A Note on False Piety

I was recently getting a beer with a good friend when we began talking about the COVID vaccine. One of the points I made as evident in the last article I wrote concerns how in places like Washington DC and many other cities over 50% of black people have not for whatever reason decided to get the COVID shot. With mayors on the path to mandate the vaccine, these people will be disbarred from participating in the city. Is this not segregation I asked?

He said that was a good point, but that it was weird coming from a "conservative." I asked him why, to which he said - generally conservatives do not care about minorities. His comment made me angry, but more than anything it really broke my heart. Since when is caring about minorities mutually exclusive to being a democrat? Did we not have record unemployment numbers amongst blacks during the Trump Presidency? Republicans had the Senate, the House, and the Presidency - if you think they are so racist, wouldn't policies that had the inverse effect and hurt minorities have ensued?

I wrote the following in my last piece,:

Just in Washington D.C. alone where they would like to implement their own vaccine mandate, roughly 53.6 percent of black residents who have chosen to remain unvaccinated will be banned from restaurants, gyms, and entertainment facilities. The numbers are similar in other cities like New York. I want to know - you are comfortable with that? You who put a Black Lives Matter sign on your lawn? Or a link in your instagram Bio? Or posted a black square many months ago? ...You preach that we must be "anti-racist," but are you not the real racist?

My neighbor has had a black lives matter sign on her front lawn for two years now. How many black people has it helped? In the middle of the night does that sign awaken like Frosty the Snowman and travel to Chicago and stop gang violence? Does it go to inner city to teach minority children being robbed of a meaningful education? I am genuinely curious, if you care about black people and minorities, what have you done besides putting a sign on your lawn, or a link in your instagram bio none of your friends donate towards?

Before COVID, my neighbor and I employed the same housekeeper. My mother and her were were very friendly and used to have a lot of good conversations. She was hispanic, and had told us when she goes to our neighbors house she was lectured on how she cannot be a minute early or a minute late. When she and her team knocks on the door my neighbor does not say hello - she lets them in and expects them to just get to business. Does that sound like somebody who cares about minorities?

It's the same thing with the pronouns. It may surprise you, but I am in-fact single. At least 75% of the girls have "she/her" in their bio's on all these dating apps. In my settings I have said I only want to see women because I am straight. Likewise, if I appeared on your queue it's because you want to see men. I have only seen maybe three people who identified as transgender on these apps over two years. Even so, if you identify as a women then you would show up in my queue, so there is not reason to double down and tell me your are in-fact a women. You are basically just telling me you are a women, when I know you are. So does displaying your pronouns really help anybody? Or are these people doing it because everyone else is, and they want to be seen as virtuous?

There are better ways to help transgender people than putting your pronouns in your bio for non-trans people too see and pretending you care. I read a story just recently of a person who wished they did not transition I will attach below. How would you help this individual? Read that story, and you will realize the problems people are experiencing are far greater than putting some pronouns in your bio.

My point is simple - many think being virtuous is simple. It's not. You cannot put a sign on your lawn or some words in a bio nobody looks at and think "wow I am such a good person." I am sorry to tell you, but you are living with a false sense of piety. So while you may feel good, all the problems still exist. The city of Minnesota has been primarily dominated by Democrats for decades, yet it would seem crime is still an issue. California is the most liberal place in the nation, yet their progressive policies have made tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands homeless.

Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." You will probably tell yourself I am a jerk for what I just wrote, but it does not change anything. Your "progressivism" really hasn't helped anybody but yourself feel good about yourself.