Posted on 06/14/2018 10:25:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan
How the social justice mob decides who goes down, and who doesn't.
About a year ago, I was at one of those elitist dinner parties that the talk-radio guys are always going on about, albeit in the Swiss Alps rather than inside the Beltway—how’s that for one-upmanship? It was a very agreeable gathering at the end of a practically unimprovable week, but toward the end of the evening, an unexpected (by me, anyway) guest appeared: Roman Polanski.
That presented a dilemma both ethical and etiquettical. Does one meet Roman Polanski? Shake hands? Exchange pleasantries? Put on my critic’s hat and engage in a little friendly commentary? “I really enjoyed Chinatown, but I didn’t think Carnage quite lived up to the play. I’m not saying it was as bad as being drugged and forcibly sodomized, but, you know, John C. Reilly is no James Gandolfini.”
Tricky.
I wish I could say that my most immediate concern was transcendently moral, but apparently I am more a willow than an oak, and the first thing that crossed my mind was how to avoid embarrassing my hosts. And I confess that I did spend a second or two considering all the malicious uses to which a picture of me shaking hands with Roman Polanski might be put.
In fact, the dilemma proved easy to avoid. I stayed in my corner, and Polanski didn’t exactly work the room. He must realize that introducing himself potentially puts people on the spot. There is an etiquette for pariahs, and Polanski has had time to master its complexities.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Complete load of tosh.
There will be 'social tension' whenever a spade is not called a spade and when it is mandated that it be called something else.
If you're a nutjob attempting to enter my house because you think you live there, it's a problem and I will deal with it accordingly.
If you're a nutjob who thinks he can use the wrong bathroom, enter women's athletic events, and pass himself off legally as a woman then the same will apply.
People who claim evolution is undeniable science don't seem to want to apply their categorical to the fact that there are, were, have been and always will be two sexes. Nature is not interested in the folly of man.
Oh, Beuluh! Peel me a grape.
Yeah, these guys like to hear themselves talk.
The topic and title sounded intriguing and true.
Paragraph and a half in and I’d forgotten what he was supposed to be writing about.
Beta Male searches for his junk and finds a hole.
That seems the general attitude to his entire career. What a bore!
Everyones smart phone has a microphone that can can be manipulated by other programs. Smart TVs have microphones built in or the remote has one. Amazon Echo, Siri, every smart device that can access the web can spy on you.
I have been thinking lately that they have been listening to me thru my analog stereo speakers and watching me thru my cathode ray TV via the A/C power lines since before the 70s.
Everything uttered by a normal person, Republican, Christian, is recorded and discussed at meetings to determine if they will crucify him on it.
democrats, muzzies, and other America-haters are not subject to this a$$-exam.
That article is a mess. It’s all over the board. It should have been three different articles. I read the whole thing and can’t quite report on what point the author is trying to make. Liberals are hypocrites, Muslims Kill people that don’t agree with them (or are supposed to) and people are categorized by what they say or believe?
I wasted some of my life on that bloviation. Don’t waste yours.
The vile irrelevant Never Trumper has to beg dirtbag Kristol to publish his elitist garbage. Good riddance.
I read it, but it deserves a TLDNR. (Too Long, Did Not Read)
Wordy, pretentous, name dropping, self serving...
Takes about 3,000 words to make a 600 word point.
An interesting point, to be sure, but way.. too long.
Loved The Wall reference.
So the pretty young women was a mustelid( distinguished by having a long body, short legs, and musky scent glands under the tail). Too funny!
When are we going to tell these busybodies to hit the road?
My faith tells me to as far as it lies within me, to live in peace with everybody — that does not mean that I am to submit to evil or perversion.
That I will never do.
I would be ambivalent about meeting Polanski, too.
“Chinatown” easily makes my personal list of Top Three Movies of All Time.
And, it is the only Jack Nicholson movie I have ever watched more than once.
Yeah me too.
No question. Chinatown is in Cooperstown.
Bitterly disappointed in ‘The Two Jakes’.
Brings up another cult film - The Ninth Gate.
Polanski is a world class scumbag, but makes great films.
I agree, further I have a solution. Get him back in the states, put him on trial, and if he ends up sentenced guilty he can make movies on work release.
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