Great editorial by Steyn. That man can write! This line really cracked me up:
“As you’ll notice in YouTube comments, I’m often derided as a pansy fag loser by the likes of ShitlordWarrior473 for sitting around talking about immigration policy as opposed to getting out in the street and taking direct action.”
What happened yesterday is a remarkable convergence of the spirits of the age: mass shootings, immigration, the Big Tech thought-police, the long reach of the Iranian Revolution, the refugee racket, animal rights, vegan music videos... It was the latest mismatched meeting between east and west in the age of the Great Migrations: Nasim Aghdam died two days before her 39th birthday, still living (according to news reports) with either her parents or her grandmother. She came to America at the age of seventeen, and spent two decades in what appears to be a sad and confused search to find something to give her life meaning. But in a cruder sense the horror in San Bruno was also a sudden meeting of two worlds hitherto assumed to be hermetically sealed from each other: the cool, dispassionate, dehumanized, algorithmic hum of High Tech - and the raw, primal, murderous rage breaking through from those on the receiving end.
Mark Steyn is terrific & usually right on target. I do have a quibble over his comments on the Dennis Prager suit. It is about censorship, not de-monetization. Prager’s videos are targeted at those most in need of the information - millenials - since they’re not getting it through school anymore. YouTube is deliberately preventing those most in need of a different point of view of exactly that. I have no doubt that the judge is just another leftist. On the other hand, maybe Prager does need better lawyers.