Posted on 07/30/2020 9:47:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The angry left-handed broom of America's cultural revolution uses fear to sweep through the our civic, corporate and personal life.
It brings with it attempted intimidation, shame and the usual demands for ceremonies of public groveling.
It is happening in newsrooms in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. And now it's coming for me, in an attempt to shame me into silence.
Here's what happened:
Last week, with violence spiking around the country, I wrote a column on the growing sense of lawlessness in America's urban areas.
In response, the Tribune newspaper union, the Chicago Tribune Guild, which I have repeatedly and politely declined to join, wrote an open letter to management defaming me, by falsely accusing me of religious bigotry and fomenting conspiracy theories.
Newspaper management has decided not to engage publicly with the union. So I will.
For right now, let's deal with facts. My column was titled "Something grows in the big cities run by Democrats: An overwhelming sense of lawlessness."
It explored the connections between soft-on-crime prosecutors and increases in violence along with the political donations of left-wing billionaire George Soros, who in several states has funded liberal candidates for prosecutor, including Cook County (Illinois) State's Attorney Kim Foxx.
Soros' influence on these races is undeniable and has been widely reported. But in that column, I did not mention Soros' ethnicity or religion.
Here's what I've learned over my life in and around Chicago, what my immigrant family taught us in our two-flats on South Peoria Street:
We come into this world alone and we leave alone. And the most important thing we leave behind isn't money.
The most important thing we leave is our name.
We leave that to our children.
And I will not soil my name by groveling to anyone in this or any other newsroom.
The larger question is not about me, or the political left that hopes to silence people like me, but about America and its young. Those of us targeted by cancel culture are not only victims. We are examples, as French revolutionaries once said, in order to encourage the others.
Human beings do not wish to see themselves as cowards. They want to see themselves as heroes.
And, as they are shaped and taught to fear even the slightest accusation of thought crime, they will not view themselves as weak for falling in line. Instead they will view themselves as virtuous. And that is the sin of it.
Those who do not behave will be marginalized. But those who self-censor will be praised.
Yet what of our American tradition of freely speaking our minds?
That too, is swept away.
We’ll see how that goes after CW-II starts.
My guess he is a democrat, but an old white guy democrat on the endangered species list...
Yes, Kass is not really “conservative” but he is much more moderate and tolerable than most on the left.
The funny thing is, one issue that Kass has always been on top of is police abuse of power, long before it became “fashionable” for journalists to cover. Yet, they’ll still hang him out to dry if he steps out of line.
Who is this John Kass? He sounds like some radical that needs to be censored....
Here are some of his podcasts since you don’t know who he is.
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/
I know who he is. He is a radical supporting free speech.
He must be stopped!! : )
That America never really existed. Oh sure if you were in a group that was “in charge” in whatever scope you were dealing you might have THOUGHT you could. But as soon as the power dynamic changed so did that. The only thing that’s really changed now is the people who used to just have to eat it when “in charge” people said stupid stuff have had their fill. In charge just isn’t as in charge as it used to be.
However, the phrase is believed to originate from an essay by Strom first published in 1993: "All America Must Know the Terror that is Upon Us".
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