The Left destroys people. Most often, other Leftists.
Posted on 01/26/2021 6:47:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Over the weekend, a couple of prominent terminations took place in the media universe. A pair of writers from the New York Times each found their tenure at the venerated newspaper curtailed over two separate incidents of questionable decisions they made on social media. It is a ridiculous thing to consider, but what is more ridiculous are the reactions from other journalists who find these results outrageous. Considering that not only have these actions played out over the past calendar year but many in the press were either unconcerned or even supportive of these actions, and now they find this an unacceptable practice once applied to their ranks.
For a significant portion of 2020, when this nation took a break from the pandemic panic in order to wallow in the anxiety of our racial rancor, there was a string of reports from across the country about people becoming rendered in various ways due to social judgements. At the time when public monuments were targeted for historical insensitivities there was also a drive to tear down individuals or institutions over social justice. Cancel culture rose to become a disturbing trend, and one many on the right decried.
At the time I did a series on the examples of this militant drive to ruin people over innocuous actions. A professional athlete was cut from a team over things his wife posted online. One mega church in Alabama was evicted from its lease and the community lost a number of services it provided, all due to the pastor hitting the ‘’Like’’ button on a FaceBook post. As a warning to how far things could go, in one case a Democratic voting analyst came under fire for referencing a college study showing negative voter reactions to riots and looting. The outrage was such that he ended up being fired from his analytics firm -- for sharing what was accurate data.
Throughout this time most reasonable people were of the mind that these cases, and the many others which played out, were both unacceptable reactions and were likely to boomerang back and begin affecting those from the accusatory side of society. Many members of the media, and Democratic party politicians were either in denial of cancel culture or said it was merely a natural sign of social evolution. Then things became truly obtuse.
A large number of media elites -- 100 or so in total -- recognized cancel culture as a problem and signed a letter from Harper’s Magazine calling out in support of freedom of expression and decrying the attacks on those with particular views. Then an outcry erupted when some of the names who signed were deemed to be controversial, and others then went so far to remove their names from the letter -- they could not tolerate being included with certain people on a letter calling for tolerance. Yes, seriously.
All during this surge of idiocy, warnings were sent aloft from the right that this practice is a horrible decision, as soon these same standards would be trained on those from the left. Sure enough, this past week it happened, when writers became examples. Will Wilkenson, a Times contributor, delivered a tweet that was intended to be satirical regarding Joe Biden’s call for unity, and a backlash occurred. Less inciting was editor Lauren Wolfe.
Wolfe was extremely moved at the sight of Joe Biden’s flight arriving in D.C. on the day of his inaugural. Many reacted to her gushing report as a sign of journalistic favoritism, calling her alleged objectivity as questionable. Wolfe locked down her account for a time, and then as she returned she soon learned that The Times cancelled her contract. Wilkinson lost his job with The Niskanen Center over his ill-advised tweet.
Is it all stupid and needless overreaction?! Of course it is. But it is also predictable, and the reactions seen in the media are precious. Many are blaming the firings on ‘’right wing mobs’’ calling for their social scalps, but this is both foolish reporting and oblivious reactionary responses. For starters while these tweets garnered many responses there was not much seen in the way of calling for them to be fired. Mostly it was about the hypocrisy in either the views, or the standards that got others canceled.
The other issue is the blame that those on the right are ‘’weaponizing’’ cancel culture. This is a convenient accusation when the standard foisted on us for a year, or longer, is being applied equally. Many in the press wanted to pretend that conservatives complaining about the ruination of lives over social posts was a fabrication, that cancel culture was not actually an issue. Lauren Wolfe was herself one of those denying its existence.
Now suddenly it is seen as a problem, and the irony is that after those on the right were complaining about the practice and saying it would lead to this result it is the right being blamed over these two journalists losing work once the standard ricochets in this fashion. To look at the complete vacancy of their accusation, consider this -- when was the last time the New York Times cowered to any type of ‘’right wing’’ pushback on an issue?
Conservative complaints are always shrugged off or laughed at by The Paper; now we have to believe they are swayed on staff firings? Pure delusion. The permissiveness in the press is the problem, and it led to these results. Wanting to blame others for the problem they fostered means there is only more of it to come.
This video is relevant, I think:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/063/070/273/original/ae81f3279d615bc5.mp4
The Left destroys people. Most often, other Leftists.
I think these sorts of articles should report what the person actually said, not just that they said something satirical. If the story loses some force when you face their actual words, so be it.
Now is the time to ask these people: “So what are you going to do about it?”
Be cause they have a problem in that the fraudulent voting system they helped to get installed and then were/are a major force in defending as legitimate will cancel their vote just as it did ours November 3rd.
Until we establish an honest and secure voting system, whether a voter is liberal or conservative his vote will be controlled by whatever unknown person or group controlled the November 3rd vote.
To be blunt: In screwing the conservatives November 3rd, the libs screwed themselves as well.
They’re starting to smell their own rankest farts and they are troubled?
When the communists take power, the first to get purged are usually the professors/intellectual class.
right now, they are still “useful” idiots but once the left has absolute power, then these “experts” will be purged very fast.
If I were currently employed, I’d probably never post anything on Free Republic. Membership in any social media would be problematic. The final two companies I worked for had gone full-up communist. The older political commissars under Stalin warned the new guys, say as little as possible. The thing that you say today, which may be policy, can get you executed tomorrow. Well, we’re here. Congratulations, culture warriors.
Someone IM’d me saying that he believed his complete absence from social media got him fired. From my experience with our indoctrination at my former employer, it wasn’t enough to take the training. One had to also show that you agreed with the training. One woman did this by turning in people she believed had transgressed. She said she didn’t want to be a “condoner.” That was a word I had never heard before our “diversity” training.
Cancel Leftists!
Fire them as employees or contractors.
Leave social media.
Literally unfriend them in the meat world.
Hold them up to ridicule in the public square.
Ask for their pronouns then misuse them.
Stop spending money where they hate you (that’s a long list, but you can do it!)
Give governments garbage data when they ask.
Throw wooden shoes in the cogs of the Leftist Totalitarian State!
Most of the today's "intellectuals" are to intelligence what Botox, silicone and collagen are to beauty.
Answer is just to let your wife represent you and the family on social media
Like this picture(s).
As Stalin’s purges progressed, his companions were subsequently purged from the one original picture (upper left), until only Stalin remained.
BTW, the three others were executed!
Purging “enemies of the people” from pictures was quite common practice.
Looks like it is coming back.
Bump
Sociopaths rise to the top of almost all organizations.
“Liberals” and “moderates” are about to learn this lesson—the hard way.
“Answer is just to let your wife represent you and the family on social media”
There was a professional athlete dropped from the team over something his wife posted. I have read about several other people done in by what a family member posted. Social media has become a potential career killer. Frankly, I think everyone, right, center or left, should get off of all social media. Of course, people like the editor who gushed over Biden, are unaware of how dangerous social media can be until it is too late. Career-wise, it’s like keeping an unexploded bomb laying around.
Almost ten years ago the CEO of a major tech company, I don’t recall which, said that in the future half of all the children alive then would have to change their names because of things they posted on line. I read recently about an 18 year old girl who was thrown out of college because at 15 she posted a video imitating black girls using the N word. (I think she intended it to be funny.)
This is the modern day French Revolution. Off with their heads...er, accounts.
...others then went so far to remove their names from the letter -- they could not tolerate being included with certain people on a letter calling for tolerance. Yes, seriously.
The irony of that is profound. Then there's:
Many are blaming the firings on ‘’right wing mobs’’ ...
So the left's own cancel culture - which they invented/discovered and then viciously promoted now turns on a couple of their own...and it is our fault somehow? It must be wonderful to be a leftist. Anything, anything goes wrong in your life and you're not responsible. Nothing is your fault. No decisions you've made were ever short-sighted. You've never been wrong. Nope, everything bad, literally everything bad that happens is the fault of the right. I guess leftists get to live in a consequence-free world.
And these fools think they're the smartest people in the room? They believe they should be trusted to run it all? Most could not even competently run a convenience store.
Yep. There are many instances of people being airbrushed out of existence.
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