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Fellow Conservatives, You've Been Playing The Victim Card, And It's Time You Stopped

From one conservative to another.

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Fellow Conservatives, You've Been Playing The Victim Card, And It's Time You Stopped

I already feel the hotheads fingers typing away on their keyboards ready to reply back to me, "Conservatives never play the victim card!" And while you are half true, you are not entirely true. I think every conservative knows it deep down too.

We love when we get called out, bullied in public, and our speaking events shut down. We thrive off of it.

It is how we get our messages so loud and clear. We sit around, create events that we know will be controversial, and wait until some crazy leftist comes and starts screaming, tearing our posters down, and yelling, "fascists." Then, afterward, we take what happens and say, 'look, look how oppressed we are on campuses!'

We preach against playing the victim. We tell others you are not defined by your race, gender, ethnicity, or etc. We do such a great job spreading this message and teaching this victor mentality up until it benefits us to play the victim.

There is nothing wrong with calling out bias on campus, calling attention to the attacks, and hosting events that may cause a bit of a stir. It helps the cause of spreading our beliefs and does show what really is happening on campuses.

It is that step further so many of us take it.

It is when we start asking people to have pity on us, to side with us, and to give us privileges because of what happened. There is no excuse to what happens on college campuses and to young conservatives. There is no excuse to being screamed at in our face and having our posters torn down. But there is also no excuse to sit around and look to antagonize the situations. We should not be trying to incite these attacks.

Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk were simply sitting at breakfast the other day when a group of leftists came screaming and interrupted their morning. They were simply sitting there eating food. This attack was unwarranted and unnecessary. In my opinion, Kirk and Owens handled it terrifically, and we've now bookmarked it as another attack that should not have happened.

However, when videos emerge of students on campuses at their tables antagonizing a left-leaning student who is already disgruntled going, "What are you going to do about it," we are simply asking for them to do something so we can point our fingers and go, "look! look!" This is not who we are as a movement, and it does nothing to benefit any of us.

When things happen, they should happen naturally and then we should be able to say here is an example. We should not be trying to create events that we know will cause a riot or we know will give us an upper hand. These things happen naturally on their own, and we need to stop trying to get them to do it artificially.

We are not victims. We make it so incredibly clear. We cannot let ourselves become victims.

But while we try to not become victims by calling out the injustices we see, we also put ourselves in that position to look like a victim and act like one. All I'm saying is be careful, and let these things happen naturally. We should not be trying to incite any sort of fight or attack. It is not a conservative value, and it is not the conservative way.

It is not how we spread the conservative message.

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