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“The last time I called my idiot brother, he told me I needed to ‘check my privilege.’ My privilege? When I called him, I was lying in a crappy Iraqi hospital ward because Ali Nasrami had shot out a chunk of my kidney.”
To the surprise of no one, “hate speech” seemed to correspond exactly to whatever the current Democrat administration did not want said out loud.
Dissent went from being patriotic to being treason right at the very same moment that the left had taken power.
Turnbull knew what an unstable society felt like – he had experienced them all over the world. And it disturbed him that he was getting the same feeling here in America.
“Chamberlain was a college professor before the war. Imagine that. A college professor who loved America enough to take up arms to defend her. Now our college professors are at the vanguard of those who seek to destroy her,”
The big problem in America, the mainstream media narrative ran, was “racists” and “right-wing militias” invading the cities, if you believed the media. The propaganda was awkward, unlike in many of the dictatorships that Turnbull had served in, but they would improve their dark arts with practice.
It amused Turnbull that the class war had finally come and it was the damn Marxists who rigorously observed class distinctions.
In the dictatorship of the proletariat, it was the proles who were getting dicked.
