A fine rant - a progressive whines and gets called for it

From An Exercise in Futility:

If you don�t like the weather, leave.
You know, literally every time I go to www.feministing.com I can find something that apalls me enough to write a rant here. If there ever was a muse, this was it. Even Tim Weaver�s perverted notion of civics pales in comparison to the nonsense these girls post on their little website.

Fat ugly Miriam put up a guest post by some Venezeulan who immigrated to this country. Here are some choice quotes:

For most young people who want to go to college but have neither legal permanent residency nor the money to cover tuition, help is out of reach � an injustice that young immigrant activists have been working to end for years by demanding the passage of the DREAM Act.

Nothing is more unjust than a nation of taxpayers who refuse to send citizens of other countries to their universities on their dime.

When I started looking into it, the price of applying for citizenship had just gone up, to nearly $700. Though I was about to graduate with a Master�s degree and had a well-paying job lined up, that is no small chunk of cash.

Actually, unless you�re still living in the early 1990�s, $700 is a small chunk of change for the college-educated, unless you majored in something stupid and spend all your time working for $20,000 at non-profits in the middle of nowhere.

Many of the questions I was required to answer were absurd and offensive: Had I ever been a drug addict? A sex worker? A habitual drunkard? A communist?

What kind of person gets offended by mere questions? Let me remind you, Ms. Venezeula, that prostitution and drug possession are both illegal in the United States. Alcoholism is a public safety concern since everybody drives here, and now post-3/21 it will also cost us money as the hordes of drunk homeless bums chew through federal health money on their cirhossis. And, lest you forget, we did spend nearly half of the last century living under the constant threat of nuclear annhiliation by communists, and the United States is not a communist nation.

Right after the communist question, they have the audacity to ask if I have ever persecuted anyone because of their political opinion.

The truthful answer to this question has already been given by your self-proclaimed indignation that you�d be asked if you�re a druggie, a commie, or a whore. Yes, you are persecuting everyone who doesn�t sing along to your version of coom-bay-yah every time you open your mouth.

It ends by requiring a signature under a statement in which I am to promise that, if legally required to do so, I would serve the U.S. military �without mental reserve, so help me God.� These questions were deeply disturbing, and it was very clear which answers would lead to citizenship and which could lead to something far less palatable.

Virtually every time I hear a liberal speak like this I start to channel Jack Nicholson from A Few Good Men during his monologue in which he scolds Tom Cruise�s character about rising and sleeping under the very freedom which he provides and then questioning the manner in which he provides it.

Why do you even bother worrying about the military? You have a vagina. You don�t need to register for the draft. You�ll get to stay at home and write poetry while the men take care of the business of keeping your happy little bubble safe from other big scary men with guns. Then, when we finish protecting you, you can assert that we committed war crimes and killed foreign women and children in the process of protecting you and court marshall us, or at the very least fritter away your time holding up signs that say things like �war is muder� and �no blood for [my] oil�.

Seriously, woman, fuck you. Go back to Venezeula. If you�re so disturbed by what it means to be a mainstream American citizen then don�t become an American citizen.

Oh, that�s right. You want to bask in all the riches our culture has provided while simultaneously bitching about our culture at every opportunity. The minute you join our society you�ll seek to change it from within, despite the fact that whatever bizarre place you came from which instilled your clearly anti-American beliefs into you is, as you put it, �far less palatable� because it�s a lawless poverty stricken filthy jungle.

And this is just the first half. An excellent read and a sobering insight into what passes for intellectual thought for the left. This kind of self-absorbed hypocrisy is bad for everyone.