1\ In the 1980s, the world was confronted by a scary new epidemic: HIV and AIDS
Like COVID-19, it quickly became politicized. Except that in the 1980s, it was the Right arguing for lockdowns, and the Left defending civil liberties.
Let's take a spin through history...
2\ Like NYC mayor Bill DeBacle today, mayor Koch created a false dichotomy between civil liberties and "saving lives":
3\ NYC even latched onto the phrase "If you save one life!"
In 1985, this vapid catch-phrase was used by the overtly religious
Today, the *exact same* phrase is used as a mantra by secular elites, who cannot admit that they have fallen for an ascientific religion
4\ In 1984, the ACLU saw through the demagogic appeal to "safety". They stood up for liberties.
Today, the ACLU has mostly been silent on COVID-19 lockdowns
Instead, they're off in a corner getting woke about climate justice and nonexistent gender wage gaps
5\ Then as now, reporters favored the prurient and scandalizing, rather than the relevant
"Dimly lit sex dungeons" were the "Redneck super spreader pool parties" of today
6\6 If you think closing gay bars in the 1980s was barbaric, realize that COVID-19 lockdowns are *exactly* the same
Remember:
"It's a novel virus!"
7\6 I almost forgot the funniest part!
In 1985, Dr. Fauci was just beginning his process of bureaucratic fossilization
He said that AIDS didn't discriminate, inviting people to become hysterical and bigoted
And he said a vaccine was just around the corner
Sound familiar?
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Extremely right wing friend talks about what it's like on the inside to be a successful Ashkenazi financier. Says that beyond the intelligence, the characteristic traits are a somewhat neurotic hyperactivity and a bit of disregard for social convention...
I watched him rise meteorically in his 20s, and it was true. He has a manic, self effacing good nature, and his days seem to be one long laugh. Twice he arrived in a new city, pressed bumptiously and good humoredly in every direction, and within months knew everyone
He thinks the key non-Gentile trait is a willingness to look foolish, to ask the possibly dumb question at a pitch dinner that nobody else will. Thinks a sort of dispositional gravity therefore leads Ashkenazim toward places where the *social* fabric of a market is broken...
It goes under remarked-upon that British colonial subjects were immediately granted civil rights
The British didn't know how to govern a possession (Ascension Island) of 380, so they declared it to be a ship and left it to the Admiralty
"How is it that these pale-cheeked exiles gave security to a race of another hue, other tongues, other religions which rulers of their own people have ever failed to give"
Israel "waiting for the green light from the Americans" before the 1967 war..."combing word by word through a column in Newsweek'
Apparently Israel was content not to broadcast the fact that it had destroyed Egypt's air force, because it thought the UN would not intervene as long as Israel was believed to be losing
"In almost all the great peasant nations, marriage for women is soon after puberty, in the late teens. This congrats strongly with the late age at marriage, twenty-five or later, found in parts of northwestern Europe from at least the 16th century"
The 1976 Soweto student uprising is mythologized as an early noble skirmish in the fight against Apartheid. But the commencing act of violence was a student stabbing a female teacher with a screwdriver because he didn't want to learn Afrikaans.
Much stoning of police and police vehicles. Much revolutionary not doing of homework.
The riots soon became an excuse for gangsters ("tsotsis") to loot businesses