Posted on 08/08/2020 8:27:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Liberals are suddenly realizing that “cancel culture” can snap back – and it hurts. The liberal idea was to “cancel” people who raise “offensive” or “objectionable” topics, summarily ending unwanted discussions by intimidating people into abandoning free speech rights. It was always anti-American. Now, it turns out the left’s beast, is eating them too.
Upending the First Amendment by spurning people with different views is a dead end – legally, politically, and socially. Interestingly, conservatives generally offer to debate while liberals stifle dialogue. Now, they are being stifled.
Last week, some noted liberals wrote an “open letter” decrying how unthinking, zealous leftists were shutting them down. Former New York Times editor Bari Weiss and Harper’s columnist Thomas Williams were joined by Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling, activist Noam Chomsky, and feminist Gloria Steinem, in this conservative turn. They rediscovered the First Amendment.
Suddenly, having been shunted off stage, out of newsrooms, and denied the right to opine, they took to Bill Maher’s show to say “open debate without fear of repercussions might be a good idea,” since the absence of free expression might lead to violence. Behold – an epiphany.
While the left swarms America’s streets, these liberals penned a letter. Said Weiss, their letter was a “warning cry from inside the institutions,” signaling the need to reverse course. Free speech apparently does matter, after all. Why? Because blocking it is “social murder” these enlightened liberals professed on Maher’s show – a curious venue for lefty confessions.
Weiss explained. “What is going on now with this culture of illiberalism is different from criticism.” Criticism is good, but “cancel culture is not criticism, it is about punishment … making a person radioactive… taking away their job.” She decried her former employer.
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I’ll take “When useful idiots are no longer useful” for $400, Alex.
Chomsky is a hard core red despite his flirtation with French fascist for a little while. If he is against something from the Left, it is only because it hurts the Left. Nothing more, nothing less.
When the Russians took over Eastern Poland at the start of WWII, the first ones to go were the hardened communists because they were Trotskyists, which was the wrong brand of communism. They went to Siberia before the hardened fascist capitalists.
Nobody saw that one coming, nope, not even a little bit.
“... the apostates gradually come back into the fold...”
I’m not so sure. The various denominations of Protestants sure aren’t coming back into the fold; rather, the opposite is occurring.
Progressivism is a humanist-Marxist religion, and religion births factions. Each faction takes a different doctrinal view on one or several items, they’re damn sure they’re right and the other factions, or the core theology, is wrong. Then, pride does its thing.
It’s an important election...
Shut down the cancelers. Destroy them. “Isolate the target and destroy it.”
Rule 13, baby!
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