Posted on 02/09/2022 4:15:44 AM PST by MtnClimber
In today’s social and political environment, unless you’ve done or thought something for which you are genuine sorry, don’t apologize.
Back in the mid-80s, when Madonna exploded onto the music scene, I despised her. I was a serious musician back then, playing drums professionally (something I did from my teens until my early 30s). However, I’ve never forgotten how Madonna handled the fact that, in 1985, photos surfaced revealed that, when Madonna was 19 years old and first came to NYC, she posed for Penthouse.
When those photos were leaked, Madonna’s reaction was pretty much (and I’m paraphrasing here, not quoting), “Yeah, I did that. I needed the money. The end.” The scandal disappeared in two days. Although I am back to not liking Madonna again because of her pink pussy hat, blowing up the White House thing, the 1985 Madonna had it right.
If I see one more hostage video of someone offering up a sniveling, groveling apology for something he said or did years ago that was taken out of context, I am going to vomit. The latest was Joe Rogan.
Now hear this Mr. Rogan and everyone else. Stop apologizing. The Marxists don’t want your apology; they want you gone. If you don’t play into this stupid game. they will move on. If everyone takes the 1985 Madonna attitude, cancel culture will be canceled.
This episode isn’t about what Rogan said; this is about Rogan having millions of subscribers, while the legacy media has no ratings. Since the legacy media is the propaganda arm of the Marxist party, they can’t have that—especially if Rogan has people on his show who don’t agree with Pravda/CCP approved narrative. That’s what this is all about.
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Then he definitely should not have apologized.
Forget China, it was BS in the Soviet Union (both with Stalin and with Lenin), and it was even BS during the French Revolution (the ACTUAL inspiration behind China’s Cultural Revolution). We must NEVER forget that the French Revolution was the actual start of the Cultural Revolution (and I’d argue that while Rousseau definitely played a huge role in the FR, it was actually the likes of Voltaire who pushed for the more destructive aspects of it, all because he didn’t stand the very idea of anyone, especially a deity, being smarter than him. It actually sickens me at times that Voltaire is treated as basically being a stalwart defender of free speech by even us Conservatives. He’s not! He if anything was the prototype to the SJW’s cancel culture. Just ask Abbe Barruell, Edmund Burke, or Timothy Dwight. They’ll tell you.).
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