Floggers as Haters: Brooks Simpson and De'Stroy

(who is such a coward he has to hide in anonymity).   

Setting Simpson straight on his recent blog post that's breathtaking in its lies, distortion and animosity. Says Simpson:

Courtesy of Restoring the Honor, we have yet more evidence of the degree to which the Virginia Flaggers embrace haters in their quest to promote Confederate heritage.

No, you have distortions and lies of your own making. De'Stroy at that blog is as vicious a hater as you, and thus cannot be given any credence -- just like you can't.  You need to retire that term "embrace" because your use of it is a blatant lie.

Like its blogger, "Restoring the Honor" blog is anonymous and thus cannot be given credence. If we don't know who is writing the blog, suspicion of the blogger's motives (and veracity) is legitimate and understandable. Otherwise, why the need to hide his identity?

And then there is the webmaster of the Virginia Flaggers, Connie Chastain, who decided to go on a rant ridiculing people with speech defects. When called on this on Twitter, Chastain continued to make fun of such people.

I wasn't making fun of such people. Maybe if you did such a thing, it would be making fun -- you have long exhibited a love of ridiculing people -- so that's why you assume the same about me. But, frankly, I believe you interpreted that way because you're a hater.

I was called on it by you, but, see, you have no moral authority for calling me or anybody on anything. (1) You ridicule and name-call people that you imply are mentally impaired. (2) You are likely the person who posted fraudulent negative reviews of my books on Amazon intending to hurt me by hurting the sales of my novels, because you seem to enjoy hurting people you don't like. (3) This is seen most clearly in the way you have lied about, harassed and persecuted the Virginia Flaggers almost since the day they were formed. (4) You have done your best to drum up hatred in others for the Flaggers, and (5) it is not out of the realm of possibility that you are pushing some unstable character closer and closer to attempting real harm against the Flaggers. All this makes you totally unfit as any kind of moral judge.

Just pathetic … and of course she shared her tweets with Virginia Flagger leader Susan Frise Hathaway, who just told us what an innocent victim she is.

Total lie, the worst lie of your post, because your hate for Susan is your biggest hate. Susan didn't tell what an innocent victim she is. She was answering inquiries from people who are concerned about her, thanks to the likes of you who constantly, many times every month, for YEARS, have posted lies and distortions about her designed to engender in others the same hate YOU have for her. Although WHY is the biggest mystery. She has never done anything to you.

There’s something twisted and sick about Cash and Chastain … and about the organization that embraces them. Then again, Chastain charges that to highlight the lack of logic in her posts is to accuse her of mental disability.

But the "highlighting" was done by you, and the "lack of logic" was yours, not mine, and it was deliberate, written solely to smear me. Your blog writing  (and maybe other writing by you) is dirty-trickster writing, a leftist ability that people with decent minds don't relate to.

Wow. Nor was she adverse to posting pictures of herself using a walker (as well as the walker standing by itself) as well as sharing her own health problems on her hate blog.

So? You're going to try to drum up hate about THAT? Nobody asked you to to view those pictures; you visit heritage sites, blogs and FB pages solely for the purpose of looking for things you can lie about, ridicule and use in drumming up hate.

I guess she wanted us to feel sorry for her.

I don't want you to feel anything about me, Simpson. In fact, your attention and the feelings you betray in your writing are starting to get creepy, and worse than creepy....stalkerish. Unstable. Flaky.... Please, don't feel anything about me....

But these rants suggest that she doesn’t care about mocking people with speech impediments. How sad.

They suggest no such thing. That is a point you are trying to make, sure, but it isn't true. Mocking implies trying to hurt somebody with derision, contempt or scorn (you know, the way you do it). My written "lisp" in no way implies derision, contempt or scorn. But you have those motives constantly in your mind and your heart, and they evidently shape your perception -- they're like glasses you look through, so you see them even where they don't exist, in people who don't possess them.

Of course, Chastain hates a lot of things, so this really should surprise us. She also defends haters and claims they aren’t haters … like antisemites.

I have not defended antisemites anywhere. I simply once pointed out that a statement (not a person, a statement) described as antisemitic wasn't antisemitic. But it's typical of you to lie about things like that.

But it amazed me to see the voice of Virginia Flagger intolerance (also known as Hathaway’s heavy hitter) take on new targets.

I'm not the voice of the Virginia Flaggers and you know it, so you are purposely lying. The Virginia Flaggers are not intolerant, and you know it, so you are purposely lying. I have no targets, old or new. The closest thing I have to a target is a shield -- but it is defensive, not offensive -- designed to defend, as much as possible, from your constant targeting of people who haven't done a thing to you and don't deserve your hateful attention and treatment.

With supporters like these, Confederate heritage is in trouble.

Baloney. Confederate heritage is fine. The trouble resides totally in your wishful thinking and your attempts to smear.

It’s hard to claim that you’re all about “heritage not hate” when your ranks are filled with haters who simply cannot restrain themselves when it comes to expressing their hate.

Although hate is not a part of my heritage, I do not use that term "heritage not hate" and never have because to do so would seem to legitimize the accusations of hate made by people like you, and I won't do that -- because the accusations are not only wrong, they are intended to cause harm to innocent people.

The ranks of Confederate heritage are not filled with haters. The number of actual haters is very small; as a percentage, probably no more than you'd find in the general population, including heritage-hating floggers and their floggerettes... the rest of the "haters" are made up, fabricated.

Besides, the few examples of "expressions of hate" you've cited are simply a drop in the bucket compared to your expressions of hate ... your whole blog is about hate for Confederate heritage and those who support it, but especially the Virginia Flaggers.

What a bitter bunch of losers.

Says the man who has done his best to engender hatred for this "bunch" for four years.

Haters gotta hate, I guess …

As you unmistakably, repeatedly and constantly demonstrate.

...and the Virginia Flaggers embrace haters to carry forth their message. No wonder people think it’s a message of hate. 

Only people who already hate them think it's a message of hate. Only people trying to create hatred for the VaFlaggers, destroy their organization, and perhaps even bring harm to individual members think it's a message of hate.

Ironic, Indeed

Leftist Language Manipulation

I have mentioned several times Simpson's manipulation of the language, and called it slimy (i.e., slippery, slick). But there's more to this kind of language manipulation than facility with the spoken/written word ... there is the sheer nastiness of the motivation behind it, revealed often (but not only) by the leftist love of the putdown.

You find this nastiness -- this love of slander, lying, smearing -- manifested far, far more often in leftist writings than right-wing ones. It is sometimes called intellectual bullying, although in Simpson's case, there is a great deal of emotional manipulation in the "intellectual" component.

Right-wingers will never have the ability to do it that leftists possess because (1) leftists are working on the emotional level; their purpose is emotional manipulation and emotional motivation ... and truth, if it matters at all, is secondary (and discarded when it get in the way of emotion), and (2) rightwingers can't let go of reason and can't discard or distort truth, so their nastiness is diluted with the inclusion of truthful matter and the need to make a point with it.

Among the rightwing pros, only Anne Coulter and, to a lesser extent, Michelle Malkin have learned how to write mean and nasty. Doug Giles is trying, maybe he'll make it eventually. There may be others, but my reading of right-wingers has drastically tapered off since 1998, when I left my job as a Republican Congressional staffer, so I wouldn't know of any others.

Left-wingers are extremely capable in this area. You find it in both professional writers and common folk at the Facebook-post level. I've often wondered where they learn it...as children from left-wing parents? From left-wing facilitators in education? Does it just flower naturally in the absence of being taught to respect others you disagree with?

To see how this exists, let's look at the personal blog level of the heritage wars. Yes, the element of emotion is very much in evidence of both the proConfederates and the anti-Confeds. The difference is that proConfederate writings are often (though not always) the expression of emotion (for example, jerryd14), whereas with antiConfederate writings, emotion is the motivator.

Specifically,  emotions motivate such writings (scorn for those they disagree with coupled with their love of ridicule are the motivating emotions) and the writing is designed to manipulate the emotions of the reader and thus shape the reader's attitude toward something or someone. Yes, there can be the expression of emotion in these writings, but it serves to support one of these two elements, motivation and manipulation.

I hope to make more posts in the future about how the leftist mentality manipulates the language.

More Slime Tweets from Thimpthon....

Keep in mind, folks, that this man is a professor at a major state university, charged with the responsibility of educating young adult minds....

He has uploaded a remarkable series of slime-tweets the past couple of days that I have received in email notices ... a flurry of them -- five in 13 minutes, and eight total in less than 24 hours.  He must have erased them or put some kind of  block on them because they're not viewable by me in Twitter itself. I guess he didn't want folks who can see his Twitter feed to know just how nasty he can be. Or maybe he didn't want his followers to see my replies....

Here are a couple of his slime tweets.

Tweet One:

Remember, this man was likely the person who left nasty reviews of my books at Amazon.com under several false profiles ... fraudulent reviews, since he acknowledged that he had not read my books.

Tweet Two:

Well, that's interesting. De'Stroy has hinted at something similar before, as well.

Speaking of De'Stroy, he ripped off Simpson's tweets and my blog posts and feigned outrage over my "mocking" people with a speech impediment. Sez DeStroy:
This little twerp says the Virginia Flaggers are deeply depraved because *I* wrote with a lisp. Ah, no. They have no responsibility or connection to what I wrote and how I wrote it. Moreover, his use of "depravity" is just bizarre.  A Google search gives the definition of depravity, and some synonyms:

definition:
moral corruption; wickedness.

synonyms:
corruption, vice, perversion, deviance, degeneracy, immorality, debauchery, dissipation, profligacy, licentiousness, lechery, prurience, obscenity, indecency; wickedness, sin, iniquity; turpitude

I can't think of a better example to show the distorted, unhinged view held by leftists ... These people are really messed up if they think "writing with a lisp" fits in that list somewhere. Besides, I wrote it; it has nothing to do with the Virginia Flaggers. But that's how their minds work -- links and ties, guilt by association, group think, clone-think...

These are leftists, remember -- people who think slicing up babies and selling their body parts is not depraved.

De'Stroy says my writing with a lisp is mocking people who have a speech impediment.  Simpson calls it "ridiculing people with a speech defect." Nope, it isn't either one. I named nobody.

Thimpthon, on the other hand, has ridiculed people by name, implying they are mentally deficient and then calling them idiots and such.  Not, "They are mistaken;" not "I disagree with them;" but "They're idiots."

Simpson and his new sidekick are doing their best to destroy the Virginia Flaggers organization -- with absolutely zero success -- with the weapons of lies, portraying them in a false light, harassment, veiled threats, distortion, verbal persecution and more ... over something that is none of their business. It is also my personal belief that they will not be happy until they bring actual harm of one kind or another to the VaFlaggers as individuals. 

Talk about depravity.....

Why They Hate the Virginia Flaggers

Comment exchange at Kevin Levin's flog:

Eric A. Jacobson:  What is occurring in the heart of the old Confederate capital It is just another example of how the public is moving beyond the one-sided imagery of the Lost Cause. It is also happening across the nation.

In fact, one very important factor that the Flaggers folks, Chastain, etc, don’t understand, and likely never will, is that the vast majority of people really don’t “support” their view of the flag. I deal with guests and tourists who are actually visiting a Civil War battlefield site and the flag issue is so far down on the list it doesn’t even rank.

Odious Andy Hall: That’s a central conceit of the “heritage” folks generally — they have convinced themselves that support for Confederate symbols runs wide and deep, at least among “real” southerners, and if only they could be made aware of their heritage, they’d come out in full-throated support of it the old Confederacy.

At the same time, though, they find it increasingly necessary to go through rhetorical gymnastics to show that people who disagree with them aren’t “real” southerners by one or another measure they find suitable at the moment. Fine, whatever. If they want to wall off increasingly-large swathes of the community — people who shop, and vote, and go to museums, and attend college, and go to church, and all the other things that people do — then they’re only marginalizing themselves as butternut revanchists, more worthy of ridicule and scorn than serious consideration.

"... public is moving beyond the one-sided imagery of the Lost Cause...."

Ah, no, it's not moving away. It is being pushed away. The NAACP has been orchestrating a war on Confederate heritage for years, perhaps decades, beginning with their resolution that the Confederate battle flag is an "odious blight on the universe."

Really. On the whole flippin' universe.

Local NAACP chapters across the South (or other groups that are NAACP lookalikes -- in Pensacola, it's the "Movement for Change") have been leading the way in their communities -- being "offended" and then telling local governments how offended they are and they need to have Confederate this or that removed from the community. These efforts in individual communities are so similar, you can tell they've been scripted.

Fellow travelers in other leftist and anti-tradition organizations and, of course, academia and the media, jump on their bandwagon and help push for the change. "Pushing for the change" involves demonizing those who oppose it -- those who support visible items of Confederate heritage and have the gall to say so -- as "racists" and "white supremacists" and, no joke, "KKK."

As time passes, being labeled a "racist" and "white supremacist" and "KKK" has become increasingly charged with serious, negative consequences, and so fewer and fewer people have visibly opposed this war on their heritage, even when they do not agree with it and are appalled by it.

They don't speak out because we in the USA no longer have the freedom to do so without repercussions.  It's not that people don't "support" our view of the flag, Mr. Jacobson.  And yes, Odious Andy, support for Confederate symbols does run wide and deep, at least among “real” southerners -- but they are disinclined to express it. Well, let's just say it like it is -- they are afraid to show their support for it because of the increasingly negative repercussions.

High school kids are singled out for demonizing if they wear a Confederate flag on their clothing, or fly one from their vehicle -- forced to turn their shirt inside out, or sent home, or expelled from school. People who visibly support Confederate heritage are harassed at work, demoted, fired. Worst of all, heritage supporters have been victimized by crime.  A Mississippi man's flag is burned while it is displayed on the owner's property ... a woman and her toddler are shot at and she suspects its because she had Confederate symbols on her car. Bricks through windows, slashed tires, beatings ... People who experience this aren't difficult to convince -- you're safer denying the heritage you love.

Levin has a long-standing position of claiming Confederate heritage is "receding," that more and more people are either becoming disinterested in or averse to it. I'm sure he knows this is not true, and that the incidents of harassment and persecution are increasingly responsible for the effectiveness of the war on heritage. But he continues to pretend.

Which brings me to a group of people who are not afraid to stand up for Confederate heritage in a very public way -- the Virginia Flaggers. Why do the floggers Levin, Simpson, Hall and their fellow floggers and floggerettes so hate the VaFlaggers? Why have they kept up a steady drum-beat of lies, ridicule, harassment, and persecution of the VaFlaggers for years, demonizing them as "racists" and "white supremacists" while, paradoxically claiming the group has no effect? Why do they take an exceedingly small number of genuine but tiny negatives about the group (because no human endeavor is perfect) and push the idea that this totally defines them?

Well, I'll tell you why. What the Virginia Flaggers are showing the world is that you CAN publicly and visibly stand in support of Confederate heritage -- and withstand the repercussions that follow. You can push back against the efforts to eradicate Confederate heritage from the daily, public life of the South. You can become a heritage warrior, fighting not only to preserve Confederate heritage but also fighting for the right to honor our Confederate ancestors without repercussions.

Their message to critics and enemies is, "We do not demand that you join us, or even agree with us. However, we do demand that you respect our right to honor our heritage, and that you stop the war on all things Confederate, stop the blatant disrespect of our heroes and their history, stop the removal our flags, monuments and other Confederate artifacts."

Their message to the like-minded but intimidated is, "Join us! We are making a difference in this culture war." And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the Virginia Flagger message that the floggers fear and hate the most. The last thing they want is a resurgence of the Southern pride our battle flags engender, and a vibrant and growing heritage community.

The other Virginia Flagger activity critics hate is the raising of large battle flags beside major thoroughfares on private property where they are highly visible -- and where they teach an unmistakable lesson. Battle flags flying as a symbol of the South's culture and heritage, and especially as memorials to the men who fought to defend the South from invasion, don't hurt anybody.

Cities in Virginia where the flags fly have not crumbled; tsunamis have not wiped out the Virginia coast. The flags have not caused crop failures or the breakdown of civil government. As this begins to dawn on the public, they might look at the war on heritage, the flag removals, the name changes and so on, as excessive and unnecessary -- even detrimental to the culture of Virginia and the South.

So, no, Levin, Odious Andy and Jacobson -- the public isn't "moving" away from Confederate heritage. They are being pushed away -- manipulated by a deliberately orchestrated culture war. And we heritage folks are fighting back.  We're not very savvy about it yet -- we're not trained "community organizers" and "social justice warriors" carefully schooled in Alinsky-ite rules. We are having to learn OJT. But, inspired by the work and success of the Virginia Flaggers, we are learning.

More Thimpthon Jealuthy

Thez Thimpthon:

It’s always interesting when someone tells you at great length and in great detail how they aren’t listening to you in a communication that betrays precisely the opposite. It’s even better when they do this time after time after time.

So it is with Susan Hathaway, the most visible member of the Virginia Flaggers (well, except outside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), who took time this week to tell us all once more that she doesn’t listen to what her critics have to say. She pays them no heed and they don’t bother her.

When Susan does this, she is virtually never talking to Simpson or any other flogger who's attempting to harass and persecute her. She is almost always inspired to post comments about it after receiving emails and messages from people who have seen the attacks or harassment and (a) want to let her know about them or (b) are concerned about her because of them. In fact, the very first paragraph of her November 27th blog post titled, in part, "Holiday Reflections," makes this unmistakably clear.

Only somebody with a colossal but, paradoxically, petty ego would imagine her post was TO him.

And nowhere in Susan's blog post will you find her saying she pays her attackers no heed and the attacks don't bother her. This claim is a great example of Simpson's slimy manipulation of the language that, frankly, amounts to lying. What Susan said was that she has no plans to sue these attackers, no doubt a reply to emails and messages asking, or encouraging, her to.

I am glad to see that Susan can do (sic) into so much detail about how she does not pay attention to what is said about her.

More slimy language manipulation that amounts to a lie. So much detail? Susan doesn't go into detail about not paying attention to what is said about her. She states, "...I decided long ago not to read or pay any attention to what they had to say." And that's it.  Short, sweet, not detailed at all. One sentence in the entire post. The rest of it is about other aspects of the attacks on her. 

I only wish she had taken the opportunity to tell her fanbase why she does not feel it is important enough to protest in person at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Why does he wish that? What business is it of his? No, he doesn't "wish" any such thing; this is just the latest effort in his ongoing attempt to smear Susan with something that doesn't amount to a hill of beans and that heritage peeps don't give a flip about because they understand and he doesn't (or he does, but pretends not to so he can wield the beloved put-down).

More later....

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Thimpthon's Jealuth

His passionate hatred for Susan Hathaway wouldn't let him wait even a day to belch out his response to her Facebook and blog post explaining why she doesn't pay attention to hate-filled posts, accusations, attacks and spin such as that which Thimpthon has been spewing at her, and about her, and the VaFlaggers for four years, now.

Susan is loved, admired and appreciated by multitudes of people in the heritage community, while Thimpthon has a handful of sycophants who visit his blog to get their hate stoked. That has to just gall somebody with a delicate, New York-sized ego.

If nothing changes my mind, I will post more about this in future blog entries....

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

Including floggers and floggerettes.

Deep thanks to God for our many blessings...

Saw picture of a Confederate flag on a laptop screen....
Required trauma counseling.

Congratulations, Virginia Flaggers!

Confederate battle flags have been going up across the Old Dominion since the first one in September 2013, thanks to the efforts of the Virginia Flaggers. Despite the efforts of hostile governments, truculent organizations, antagonistic individuals, clueless newcomers and lying, bullying non-Virginians, the VaFlaggers have been true to their mission -- to honor the men who fought, suffered and gave their lives to defend the Commonwealth from invasion.

Last Saturday, November 21, four flags were raised in Danville, Virginia.  Four flags raised. On the same day. They join five others raised earlier, bringing the Danville total to nine. The flag raisings are in response to the removal of a small Third National flag from the grounds of the Sutherlin Mansion, also known as the Last Capital of the Confederacy, by the city government of Danville.

Thank you, Virginia Flaggers, for not forgetting those heroic defenders of the South whose memory is caught in the crosshairs of political correctness -- especially now that P.C. is becoming outright cultural and political censorship. You are an inspiration to so many sons and daughters of the South.