Wednesday, December 4, 2019

MassResistance Victory Against Another Liberal Magazine

MassResistance Victory Against Another Liberal Magazine

Left-Wing Anti-Family Rag Forced to Close, On the Day Before Thanksgiving

Lesson Learned: Stand Up to Fake News and Bad Press, and You Win

Pro-Family activists tend to avoid being confrontational. They often avoid making bold statements against the LGBT Agenda, calling out its inherent disorders and dysfunctions. Why? They fear the liberal media smears and the moblike attacks on social media.

However, MassResistance is different. We don’t worry about what the press may print about us. In fact, we have discovered that the more we stick to our pro-family principles, calling out homosexuality and transgenderism as the mental disorders that they are, the more support we gather, and the less influence the liberal media has against us.

Before our Arthur Schaper became our Organization Director, he served as our volunteer Director for the state of California. Shortly after Trump’s election in 2016, a local alternative newspaper interviewed him on social media. They published a hit piece about him, as expected. The article backfired, however, giving Arthur more support and notoriety for his efforts with MassResistance. Over the last two years, the paper began losing staff and was ultimately forced to close this Thanksgiving!

A Little Background on OC Weekly

The OC Weekly is a free, alternative weekly, which tries to give off an aura of respectability in its bio:

Published since September 1995, OC Weekly provides readers in Orange County and Long Beach with award-winning news coverage and provocative coverage of arts and entertainment.

 

With a circulation of 45,000, the paper each week reaches more than 503,206 active, educated and affluent readers, who look to the Weekly to guide their lifestyle and entertainment choices. Readers rely on the Weekly’s intelligent and unconventional coverage of local social issues, politics, arts and culture.

 

In 2007, OC Weekly took second place for general excellence in the prestigious Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, a contest in which it competed against dailies and weeklies in its circulation category from across the country. The Weekly has also won numerous awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, including that organization’s decision in 2007 to honor investigative reporter and “Ask a Mexican” columnist Gustavo Arellano with its prestigious President’s Award.

 Actually, the magazine is more well-known for its sexually explicit advertising and promotion of marijuana dispensaries. Towards the final years of its publication, there were more ads than actual content in the weekly magazine, and even then it was not enough for them to stay open. Most of the reporting really amounted to hit pieces against conservative politicians and activists. In some cases, the writing was so bad, it almost resembled parody.

The Hit Piece against MassResistance

Then came the article against Arthur, now our Organization Director, on OC Weekly, which was published on December 21, 2016:

ARTHUR SCHAPER BATTLES ‘TYRANNICAL’ GAYS, ‘UN-AMERICAN’ LATINOS AND THE MEDIA

 

 

As expected, OC Weekly went after Arthur’s work with MassResistance:

 

A self-styled “citizen journalist and activist” who is secretive about how he makes a living, Schaper serves as voluntary director of California’s branch of MassResistance, a socially conservative, Massachusetts-created organization. (His neighbors say he’s a grocery store employee, but he has adamantly refused to respond to multiple inquiries over several days.) That group supports state mandates against abortion, opposes government interference with bullying, objects to FBI and CIA hiring of gay employees, and dismisses all discussions of homosexuality that aren’t condemnations. Such stances caused the Southern Poverty Law Center to designate MassResistance a hate group.

Of course, they mention the hate group “The Southern Poverty Law Center”. Is it any surprise that any media or newspaper which mentions the SPLC ends up closing up shop?

 

For his part, Schaper’s duties include what he touts as an “aggressive” attack on the “vulgar, virulent homosexual lobby” that espouses “Orwellian nonsense.” He believes too many conservative organizations aren’t confrontational enough to be effective. “LGBT bigotry,” “LGBT oppression” and the “LGBT hate machine” require constant battle because of the “assault on liberty, life and reality.” In short, gay Americans are, he maintains, the real bigots in our society.

 What was intriguing about this write-up is how stunningly accurate it is. For a hit piece, the OC Weekly reporter actually captured the spirit and substance of what MassResistance is all about! Arthur and MassResistance as a whole is committed to telling the whole truth about the LGBT Agenda. For years, we have reported how most pro-family groups fail to adequately confront and defeat this terrible agenda.

 

And Schaper is dreaming big. He hopes Trump turns California—“the land of fruits and nuts”—into Republican-controlled territory, where homosexuality and transgenderism are officially deemed “mental disorders.” In his view, the heterosexual majority should withdraw civil-rights protections for same-sex couples. “Not all of us are fruits and nuts” who will tolerate “the malaise of cultural Marxism [that] is destroying California,” he observed.

 Most pro-family groups would never dare to go on record with any reporter, let alone a left-wing hack writer, about their stance on homosexuality and transgenderism. Even if they did, they will often resort to soft pablum and make arguments about defending religious liberty while being tolerant and accepting of LGBT people.

Not Arthur! He had no problem writing and stating his views on the subject. OC Weekly printed what he had shared, hoping to shame him into silence or into retreat. That never happened, and Arthur stood by everything he said.

 

Schaper, who says he has taught in public and charter schools, led a May protest against Target in Torrance after the store’s corporate headquarters in Minneapolis announced a policy of “inclusion” for transgender people’s restroom access. Local Target management attempted to quash the gathering—even calling police—but Schaper refused to back down, noting he has a constitutional right to protest. He espoused an unequivocal message: “Transgenderism is a disorder—not something to be accommodated, not something to be recognized or celebrated.”

 

The following month, MassResistance confronted Target’s stockholders, who’d gathered at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. Protesters repeatedly shouted, “Boycott Target!” The Orange County Register quoted Schaper uttering the old line “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”

 

Energized by the skirmishes, Schaper targeted a state official. He memorialized the event online, commenting, “[We] pounded the pro-LGBT political establishment on June 29 by staging an in-your-face protest at the office of [state] Senator Ricardo Lara in Long Beach. Senator Lara, a ‘radical’ gay activist, is the sponsor and main force behind the infamous [California Senate Bill] S1146.”

 

Lara wants the proposed legislation to ban the use of taxpayer funds to discriminate against gay and lesbian citizens. Schaper, however, sees a nefarious plot. “[The bill’s goal] is to force Christian colleges to surrender their opposition to homosexuality and transgender behavior,” he wrote in July. “Let’s be blunt. The LGBT movement is not about individual liberty, but collective tyranny.”

 

Exactly!

This article is unusual for the amount of information it provides about Arthur’s efforts to fight against the LGBT in different forms. Most individuals never received this much coverage, this much treatment from the OC Weekly. Why was this magazine so obsessed with Arthur.

 

After receiving critical online comments, he responded gleefully, “The LGBT haters are attacking me on Twitter, too. . . . But we have a promise in Isaiah 54:17.”

 

Lately, Schaper has targeted Taiwan, potentially on the verge of being Asia’s first nation to recognize gay marriage. He has issued statements calling for that country to reject anything but “natural marriage” because “gay marriage is, in fact, a Trojan horse full of unintended, negative consequences. . . The devastating impact to public health and individual rights cannot be ignored.”

 

In an interview with OC Weekly, the California native sought to slightly soften his persona, stating, “I know people whom I am friendly with regardless of their sexual feelings.” But he loathes gay activists because, he says, they’ve “co-opted” the civil-rights movement that belongs to black citizens because “people are born black.” Undercover videos recorded at gay bars by ex-gay-movement activists led him to conclude, “Most of the gays themselves admitted that they were not born that way.” Molested children become gay, he thinks.

 Once again, it’s surprising to what extent OC Weekly printed an accurate depiction of Arthur and his activism with MassResistance.

This alternative weekly magazine continued to attack Arthur for his efforts fighting illegal immigration and other issues, too.

Ten months after the hit piece Arthur, which failed to derail his efforts, OC Weekly announced that they were laying off half their staff!

Arthur reported on his blog:


Gustavo Arellano is gone as OC Weekly editor:

Gustavo Arellano, editor and general do-it-all at OC Weekly, is no longer with the publication as of Friday. Arellano spoke on the details of his departure on the Tom Leykis Show this afternoon, saying he resigned after he refused a call from the publication’s owners to lay off employees.

 

The OC Weakly had employees? Really? Why did Arellano have to cut stuff?

 

Because the paper is bleeding money like it bleeds ink. No one wants to read the trash rag anymore.

 

“I was told to lay off half of the staff at OC Weekly. We’re a tiny-ass paper as it is. And I refused,” said Arellano. He said that he presented to them an alternative plan in September “that would not involve us losing amazing, talented people.”

Arthur’s report above was printed in October, 2017. OC Weekly continued to operate, although its content and coverage continued to decline.

OC Weekly Closes for Good

Then Arthur found out on Thanksgiving Day this year that the OC Weekly had shut its doors for good!

The Wrap reported:


OC Weekly, a free weekly paper serving communities in Orange County and Long Beach, has shuttered after 24 years in print.

 

In an announcement on Twitter, the paper confirmed that its owner, Duncan McIntosh Company, made the decision to pull the plug. The paper’s full 19-person staff, as listed on its masthead, has effectively been laid off. (Representatives for Duncan McIntosh Company did not immediately respond TheWrap’s request for comment.)

 

At a mandatory meeting last Monday, editorial and sales staffers were informed that owner Duncan McIntosh Company would be closing the paper. In the hopes that a last-minute sale might save the publication, the staff kept quiet about the news until this afternoon when it was clear that attempts to sell it were unsuccessful.

OC Weekly tweeted out something as vulgar as their content to signal their closure:

And Arthur had fun celebrating their demise!

Lessons To Learn for Pro-Family Movement

For the last thirty years, the Left has taken over key institutions in our culture: academia, business, public education, and the press.

Most conservatives adapted to these challenges by trying to play nice, to avoid saying necessary truths that are unpalatable to some, and that often opened them up to distortion and even ridicule. Instead of fighting back or making an effort to take back these institutions, most conservatives, including most pro-family groups, just opted for putting up with the abuse, lies, and smears of local and national press agencies. In too many instances, conservative organizations and activists go out of their way to make nice with press agents, hoping that journalists will give them equal coverage and fair treatment.

MassResistance is different. We recognize that the press is not interested in playing fair. Oftentimes, MassResistance relies exclusively on reporting its own efforts and successes, regardless of what the press may print afterward.

Also, knowing that bad press can be good press, MassResistance activists have never held back from speaking the truth about the LGBT Agenda and its damaging consequences. In fact, when OC Weekly first published their hit piece, a number of Arthur’s friends supported him, telling him that he had made into the “Big League”. After all, a liberal magazine not only attacked him, but printed a caricature of him, too. “I wish I had that kind of press”, one compatriot said to Arthur.

Arthur continued attacking the reporters on social media, too, exposing some of their racist, even anti-Semitic content on Twitter. Arthur also exposed the dialogue he had conducted with the original reporter who later wrote about him for OC Weekly. Click here for his entire exposé.

Instead of just “taking it on the chin”, MassResistance fought back, and we outlasted them!

This is the kind of robust effort that is needed to win the culture war. Pro-family groups cannot expect to make any progress if they refuse to take a firm stance on the issues, good or bad press coverage be damned. Furthermore, individual non-profit groups like ours are realizing that we have the power, and we can be our own media, whether local or national press agencies cover us or not. Last of all, as the technology revolution further transforms media publication and consumption, it’s become increasingly clear that the mainstream liberal media does not have the power it used to have. They can’t shame us or drive us out of the public square anymore, and we are winning the culture war, changing hearts and minds to take a stand for faith, family, and freedom and against the perverse LGBT Agenda.


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