Posted on 03/05/2021 9:42:05 AM PST by Impala64ssa
This week, MSNBC host Joy Reid stated that “people on the right would trade all the tax cuts for the ability to openly say the N-word like in ‘the good old days,’” adding that those same people’s inability “to be openly racist and discriminatory without consequence is oppression. Trump is the avatar for this ‘freedom.’”
Reid’s comment came after former New York Times writer Bari Weiss published a column on Tuesday titled, “The self-silencing majority: In red America and blue America, an epidemic of self-censorship is threatening democracy.” In the column, she states, “I know a lot of people who live in fear of saying what they really think. In red America and in blue America — and, perhaps more so, on the red internet and the blue internet — we are in the grip of an epidemic of self-silencing.”
Weiss added on Twitter, “’Self-censorship is the norm, not the exception,’ a student at one of the country’s top law schools wrote. ‘I self-censor even when talking to some of my best friends for fear of word getting around.’”
‘ By Gabe Kaminsky That prompted a Morgan State professor and MSNBC contributor to respond to Weiss, charging, “Yes, because code-switching, mask wearing and all of the other hoops that black people have to go through to appease enough of the majority to even GET into law school isn’t the issue. But censoring yourself from saying the N word amongst friends is.”
Johnson’s remark triggered Reid’s reply.
In Weiss’ column, she noted:
There are two illiberal cultures swallowing up the country. I know because I live in blue America, in a world awash in NPR tote bags and front lawn signs proclaiming the social justice bonafides of the family inside. In my America, the people who keep quiet don’t fear the wrath of Trump supporters. They fear the illiberal left.
They are feminists who believe there are biological differences between men and women. Journalists who believe their job is to tell the truth about the world, even when it’s inconvenient. Doctors whose only creed is science. Lawyers who will not compromise on the principle of equal treatment under the law. Professors who seek the freedom to write and research without fear of being smeared. In short, they are centrists, libertarians, liberals and progressives who do not ascribe to every single aspect of the new far-left orthodoxy.
After I resigned from The New York Times over the summer for their hostility to free speech and open inquiry, I began to hear almost daily from such people. Their notes to me sound like missives smuggled out of a totalitarian society.
She continued:
I was born in 1984, which puts me among the last generation born into America before the phrase “cancel culture” existed. … The consensus view relied on a few foundational truths that seemed as obvious as the blue of the sky: the belief that everyone is created in the image of God; the belief that everyone is equal because of it; the presumption of innocence; a revulsion to mob justice; a commitment to pluralism and free speech, and to liberty of thought and of faith. … Most importantly, this worldview insisted that what bound us together was not blood or soil, but a commitment to a shared set of ideas. … This old consensus — every single aspect of it — has been run over by the new illiberal orthodoxy.
In this ideology, if you do not tweet the right tweet or share the right slogan or post the right motto and visual on Instagram, your whole life can be ruined. … Victimhood, in this ideology, confers morality. “I think therefore I am” is replaced with: “I am therefore I know,” and “I know therefore I am right.” In this ideology, you are guilty for the sins of your father. In other words: you are not you. You are only a mere avatar of your race or your religion. And racism is no longer about discrimination based on the color of someone’s skin. Racism is any system that allows for disparate outcomes between racial groups.
It is our duty to resist the crowd in this age of mob thinking. It is our duty to speak truth in an age of lies. It is our duty to think freely in an age of conformity. … Keeping the spirit of liberty alive in an age of creeping illiberalism is nothing less than our moral obligation. Everything depends on it.
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Maybe she means the word “NO”. Would love to say that word more to the left.
The stupid is strong with this one..
NO! Take that joyless.
And yet it’s people like her on the left that want to INCREASE taxes on people that want to openly say it under “hate speech” “punitive fees”
Once again, the biggest racists are exposing themselves.
I’ll say it, anyway!
Are you ready?!
Here goes!
She’s a nincompoop!
Joy Reid: Affirmative Action at it’s finest..................
Every single person on the left is simply making crap up (divisive lies) and then labeling it “news” and “fact”.
In how many languages is the word for black negro or some variant?
Stupid and fat. What a way to go through life.
And a nitwit.
More like trade away our freedom, and embrace communism from the Chinese in exchange for some tax cuts.
No doubt the delusional reality reid lives in has turned her into the twisted individual she is, in actual reality.
guess it depends how much of a tax break I’m giving up for this N-Word Pass
Whenever I hear petty and brainless observations like these from someone like Joy, I am reminded of Tammy Bruce’s comment that when she worked for NOW’s office in Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s, she heard racist and sexist and homophobic remarks from far more many self identified liberal Democrat types as opposed to conservatives and Republicans.
What sort of diseased mind even comes up with something like that?
Joy, we never used that word all that much. Y’all use it as both an insult and term of endearment to this day. It may come to a surprise to you, but white folks don’t sit around worrying about black folks.
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