Posted on 04/05/2015 5:42:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Nothing upsets progressives like disagreeing with them. Like children throwing a fit because they can’t get the toy they want, leftists become unhinged when confronted with a reality they don’t like.
The digital lynch mob that failed to destroy Memories Pizza is but one example of how progressives (liberals, Democrats, or whatever else they call themselves these days) operate now. But their irrational hatred stems from the insulated world we’ve allowed society to create for them.
Thanks to political correctness and leftists’ bullying tactics, it is entirely possible for people to live their entire adolescence and well into adulthood before they are exposed to contrary opinions. The “celebrate diversity” bumper sticker crowd is just about the most homogenous group on the planet when it comes to thought.
So, when members of the insulated class come across a contrary opinion, the advice spelled out so plainly on the back of their Prius falls by the wayside, and they revert to a hissy fit.
Such was the case this week with Memories Pizza.
An awful local “news” crew set out to find a sucker to reinforce the progressive narrative that Americans are just the slightest opportunity away from being hateful monsters out to destroy their fellow human beings. It’s the mentality that allows someone with a “COEXIST” bumper sticker to deem another human being unfit for a harassment-free life and still look at themselves in the mirror.
The gang from ABC 57 in South Bend, Ind., knew it had a hot narrative, if only it could find someone to play the role of villain. By their own account, these reporters set out not to report the news, but to manufacture it.
“News anchor” Brian Dorman, in setting up the “package” on Memories Pizza, said, “We went into small towns tonight for reaction to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We found one business just 20 miles away from a welcoming South Bend with a much different view.” (Emphasis added.)
Enter Alyssa Marino, the “reporter” who found the narrative in the form of the O’Connor family, who made the modern mistake of believing “tolerance” meant “anyone has the right to believe in anything” in the United States in 2015.
The O’Connor family, who never had discriminated against anyone, was painted by the media as the modern version of the Klan, except without membership in the Democratic Party, of course. (Read and share my full account of just how awful the “reporting” of ABC 57, Dorman and Marino was here.)
The national media dutifully followed suit, goose-stepping along with the predetermined narrative – Indiana was a homophobic state full of bigots frothing at the mouth for their chance at official government sanction of their true hateful nature.
It’s a mentality that can arise only in a newsroom, college campus or some other setting where people are so insulated from contrary views that their mere existence is anathema. Either by design or by choice, the newsroom has become the landing strip for the participation ribbon mentality. It’s a safe harbor for sameness, where narratives go unchallenged and standards are a quaint memory.
Integrity is no longer earned in the media business. It is bestowed by committees of like-minded peers in the form of certificates and plaques at self-congratulatory dinners.
That people who are the antithesis of integrity, the Carol Costellos and Alex Wagners of the world, can label large swaths of Americans anything, let alone bigots, is a testament to irony. That some of the public would follow the media’s lead and be so bothered by the mere existence of people who might, for reasons of faith, not acquiesce to their will that they would threaten to burn down their business or kill their family is a testament to just how insulated progressives have become.
If you’ve never been exposed to a contrary opinion, when you finally are it can be jarring. It doesn’t justify the death threats, hatred and lies, but it does give a clue as to where they come from. With the progressive infestation of education and media, it is entirely possible those who perpetrated these character assassinations against innocent people never had heard people express an opinion based on faith in anything other than government.
Then again, they could know full well what they’re doing and be willing to destroy the lives of innocent people to gain favor with their fellow travelers. However they came to their ignorance, they live their lives in a bubble, and concepts such as religious liberty, or liberty at all, drain oxygen from that bubble. Since there is no popping it, may we continue to drain it through the 2016 election to the point there is no air left in it.
His opinion on anything stopped mattering a long time ago.
The author completely fails to understand the progressive left...
The leadership at least, certainly understands religious liberty, liberty or freedom and are not ignorant.
Their leftist idiot tools may be...but that is by design...
They know these organic things such as liberty, freedom, culture, faith must be destroyed before they can impose their utopian dreams on us by force...
It's been in the words for a hundred years...
words = works
They knew when the movement started that we would not approve of communism in a big jump. So they chose a strategy of progressing towards that goal. Hence Progressives. It began around 1917 with Wilson and continues today. They are communists in Progressive clothes.
It isn't.
They are clearly making progress marching us down the road to Socialist tyranny.
A little off topic, but related, Kentucky player (black) “apologizes” for racial slur....SC student (white) suspended for racial slur...
Townhall is killing it this weekend. Bravo, Townhall.com.
Why do they call them “progressives” when their agenda are clearly the opposite of progressive?
Because their previous name “NAZI” is now seen as negative.
The caving into the tyrants by Republican politicians was on full display last week.
Thank the morons who advocated “Vote for anybody with an ‘R’ next to their name, even the liberals.”
This reminds me of when Jesus warned his disciples “Beware the yeast of the Pharisees.”
Um, that IS a boycott. Yes one person can boycott anything.
I'm quite sure many or most of them would have said no way. But that would not provoke outrage in the progressive community.
When I was a child, this was called ‘brain-washing’, and it was disdained by everyone who loved freedom, it was a tool of communists. The best example was Pravda which supported the Kremlin in everything and never hesitated to lie to promote the party’s goals.
Sound familiar?
Progressive psychotics (some redundancy there) will always be Progressive psychotics, not to mention puerile, irritating, hateful, irrational and absolutely out of contact with reality.
IMHO
I think they’re proud of shutting down that pizza parlor and setting an example for any other business who dares to even think contrary to the homosexual Mafia.
Not only that, but they got the state to immediately do a 180 on their law.
They have every reasons to be doing cartwheels over this complete rout over conservative America.
I saw a poll recently claiming that 56% of Americans now approve of gay marriage. I don’t know if the poll was biased or the question phrased a certain way or what. But if those results are anywhere near correct, it is worrisome. I think the pro-gays are winning, spectacularly. Which of course doesn’t mean we should give up.
WEll said and all true.
Great piece. Thanks for posting it. Happy Resurrection Day!
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