Oh Good, We’re Doing The Civility Thing Again
Article by Kurt Schlichter in "Townhall":
So, Donald Trump, Jr., retweeted a mean tweet about Grandpa Badfinger and the usual suspects went through their collective panty wetting again. “Civility is important,” we barbarians are duly informed, because of course it is. But we have noticed, over time, that in reality it only seems to be important when we are the ones breaching it. For us, it is open season. We have a big target on our collective back for the vilest slanders and the most ridiculous lies, but apparently that’s OK. “Civility” apparently only raises it’s well-coiffed, Romney-esque head when we breach it.
S.E. Cupp, the formerly relevant Smart Girl Glasses model, gave away the game after Pelosi called Trump “morbidly obese”: “Let me end the suspense. Trump’s called multiple women fat, slobs, pigs, dogs. He bragged about grabbing us by the p***y. He attacked female journalists and wishes we’d be more like a subservient 1950s housewife. So, yeah. When Pelosi calls him obese I find it f*****g hilarious.” (I added some *s). Gee, I guess this politeness norm is so important that our betters have to burn the village to save it.
It’s almost like “civility” is just a way to shut us up and ensure that we have no means to fight back against our opponents, who will then be free to pummel us into submission.
It’s not inconceivable that some people actually believe in “civility” as a principle instead of an intellectual ball gag. George W. Bush probably did. He was famously civil. He was so civil that when they were calling him “Chimpy McHitlerhaliburton” he just took it and remained super civil. And when they disrespected us, he took that too. For eight years. And after Obama wiped the floor with the selectively civil John McCain – he was always civil to Democrats and the media but not so much to us conservatives – W kept being civil, painting his veteran pics back in Texas as his new pal Barack ran roughshod over our rights. He was super-civil, right up until Trump beat that fat clump of Jeb! and suddenly W was not so civil anymore. He, and we, were bad people. Weird how everyone gets civility except us.
How many times have you seen someone on our side fight back and have them called out by the Low-T Gang for being so, so, so…oh well I never! How many conservative warriors have you been informed are unacceptable because they actually fight back? As part of their relentless quest for peak civility, the Never Trump sissies called my novels People's Republic, Indian Country, Wildfire and Collapse “appalling” for making liberals sad. Pardon us if we say, “Take your civility and shove it.”
In a fight, civility is a good way to get your teeth knocked down your throat. Us normal people, most of whom have actually been in an actual fight in the real world instead of spending our lives in the curated utopias of academia and Conservative, Inc., get that. When we fight, it’s important – we’re serious about it. For the kind of people constantly wagging their spindly, girlish fingers at us for being mean to people who want to grind us into pulp, a “fight” is a catty rejoinder in some unread blog or a snarky Twitter riposte. This reflects the essential unseriousness of the establishment types whose fussy demands for propriety ignore that, for the rest of us out here in America, these issues have consequences beyond not getting invited to be on the next panel on some Princess Cruises ship’s Lido Deck.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/05/21/oh-good-were-doing-the-civility-thing-again-n2569161
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