Posted on 07/14/2020 5:22:01 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
Days after dozens of artists, writers and academics, including JK Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, signed an open letter decrying the weakening of public debate amid a rise in what they call “illiberalism”, another group has denounced it.
The counter opinion comes amid raging debate over 'cancel culture' where prominent people face a backlash for sharing controversial opinions.
"The signatories, many of them white, wealthy and endowed with massive platforms, argue that they are afraid of being silenced, that so-called cancel culture is out of control, and that they fear for their jobs and free exchange of ideas, even as they speak from one of the most prestigious magazines in the country,' the signatories said in a response published in the Objective.
Earlier, personalities like JK Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, Gloria Steinem and Malcolm Gladwell signed an open letter in the Harper's magazine decrying the stifling of freedom of speech by means of 'cancel culture'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Now, these one-time heroes of the Left have become "reactionary" person non grata in the eyes of the Far Left (i.e. these former left-wing icons are just beneficiaries of "white privilege" in the eyes of Antifa and BLM radicals). Every radical movement turns its knives on its own old guard first, from Stalinists purging most of Lenin's former comrades to Mao doing the same thing to those who had once been in his own inner circle. The same thing is happening with the American Left today.
Oh wow. Such a shame. /s
I hope they all kill each other.
It’s like watching a fight between Trotskyists vs. Stalinists.
Time for them to get on their knees—and beg for President Trump to save them!
Endowed???
Mao’s Red Guard Four Olds
There’s a reason history is not taught. August 1966 aka ‘Red August’.
Just as the Mensheviks begged the once-hated "Capitalist" US and Western Europe to come to their rescue when their Bolshevik former allies came to power.
It is. They come for us first. Then each other later.
Is that what is meant by the phrase , reaping the whirlwind ?
I’m gonna look this up.
In one of the riot videos there was graffiti that said, “Liberals get a bullet too” signed with a hammer and sickle
Wonder if we could get “the oppressive left” into popular use? Leftism needs to be associated with “oppression” as quickly as possible. Young people especially love thinking they are fighting oppression; let’s tell them over and over that they are the oppressors and see how they react (beyond trying to oppress us...).
The Lefties were useful, but the new Lefties are implementing die Nacht der langen Messer.
Endowed???
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Money. Not well.
Me too. I’m rooting for a Leftist blood bath.
Pol pot is coming for you............
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