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John Hawkins|Posted: May 06, 2017 12:01

Of course, most conservatives are well aware of the damage liberals do to minorities with their supposed compassion. Liberal “compassion” toward minorities consists of treating them like incompetents who can’t do anything for themselves, fish-hooking them through the jaw with government assistance, and encouraging them to nurse grievances and feel like victims.

That is not compassionate and, as I note in my new book, “101 Things All Young Adults Should Know,” it doesn’t make anyone’s life better over the long haul.

Oh, but what about the government? Do you really want its help? Do you want to feel all those eyes burning into your back when you whip out those food stamps? Do you want to live in crummy government housing?

Do you want to jump through whatever hoops some dead-eyed bureaucrat comes up with so you can get just enough help to stay poor and miserable? Is that the sort of person you admire? Is that the one you grew up wanting to be? You should want more out of life than what the government is willing to give to you in return for your pride.

What’s more compassionate? Encouraging and helping people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, or trapping them in poverty, anger and misery long-term?

However, there is a much more insidious way liberals use “compassion” to hurt others that slips past many people.

If you pay attention, what you’ll notice is that the liberals who assure you that they are endlessly compassionate, sensitive, and tolerant only feel those emotions toward certain groups. In other words, their supposed compassion is incredibly selective.

So, the death of Harambe the Gorilla? It’s a terrible tragedy. A baby whose continued existence would cut into Planned Parenthood’s profit margins? They feel nothing.

A black thug who attacks a cop and gets shot to death? No justice, no peace! A police officer who gets murdered in the line of duty? They feel nothing.

Rioting students who disrupt a speaker and smash windows? Poor dears! They were triggered and their response was understandable. The conservative who was invited to campus to speak and the audience that was stopped from hearing him? They feel nothing.

Attacking the children of a Democrat? Scandalous! Outrageous! Whatever happened to decency in politics? Attacking the children of a Republican? Hahaha! Those late night comedians are so funny!

This is the ultimate liberal lie: weaponized compassion.

Once you choose which groups matter and which groups don’t, then you control the conversation, the culture, and politics. Woe be unto you if you’re in a group that liberals have no “compassion” for, because your problems will be treated as absolutely irrelevant by the school system, mainstream media, and Hollywood.


This is why liberals get so upset when someone says “All lives matter” instead of “Black lives matter.” It’s because they desperately need to control whom we have compassion for and whom we don’t. Since black Americans vote monolithically for the Democrat Party and falsely convincing them that they’re in grave danger of being shot by a cop at any moment might spur them to vote, liberals feel “compassion” over the issue. Do they care about police officers getting killed? Black on black violence? The victims of violent crime? No, because that doesn’t benefit them.

Is “compassion” really compassion if it’s based almost entirely on political gain and virtue signaling? Apparently liberals think so.

Don’t underestimate the impact of this tactic. Deciding which people in society we are supposed to all empathize with and which we are indifferent to is a powerful tool.

Take Jimmy Kimmel’s recent speech about his baby nearly dying shortly after he was born. It’s certainly a sad situation, and no one wants to see someone’s child become seriously ill. However, here we have a man worth 35 million dollars who wants other people to pay for his child’s health care. That’s obnoxious. Worse yet, Kimmel falsely indicated that babies like his son that were born ill weren’t covered before Obamacare. That’s simply not true. Sure, anybody can understand Kimmel’s emotional reaction to his son’s illness, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay for him to lie or exploit his child’s illness to push his grubby political agenda.


Furthermore, the coverage of Kimmel’s comments were fawning because we’re all supposed to feel infinite compassion for his situation and thus must do whatever liberals want us to do -- which in this case is to continue to support Obamacare despite the fact that it’s falling apart and hurting a lot of people.

As my friend Mary Katharine Ham noted (edited slightly), "To many, it only matters when people are potentially hurt by changes to Obamacare, not actually hurt by Obamacare."

Why does a celebrity like Jimmy Kimmel deserve our compassion for his admittedly difficult situation while tens of millions of ordinary Americans who have lost plans, lost doctors and have seen their deductibles and premiums skyrocket into the stratosphere aren’t given the same courtesy? The number of people hurt by Obamacare vastly outnumber the people who have been helped, so why don’t they deserve some compassion? Why don’t their struggles matter too?

It’s because liberals only feel “compassion” when they think it benefits them and in their minds; no one else deserves an ounce of sympathy, compassion or even human decency. That’s not real compassion. That’s a sickness masquerading as compassion.

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Ah, yes. The problem they have is that you can only be patronized into subservience if you let it happen. Or, of course, if you take their "does not compute" reaction seriously when they find out you have no interest in being patronized - thus the tendency to to insist, over and over again, that they "just don't understand" until you finally get tired out and just go with their flow.

Adamance, ladies and gents, can in fact be a social virtue.

in my experience, they don't give a shit about "eyes burning into their backs".. every time I am behind someone at the grocery store paying with their EBT card, they are on their new Iphone, and take the EBT card out of a designer purse, that's slung over their new leather jacket, then they walk out to their brand new car (never cheaper than a new Altima).

Proverbs 12:10
"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."

The good man, will ensure his livestock are cared for before taking care of his own wants, and in so doing, reflect the essence of God.

The wicked will do all manner of things, call them "compasion", and leave ruin and devastation in his wake, for he seeks to glorify himself first.


Old King Shlomo was a pretty smart cookie.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Proverbs 12:10
"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."

The good man, will ensure his livestock are cared for before taking care of his own wants, and in so doing, reflect the essence of God.

The wicked will do all manner of things, call them "compasion", and leave ruin and devastation in his wake, for he seeks to glorify himself first.

Old King Shlomo was a pretty smart cookie.

Yes he was.

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Liberal “compassion” toward minorities consists of treating them like incompetents who can’t do anything for themselves.

For the most part they 'are' incompetent, made so by an educational system and culture that teaches them nothing of value, supported by Dem's who line their own pockets and those of their supporters.

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Originally posted by cmr076:
in my experience, they don't give a shit about "eyes burning into their backs".. every time I am behind someone at the grocery store paying with their EBT card, they are on their new Iphone, and take the EBT card out of a designer purse, that's slung over their new leather jacket, then they walk out to their brand new car (never cheaper than a new Altima).

Amen. Maybe six or so months ago, I stopped at the grocery store for my wife. Went through the checkout with a black women and her three small kids. She paid for her haul with her EBT card, then headed to the parking lot where she climbed into her like new Cadillac Escalade ESV. I grumbled all the way back to my 17 year old Ford F150.

These people are proud of, and unflinchingly entitled to, their largess from Uncle Sugar.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Liberal “compassion” toward minorities consists of treating them like incompetents who can’t do anything for themselves.

For the most part they 'are' incompetent, made so by an educational system and culture that teaches them nothing of value, supported by Dem's who line their own pockets and those of their supporters.

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Originally posted by cmr076:
in my experience, they don't give a shit about "eyes burning into their backs".. every time I am behind someone at the grocery store paying with their EBT card, they are on their new Iphone, and take the EBT card out of a designer purse, that's slung over their new leather jacket, then they walk out to their brand new car (never cheaper than a new Altima).

Amen. Maybe six or so months ago, I stopped at the grocery store for my wife. Went through the checkout with a black women and her three small kids. She paid for her haul with her EBT card, then headed to the parking lot where she climbed into her like new Cadillac Escalade ESV. I grumbled all the way back to my 17 year old Ford F150.

These people are proud of, and unflinchingly entitled to, their largess from Uncle Sugar.

Not really the topic at hand, but gosh does this piss me off. I hate following out to parking lot to see the bastard that just used my money to buy his dinner drives a nicer car than I do.

The only thing that I hate more is when it's completely obvious they are illegals. I know they couldn't have navigated the information and forms to get signed up for it without some help (usually compassionate liberals or their church). If you can't understand enough English to operate the damn machine, no way you filled out the forms yourself, and absolutely no way you are a citizen or legal resident.

hashtag virtue signaling

I think not mentioned in the original article is that only "approved" identity groups are the recipients of compassion.
Blacks in ghettoes, illegal Mexicans: no end of the tears.
Poor whites in the Rust Belt: scum.

"Hurt", yes.

"Enslave"? If you're speaking of those 'liberals' / progressives who know what they're doing?

Yes.

the ONLY tool that democrats have is hurt

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Originally posted by cmr076:
in my experience, they don't give a shit about "eyes burning into their backs".. every time I am behind someone at the grocery store paying with their EBT card, they are on their new Iphone, and take the EBT card out of a designer purse, that's slung over their new leather jacket, then they walk out to their brand new car (never cheaper than a new Altima).

I see the same exact thing. A friend of mine drives an altima and owns 7 condo's he rents out. All are worth around $100k. He had half a dozen people come look at the condo and then ask if he did section 8, and they were all driving new mercedes and infiniti's.....guess baby daddy had a cash business like drug dealing.