Posted on 04/08/2018 5:37:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
There was a time when liberals, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, opposed illegal immigration, now to hold that opinion is a hate crime. More than that, like every instance of straying from the progressive thought plantation, its violence.
Yes, weve gone from sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me to words and thoughts are violence, too. Of course, the fact that words, or the thought of words being spoken, is met with violence by leftists across the country on college campuses is an irony lost on the irrational liberal mob.
It was bad enough when this spoiled child mentality was confined to universities, but it is creeping into adulthood and into (presumably) professional work environments. Laura Ingraham is facing a boycott because she said David Hogg, perhaps the most self-entitled person in the country at the moment, was whining about not getting into the colleges of his choice. Its a well-orchestrated boycott organized by adults at Media Matters, a Goebbels-esque charity whove monetized outrage and perfected the fascists dream of enforcing conformity.
What Ingraham did was ill-advised for all his bluster and media attention, Boss Hogg doesnt just act like a baby, he basically is one, crying when he doesnt get his way. A good rule of thumb in politics is to ignore the musings of anyone who hasnt completed puberty. Sure, hes said horrible things about innocent people that went unchecked, unchallenged, and uncorrected on MSNBC and CNN, but theyre essentially the video version of Pravda for the DNC. In the grand scheme of things, Hogg will be the answer no one gets in a trivia contest in a few months, so hes hardly worth burning calories over.
Still, the outrage machine locked and loaded, and pounced when they saw an opening. Their army of flying monkeys in the media quickly piled on and some sponsors dropped the show.
While stupid, its perfectly legal (though how Media Matters maintains its tax-exempt status remains a mystery). The problem isnt that Hogg called for a boycott (likely with coordination from the adults who pull this strings), or even that MSNBC and CNN gleefully joined (without concern for the reality that, if conservatives were so inclined, they could do the same to them with the ample offensive ammunition their programming provides for pearl-clutching on a daily basis), its the companies caved immediately to a crack that rates just below not saying bless you when someone sneezes. I know I wont patronize companies that capitulated and I doubt liberals will because they did.
But its not just on TV where non-liberal opinions are subject to the tolerance veto, print saw its own sacrifice this week.
Kevin Williamson was a writer at National Review (and probably will be again). For a week he was a writer at The Atlantic. The reason for that job only lasting a week is The Atlantic has a purity test, and Williamson failed it.
Purity tests used to be associated with racist groups, demanding someones blood be pure in order to belong. Still a hallmark of the progressive left, theyve evolved to become the defining characteristic for all progressive groups. Youre either all the way in, or youre out period.
Williamson is conservative, and that was enough for him not to be pure enough for the liberal Atlantic. It was couched by his spineless former boss, Jeffrey Goldberg, as being about comments Kevin made about supporting the death penalty for women who have abortions, but it was really much simpler than that.
A Klan of liberal writers were upset Goldberg had hired a conservative a real conservative, not one of those David Frum/Jennifer Rubin-type writers who voted for Bush but feel guilty about it now so spend all their time writing about how awful Republicans are and that was an unforgivable sin. Giving a non-doctrinaire thinker a platform is unacceptable. You can print vile things about any subject, as long as its liberal, in the Atlantic and youll remain in good standing with the Gestapo.
Conform and youre part of gang that likes to consider its members rebels; think differently and youre an unacceptable square.
Of course, Goldberg knew what Williamson believed when he hired him; its why he hired him to dilute the shallow end of the thought pool a little. But even a little is too much. A 5-year-old can declare themselves to be the opposite sex and liberals demand the whole world accept it, be pro-life and you must be destroyed.
Its not just abortion, there isnt an issue where disagreement with progressive doctrine is tolerated. There are acceptable opinions, then theres everything else. And everything else must be run out of town, killed, and have its grave soiled on a regular basis for all time. Mention Ronald Reagan to a liberal to see an example of not being able to tolerate any form of conservatism long after someones death.
Williamson will be fine, the people who love his writing will sing his praises and hell likely have another job by the end of the month, if not his old one back sooner. Thats not the issue here.
What this whole affair has exposed, yet again, is that liberalism is hate. Its not made of hate, it doesnt subsist on hate - it is hate. You are either one of them or you are their enemy. On an individual basis you can be friends with them, but especially in the political world, like the scorpion and the frog, if an opportunity comes along to destroy you, they will take it. Its their nature.
Thats what is so amusing about so many Never Trump Republicans, of which Williamson was one. They get invited to the parties, they get invited to the conferences (airfare and deluxe accommodations included), they get the TV bookings, but theyre never really part of the club. The same reason liberals hate and are seeking to destroy Laura Ingraham is the same reason they hate and tried to destroy Kevin Williamson. Sure, the words were different, but everything else is the same.
The Atlantic can fire anyone they want, as can any company, its not a First Amendment issue if it doesnt involve the government. This is beyond that.
These events, and ones like it, are symptomatic of the end of civility; the end of simply avoiding someone you dont like or disagree with. Its not enough, just not interacting with them. This is bigger, this is working to destroy people not because they slept with your spouse or stole your dog, but for daring to not agree with you.
The Daily Beast reported Williamson was fired, in large part, because of what his especially violent belief could mean for workplace relationships with female colleagues who may or may not have had an abortion. Thanks to the liberal mob, well never know if the strong, independent feminists at The Atlantic would be reduced to blubbering babies at the prospect of running into someone who thinks abortion is murder at the coffee machine because they and their differently genitalic fellow travelers made sure it wont happen.
Jeffrey Goldberg protected these strong, independent women who dont need a man to protect them because they demanded it.
The bubble is restored, dissent silenced. And liberals celebrated it all.
Liberals arent your colleagues, they may tolerate a token, but only insofar as you serve their purposes. At a minimum, maybe these events will serve as an inspiration for more conservatives to take the gloves off when it comes to the political game, because too many times too many of us stand by, satisfied with the mantle of the moral high ground, while others are stabbed in the back.
Excellent!
Its really a statement on how pitiful things are at The Atlantic. As an aside, how do these mags - The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic - stay afloat? I have never opened one of them, much less ever purchased.
bkmk
Maybe Spooky Dude (Soros) has a fund to keep them afloat.
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