A good reason to come off Facebook

I came off Facebook many years ago. I firmly believe my life is better for it.

But for the multitudes who are still on it, here's a word of warning...

- In Pakistan, you can be killed for 'blasphemy'. As it's a Muslim country, this means anything against Islam or Mohammed.

- Pakistan asked Facebook for help in identifying 'blasphemers'. Basically, anyone who supports a view or religion which does not hold Islam in the highest regard.

- Facebook said, "Yes." (Another article here.)

- A few months ago, a Pakistani was sentenced to death over comments he made on Facebook.


Pakistan does not have freedom of religion. Facebook is supporting this. Watch what you say, or come off Facebook.

Here's a video about it.

Well done for your contribution...?

LGBT "Pride"...

"Friends in Safe Spaces"

A must-watch:

Why the Leftist reaction is juvenile

Since the election (democratically, I would add) of Donald Trump in the US, there has been an incredible amount of activism from those who do not support him.

It's juvenile (immature and childish, for the educationally-challenged). Here's why:

1. In a democratic society, you vote to decide the government. Not everyone will vote for the person who gets elected, but that's democracy. To react against the elected leader is just like the child who doesn't get his/her* own way.

2. 'Social' issues such as transgenderism, gun control and race equality have dominated the media. These are all things that the political Left would like to change. The Left has become quite vocal about it, much like the little child who feels wronged by a parent and tries to justify his/her* preferences in the hope that he/she* can still get what he/she* wants.

3. Leftist groups have become very politically active, not only holding protests, but actively rioting. They have slandered, abused and shut down (also called 'no-platforming') people who don't share their views. They have vandalised property and even caused injury during such riots. This is just like the hormonally imbalanced teenager who thinks, "Punish me? Put me in my place? I'll show them!" It's essentially a bully tactic. It's a behaviour trait of the selfish brat who can't take correction and decides to cause more wrong and harm in response.

4. Young people (teenagers, especially) will do whatever they can to get their own way. They come up with the most ridiculous of excuses for things. One example (and this is completely true) is of a girl at school who said, "It's really hot in here!" It was suggested that, since it was summer, she took her jumper off. She responded "I can't do that... I'm not wearing a shirt!" Why wasn't she wearing a shirt? Because she wanted to wear a pink bra to school. The pink bra is visible through the white school shirt, which would land her in trouble. In order to hide the pink bra, she wore her school jumper. But to wear a shirt and a jumper would be far too hot, so she decided to lose the shirt.

The result? No one could see her bra anyway, so no one knew it was pink. The whole excuse was... so that she could wear a pink bra, presumably to make some sort of statement that she will not be forced to wear a white bra.

The Left does the same thing. They come up with all sorts of reasons for their ridiculous viewpoints. This is why we now have to put with 50+ genders in some cases. They clutch at straws to find a professor who will do some sort of pseudoscience to 'prove' that there's more than just male and female.

5. Extreme 'equality' all started with gay marriage. The false premise that marriage is only about two people who love each other led people to flirt with the idea of two people of the same sex getting married. This led to questions about relationships and gender. Not only is marriage being redefined, but gender is too. In fact, why put limits on sexuality at all? Incest is now being discussed, because the premise is: 'if two people love each other...'. This is why it's a false premise. It's just like the child who says, "Why are you telling me to be quiet, and not the other people who are talking? If you were a fair person, you would make sure everyone was treated the same!" Unfortunately, the child conveniently forgets that they were shouting expletives at the top of their voice, and the other children were whispering quietly. The logical process is misguided.

6. Teenagers used to be renowned for thinking they know everything and adults know nothing, then realising (in their 20s) that, in reality, they were wrong. Hence the comment, "When I was 16 I knew everything. When I was 21 I realised how much my parents had learned in the last 5 years!" Unfortunately, we have a wave of millennials who were poorly educated, spent too much time with Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and countless other 'social media' applications^ that they didn't bother to further their education outside of the institution that gave them their 'free' and 'entitled' education. These people have therefore never learned that, as a teenager, they still had a lot to learn, and so they think that those teenage views are perfectly valid and completely rational. And they are encouraging the new wave of teenagers to believe the same.


It really is time for them to grow up.


* Because the reality is that there are only two genders or sexes: male and female. Sorry to bust the bubble.
^ I wonder how many young people nowadays realise that 'app' is just an abbreviation of 'application'?

Segregation resurgence

In order to have true equality between all people, during the 1800s and 1900s, many attempts were made to end the segregation of black people and white people. These steps were seen by society as progression.

An old idea of 'separate but equal' was shown to have failed: services and conveniences for black people were not well maintained and were often of lower quality. 'Separate' was not compatible with 'equal', and that is why we have the equality we have today. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than how it was.

In the UK, there are concerns that there is not enough 'mixing' of race happening in universities:
"If we are to create a more tolerant UK society, where people are aware and respectful of cultural and ethnic difference, it is vital that greater mixing happens."

But it seems that a new wave of American young people - millennials, no less - have new, ground-breaking notions of a progressive society and a utopian future.

Their idea? In order for a society of equality and inclusion, there must be provision of 'safe spaces' for ethnic minorities.

To put it bluntly, segregation is now politically correct!!

Michigan University has a space for "black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work" [sic].

"California State University Los Angeles recently rolled out segregated housing for black students."

"North Carolina State University might create segregated student housing for African American women." (Essentially, segregation by race and sex...)

This is apparently seen as a step forward, part of a 'progressive' society.
There has long been a debate in the UK about exams getting easier (I know my exams were easier than those 20 years before me).

But when people believe that this 'easier education' (because they are entitled to education) is of the same standard of past generations... and so they don't bother to do their own research and logical thinking... we end up with a society of segregation and ideas like this:

The interdependence of black and white

I've recently seen some videos of "A day without white people" and "A world without black people".
Here are my thoughts...


If black people were to disappear right now, the world might look different, but it would still function (at least for a while).
If white people were to disappear right now, the world would probably descend into chaos much, much faster.

However, it's the roles of black and white people throughout history that has made the world what it is - better for some, worse for others. White people may well be more academically minded and may well have invented more things. But the white people only enjoy the current society because it is built on the shoulders of black people. More precisely, modern civilisation is built by the hands of black people.

If it wasn't for the slave trade, for the forced labour of black people by whites, then the world would be very different. Cheap labour for the whites to prosper: if equality was there from the start, the "American Dream" would be impossible. I'm not saying the slave trade was right, just that it's history and we can't change that.

But underpaid labour still exists: sweatshops still exist; white people taking advantage of less developed countries which are primarily black. In Western countries like America, the inequality is negligible, brought to the fore because of people who seem annoyed to have to work hard to reach their 'dreams' (or even to survive).

But the real inequality is how the West treats the Third World. I have seen first hand how a group of white people (Americans, and supposed 'Christians' too) wanted to take over an orphanage organisation in Southern Africa and the way they did it was essentially by saying, "We'll give you the money you need to survive if we are in charge and you do things our way, otherwise we'll give you nothing." Notice that it's only the money to survive, not to thrive.

And that's the problem. The West (white majority) use the less developed countries to their own ends, allowing them to 'survive' but nothing more. The next time you go to the supermarket, look at where your food comes from. If it's from a less developed country, it's probably produced by something akin to slave labour.

For true equality to exist throughout the world right now, everyone living in a developed country would have to give something up. Not just rich people, but everyone. A black community in USA is far better off than the slums in India.

The world is what it is. It's not perfect, and it never will be. We all need to help make it a better place, but the only way to really make a difference is by sacrifice. No one should exploit anyone else for personal gain. The current tend (including Black Lives Matter) is an attempt to exploit the wealthy for their own ends. We need to turn our focus onto ourselves: what can I do to make the world a better place? What can I do to make the life of someone worse off than me just a little bit better?

Stop ranting at the rich. Stop ranting at the whites. Lead by example.