Posted on 06/11/2020 10:13:48 AM PDT by C19fan
Marie Cisco was fed up. America was in turmoil, rocked to its core by the brutal killing of George Floydat the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis. Protests against systemic racism and injustice had been raging for five days, and the nation’s theaters were excruciatingly silent in expressing support. Cisco, a producer who has worked with the New York-based National Black Theatre, the Public Theater, Lee Daniels Entertainment and the Apollo Theater, was not surprised by the crickets coming from these institutions — self-professed bastions of liberalism and equality — but she felt hurt and angry all the same. So Cisco created a public Google spreadsheet and titled it “Theaters Not Speaking Out.” It was open for anyone to edit, and it had a simple directive: “Add names to this document who have not made a statement against injustices toward black people.”
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Uh Oh - another “hurt and angry” social justice warrior.
Fightin’ Joe was right. These people aren’t.
I think this may explain why I’m starting to get emails from companies I do (or used to do) business with that repeat BLM propaganda.
We have reached the point of the cultural revolution.
All theater owners that have not signed on and pubically expressed “ correct thinking” will now need to make public confessions of the “wrong thinking”
roll around on their stomachs for 8 minutes yelling “i can’t’ breathe”
Suffer 20 lashes
and be forced to step down from their position, Relinquish all property to a suitable “right thinking” individual
And never be allowed to hold any sort of job or office again.
Exactly. They are keeping track of who sends out those emails and who doesn’t.
The Left didn’t oppose the tactics, the Left was defending Commie stooges and proud traitors
It is worse than “Loyalty Oaths”.
It demands any conversation on “racism” is on the Marxist prescribed BLM agenda that demands all racism is “systemic racism”, which is not the result of any empirical evidence study, just an academic theory that was born whole and out of whole cloth, as if by “revelation”. The loyalty being demanded is not about “ending racism” but merely “yes I subscribe to the theory of ‘systemic racism’ “.
Ask Conservative blacks like Carol Miller Swain and Thomas Sowell (and others) if THEY subscribe to that theory?
You beat me to it.
Seinfeld may very well be the last great “Non-Woke” Comedy.
Guilt by disassociation
The real and perceived injustices, will make the left take down the country, if they are not stopped soon. Once the country heads on the down-slope, it’s not going to be easy to stop the frenzied destruction of the U.S.A.
The people who will be hurt the most, will be those that see real and perceived injustices and want equal treatment under the law and in economic equality. What they wish to attain, will be forever gone. What they wish to attain has already been happening, butd the progressives and liberals and communists and anarchists, have convinced those seeking equality that, they’ve been victimized by a non-caring country.
“...nay, this silence was not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!”
Not so. Not so, Master Secretary.
The maxim of the law is,”Silence gives consent.”
If, therefore, you wish to construe what my silence betokened you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.
And it will soon be clear that “systemic racism” is the new name for Capitalism.
1984 was a warning not a guide.
Conform or else.
You will be made to care.
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