Seven
years ago, I sat in a college classroom simply awestruck at what my professors
were saying. It was being suggested in an ever so subtle manner that anyone who
didn’t vote for Barack Obama did so out of an unconscious bias against black
people. What they were pushing of course, was the theory of white privilege; a
theory which suggests white people are inherently racist and the beneficiaries
of a system which affords them privileges at the expense of all minorities. For
decades now, our institutions of higher learning have been teaching students
that America is an oppressive nation that favors only the rich white man and
the problems which our society faces are due to our inherent greed and white
supremacism. My professors used my opposition to this theory as an excuse to
target me and suggest I wasn’t fit for the social work program, along with my
disagreements on social justice. Social Work, being political in nature and
dependent upon the redistribution of wealth almost requires that students and
workers have a liberal ideology. I challenged these assertions fiercely and
even suggested by teaching such falsehoods they were in fact, doing nothing
more than sowing the seeds of discontentment and creating hatred towards
America. They were deliberately discrediting our nation while focusing that dissatisfaction
upon the white man. In short, they were training students to organize for a
social revolution, the very social revolution we see taking place now.
The
field of Social Work includes the profession of community organizing. Community
organizers work to stir up the masses, spurring them into political action for
the purpose of obtaining political power and affecting social change.[1]
In a sense, it could be argued that social work in the academic setting is a
form of community organizing as the students are presented with nothing but
social problems allegedly caused by the white man’s political system and in
effect, being presented with socialism as a solution. According to the
publication Social Work Helper, a social workers values should be shaped by
socialism and social democracy.[2]
A social workers purpose is to de-construct systems of oppression by evaluating
power structures and systems of inequalities which the left equates with
America’s capitalist system. A community organizer’s purpose then is to
organize people into pushing for socialism by creating anger and resentment
towards the existing system. This is exactly what has been taking place and the
consequences of the lies being pushed are starting to show themselves in the
form of violence.
It
is difficult for many people to understand these concepts. Most Americans are
still Christian; which means that they operate on a system of principles which
include a universal morality and the existence of truth. Truth to the left is
subjective and only useful if it is something that pushes them towards their
goal. Otherwise, there is no truth. In the book “The Naked Communist”[3] Kleon
Skousen describes the denial of an absolute truth as the third premise of
communist/socialist beliefs. They believe, essentially, that lying is not wrong
because there is no truth. If their lie furthers their goal of what they
believe is a better world, it is morally right. This is also a premise of
community organizing. Saul Alinsky, in Rules for Radicals,[4]
describes this by explaining means and ends morality.
In
action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent
both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind. The choice must
always be for the latter. Action is for mass salvation and not for the
individual's personal salvation. He who sacrifices the mass good for his
personal conscience has a peculiar conception of "personal
salvation"; he doesn't care enough for people to be "corrupted"
for them. (Alinsky, 26)
What
Alinsky is arguing is that the end, a transformed society, is worth whatever
means it takes to achieve it because their vision of socialism is morally superior
to the current system in which we live. This is tantamount to the same
philosophy explained by Skousen. Alinsky, being an atheist, believed there was
no moral truth; therefore, it was morally justifiable to lie if it advanced the
goal of a socialist society. Morally corrupted means, he argued, do not corrupt
the ends because there is no universal morality.
To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is
to believe in the immaculate conceptions of ends and principles. The real arena
is corrupt and bloody. Life is a corrupting process from the time a child
learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go
to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. (Alinsky, 24)
Where does this leave us now? Our society, as
a result of an education system that has been encouraging hatred of our country
is teetering on the edge of disaster. It can be argued that the principles
described above, and the belief that there is no truth, are responsible for the
recent violence we have witnessed. A website called Haaretz[5]
has published an article claiming that the violent actions of Antifa are
justified as self-defense against a racist system of white supremacism and
bigotry. The author can publish such nonsense because these lies have been
spread for so long, they have come to be accepted as truth. Antifa is the
perfect example of people being stirred into action by being inundated with
lies about inequalities and social injustices. They are the perfect example of
what I warned my professors would eventually come if they kept pushing the lies
and hatred they were.
Until Americans understand and accept that
what we are seeing in our country is not a spontaneous effort to create a fairer
system, but a deliberate attempt to break us down and institute socialism,
nothing will change. We must refuse these notions of moral relativism and fight
for a return to Biblical morality or else we will not survive as a nation. Alinsky
argued that corrupted means would not corrupt the ends because he doesn’t
believe in God, therefore there is no immutable truth. How could the results of
lying be anything but corrupted? Socialism has proven time and time again to
lead to nothing but despair and suffering. The left cannot admit the truth of
socialism for fear of losing support. The whole premise of what they are
pushing is a lie therefore, corrupted ends are inevitable.
Our government is riddled with crookedness and
fraudulent politicians. Everyday we see our politics denigrated
by those in power who espouse the belief that America is an unjust country. In
fact, a recent poll suggested that Americans have less faith and pride in our
political system than ever before.[6]
You have to wonder, based on the information presented in this article, are
they doing this on purpose to discredit our system? Are they intentionally trying
to create a sense of hopelessness among the general population so when the time
comes, they will be willing to accept change? This is a difficult question to
ponder; one that creates discomfort or is easily discarded as a crazy
conspiracy theory. The evidence in my opinion, is overwhelming when you
understand the connection between social work education and the Alinsky method.
It is a question that the reader must answer for themselves.
There's another reason for working inside the
system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any
revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative,
non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must
feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing
system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This
acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. (Alinsky)
I write so much about this because I
experienced it firsthand. I watched, not in silence mind you, as my professors
in a social work program constantly made false allegations against our country to
discredit and demoralize our values. They were attempting to stir up discontentment
among the students while planting in their minds the seeds for fomenting
social revolution. The social revolution we see taking place today.
[1] https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/national-sovereignty/community-organizing-explained-612-2/
[2] https://www.socialworkhelper.com/2017/02/06/building-political-agenda-social-work/
[3] https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n37
[4] http://www.mynacc.org/Rules_for_Radicals.pdf
[5] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-antifa-in-america-militant-anti-fascism-isn-t-terrorism-it-s-self-defense-1.7425726?fbclid=IwAR2I8-RCIpLayQEEdCKc3smbyoe_18VafdJBGNpYEg_mHDuuiJGo6Q8-k-k
[6] https://news.gallup.com/poll/259841/american-pride-hits-new-low-few-proud-political-system.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2MYI50yizTIV71zgrHDJulfraXk8pRVdjaIxncrRDVrcQRBJUctdIy8kE
Spot on.
ReplyDeleteThis, my friends, is why I refuse to work in a field of handouts. I have a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and it has been 17 years since I graduated college. I have decided to defeat the socialist monster> I instead have a small business laundromat with American Made washers and dryers. Capitalism rocks! ;)
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