Why You're Wrong If You Refuse to Describe Rapists and Human Traffickers as Evil

Hello Friends,I’m just back from blocking somebody and I am a little irritated so I figured I might as well burn it off in the form of an article.Lately, I’ve been unapologetic about calling the current presidential regime EVIL.Look at what they’re doing! They’re rape apologists. They’re misogynists. They’re drunks. They’re thieves. They’re rounding up innocent people. They’re defiling the Constitution. Everything they do is designed to hurt.Not one thing they do is designed to help.They want us huddling in terror in the hope that we’ll be overlooked for our punishment. They strut about with the idea that they have the right to punish everybody.These people are flat out evil. There’s no other word to describe them.Yet, when I go on any social media platform and call them what they are, I get people who start giving me a stern lecture. “You can’t call them ‘evil,’ that’s too extreme. That’s the language of the oppressor. It makes you as bad as them.”Meanwhile the other side is allowed to make endless false accusations calling us evil. They wrest control of the narrative. In fact, that’s how they came to power.They make false accusation after false accusation after false accusation and then we sit on our hands and say nothing.Some people will read that and say, “Well, we can’t be like them.”But you’re missing a key point. When we call them evil, we are not being like them.They are LYING.We are telling the TRUTH!That’s a pretty big difference.These people who are more concerned about the language that’s used than the atrocities that are being committed are why we got into this mess. They are more concerned with the signifier than the signified.But folks, it doesn’t matter what word you use to describe them. The right is always going to unfairly object. That’s what they always do.The key to winning this battle is to stop acting as if they have a reasonable viewpoint.They’re rounding up innocent people, depriving them of their Constitutional rights, and sending them to die in foreign nations. While that’s going on, you want to lecture me about using the word “evil.”It IS evil!If that’s not evil, I don’t know what is.The problem is that there’s a lot of evil that’s allowed to live on in the United States because it’s become part of our cultural tradition. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why people allow Catholic churches in their towns. The Catholic church has a pedophile problem. Everybody knows it. Yet, when you try to bring it up, people put their thumbs in their ears and start to scream.Meanwhile, the priests are allowed to stand at the pulpit accusing the innocent of being “evil” all day.We aren’t allowed to warn our children about the dangers of grooming because that’s basically the only language churches use. When you tell people they are “sinners” you’re grooming them. You don’t know this because EVIL has a megaphone and the side of decency is censored into absolute silence.America is so one-sided you have to speculate on what good must look like based on the shape of the negative space where it has been torn from our society.Honestly, it gets me all riled up when people are able to rouse themselves to attack me for using words like “evil,” when thousands of blatant acts of evil transpire every day.They’re desensitized to those.They’ve been conditioned by evil-doers never to call out anyone as evil other than the completely innocent.It makes me sick.What we have is a passive society of pathetic enablers who refuse to use the language that is necessary.Rapists are evil.Murderers are evil.Pedophiles are evil.F*****g say it.Don’t sit there and say, “the word evil is off limits” even as evil people use the word a billion times a day to lay the foundation for their oppression of humanity.We have to push back. We can’t let these false accusations go uncontested. We’ve been lured into numb indifference. We need to take back our empowerment and seize control of our destiny.Stop allowing our media to label decent people as evil.Start calling out evil in the institutions where it has taken root.Don’t object to a word.Object to the abuses of your fellow human beings. You can and should use any word or action you can to make these abuses stop.Most of all, don’t waste your time lecturing me. Instead, push yourself away from your desk and go out and liberate somebody today. It feels good. It’s addictive. You’ll find that positive action is more in alignment with your essential self.Become addicted to performing acts of decency. Become addicted to calling out and opposing evil. That’s the person you want to be. Go forth and make the universe proud.Thank you for listening! This publication is reader sponsored. Your support means the world to me. 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