Posted on 06/01/2018 6:52:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Let’s call it progressive peer-group privilege.
The older I get, the more firmly I’m convinced of a fundamental psychological fact. We never really leave high school. Of all the forms of pressure that one can apply to a person — political pressure, market pressure, moral pressure — the one that matters most of all is the one that mattered in the lunch room when you were wearing your class ring and letter jacket. It’s peer pressure, the unbreakable bond of the high-school clique.
No reasonable person thinks Samantha Bee would still have a job at TBS if she used the same terrible language to insult Chelsea Clinton or Michelle Obama. No reasonable person believes that MSNBC would stick with a conservative for so long in the face of anything like the steady drumbeat of outrageous revelations (excused, in part, by dubious claims of hacking) about Joy Reid’s old work.
From the outside, looking in, the easy explanation is to simply say that it’s pure ideology. Progressives are more forgiving of fellow progressives. They’ll look for reasons to excuse their behavior when, if the tables turn, they’ll look for reasons to magnify their opponent’s offense. Yesterday, I was a guest on Wisconsin Public Radio, and a caller challenged my comparison of Roseanne’s racist tweet and Bee’s grotesque expletive by saying that Roseanne was calling back to centuries of oppression. Yet, as my colleague Charlie Cooke notes today, if Sean Hannity had used the same language as Bee did, it would be cast as The Handmaid’s Tale come to life, reflecting some sort of deep-seated conservative desire to subjugate the female body.
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Reminds me of a bumper sticker: "We never really grow up; we just learn how to act in public"
She looks like a truck-stop whore.
Bee’s job is to attack conservatives, and since the election to be mean to Trump and everyone around him. Her show is “mean humor”, not “ha-ha humor” and it appeals to the left. TBS has already factored in the fact that 1/2 the country won’t watch her. She was just doing her job and crossed a line. Her viewers don’t care, so her employer doesn’t care. A few advertisers have suspended ads (just until it blows over?) but the extra PR balances that out.
Barr was doing something outside her job which her employers can reasonably claim hurt their revenue and reputation.
There’s probably a big ideological reason that both employers are considering in their decisions (”Bee good”, “Barr bad” ideologically). But from a business standpoint, these cases are very different. Barr’s case is more like Kaepernick than like Bee in a business sense.
By being a liberal.
What with all the Brits & Canadian imports among political ‘humorists’ it looks like the Lefties are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Or do they enjoy a little extra immunity from counter-criticism as outsiders? Hey they’re only impartial, right?
Samantha Beeyatch is her real name isn’t it?
David French’s thesis that life is like high school, with all of its cliques really does help explain why CEOs and SCOTUS conservative judges often make seemingly stupid decisions to back progressive causes. They want the approval of their wives and liberal friends. Rush has often spoken about the influence that the DC cocktail party circuit has on conservatives who go to DC. People want to be liked by their neighbors and others in their vicinity. Only people who have DEEP convictions about their conservative beliefs can withstand the peer pressure.
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