Let’s review what our current leaders and talking heads tell us is dangerous, and compare those things against what they tell us is not dangerous.

DangerousNot dangerous
Acting white
AIDS
American exceptionalism
Bird flu
Border controls
Capitalism
Cholesterol
Christians
Conservative blacks
Conservative opinion
Conservative protests
Conservative speech
Conservative thought
Conservative women
Cultural appropriation
'Disproportionate' punishments
Fatty foods
Flu season
Fly-over country
Food insecurity
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech
George Bush
Government accountability
Government transparency
Guns
Hetero-normalcy
Inequality
Letting big corporations fail
Meat and meat products
Meritocracy
Nazis
Not enough food
Oil pipelines
Political criticism (U.S. only)
Poverty
Privacy laws
Profits
Racial realities
Republicans
Rich people (conservatives only)
'Right-wing' fascism
Rush Limbaugh
Second-hand smoke
Self-reliance
Smoking
Sneezing
Stand-your-ground laws
Sugary foods
Swine flu
Tea-Party patriots
The Koch brothers
Third-hand smoke
Traditions
Unequal outcomes
Unsafe sex
Veterans
Video
Voter registration checks
White people
White privilege
Ebola

Note that if you are accosted by a hater who disputes this accounting because of its apparently lop-sided nature, you may add to the “Not dangerous” list any of the following on an ad hoc basis.

  • Abortion
  • Affirmative action
  • Big government
  • Black mobs
  • Black-on-white crime
  • Career politicians
  • Censorship
  • Civil asset seizures
  • Communism
  • Democracy
  • Federal deficits
  • Federal spending
  • Fiat currency
  • Foreign adventurism
  • Golf
  • Government hand-outs
  • High food prices
  • High gas prices
  • High taxes
  • Illegal immigration
  • Importing Third-world problems
  • Inflation
  • Islamic rape
  • The knock-out ‘game’
  • ‘Left-wing’ fascism
  • Lobbyists
  • Marijuana use
  • Militarized police departments
  • Obamacare
  • ‘Occupy’ protesters
  • One-world government
  • Other Third-World diseases
  • ‘Polar bear’ hunting
  • Progressivism
  • Racial pandering
  • Racial preferences
  • Racial set-asides
  • Radical Islam (AKA Islam)
  • Sex education in kindergarten
  • Socialism
  • Spending limits
  • Spying
  • TSA
  • Unarmed teens
  • Voter fraud
  • Wage controls