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.
