{"id":1356658,"date":"2022-03-03T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356658"},"modified":"2022-03-03T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:53:10","slug":"nolte-the-stupid-blacklisting-of-russian-civilians-and-a-dead-novelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-the-stupid-blacklisting-of-russian-civilians-and-a-dead-novelist\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: The Stupid Blacklisting of Russian Civilians and a Dead Novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-the-stupid-blacklisting-of-russian-civilians-and-a-dead-novelist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dostoyevsky-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">There is no moral world in which Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation that was no threat to him, is justified or acceptable. In fact, Ukraine was so not a threat to Russia, Ukraine denuclearized in 1994, and in exchange, Russia agreed to safeguard Ukraine\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is a war criminal inventing excuses to grab Ukraine\u2019s warm water ports, natural resources, and legacy. I hope his illegal invasion fails. I hope Putin\u2019s humiliated. And if Putin\u2019s invasion ultimately succeeds, I hope the Ukrainian people launch an insurgency.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Are we clear?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want any misunderstandings on that point\u2026 Because when you criticize a mindless mob of moral preeners, a fanatical group of blacklisters determined to prove they\u2019re purer than everyone else, you\u2019d better be crystal clear about your basic principles lest you be misquoted, taken out of context, canceled, banned, tarred, feathered, slapped with a scarlet letter, and run out of town on a rail. Hey, eventually, that is going to happen to me. But I\u2019d prefer it be for an actual offense, not an invented one.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the response of keyboard generals out to prove their purity is like watching George Costanza push little kids out of the way to get to the fire exit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>These idiots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/college-backtracks-on-banning-teaching-dostoevsky-because-he-s-russian\/ar-AAUwdgR\">tried to blacklist<\/a> Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, who\u2019s been dead for 140 years! Dostoevsky! One of the greatest novelists in all of history. A flawed man, indeed, but a man who hailed from a Russia no one would recognize today, a novelist who explored the human condition like few others. Because Russian writers in those days were paid by the page, he could certainly be long-winded, but can y\u2019all take a breath now?<\/p>\n<p>How does waging McCarthyism on Russian citizens result in anything other than those citizens siding with Putin, who might be a very bad man, but who is not waging war on them?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe take a lesson from the one man who actually defeated Russia, Ronald Reagan. He brought that country to its knees and always distinguished between the Russian government and the Russian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>You do know you\u2019re pouring out \u201cRussian\u201d vodka while filling your tank with Russian oil, right?<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Opera is creating hardcore Putin allies by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/deceptivecadence\/2022\/02\/27\/1083387627\/metropolitan-opera-sever-ties-putin-ukraine-gergiev-netrebko\">blacklisting<\/a> Russian artists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cats are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1253707.shtml\">blacklisted<\/a> for the sin of being Russian. Cats!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubinReport\/status\/1499067719429279750?s=20&#038;t=WDx5OLccpf9bGyaxq9HJ_Q\">Digital people<\/a> are being blacklisted.<\/p>\n<p>It just goes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/mar\/01\/tate-faces-call-to-cut-ties-with-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg-and-vladimir-putin-associate\">on<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/russia-booted-eurovision-song-contest-ukraine-83111480\">on<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.registercitizen.com\/news\/article\/Ukrainian-artists-embraced-as-Russia-sees-16971607.php\">on<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/01\/nolte-racist-hollywood-sanctions-russia-for-ukraine-still-okay-with-chinas-uyghur-genocide\/\">on<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/film-institutions-and-film-professionals-call-for-a-boycott-of-russian-cinema\">on<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festival-cannes.com\/en\/press\/press-articles\/communique\/articles\/statement-from-the-festival-de-cannes-on-the-situation-in-ukraine\">on<\/a> and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Some people are blacklisting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cae8lt3rHrl\/\">themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the great Thomas Sowell called \u201cmoral exhibitionism.\u201d It\u2019s all about moral satisfaction and signaling your virtue without considering the outcome. It\u2019s selfish, counter-productive, lazy, cruel, and doing nothing to aid your cause. But people like this don\u2019t care about the cause. Any excuse to preen their superior morality is the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is the bad guy. The Russian people are not.<\/p>\n<p>I will say this\u2026 Normally, when America opposes the leader of a foreign country, what we do is invade that country,\u00a0<span>liberate<\/span>\u00a0kill a shitload of innocent civilians, spend trillions of tax dollars, lose thousands of American limbs and lives, and then run away\u2026 So at least things are improving.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no moral world in which Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation that was no threat to him, is justified or acceptable. 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