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Cassie Jaye, and the red pill

Alright, I mentioned in my post about Lauren Southern that this post was going to be controversial to a number of people at Grove City College, but this isn’t controversial for the same reasons as that post about Lauren Southern. Just keep in mind what I said about that post, that people should look at what things are happening to people rather than what groups of people these things are happening to. I also highly recommend watching the documentary that this post is going to mention.

Cassie Jaye is an American actress and film director. Being in Hollywood for five years starting when she was 18, she experienced sexual assault which caused her to identify as a feminist and move to documentary making, founding the Jaye Bird Production company, which has produced several documentaries. After several years she had heard of the Mens Rights Movement on the internet, began researching it, and decided to make a documentary about it called The Red Pill.

Early during the making of the movie, when she was interviewing supposed “violent sexists” like Paul Elam and other Mens Rights Activists, her feminist views were challenged so strongly that she decided that the documentary was going to be a balanced view of the Mens Rights Movement.

As soon as this became known, it became difficult for Cassie Jaye to get funding for the movie. She used her own money, her family’s and friends money, and in desperation she turned to kickstarter to crowdfund the documentary. Despite feminists protesting this movie well before it had come out, demanding that the kickstarter page be taken down, as well as slandering anyone who donated to the kickstarter as MRA’s, the kickstarter page raised $211,260 and successfully funded the movie.

Before I talk about the documentary, I’m assuming that the few people reading this that have heard of the Mens Rights Movement before have heard of it through very biased sources. I am not a Mens Rights Activist, or MRA, even though I agree with pretty much everything that I have heard from the majority of them who are not sexist against women. I tend to focus on or think about what would help everyone, so I sound like a MRA when talking about gender relations in the west and sound like a 1st wave, maybe in some ways 2nd wave feminist when talking about gender relations in, for example, the middle east or hollywood. I tell people about both when Hillary Clinton calls Black people collectively the N-word and criminals, and when White people are persecuted and abused in modern day South Africa like I mentioned in my post about Lauren Southern. A lot of people like this call themselves humanists, but I think its just the normal behavior of a good person who wants good things for fellow humans, fellow people. One of the reasons that I want to found a non-profit, Boy Scouts like organization is that just about every person deals with a lot of problems that are caused by society and/or they can fix themselves if you teach them how to fix it in their lives and help them do so. Teaching them that, giving them that help and making people aware of the problems are some of the key things that the organization I want to found would do for youth. And as the documentary points out, there are plenty of problems going on that people don’t know about. You can watch the documentary to get more general details, but from my own experiences there is no shortage of problems for males in the United States. Arguably the biggest problem is that in today’s society whenever someone is a victim of something, there not told to get tough and fix the problem, there told its something you individually have no capability to affect in any way and that the only solution is to yell emotionally at other people to fix the problem, and eventually every last thing seems much harder and worse the more and more you think like that. I could just go on about the causes of that, which I’m putting in the blog post on my minds.com account I mentioned in that post about Lauren Southern.

I am assuming that most guys at Grove City College come from a better situation that me, since you all had the types of parents that would push you to Grove City and statistically speaking would have lived in a more conservative area. But I grew up in an area about 20% more Liberal than the state of California, and I had to push my parents to take me back to church and metaphorically fight to get them to pay for Grove City College tuition. They have great intentions towards me and my brother, but as Ben Shapiro and your economics professor would tell you in some way or another, the road to hell in a hand basket is paved with good intentions. Its literally two different worlds living in a very Liberal area to living at Grove City College, even if Grove City College isn’t perfect in this regard. The majority of girls at Grove City are more masculine that almost every single guy I knew at my public high school that has more students than Grove City College. Even so, just about every part of school, life, etc. was structured for people so feminine that about a third of the girls hated it. The documentary covers school, and somewhat covers the social problems, but the situation for men trying to get into relationships, even friendships with girls was beyond any description of hell ever given to you. You can look up the youtubers such as EconomicInvincibility for statistics, some of which were given in the Documentary, but just to not rant for hours about this I’ll just give you a personal anecdote. In my high school, the one and only girl that found me attractive and flirted with me was a girl that due to mental issues found literally every guy attractive. The standards for attractiveness for guys were absolutely insane, and most every guy was either dating someone they were friends with for years, or were dating one of the cheerleaders because the cheerleaders wanted access to alcohol and worse from the guys parents. This girl that flirted with me must have been in a bad mood one day, because I was suddenly no longer interesting, she stopped talking to me, started flirting with the next guy and she spread rumors that I made inappropriate comments to her. Some of her friends, one of which was a friend of mine, decided to then accuse me of something that required the school to investigate. The school looked at school security camera footage, determined that what they were told was not even close to accurate, and when questioned the girls just started shouting the rumors about me to the investigators. They investigated and found the rumors to be false, and when that happened the girls withdrew their accusation against me, and both the girl that was a friend of mine and the girl who was flirting with me looked at me with an apologetic smile in the hallway as if it were a completely normal, justified situation that they wanted to just be in the past. The rumors continued, and after what I was accused of doing by the group of girls was reenacted in front of me during lunch one day I decided to tell my friends my side of the story. Within 24 hours of doing so a log full of termite holes showed up on my driveway, and since my parents took it to the dump I can only assume where it came from and why it was there. Considering the fact that weeks earlier the Christmas lights on my house had been cut by a knife in six different places near ground level, my imagination came up with the idea that someone, who didn’t actually know what holes from ballistics looked like nor possessed the means to make such ballistics holes in the wood, was very pissed at me over the rumors. By the way, the rumors were that I had asked the girl who was flirting with me for the dimensions of certain parts of her body.

At this point, to shut down the rumors, I decided to go to the county police. My parents had thrown out the Christmas lights and the log, but some of the texts I had from the girl who was flirting with me, while in my opinion not counting as sexual harassment, did count as that under Maryland state law as far as I am aware. The police officer scrolled through what looked to me like most all of the texts sent between me and her, and when I showed her pictures that I expressly said to this girl I didn’t want to receive, the police officer said that the picture wasn’t even so much as sexual. Partially in shock, I referred to the amount of skin visible in the photograph, which was quite high, but the officer insisted that it was not a sexual photograph. I then described the harassment going on at school.

I can imagine most of you have heard some adult say that there are some times in your life where you have a perfect, photographic memory of what was going on. In my Boy Scout troop, my dad, the scoutmaster, said this and the end of a troop meeting every time the anniversary of 9/11 came around. For me, I was standing in a small waiting room of the county police headquarters, at 10:38 am, with 5 chairs on three of the walls, a plant at each corner, and the counter on the last wall, with a wooden door next to it. I was standing maybe 5 feet from the police officer, my mother standing 5 feet to the right of the officer, towards the glass door that led into the main lobby of the building with a giant fountain in the middle. The police officer told me, still looking at my phone, “if you are being bullied, its the schools job to deal with that.”

I stood there, literally petrified from shock, while my mother apologized for wasting the polices time, and the police officer said that it was nothing to worry about, “this is the type of thing that I get paid for”.

While the police didn’t do anything, the my mother agreed with the police officer that the school should have the responsibility, so she emailed them informing them that I had contacted the police. They wanted to verify with me what my mother said in her email, and I presume they talked to the girl who was flirting with me and her parents. Within a week I overheard during my debate class that this girl had started a new set of false rumors, that an unnamed person whose vague description matched me had interacted with her in a not completely consensual way in middle school, but by this point the student body, except for groups of students like the SGA, saw her as the girl who cried wolf. There were only a few things that happened related to this after that. An article in the school newspaper where they criticize nearby rockville high school’s handling of that famous illegal immigrant rape case, even though this article was written as if it were about our high school and only mentioned the word rockville in the last third of the article. All the songs the SGA played during the multiple pep rallies for the rest of the year were pop songs about a girl overcoming abuse from a guy, and lastly our grades version of the SGA, when handing out class t-shirts to people based on size, gave me one that had a sticky note on it with my name, and was a size 2xl. They had devolved into calling me fat.

Horror stories similar to that are present in the documentary by Cassie Jaye, alongside other types of problems that adult men face. By the end of the documentary, Cassie Jaye declares that she is no longer a feminist. She still cares about women’s issues, but views feminism as an ideology that prevents mens issues from being discussed as well.

I said above that what I want to do as an entrepreneur is found a non-profit organization similar to Boy Scouts. The main focus would be to educate and grow both boys and girls, but the motivation for founding it comes from how screwed up so many guys and girls lives are, but how what guys in particular need is not being provided at all. I mentioned that I was in Boy Scouts, and in my view that is by far the most important thing that happened to me short of coming to god. In fact, I’ve decided that since my elevator pitch for this idea fell flat, I’m going to have to show people the merits of the idea rather than tell them, so I’m planning on founding a very prototype version of it as a club on campus that’ll start operating the beginning of next school year. Ive noticed in the double digit number of clubs that I have checked out or joined, that only one has close to 50% male membership. All the rest are heavily female, for two of them I was one of two or three guys present in the room that had about one to two dozen people total, and one club expressly said to its members that they needed male membership so bad that you had no excuse to miss a single event ever, especially if you were a guy. A lot of guys sit in their rooms and play video games, because the alternative for much of the world outside of the Grove City College bubble is far more stressful and far harder than god intended it to be. So my club would just be a place for guys to mess around as a crazy group of friends, getting these guys to be more social and active on campus.

Lastly, the club DRIVE, which I’m in and which performs dramas as an alternative method of spreading the gospel, performed at a mens homeless shelter in Newcastle recently. They technically are not mens only since they have a families center and there were a couple of women at the chapel service we performed at. But since mens shelters are not something people usually pray for since there are a single digit number of them in North America and that is for a reason, they really deserve prayers. The guy who helps run the place is a retired Marine and from what I heard of him talking to one of the DRIVE members and saw of him playing an mmo strategy game on his computer, he’s a pretty great guy. We talked to a lot of the people in the shelter to, many of whom were elderly, and they really all were great people, but obviously they each had something going on since they were in a homeless shelter, so I just felt obliged to wrap this up by asking people to pray for them.

Lauren Southern, the Canadian political activist who dosen’t apologize for their beliefs

Alright, so all the other posts I’ve made so far aren’t as controversial for the Grove City College audience, but this and the next one might be rocking the boat a little bit. All the other people Ive wrote posts about are conservatives, but just in case people see Lauren Southern as a little too far to the right, keep in mind that actual alt-right people criticize and mock Lauren Southern, even calling her the enemy, and she distances herself from them. The documentaries she has made are her reporting, as a journalist activist, on things going on in the world that she backs up with evidence and that she has given a humanitarian and moderate argument about, rather than something ideological. Also keep in mind that the groups she is interacting with in these documentaries are non-violent, don’t claim that any group of people is better or worse than any other, and don’t express any hatred. If anyone reading this feels like something is radically far to the right in a bad way, keep the above in mind and think about the situations being described in terms of people treating other groups of people in a bad way, rather than people of this specific group treating people of that specific group in a bad way. If all you look at is the action being done, and not who is doing the action or who it is done to, and you agree that it isn’t racist to say no person should do that or be subject to that, then the race of the person doing it and the race of the person it is being done to doesn’t change that. What is racist is when someone feels uncomfortable that someone is saying that a group of people can be victims of something despite those people happening to be of a certain race.

Lauren Southern is a self-employed and self described “activist journalist” from Canada who seeks to report on and show people information that would help people adopt her political opinions. Unlike mainstream media companies, she tells you that she has a bias, that bias doesn’t cause her to edit, add, crop, distort or lie in any way that would change the information being shown, and she is on the political right. Her youtube channel has 700,000 subscribers and 54 million views, and she has many more viewers than that across various other social media platforms. She has done many things from report on the far left to interview the philosopher Alexander Dugin, but the main focus of this post is that she has created the documentary Farmlands and is currently wrapping up her second documentary, Borderless.

Farmlands is about how she traveled to South Africa to investigate claims that a major South African political party, the “Economic freedom fighters” called for the genocide of white people and sung a song about shooting white people, and that the president of South Africa, the head of the African National Congress, publicly sung that song afterwards in a not so ironic manner. Traveling through South Africa, interviewing South African families that had family members that have been victims of racially motivated killings, police officers, members of the government, and various other people and groups, the documentary exposes a corrupt, communistic country slowly descending into racially oriented civil war. The documentary shows how the situation is nearly identical to the lead up to the Rwandan genocide, where formerly Tutsi ruling class of Rwanda were nearly completely exterminated in horrific crimes against humanity by the Hutu majority of the population. However, the mainstream media across the world doesn’t cover the large numbers of racially motivated crimes that have already happened in South Africa and in fact attacks anyone who claims that anything is going on at all is a evil Nazi conspiracy theorist. As the documentary shows, modern liberal institutions and viewpoints can tolerate things like this when the victims are white, and Lauren Southern calls for an end to the idea that any crime is any more or less justified based on the race or group that the victims or perpetrators are of. Some people who watched it called it an eye-opener that isn’t afraid to be controversial to call for Martin Luther King Jr. style racial unity of not judging people by the color of their skin but by the content of their character(or their actions), while other people claimed that it is racist and a right-wing conspiracy theory movie because it calls the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela’s party, a corrupt and evil communist party that changed from committing terrorism during apartheid to now discriminating against the Afrikaner (white) minority of South Africa more and more, heading down the path towards genocide. Lauren Southern posted the documentary to her youtube channel, where it has over 2 million views and a 24:1 like to dislike ratio, and where you can judge for yourself if it calls for the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. or if it is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda like the mainstream media claims.

The documentary that Lauren Southern is still working on, Borderless, is about the migrant crisis in Europe. She has done filming for the documentary while traveling with Identity Europa, a organization of millennials dedicated to protecting western culture. That group, and other groups mentioned in previews and trailers for the documentary, reject claims that they are racist and say that they are defending the culture of the west from being attacked and destroyed from violent, authoritarian cultures that hate western ideas. Identity Europa has previously shown to the world that Non-governmental organizations were violating international law by working with Libyan human traffickers to bring economic migrants from sub-saharan Africa to Italy, and the Italian government has perused actions against those NGO’s. A preview recently released shows another NGO being caught on camera admitting to teaching migrants in turkey how to lie and pretend they are victims of persecution so that the government of Greece will let them in. Presumably the documentary will talk about how many NGO’s receive taxpayer money from aid they receive from various countries national governments, the terrorist attacks and other crimes that have happened across Europe, the rise of populist political parties opposed to the migration policies of the European Union, and much more than that.

Pretty much everything Lauren Southern has ever done or said has offended a number of people, and her political stunts that she did more frequently in the beginnings of her youtube channel were pretty bold and blunt. The things she does for a living would stress out most people far too much, but its her living. That attitude, drive towards creating hard to make things as well as that boldness and bluntness is something that I believe I should have and hopefully do have for the non-profit I hope to found as an entrepreneur.

James O’Keefe, the prover of “conspiracy theories”

Like many of the people I have chosen to write articles about, James O’Keefe is a person that most people haven’t heard of, while most people who have heard of him either think of him as a hero if you are on the political right, or you call him a evil criminal that does nothing but lie to people if you are on the political left.

He founded Project Veritas in 2010, an organization that exposes usually criminal behavior, but sometimes just behavior people want kept in the closet, of influential people in society. This organization does this by wearing a hidden camera and talking to the people they are investigating, just letting them admit everything illegal and bad they have done themselves.

Most recently he spent the weeks before the midterm elections sending undercover reporters to the congressional campaigns of Democrat candidates in Arizona, Texas, Florida, and many other states. Because of this, just before the midterms voters got to see videos of campaign staff calling the population of the state idiots, discussing their plans to mislead voters, and even several videos of Democrat staff in Texas conspiring to illegally traffic people across the Us-Mexico border, discussing their use of campaign funds to do so, and stating that their goal is “a world without borders”, despite the fact that human trafficking across the border has put massive numbers of people, including thousands of children, into sex slavery. The mainstream media claimed that any thought that this was happening was a conspiracy theory, and was then silent when the first investigation of Democrats internal activities near the Mexican border proved it to be true.

The few candidates that didn’t fumble through a response to these videos said that the videos of Democrats talking about themselves should be taken “with a grain of salt”, and were falsely accusing James O’Keefe of being a convicted criminal rather than address the videos and what they themselves said.

But now that more and more people have seen the criminality of certain types of candidates, witnessed open election stealing in Florida and have heard that the entire Democratic Party of the state of Georgia is under investigation for attempting to hack the elections in Georgia, the American people are becoming more and more aware of what’s really going on in the world of politics.

Trust me, I’ve grown up in the Washington, DC area, just on the border of Potomac, MD, which has a certain neighborhood far richer than Beverly Hills, California, and other neighborhoods near it that are richer and more elite than the rest of Hollywood, California. There are things far more extreme than what I talked about in my post about the Walk Away movement. Its all just a culture of breaking the law because of character traits and beliefs that are just about as far from Christianity as you could get, metaphorically and literally, combined with multiple mental illnesses a person, and all that combined with 4 other things that would take a blog post of its own to describe just because they are things people haven’t even heard of before. And I probably am going to make that blog post on my minds.com or gab.com accounts, which I link to in my post on this site about Gab. This may be going off topic about James O’Keefe, but, basically, while he may sound ridiculous, and I dont know about the spiritual stuff he says, I listen to Alex Jones and do not consider him to be a conspiracy theorist at all. The whole gay frogs joke from a meme of Alex Jones isn’t just a joke, the chemical causing it is the pesticide Atrazine which the people at the public, far left high school I went to were very aware of, and a certain portion of the population of Potomac, MD doesn’t get vaccinated, and they are by no means anti-vaccers. But the point is, James O’Keefe has his work cut out for him to say the absolute least.

James O’Keefe grew up with an interest in journalism. He became an Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts, graduated from Rutgers University, and has turned his skills and passions into a great service to the United States, exposing criminals and evil to the public in the examples mentioned above and in so many other examples you can find on the Project Veritas website.

Andrew Torba, Champion of Free Speech

What you’re looking at is Andrew Torba’s page on the social media platform that he founded, Gab. Gab is a social media sight that serves as a free speech supporting alternative to twitter. The site has millions of users, and as a user myself I have received email notifications that they recently met a fundraising goal of the upper part of a million dollars in the course of a few weeks. But while the site is massive, many people on the far-left who support the anti-American idea of censorship say that the platform is nothing but a small, fringe messaging board for far right bigots and horrible people. In reality the site is proudly made up of a variety of people of every race, color and creed, and the already massive site is growing, adding in the ability to get paid for your posts and even planning to create its own cryptocurrency.

In 2015, Andrew Torba was not at all in the position he is in today. He was writing articles about living in his mothers basement. In 2016 he founded Gab to support free speech, and it absolutely exploded onto the scene. Recently this august it has seen a massive growth in usage again, when the wildly known controversial figure Alex Jones and his company Infowars was nearly simultaneously banned from:

Facebook
YouTube
Apple
Google Podcast
Spotify
TuneIn
Spreaker
iHeartRadio
Audioboom
Pinterest
MailChimp
Stitcher
Disqus
Sprout Social
LinkedIn
Flickr
Vimeo
Shopify
Criteo
Tumblr
Ustream.tv
RadioNet
Paypal

Most of these sites banned him one after the other over the course of a few days, and even sites such as paypal and linkedin banned him when you cant spread controversial opinions on those websites, its only how you succeed in your career or earn money online that you lose when your banned from those sites for having the wrong opinions. When this mass banning took place, people from all walks of life became more concerned about free speech, and as a result Gab boomed again.

Since supporting free speech is such a controversial thing to do in todays world, people have nitpicked every last detail of Gab to try and say as many bad things about it as possible. The logo, for instance, from 2016 to this September was a frog. That enraged the far-left witch hunting online mob who declared that the logo was a sign of bigotry, since the wildly and diversely used Pepe meme, which the far left falsely claims is only used by literal nazi’s, is also a picture of a frog. In reality the logo was inspired by Exodus 8:1-12 and Psalms 78:45.

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Under intense scrutiny, pressure, and threat to their operations that have recently come from online payment processors and methods, Gab has managed to continue to grow alongside other free-speech supporting websites such as facebook alternative minds.com and youtube alternative bitchute.com, and continue to support free speech in a age where we have to decide, using our actions of which institutions we support, whether to have free speech or not. And arguably, the first amendment is more important than the second in defending every other right we have.

 

 

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Actually GOOD political comedy: Steven Crowder and LouderWithCrowder

Technically a millennial, Steven Crowder, pictured above, is a political comedian who hosts the show Louder With Crowder, and has nearly 3 million subscribers on youtube. As you can guess from the picture above, he is not the usual far-left political comedian pushing marxism. He is a strong conservative, and thus his show is booming in an area there is literally zero competition in.

Crowder was born in Michigan and raised in Quebec, Canada. After being a voice actor for a character on the PBS kids show Arthur and a child actor in several films, he worked for Fox News from 2009 until being fired in 2013 for criticizing Sean Hannity. While at Fox News he repeatedly pitched the idea for what is now the LouderWithCrowder show, based on his experience as a stand up comedian from age 15. The pitch was rejected each time, because Fox News thought that it wouldn’t be successful. So when he was fired from Fox News, he decided to found LouderWithCrowder and within a couple of years became wildly successful, reaching millions of fans and making his show alone bigger in reach than several mainstream media companies that have been around for years.

Crowder attributes his success to the appeal his show has on younger generations. The comedy on his show is used to create a engaging environment rather than to make fun of everyone he disagrees with. He often has events in public and is not afraid to make fun of himself or to put himself in danger. Some of the things he has done during his show and in public include getting waterboarded to support a pro-waterboarding policy, walking around in nothing but a fake diaper to make fun of “anti-body shaming protests”, going to different areas of the country with a table that says some controversial belief and encouraging people to try to change his mind, confronting people who make death threats or slander him, and sending one of his employees (whose nickname is “not gay Jared”) to infiltrate antifa during a Ben Shapiro speech and get antifa members arrested when they discovered they had lethal weapons such as sawed off shotguns and were planning to kill Ben Shapiro and lie in wait to kill anyone at the speech who fled to the parking lot.

The Louder With Crowder show is so popular and influential that Crowder has been invited to speak at colleges, has received the metaphorical badge of honor of being slandered by Marxist university professors and journalists, and has congressman Ted Cruz, a fan of the show, on as a repeating guest. Steven Crowder goes to show that even if people think your ideas wont succeed, that something bad is going to happen, or even that you can’t handle being waterboarded, there’s still a decent chance things will go alright.

Founding a movement against modern politics: #WalkAway

For the past several years, anyone following social/political movements or trends, especially on the internet would have heard these words:

RACIST, SEXIST, XENOPHOBIC, TRANSPHOBIC, ISLAMOPHOBIC, MYSOGINIST, LGBT-PHOBIC,LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP-PHOBIC, LGBTQJIJNIOWNJSI-B±√ B²-4AC/2ANWCMH%^&*(%&^u#COMMUNIST-PHOBIC,…etc

And also for the past several years, many people who think that at least some of these words are a bit overused in modern discourse are violently attacked by antifa, a small group of masked rich white college kids(nothing wrong with any ethnic groups of people, its just a statistical fact) who, despite being unable to beat someone up in a 10 to 1 fight, are urged into violence by politicians currently serving in the United States congress, and then have their politically motivated violence defended by most of the mainstream media.

While support for that kind of behavior is very disproportionately high among politicians, CEO’s of big tech companies, secular university professors, individuals within the mainstream media and many other elites of society, almost all everyday people, most everywhere on the political spectrum (including much of the left-wing) do not approve of such insanity, violence and ideological hatred. This “expanded silent majority”, if you want to call it that, had very little influence compared to the major institutions of society they were against, and as such couldn’t try and change what was going on too effectively. Until about three months ago.

The man on the top right of this article, being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, is De-Facto Social Entrepreneur Brandon Straka, a gay hairstylist from New York City. He grew up in Nebraska where he was a vegan, self-described gay rights activist and is gay himself. When he began to talk to people about why they voted for current President Trump, they described to him how Obama’s policies hurt small businesses, and how overall many of the policies the left believes in have failed when implemented. His open-mindedness has led to him re-analyzing everything else the political left has said, including that gay people and minorities have to support the left because they are supposedly hated by the right. He changed his political affiliation completely, and he tweeted about doing so using the hashtag #WalkAway, calling it “the unsilent minority” and urging others to join him. People flooded to join him in using that hashtag, and it quickly exploded into a movement that, based just on the subscriptions to his various social media accounts, has at least 300,000+ members.

Since then, Brandon has created an official website for the movement, selling merchandise themed about the movement he started, and is raising $500,000 dollars to organize a march on Washington DC one week before the midterms, lasting from October 26-28th.

In several interviews, Brandon has stated that his mission with his movement is to “red-pill” everyone, an internet term for making people wake up to whats going on in the world. “I was a liberal because I wanted to fight racism, fight sexism…” he said in an interview with Tucker Carlson, “but I became uncomfortable with the way the left was going with Identity politics, and how you have to hate white people, how you have to do something that’s not ‘hetero-normative’ to be ‘erroneous'”. He began to see that the political right were the nicest people to him, and it was the left that called him slurs for gay and cursed at him and told him he was evil just because he was having conversations with people who weren’t far left.

Personally, Brandon Straka has influenced and inspired me as a hopeful entrepreneur in two ways. Firstly I used to be on the left around when I was in middle school, since the area I grew up in is overwhelmingly left-wing, and not coincidentally, overwhelmingly mentally ill. I went to public school, where most English teachers varied from my 8th grade English teacher who supported socialism in the middle of class, to my high school English teachers who assigned us the comic book Persepolis, which is about a patriotic Iranian girl (during the ’79 Iranian revolution) comparing Karl Marx to “Allah”, and talking about how her father fled to the Soviet Union years earlier “to gain his human rights.”  I know how much Brandon Straka probably had to change and grow himself, and what kind of people he had to stand up to, since I went through that process starting around late middle school. Its a rabid and mentally ill society, where at my high school it was viewed as good and moral to vandalize posters for the high school Republican Club, which consisted of 7 people out of a larger student body than at Grove City College (the democrat club had over 300 members, if I remember correctly).  On time I had an English teacher that had us use literary devices to analyze an article about a second wave feminist talking about why she individually prefers to be called crippled rather than disabled, and within the day my teacher was called to the office, yelled at by the administration, and the administration took control of her classes assignments to make sure that they actually were “educating students about the things they are supposed to be educated about, in the way they are supposed to be educated.” The only change was that we were no longer reading that article. I can even name 3 separate instances where my high school violated the law in their dedication to their ideology. The instances include an “assembly for Breast Cancer” (which men get too) that was primarily about advice for taking care of your health and generic cancer prevention where only women were allowed to attend because “society acts like only men are fragile and need help (with cancer) but women can tough it out, so we’re only helping women (with cancer)” (the assembly violated §20-304 of Maryland public accommodations discrimination law, since many of the people barred were 18). It also includes another assembly for awarding one student each year for “actively fighting for equality”(violating the county requirements that public schools are non-partisan, and probably violating other laws about taxpayer-funded political indoctrination of minors). There are two other instances where it was debatable weather they broke the law or not, one of which is making us read the comic book above (again for non-partisan public schools). Even after I got used to that sort of thing happening repeatedly, I was still confused about how this kind of thing could continually happen without response, even if the vast majority of the population didn’t care or thought it was normal. But then in an incident in some ways unrelated to the politics of my high school, I had to contact the county police department for something, and when talking to them I discovered a significantly toned down but relatively similar ideological bias in them as well.

Over time, that type of thing has only been getting worse faster and faster. Recently, I’ve gone back to the area I grew up in with many members of the Republican Club for a pro-Brett Kavanaugh rally. I was nervous in the morning, since in DC over the week before, 128 arrests were made against anti-Kavanaugh protestors/people willing to break the law to further their political agenda. Of course, those sources cant name a single pro-Kavanaugh protestor being arrested. At the rally hundreds of men and women were there to hear major speakers, such as the head of Concerned Women for America and the girl who became famous for making a video joking about a socialist democrat candidate in the midterms. The speakers lead in prayer, spoke about due process, and talked about the facts regarding the whole situation. The counter protestors were no where to be seen. When reading even mainstream media news on what happened, apparently the counter-protestors were just chanting and saying things like “Brett is guilty because all men do this” and were no where to be found because they had to be held back by police from swarming into the floor of the building where the senate hearing was being held. They made it into the building and were clogging the elevators, but failed to get to the top floor where the United States Senate, and Brett Kavanaugh, were. After the rally was over I and several other students were personally interviewed by a reporter from Politico, and we told him that our motivation for attending was to stand up for due process. This reporter immediately told us that he “couldn’t direct quote that,” which as far as I can assume, based on reading the article, means that he wasn’t allowed to bring up due process or say the words due process. The article from Politico, from which I have gotten all of the information about the counter protestors, starts the paragraph about “The students, who declined to provide their names,” by saying “Others had come to depict Kavanaugh as the real victim.” Just in this paragraph alone the writer from Politico also implies that our attendance was a conspiratorial effort from the American Conservative Union to bolster numbers at the rally, supposedly because he claims that the rally was just a “crowd”, rather than the largest pro-Kavanaugh rally in at least DC to date. You can read the article for more details about what happened, such as the demonically evil reaction some of the counter protestors had to Kavanaugh’s opening statement, specifically the parts about how the accusations have effected Kavanaugh’s 10 year old daughter, and how angry, or at least annoyed, these “anti-sexual assault” activists are when someone says something bad about the Clintons. I’d recommend listening to Kavanaugh’s full statement as well for the context that Politico doesn’t give you.

Getting back to why this makes Brandon Straka inspire me, the first right-of-center people I’d ever seen or heard in my life were on youtube. By the time I was in 10th grade, I had already become a closet republican. I have since found myself drifting to being at least libertarian on some things to VERY conservative on other things. Seeing Brandon Straka and other people on social media, who were in at least a comparable situation to me, relatively instantly become famous (and successful) for speaking their mind about what they believe just overall feels encouraging to me.

The second and bigger reason Brandon Straka inspires me is that what I am planning to do as an Entrepreneur is not completely different from what Brandon Straka is trying to do. My main idea, which I have only held stronger since starting Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Economics classes at Grove City, is to found an organization structured after Boy Scouts, but is focused on being an Educational organization. My main motivation for wanting to found this organization is that there are situations where the public school system can be absolutely horrible. To say it short, the structure gets in the way of learning and building character, and much of the information being taught, depending on the subject, is incorrect. While the main, initial part of my organization, with the tentative name Survival Scouts, is going to function like a modified version of Boy Scouts, I will hopefully within a year or two of launch be opening Survival Scouts Sudbury Schools. (sudbury schools are a form of alternative education, which under the laws of most if not all states, can have students enrolled in them as opposed to being enrolled in public school, home school, or other forms of private school.) Besides innovating education to have actual learning and growth take place, and removing the taxpayer-funded political indoctrination, this would be a direct threat to the powerful institutions of public teachers unions, since the only “teachers” in Survival Scouts or the Sudbury Schools will be other Scouts as well as the parents of Scouts. Textbooks would be worded like the way a person would have a conversation with you(script of a lecture), and formatted like a comic book with graphics and, when it would work, a story line. Scouts read and teach themselves, and refine what they know with frequent group reading, activity and analysis sessions with other Scouts, which would be led by Scouts who already earned that Merit Badge when they certified their knowledge with a registered adult leader for that badge. No teachers in the process, and the force to make Scouts keep working and learning is that Scouts would be paid up to the equivalent of a weekly allowance amount of money for each badge they earn. I’m expecting many people to at least flood into the main, Boy Scouts like section of Survival Scouts, as girls are fleeing Girl Scouts and the same people that made Girl Scouts so bad are currently making the Boy Scouts National Headquarters cave in to them. My organization will (hopefully) end up being a powerful threat to a powerful set of institutions, public sector teachers unions. But my own sense of God’s plan for me and my own drive keep making me more and more passionate about founding this organization. As a result of that, I’m largely inspired by seeing other people doing similar things and overcoming similar powerful groups in true David and Goliath situations, such as with the challenges that Brandon Straka is overcoming in creating, strengthening and organizing his movement.

The attention the WalkAway movement is generating has put Brandon in the news for being denied service at stores because of his new political beliefs, as well as being called just about all of those different types of bigot at the top of this post. And before that, the mainstream media ignored his movements existence until it was close to over 100,000 people strong, after which they declared that it was, for a proven fact despite providing no reason or evidence, a Russian bot operation; thus declaring that most all of the then 100,000 people, and now over 300,000 people who support the movement, don’t exist. Rather than addressing or trying to refute the arguments made by the movement, even if it was somehow only a tiny number of people making those arguments, most mainstream media networks just jumped straight into a panel that discussed “fake news” and “Russian bots” on social media, and how they “need to be taken down” so that they don’t influence the result of the midterm elections. Despite this, and maybe in response to this by sane people who’ve read 1984, Brandon Straka is already at $200,000 towards his funding for the march on Washington, as of 9/29/2018. And as his go fund me page shows, this support came from thousands of people willing to donate an average of $50 each.

The media’s call for “taking down” people like Brandon Straka might not have fallen on deaf ears. Less than a week ago at the time I’m writing this post, Facebook banned him without warning or reason while he was using the platform to communicate with others to organize the late October march. Screenshots he posted of Facebook’s explanation gave no clear reason and only said “If you post something that goes against our standards again, your account will be blocked for another 30 days.” After this went viral, Facebook removed the ban on him without any apology or explanation given, and decided that they would tell journalists from the mainstream media rather than him about the ban being removed. What then happened was articles were written claiming he was lying about being banned in the first place, since at the time of the article his account was back up, and just before that, journalists were texting him messages saying they just heard that his Facebook account was up, and therefore he was lying.

Brandon Straka said that the last thing he posted to Facebook immediately before he was banned was that, in order to help promote the march, he was going to talk to Alex Jones on his show. Alex Jones is the founder and owner of the news platform Infowars, and he is figure several social media sites and other sites have banned recently, including LinkedIn and PayPal. Many people believe he shouldn’t have been banned, while people from CNN have taken credit for the banning of their competitor Alex Jones through their lobbying of social media companies.

Even if people are controversial, and in fact because people are controversial, they should be heard and debated in public discourse so that any bad ideas can be challenged rather than grow in secret. In a world where, for example, hardcore conservative mayoral candidates in Toronto are dragged off the debate stage by police, the American Principles of free speech, civil discourse and open-mindedness are threatened by powerful institutions and groups. People like Brandon Straka have used an opportunity for Social Entrepreneurship to resist the growing trend of authoritarianism on the area of the political spectrum that call themselves “the anti-fascists.”