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Maltnothops's avatar

“… you have the right to speak the way that you feel, no matter what platform, no matter what belief system, that you have that right; and that’s beautiful.”

Yes, you have that right. What you don’t have is the right to be free of any and all consequences.

Elise's avatar

Yes. Please do. Speak loudly, exactly the way you feel so that we may all know exactly who you are. When the pendulum swings and all my racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist neighbors suddenly pretend they were nowhere near the place, I want to remember exactly who they really are. I always remember the French people who collaborated with the Germans in WWII who tried to pretend at the end of the war that they too were nowhere near the place. They were lucky if they went to trial or were shunned; many met their consequence in a back alley instead.

justifiable's avatar

Right after May 1945 you couldn't find a single German who was a Nazi.

When the bill comes due for people's fuckery, it's always those other guys who did it.

Elise's avatar

I read an interview with a Dutch couple who were in the resistance throughout the war. They were asked how many others were involved in the resistance to the Nazis. Their answer: Oh, everyone joined the resistance. It's just that the majority of them waited until 1945 to do it.

justifiable's avatar

The joke here is that the Dutch resistance was riddled with traitors from the start - some willing, some not.

German counterintelligence captured British-trained Dutch wireless operators and forced them to maintain radio contact with London, which resulted in what has to be the most disastrous intelligence failure in British history. From '42 until '44, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NUMEROUS WARNINGS FROM CAPTURED SOE AGENTS, bureaucratic arrogance and what can only be described as stunning incompetence led the Brits to continue to drop more agents and weapons directly into waiting Nazi hands, resulting in the torture death of dozens of their agents, many of them women, in the camps and the destruction of numerous Dutch resistance networks.

By September '44 the Brits realized how badly they'd been duped, so when they launched the clusterfuck that was Operation Market Garden (see "A Bridge Too Far") and were warned by Dutch resistance, who had highly accurate intelligence that the 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions were near Arnhem, they discounted it as untrustworthy.

It's actually amazing that they managed to come out on the winning side.

Ans van Dijk, a Dutch Jewish woman who became an informant after her arrest by the German Security Service, betrayed dozens of Jews - including one of her brothers and his family - by offering to obtain false papers and a hiding place for them. She also led numerous resistance members into German traps. She was arrested in June of '45 and tried for treason, but the fact that she was paid a bounty for each person she turned in blew a big fat hole in her self-preservation defense. And because the bar wasn't quite low enough, the night before her execution by a firing squad she converted to Catholicism.

AFAIK she was the only non-German woman executed for war crimes.

Tony Lentz's avatar

She should glad she didn't have her head shaved like the French collaborators.

Kay-El's avatar

My favorite illustration of this

https://ibb.co/TM0PWFLH

Lynn Veit's avatar

Exactly. Screaming "persecution" about it just tells everyone that you think free speech applies solely to you and no one else. Also, refusing to accept consequences for what they are - the direct result of your words/actions - reveals that you are in fact an entitled asshole who thinks she is not bound by any rules whatsoever, and that your are such a thin-skinned snowflake you bristle at the mere suggestion that you should face consequences.

EyeQueue's avatar

These people don't seem to understand that part.

Phil M.'s avatar

Being a beauty pageant queen is not a right. The pageant owners have rights too.

Lynn Veit's avatar

As much as I despise pageants, this is true. It's their franchise, their business, their whatever, and they make the rules. IIRC, all contestants have to sign some sort of contract that spells out those rules. So if someone is found to have broken the rules, that someone should not be surprised when the bill comes due.

The Epistler's avatar

People like her think consequences are the tool of the Devil. At least when applied to them and their ilk, of course.

oraxx's avatar

And no one is obligated to listen.

Argus Von Blargus's avatar

"I had the RIGHT...to remain silent....I just didn' have...the ability..." Ron White

oraxx's avatar

Those ‘conservative Christians’ of which she speaks are very quick to claim persecution anytime they face blow-back for their views. Evidently, they are the only people entitled to an opinion. I list Mormonism under the heading, ‘Some people will believe anything.’

Stephen Brady's avatar

And, until the Mormon gerontocracy had a ‘revelation’ in the 70s, blacks were essentially persona non grata in that religion. And most other Christians don’t consider them under the big Christian sect tent…

Troublesh00ter's avatar

Curing blindness with magic mud. Healing at a distance. Never mind coming back from the dead.

Some people will indeed believe anything. 😝

regmeyer's avatar

Even that their magic book is totally the "word of gawd" when it was written by a fraud.

Walt Svirsky's avatar

The plates man, the Golden Plates!

Stephen Brady's avatar

But don’t forget the ‘seer stones’ in the hat.

justifiable's avatar

They lost me at the magic underwear. I mean really, what the righteous fuck?

Len Koz's avatar

All religions look silly from the outside.

justifiable's avatar

Mormonism manages to look silly from the inside. Having to walk back the claim that God lives on the planet Kolob will never not be HA-HA point-and-laugh funny.

OwossoHarpist's avatar

Same as creationists being quick to claim persecution every time science teachers mark pro-creationist answers wrong on normal science tests.

NOGODZ20's avatar

Proof that when it comes to kkkonservative xtians, beauty is only skin deep.

Joan the Dork's avatar

Since the advent of Mar-a-Lago Face, beauty hasn't even made it that deep. Too much bronzer in the way.

Troublesh00ter's avatar

And their ugly goes straight through to the bone!

Troublesh00ter's avatar

With lizard brains. 😝

NOGODZ20's avatar

Revoltinghouse is a conservative? She'd best keep a sharp lookout. With her skin tone, it's only matter of time before the conservatives of ICE show up at her door.

Joe King's avatar

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠—𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒—𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒.

"Persecution!" Because of course, her racism is 100% because of her Christianity.

Last article, I gave it a 75% chance that thie next article would be about a bigot. God damn, I hate being right.

Maltnothops's avatar

Almost no one at CP thinks Mormons are Christian. I wonder what she thinks of that.

NOGODZ20's avatar

I love it when they go after one another. Lets me make another batch of popcorn.

Joe King's avatar

It makes me think CP is selling bagpipe lessons.

David Graf's avatar

That's probably why I haven't seen any article on her at CP yet.

Joe King's avatar

𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎/𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘.

Wait until she finds out they hate 𝘩𝘦𝘳 skin color, too.

Lynn Veit's avatar

If being the fiancee of a prominent conservative Texas businessman didn't protect Yasmin Suarez Reyes, a tacky tiara and a worthless title won't protect Brittany Boltinhouse.

https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-fucks

Lynn Veit's avatar

Thanks for posting this. 🤣 I love it when people post this. It always makes me laugh, and I needed a laugh today!

Whitney's avatar

That's quite the apparent age gap going on there. One does wonder how that relationship worked.

Bob Oz's avatar

Thanks. An excellent article. See also "I've no More Fucks to Give" On You Tube.

Lynn Veit's avatar

I love that video 😊😊😊 and have watched it so many times! The first time I saw it, I laughed until my entire face hurt. 😊😊😊

The song -- accompanied on banjo no less -- is absolutely hysterical, the delivery is *chef's kiss* and something about the clothing store venue just adds that final touch of absurdity that never fails to make me laugh like I've lost my senses.

NOGODZ20's avatar

Just now seeing this. You beat me to it while I was typing it.

Andrew's avatar

Conservative Christianity is a white supremacist death cult. She sees attacks on her racism as attacks on her faith, because they are indeed the same damn thing.

avis piscivorus's avatar

She is persecuted, not for her racist language, but for her religious beliefs. She is a mormon, a religion that follows a book where it is stated that having a black skin is a punishment from God. And until it was recently repealed by the LDS chief prophet, this condition also made you inelegible for priesthood.

Bensnewlogin's avatar

I am in Hawaii right now so you all got a head start on me. And I’m only on my first cuppa.

I thought from her picture that she was too dark of a shade of pale.

And she’s a conservative Christian woman, parading in front of Christian men, exciting their lusts? Oh my! And then I remembered how much Christian men like those parades of sexy 5-year-olds and childhood beauty contests. They are very popular in very Christian states. Personally, I don’t get putting fake tits on a five-year-olds, but what do I know? By the way, I have the pictures, so you can’t persecute me because of my faith.

I can imagine what good christians would say if I started stuffing bananas down the Spider-Man underwear of five years old boys and parading them in front of them, But I’m getting off the subject.

Wait! She’s a Mormon! What fresh hell is this? According to the real Christians, Mormons are not real Christians.

I’m sure I have a coherent point in here somewhere. but other than using the N-word and then lying about it, I’m not sure what she did. She wasn’t calling for her N-word homies to be sent to camps or anything. It was almost like she was just pretending to be black even though she’s just a darker shade of pale. She was using words that are not uttered in polite society, at least where impolite society can hear polite society using them.

It seems to me that her real crime was making the beauty pageant people look bad, followed by lying about it, followed by claiming fake persecution, followed by lying about the fake persecution.

But it could be that I’m just not awake yet.

Walt Svirsky's avatar

You’re waking up just fine, my friend. 😂

Troublesh00ter's avatar

I would love someone to explain something to me: considering this woman's background and history, how the hell was she considered for the competition in the first place? If the Miss USA organization doesn't vet their contestants ahead of time, I would love to know why not.

Her language, her behavior, and her bigotry are obvious on its face.

Lynn Veit's avatar

Beauty pageants themselves are sexist and demeaning, meant to reduce women to the sum of their parts and judge them solely on their appearance.

Walt Svirsky's avatar

But have you seen her with a baton?

Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

It seems to me like the state organization is the one who should have vetted her.

Len Koz's avatar

They did. Being racist is a plus in both Carolinas.

Joe King's avatar

“𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒, 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒,” 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑.

We all see you standing for what you believe. You believe you shouldn't face consequences for your bigotry. Believe that all you want, it won't stop those consequences. Welcome to reality.

larry parker's avatar

"Brittany Boltinhouse says her conservative Christianity cost her the title."

Nope, you won when you were just a conservative christian. Your bigotry caused you to lose the title.

You said the quiet part out loud.

NOGODZ20's avatar

Her Christian holy book states that women are to be kept quiet; that they are not allowed to teach or have authority over men.

Yet another pick-and-choose believer dipping into their sacred Whitman's Sampler.

Walt Svirsky's avatar

God dammit, coconut! 🥥

NOGODZ20's avatar

She has no idea what genuine persecution is. She lives in a country where Christianity is the dominant religion and practically everyone in power is a Christian.

Persecution? Let her get a taste of the genuine article by emigrating to a country where her religion does NOT dominate and that its followers truly are being persecuted. She'd be screaming to be let back into the US where she's safe.

oraxx's avatar

If you want to see what genuine persecution looks like. . . hand power to the preachers.

Joe King's avatar

One pf the few things Goldwater got right.

Lynn Veit's avatar

Same for ALL those conservative Christian assholes who think persecution means "people walking away from me and/or refusing to listen to me because I'm an asshole."

Telling them to get a clue does no good, because they wouldn't know a clue if it bit them in the ass.

Edited for typo

Patricia Kayden's avatar

It’s scary how easily these Christians lie even though one of their Ten Commandments clearly prohibits bearing false witness. Smh

larry parker's avatar

Lying for Jesus is the exception to the rule.

Joan the Dork's avatar

Other than all the other exceptions, of course.

Lynn Veit's avatar

Sometimes I wonder if they would spontaneously combust if they ever accidentally spoke the truth.

Lynn Veit's avatar

It's a reflex with them. Lie like a rug and scream persecution loud enough to stun small mammals when they get called out.

Maltnothops's avatar

It has been splained to me by evangelicals that the commandment is much more narrowly tailored than a straightforward reading might suggest. It “really” applies only to actual testimony such as in a trial. Seriously. I’ve been told this.