Posted on 09/10/2020 9:09:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
There have been many strange scenes in this era of coronavirus pandemic, anti-racism unrest, and woke recriminations, but perhaps none have been stranger than one that took place on Zoom late last month, when 115 people, appearing in little squares on computer screens, held a kind of trial, a somewhat secret one at that, closed to the press, its participants barred from talking about it to outsiders afterwards. The episode illustrates the tense workings of cancel culture preoccupying an American institution.
In the dock, and visible in his own little square, was Carlin Romano, a writer, philosopher, book critic and, off and on for 35 years, a member of the executive board and former president of the National Book Critics Circle, known for the prestigious literary prizes it gives every year.
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Another useful idiot meets the firing squad.
Loyalty oaths and blacklists.
Hollywood Reds lie
stalinists lie. Always
Well worth reading for its excellent reporting — thanks for posting this article
Well, this might have the effect of opening one person’s eyes, Carlin Romano, but I doubt it.
Cancel Culture is about as Un-American as it gets.
Writers should have seen the handwriting on the wall when publishers began hiring so-called sensitivity readers.
A great look into what we are all up against.
Sounds like they’re eating their own. Rust and decay has the tendency to do that.
Hey, if you’re a leftie of insufficient wokeness, you better start practicing kneeling in the “jet plane position”: http://chinese-cultural-revolution.weebly.com/red-guard-terror.html (for the rest of us, it’s reeducation camp, at best).
More and more white liberals are finding out that their hopes (that the leftist crocodile would eat them last) were in vain.
But the Romano incident also highlighted another more far-reaching, aspect of the ongoing culture wars, namely how the “woke” left seems to be devouring old school liberals.
Baby Boomer liberals engaged in the Long March through our institutions. And now the generation fully immersed in liberal orthodoxy is coming into its own. But this latest generation, the Millennials, are not “down for the struggle.” As part of their conditioning, they have been encouraged to navel gaze and eschew sacrificing for future generations, indeed even creating future generations. So they want their utopia now and are using the cancel culture to purge the older generation of liberals which are still in power. In this they may have jumped the gun and exposed their revolutionary agenda to their allies as well as their enemies. At least I hope it has.
Reason number 187 why I started working for myself at age 26 and never looked back. My wife later said that was a good idea as I would have never made it the corporate “job” world.
Sitting in wait, its gonna get ugly
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