The Great Race Bait: Don’t Fall For It Conservative America

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

Isn’t it odd that the political left claims to be so adamantly opposed to racism, yet they are the first people in the room to make generalizations based on race? Maybe it’s not so odd, at least when you consider the history of social justice movements and the people who fund them. There is power to be had in creating a “race war” narrative, and the chaos surrounding such a conflict could be easily exploited. By making everything about race, the political left is perhaps unwittingly serving the interests of the very wealthy elites they claim to despise.

As I predicted in my article ‘Order Out Of Chaos: The Defeat Of The Left Comes With A Cost’ back in 2016:

When I mentioned in my last article the crippling of social justice, I did not mention that this could have some negative reverberations. With Trump and conservatives taking near-total power after the Left had assumed they would never lose again, their reaction has been to transform. They are stepping away from the normal activities and mindset of cultural Marxism and evolving into full blown communists. Instead of admitting that their ideology is a failure in every respect, they are doubling down.

When this evolution is complete, the Left WILL resort to direct violent action on a larger scale, and they will do so with a clear conscience because, in their minds, they are fighting fascism. Ironically, it will be this behavior by leftists that may actually push conservatives towards a fascist model. Conservatives might decide to fight crazy with more crazy.”

This evolution of the political left is not natural or “grassroots”; it is completely engineered. This past week a group of well armed BLM protesters called the “NFAC” (Not F#&*ing Around Coalition) marched near Atlanta on July 4th demanding the destruction of a confederate monument and trying to goad “white militias” into facing off with them. I don’t view this group as a legitimate threat, only a sign of things to come.  They do appear to be organized well enough and seem to have come out of nowhere, so much so that I’m rather suspicious.

First, I would point that the media is perfectly on board with the NFAC and similar groups, calling them “peaceful protesters”. Yet, when conservative militias hold armed demonstrations, the media viciously attacks and accuses the right-wing of inciting violence. When BLM protested the death of George Floyd, the media called it stunning and brave. When conservatives protested the Covid lockdowns in Michigan that were destroying the economy, the media attacked them for “spreading the virus”.

When BLM and Antifa announced they would be busing activists into rural towns, residents organized an armed security response. The protesters remained peaceful, and in some cases decided not to show up. The armed citizens were of course demonized and accused of paranoia over a threat that “did not exist”.

The convenient thing about extreme left groups is that they have no principles or rules to follow. Meaning, they operate on lies and manipulation. They do not care about being right, they only care about winning. When Antifa fails, or they get caught in the middle of something nefarious, they simply claim they are not a group but an idea, therefore they aren’t culpable for the actions of a “handful of bad apples”. When the BLM or Antifa wimp out and don’t show up to a rural town to protest because they might have to face organized opposition, the media claims that the groups had no plans to protest in those towns anyway.

It is clear who the establishment supports. BLM and Antifa groups have received millions in donations from corporate sponsors over the past few years. In fact, BLM was initially funded by organizations like George Soros’ Open Society Foundation as well as the Ford Foundation.

Does this sound like “grassroots” to you?

I believe the NFAC, represents new trial run in the engineered conflict within America. When compared to groups like the John Brown Gun Club or the “Trigger Warning Gun Club”, which ended up becoming a hilarious joke to most of the country, the NFAC is far more tailored and puts on a much better show. These people are being groomed as bogeymen for conservatives.

The NFAC’s choice to protest near a confederate monument, as well as calling out “white militias” to fight them, is obvious race baiting for political gain. I have been around militia groups for the better part of a decade, and I can say with some authority that most of them are not “all white”. Liberty groups are made up of people that are willing to defend freedom; that’s it. There is no skin color requirement. In the NFAC videos I can make out one white guy among them (maybe their handler). Perhaps this black progressive militia should attempt to be more inclusive and a little less racist?

The media’s soft glove treatment of the NFAC reminds me of the conflict in Syria in 2013. Remember when the mainstream media originally tried to present ISIS insurgents funded and trained by western interests as clean-cut and wholesome freedom fighters standing against the “oppressive Assad regime”? Yeah, that’s what this feels like.

At bottom, it’s not the leftist mobs that present the biggest threat; these groups are ultimately a paper tiger. Instead, the greater danger comes from groups that are directly trained and organized by elitist or government interests. These are the groups that end up being used to trigger attacks, like shootings, bombings, assassinations, etc. And, it’s not the first time in US history this has been done.

In my article ‘Militant Leftists Are More An Annoyance Than A Real Threat To Liberty’ I outlined how such groups tend to mutate into something more dangerous once they start receiving funding or illicit training from establishment interests. As I noted in 2017:

Government and elitist-supported groups, supplied with training and funding, are a greater danger. They tend to operate more like terrorist cells, using bombings, shootings and attrition.

This is not always simply to instill fear or to achieve an actual political aim in support of leftist “values.” Instead, these groups are sometimes injected into the system as a way to inspire conservatives to overreact or to run into the welcoming arms of a waiting dictatorship.

Perhaps the most effective example of the creation and exploitation of violent leftist terror was Operation Gladio, a false flag program running from the 1950s to the 1990s in Europe until it was finally exposed by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Many of the leftist and “communist” cells involved in the numerous attacks on civilians during this period were in fact either manipulated by government agencies like the CIA, or they were created from scratch by those same agencies.”

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
July 9, 2020 7:57 am

When a toddler is having a tantrum, have you ever just sat them down and tried to reason with them using logic and data?

How does that work?

The fundamental problem of “conservatism” is that it seeks to have a conversation it is comfortable having with an opponent that isn’t interested in what it has to say.

We are so far past the point of pointing out the hypocrisy and absence of reason that anyone still employing these techniques needs to check their own grasp on reality.

22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
  hardscrabble farmer
July 9, 2020 8:18 am

Not a big fan of Woods, but;

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Her and Joe! What a pair to draw to. He can’t remember and she can’t stand up. The Dems are really getting scared Trump might lose if they are dusting off Ms. Arkancide again.

Common Cents
Common Cents
  Fleabaggs
July 9, 2020 9:39 am

I can tell you this – the Dems are NOT running Old Dopey Joe. I was on a youtube video of Andrew Cuomo’s daily press conference yesterday trolling the libs and generally raising mayhem.

There was post after post of sycophants begging Cuomo to run for president. I trolled every single one, saying “so you don’t support Biden”, “what about Biden?” etc. There were DOZENS of these posts. NOT ONE SINGLE lib pushed back at all! NOBODY defended Biden. There were hundreds of Dems on that board. There is ZERO support for Old Joe and the Dems are well aware of it. Even I was surprised by the complete lack of support for him.

I am sure that the decision has been made. Joe is OUT.

Oh, by the way, youtube banned me. Too much truth for them.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Common Cents
July 9, 2020 10:38 am

Cents.
There isn’t going to be an election. “They” may pretend to have something resembling one in order to keep both sides on their respective reservations till late Jan.-early Feb..

Ethnic Cat
Ethnic Cat
  Fleabaggs
July 9, 2020 12:44 pm

So it’ll be a brokered convention where Hillary will come out on top or in the VP slot where she can ‘manage’ Joe?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Ethnic Cat
July 9, 2020 1:00 pm

EC
I’m not sure how they will play out the drama but They absolutely must keep both sides heavily invested in the soap until the new year. They may allow Trump to cancel it or they may allow the dems to cancel it simply by aloowing plenty of in your face mail in ballot fraud by not mailing any to registered republicans or they will have so much civil unrest and or Scami-flu II lockdowns in place. Nobody will accept the other party’s candidate. I just know that they would like to keep Donnie Boy in until they can finish colapsing the dollar as an international unit and turning to a temporary SDR system until they can usher in the World Crypto. Let me supply you with a 50 minute Alasdair McCleod video that gives an idea of where the buck is headed and why there will be no election. He didn’t mention the election but rather the disruptions coming that will prevent it.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwJWjCrTnSHXgPHskZKZjptrPtC?projector=1

SeeBee
SeeBee
  Fleabaggs
July 9, 2020 8:39 pm

It’s a dog and pony show for sure. They just duped the entire world with a phony virus scare. A rigged or forfeited election is a piece of cake.

22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
  Fleabaggs
July 9, 2020 1:21 pm

There wasn’t an election in 2012 or 2016, so there is precedent to your theory.

Farce theater posing as an election 2012; https://tinyurl.com/y3zkc5jo

Farce theater posing as an election 2016; https://tinyurl.com/zk2trn4

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Fleabaggs
July 9, 2020 5:49 pm

baggs,
she would be a good choice 4 veep candidate–lots of dems like her,esp women & blacks–
the goal is to get their base to the polls so the down ballot races are competitive–

Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe

Hillary looks like a grotesque version of Mae West after she had all the face lifts and fake teeth. At least Mae was a decent human being and not an orc.
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Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  hardscrabble farmer
July 9, 2020 12:40 pm

Once again we are in the wash /rinse/repeat cycle where the feral negroes are at it again. Same demands, same claims of racism, same demands for reparations, same threats as always, same victimology and same overt propensity for violence and murder. Let us not mention how they never improve their lot, or how they are ALWAYS the pitiful victim of White Oppression.

Nevermind that a black man was elected president or that way too many blacks hold and have held high office and political positions. Nevermind that every city with blacks in control is turned into a festering and filthy shithole, with graft and corruption and crime run rampant.

Nevermind that they never take care of what they have, that they destroy a neighborhood in a matter of days, that when they move into an area, that area turns to shit. Nevermind that they are ineducable, that they are capable of extreme and horrible violence at the drop of a hat, that the only culture they embrace is the thug culture, that nothing is EVER enough. Personal responsibility is an oxymoron and endless demands are the norm.

TC
TC
  Mygirl....Maybe
July 9, 2020 1:33 pm

Negroes?

Ken31
Ken31
  TC
July 12, 2020 5:41 pm

Another negro organization founded and run by jews? No way!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Mygirl....Maybe
July 9, 2020 2:08 pm

They (Democrat Blacks) refuse to own their own shit. Separate, separate, separate, just us in charge. Soon the big Pffffffffft comes and then it’s ” The white men and Republicans who had nothing to do with it and are nowhere around here are why we failed-again.” Don’t listen to Carson, Sowell, Williams, Crews, Woodson, Terrell, Sen. Scott, oh no, they act White. They succeeded without a ball in their hands.

Belicoso
Belicoso
  Mygirl....Maybe
July 9, 2020 7:56 pm

ineducable. Incapable of being educated.
Word of the day

Sorry to sound a tiny bit picky
but, if my high school English composition is correct, it’s used as an adjective not a pronoun
The ineducable feral negroes

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  hardscrabble farmer
July 9, 2020 1:41 pm

BLM is an offshoot of something called 1,000 Currents or Thousand Currents. I haven’t seen it in print, only heard it so my apologies for that. It has as a major fund raising exec a woman named Rosenburg who is a convicted Weather Underground terrorist murderer. She was sentenced to 58 years in prison for her crimes. On his last day in office, President Clinton pardoned her after 16 years in jail. BLM is communist filth from top to bottom to include convicted murderer terrorists.
As an aside, did any of you ever see a group begging for an ambush more than this militia group? I could take a couple hundred out by myself. Det cord in the ditch on both sides. Fire a burst or unload a half dozen rounds of buckshot down the middle of the column from a distance. Wait five seconds, initiate and exfiltrate.

rhs jr
rhs jr
  Harrington Richardson
July 9, 2020 3:26 pm

You mean the Black Liberation Movement.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  rhs jr
July 9, 2020 5:55 pm

This Thousand Currents is a continuation it is believed of the Weather Underground.

splurge
splurge
  Harrington Richardson
July 9, 2020 6:10 pm

One of the FBI ‘s many problem children.

Ken31
Ken31
  Harrington Richardson
July 12, 2020 5:42 pm

Which itself is just a jewish Bolshevism fantasy.

musket
musket
  Harrington Richardson
July 9, 2020 4:07 pm

Claymores and det cord……miracle workers.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Harrington Richardson
July 9, 2020 6:12 pm

b4 i upvote the ambush comment by harry,does anyone know whether or not the govt spying agencies have the ability to tell who clicks the upvote button?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  TampaRed
July 9, 2020 6:33 pm

Red.
They must because I’ve been on sites where your name comes up when you vote up or down. I always thought it should be used more often. Maybe they don’t check every site but we would be foolish to think TBP wasn’t watched with loose cannons like me on here.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Fleabaggs
July 9, 2020 7:35 pm

flea,
i also assume that they do ,i was just making a joke–

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  TampaRed
July 9, 2020 8:02 pm

Red.
Oh. Well you owed me a missed joke anyway so were even up now.

Ken31
Ken31
  hardscrabble farmer
July 12, 2020 5:38 pm

Gatekeeping at its finest where the only 2 types of articles are

1) LOL they aren’t even real liberals, look at their hypocrisy LOL. Pwned

2) We are way more liberal than they are LOL. Democrats are the real racists LOL. Suck it libtards lol. Look at based black gay conservative!

I find it all very tedious and childish.

Ivan
Ivan
July 9, 2020 7:57 am

Here’s Brandon Smith again with his many “I wrote that would happen” missives and gaggle of sycophants.

While Brandon may be correct at times he’s a bit too self-congratulatory requiring the adulation of his adoring 20-30 followers.

Like AM radio yackers (with the exception of Mark Steyn) he’s quite intolerant of those with whom he disagrees. Instead of hanging up, he censors comments.

He is correct, the armed negro parade with militaryesque costumes is an obvious psyop designed to intimidate and frighten whites.

The negro and those behind their infantile movement can not be reasoned with. Separation is the only solution.

22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
  Ivan
July 9, 2020 8:16 am

Hey Brandon, where are the Oath Keepers lately?

Why aren’t they standing up to this tyranny?

Why did they utterly disappear from the news?

Why did they evaporate into nothingness?

Why did you promote the Oath Keepers for years?

(Because it was a fake-patriot .gov psyop from day 1 and you either fell for it or more likely, were paid to promote it)

Fuck you and Stuart Rhodes.

Ivan
Ivan

Oath Creepers=controlled opposition?

smyth too??

Ken31
Ken31
  Ivan
July 12, 2020 5:44 pm

(((Mark Steyn))) has you fooled? He is mostly reasonable, so it is understandable people haven’t sniffed out his game.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
July 9, 2020 8:25 am

Another nothing burger from Smith. Hillaries loss was the worst thing to happen to him.
“With Trump and conservatives taking near-total power after the Left had assumed they would never lose”. What a crock. The Dems are loving that near total power just fine. Their greatest fear is that Trump will blow this easy layup they are serving him.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott
July 9, 2020 9:39 am

TTAG did a nice little story on this a few days ago.
The “Black Panther” marches were done by a bunch of LARP actors paid as bait. The cops were escorting them.
Stone Mountain was a giant scheme to smoke out so-called “white supremacists” and get them arrested. .22 rifles and idiots wearing black with miles of web gear in the summer. Nothing but a false morale builder and bait for non-existent Bubbas.
I used to work with a reformed Panther years ago. He was an interesting guy but still had that Alabama life mixed in with the Malcolm X BS. That mind poison is hard to shake.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  e.d. ott
July 9, 2020 2:28 pm

If it was an attempt to smoke anybody out, all they did was open themselves up for observation and study.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  e.d. ott
July 9, 2020 6:01 pm
Southern Sage
Southern Sage
July 9, 2020 10:44 am

Oh, please. Another fellow who simply does not get it. To ignore the issue of race in the context of the current effort to destroy America is absurd. Smith is not entirely wrong. As disgusted as I am by the criminal activities of groups like BLM and Antifa, to say nothing of the grotesque comedy of the armed minstrel show recently put on at Stone Mountain, I am not especially concerned – yet. For all the tough talk and the fear-mongering, white America could utterly wipe out any threat that blacks in America could possibly mount. The same goes for the Leftist subversives allied to the Democrat Party. A mile wide and an inch deep. Again, any attempt by these enraged crackpots to actually impose their ideas on the country will result in an uprising that we can hardly even imagine. When the Saxon begins to hate and reaches for his sword there will be blood in the streets, the TV studios, the universities, and anywhere else these vermin hole up.
No, the blacks are not and never will be a direct threat to the republic. First, when we say “blacks”, we really mean that percentage who are totally alienated from American life and do present an actual – if localized – danger. This is not a small percentage but it certainly does not encompass every black person. Plenty of blacks are fully aware of the silliness of such things as a black militias and they even more concerned by BLM. These people are not looking for a fight with white America and understand that this handful of morons is causing rising anger, resentment and suspicion among whites. They don’t need or want that.
But, let’s be honest. Well over ninety percent of all blacks support the Democrat Party and that fact alone is more than enough for the average white person to view them as part of the Domestic Enemy. As useless as the GOP is (words fail me) it is the Democrat Party that has been used as the vehicle to undermine our Constitution and laws, flood our country with aliens, and advance a Marxist, collectivist agenda in direct contradiction to the traditions, customs, heritage, laws, and principles of the American people. The blacks are the one absolutely critical Democrat voting bloc. Without them the Democrat Party would be swept away into the dunghill of history. It is no coincidence that supposed “racial injustice” is the issue used by the Leftists to turn the country upside down. They are using it to stir up the easily stirred up blacks. Again, no coincidentally, just in time for the November elections.
It needs to be said that the blacks are not the only ethnic group being used against the American people. Asians, Hindus, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, other so-called “Hispanics” and in general most recent immigrants are courted non-stop by the Leftists, usually in the guise of the Democrat Party. Most Jews are already in their pocket, though it should be said that most perceptive, combative, and effective enemies of their plan also tend to be Jews. Michael Savage and Mark Levin
It should be said that none of these groups, with the possible exception of the Puerto Ricans, can be compared to the blacks in terms of their culture, adaptability to American mores and traditions, and political affiliations. Significant percentages of all of them are conservative, truly love this country, are law-abiding, and have strong middle-class values. This sector votes Republican, of course.
Unfortunately, there are varying percentages in each group that exhibit none of these admirable qualities and there are obvious reasons for this.
They all come from dog-eat-dog societies where government if arbitrary, corrupt, and brutal, of not an outright joke. Government is openly seen as a weapon of one class or group against another. They have no understanding or use for traditional American beliefs about responsible, honest government. Nothing is more easy than the Democrat strategy of convincing these people that they will benefit personally by voting for Democrats, and the Democrats are not lying. They WILL benefit, at the direct cost of white taxpayers.
The Democrats and the Left also work overtime to tell these people that they are hated and scorned by white Americans, with Republicans being painted as virtual Klansmen. These people swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
If it was a mistake to permit this mass immigration in the first place, allowing the Democrats to conduct their mind-washing campaign against these people was a massive error. If the Republicans had not been the idiots they were and are, they would have demanded it stop decades ago.
Mr. Smith blames a “collectivist” mindset for all of this and he is not wrong. What he misses is that socialists, Communist, Marxists and their friends merely use collectivist claptrap for its appeal to the stupid, the lazy, the incompetent, the greedy, the envious, the resentful, and, let it be said, the genuinely aggrieved. The Leftist leaders have no intention of personally participating in any “collective”. They are without exception cynical, violent, devious, arrogant, and cowards. They plan to use the “masses”. The “masses” are not going to use them.
The Leftist campaign is aimed at destroying America, nothing less. There will not America that is not a white majority country. There may be some kind of entity, or several of them, but it will not be America.
The United States of America was founded by and for whites of Europeans descent and anybody who denies it is a liar. The fact that (with the exception of Indians and blacks) the Founders did not mention all other groups by name as unwelcome is explained by the simple fact that it never occurred to them that it would be necessary. The idea that Hmongs, Haitians, Hindus, Chinese, Muslims and the rest of the flotsam and jetsam of the planet might wash up on our shores was never even contemplated. We have New England Abolitionist fanatics and the understandable anger of the rest of the Northern population after the Civil war for black citizenship and, eventually, the end of America as a white man’s country (an idea strongly supported by almost all Northern people in 1860, by the way). We have paid quite a price for allowing a tiny gang of crackpots to dictate national policy after the Civil war. As for the North getting revenge on the South by playing the practical joke of giving the blacks citizenship and the vote, how did that work out? Ask any resident of a big northern city.
The coming conflict will not be just a race war, far from it. But race, as always in America, will be one of the driving wheels.

daniel
daniel
  Southern Sage
July 9, 2020 12:54 pm

as to your last sentence i said something similar in a comment a few days ago. race is a defining characteristic of the wars that have now begun. as america’s disintegration becomes kinetic there will be revolts, secession(s), insurrections, the fucking lot. i don’t think much of a civil war because who wants to fight over hollowed out corpse with no authority?

every group views all aspects through the lens of race. except one.

Steve
Steve
July 9, 2020 12:10 pm

A gaggle of black dudes with guns. What could go wrong considering their poor impulse control plus moderate IQ?
A Boogaloo type event against the white man who they openly state they despise, would be an idiotic move by the NFAC. They would soon understand what NFA actually means.
They are outnumbered by at least 100:1 by militarily trained white men and hunters who possess a significant arsenal and the brains to effectively use these assets.
While a horrible event for the nation, it could be the best thing to happen to white people in the last 155 years.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Steve
July 9, 2020 6:01 pm

“FA” and find out.

Yahsure
Yahsure
July 9, 2020 12:30 pm

Divide and conquer. It should be Americans(citizens) against the system. Not against each other. I keep reading Jibberish on this site about a white America. It has never really, ever, been this way. Millions are not going away or getting exterminated by anyone. If you think you’re better than others because of the color of your skin you have problems. In an SHTF time, I imagine problems from lots of white trash. There are good and bad people of every skin color.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Yahsure
July 9, 2020 2:47 pm

You convince the Dhimmicrats and Commieasses of that and most White people will enthusiastically approve. Problem is, THEY are the problem and have NO intention of settling for all of us just being fellow Americans. They have come to conquer and there will be a line they will cross leaving no alternative. If it is defined as a race war to get Whitey, all other, the good, the bad, and the ugly will be on the menu. We must resist these evil ones as long as possible, but it is really up to them and they have no record of doing anything resembling the right thing.
You need more ammo and more magazines. Trust me.

Lars
Lars
  Yahsure
July 9, 2020 4:59 pm

” If you think you’re better than others because of the color of your skin…” ..”

No one here says that. Don’t be a douche bag.

“…I imagine problems from lots of white trash…”

I don’t care. The scoundrels and slackers in our own race belong to us. Many of them can be salvaged. Those who don’t or won’t get with the program, I and others like me can quickly deal with – something BTW I, as an Army Infantry officer, was never permitted to do when dealing with blatant trash in other races ( or for than matter, females of any race ).

TC
TC
July 9, 2020 1:46 pm

Try telling the farmers in South Africa that their abuse and slaughter has nothing to do with race.

deplorably stanley
deplorably stanley
July 9, 2020 7:11 pm

The City of Seattle held segregated training session for white staff aimed at ‘undoing their whiteness’

‘diversity trainers informed white participants that “objectivity,” “individualism,” “intellectualization,” and “comfort” are all vestiges of internalized racial oppression.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8504187/City-Seattle-held-segregated-training-session-white-staff-aimed-undoing-whiteness.html

Steve
Steve
  deplorably stanley
July 11, 2020 5:28 pm

Simply amazing. Blatant discrimination.

flash
flash
July 10, 2020 10:41 am

The inherent weakness of the Right, from churches, to political organizations, is we’re so easily infiltrated and converged. How many Leftist organizations have Rightwingers inflated and brought down ? Exactly zero. We should no longer tolerate SJW membership in any of our organization, be it a church or a local supper club. They cannot be reasoned with or shamed . Tolerance is not a virtue. Root them out.