NOW WE'RE COOKIN'! | 2007-02-05
Today's commenters, cl leading the way, sounded like a group of pros, people who are now grad level, who are doing intellectual WORK together. This is a thousand miles from where comments started here, basically just rehashing the bitches they would have been talking about if I had never been born.
One person did the old commenter thing, though, saying what he would have said if I had never been born. That serves as an example, though I expect everybody to make that mistake from time to time. He began his comment on my "Feminine Generation" with standard and packaged, "Ah, but those were Hollywood types, not the Real Guys.
NO! That undermines my whole point, and that is what is usually said about the crowd that calls itself The Greatest Generation, and it makes my point USELESS.
NO!!!!!!! I am not just making another just making another complaint about the standard Bad Buys and exempting Good Old Uncle Bill or Uncle Jim or, to give the whole generation its proper name, your Uncle Tom for being the being the Greatest Moral Cowards America has ever seem. NO! NO! NO!
Let me repeat an example for SIXTH time, since you missed it every other time. In the alcohol and drug program, one WWII hero was talking to me and leveled with me. On an island consisting almost entirely of combat officers, including NCOs, the commanding colonel was known for becoming a bully when he drank. He slammed into people and nobody dared react. Then one officer wouldn't take it anymore and knocked the crap out of him.
If any one of those Heroic Greatest Generation Our Boys Our Fighting Men had testified for the officer at the court-martial, which, please note, the colonel held when he sobered up, the man would have been acquitted. NOT ONE of the combat veteran Heroic Greatest Generation Our Boys Our Fighting Men said a word. They all told EACH OTHER how unfair it was. They let him go to PRISON without any support, just as they let this country turn into what it is today.
Does this sound familiar? Not one of The Greatest Generation had the guts to go public, no matter how loudly their "comrades" shouted that their buddies had died at Normandy do interracial marriage or open borders.
NO!!!!!! I am not massaging your old gripes; I am talking about Good Old Tom who never talked about his days in WWII.
I think I know WHY. The same reason ex-cons don't talk about being rogered in prison or ignoring others being rogered in prison. The same reason those fine men, the priests and bishops of the Catholic Church, totally ignored millions of rapes of small boys, the way EVERY bishop of that church abetted priests or knew about the abetting of molesting priests, abetting BEFORE the crime, which makes them as guilty as the other bishops who did it AND the priests.
If I had guessed at these thirty years ago, everybody would have lynched me. But it's time to stop being so naive. Here we have a whole generation which NEVER fought ANYTHING in public. Nobody ever mentions any sexual molestation by those sergeants they love so much in WWII. NONE. And who, exactly, WOULD have talked about it?
This is important. It is part of the explanation of the greatest betrayal of our race in history. It takes a lot of the steam out of the "That sweet black guy fought in the War so he deserves our women" line.
NO! PLEASE don't just toss in comments that say what you would have said had I never been born, and that undermine the point I am trying to make.
We need intellectual TEAMWORK of the type Alan showed when he complimented kevin on SAYING he would call Kelso for me. kevin got my point and SAID he would act on it. Alan went farther. He did not sit around and wait on ME to compliment a comrade on a positive action, or say, "Bob, YOU should compliment him."
Intellectual WORK is what we need, TEAMwork.
cl shows us the way.