and Senate in 2022; the White House in 2024?
But, to what extent will Biden “throw Israel under the bus” to appease the mullahs of Iran; sacrifice Taiwan to Communist China; kowtow to Russia’s expansionist ambitions? Just as Biden hides from his notorious history of embracing Southern politicians in the KKK, he also does not remember the fact that had England and France prevented Hitler’s ambitious takeover of the Rhineland and Saarland in 1936, the German military would have overthrown Hitler.
This time, their will be no Evian Conference, for the Jews of Israel know Iran must be regarded as an imminent threat, as Egypt and Syria were in 1967. However, it is doubtful Israel can depend upon support from American Jews under the age of 65, nor honorable American gentiles, as the well has been poisoned beyond repair.