Posted on 03/21/2021 5:20:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
I don’t revel in the misery of others, as a general rule, but every once in a while I do enjoy watching some leftist, or group of them, get a big dose of their own medicine. When 70 employees of the lie factory HuffPo were laid off by their new owners at Buzzfeed, I felt bad for the individuals, none of whom I know. But in a broader sense, I couldn’t care less. And if I’m being completely honest, I laughed a little.
I wasn’t laughing at the people who lost their jobs. They weren’t real people in my mental digestion of the affair/ I laughed at all the leftist journalists, members of the blue checkmark brigade who’d cheered or were indifferent at the cancelation of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the jobs lost there. Anyone parroting the “they can build solar panels” lie, or failing to report the reality of those jobs not existing, thereby destroying 11,000 good jobs, is unworthy of sympathy when the snake bites them.
I don't celebrate each round of newsroom layoffs. I just don’t care. Journalists are activists now. Why should I care if a bunch of liberals lose their livelihoods?
When the tweets come about how so-and-so is a good reporter, I couldn’t care less. And when one gets canceled, one of their own, there’s a tinge of poetic justice to it all.
Alexi McCammond was a reporter at Axios. You might remember her name from a scandal a few weeks ago when her boyfriend, a former press aide at the Biden White House, threatened another female reporter attempting to report on their hidden and wildly unethical relationship. It didn’t work, and he was fired for the threats.
After a scandal that should have had her out of journalism, she got a new job, a few steps up the ladder of success, as the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. If you don’t know what Teen Vogue is, it’s a worthless rag filled with “you don’t need a boyfriend” and “here’s how to keep your boyfriend happy” stories sandwiching some of the most-woke drivel you can possibly imagine. They cheerlead every leftist cause and every cancelation of someone on the right.
When McCammond was hired to run the place, it was a natural fit.
Then a funny thing happened on the way to the corner office: the left-wing cancel mob turned on her.
When Alexi was in high school, she’d tweeted out things that are deemed racist and homophobic by today’s ever-changing, always crazy standards. You’d think something from a decade ago, something for which she’d already apologized, wouldn’t matter, but that’s not how the new wokeness works.
The staff at Teen Vogue did what they’d been hired and trained to do – attack. Just this time it was one of their own. They demanded Alexi’s head, and they got it, before she even officially started the job.
In her statement announcing her “resignation,” she exposed why she shouldn’t be a journalist, even at someplace like Teen Vogue. “I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities,” it starts. That’s the mantra of an activist, not a journalist. “My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issue that I care about,” it continues. Again, activism and not journalism.
She also played the, “As a young woman of color” card and wished to rejoin some journalistic outfit because “There are so many stories left to be told, especially those about marginalized communities and the issues affecting them.” She shouldn’t have lost her job over tweets from when she was a kid. She should have never gotten it in the first place.
That she did lose her job to the woke mob set off her fellow journalists – they rushed to express their disgust over her dismissal. I couldn’t care. What happened was wrong, but all of these people have either partaken in the attempted destruction of conservatives, or sat silently as others tried. Why should anyone care when the monster they created takes out one of their own?
You name a conservative who’s been attacked, smeared, banned, deplatformed, lied about, etc., and these people were complicit through deed or neglect. When it’s one of their own, suddenly they care. You either have principles or you don’t. True principles are not situational or dependent upon who they protect.
Leftists can be as outraged as they want to be over how unfair what happened to Alexi McCammond is, and they are right, it is unfair. Were they not the creators of cancel culture and the people helping fuel the mob’s attacks on others, particularly conservatives, I’d be right there with them in disgust. But they are. And since common decency and humanity hasn’t been enough to inspire them to stand up for anyone who isn’t a committed leftist, maybe a giant dose of their own medicine will. If not, who cares? Let them destroy themselves.
I am less charitable than the author. I laugh at leftist receiving the consequences of their belief and do so without sympathy. At least I do not lie about tem and spread hate the way they do.
The cancel culture has already become hypocrisy culture. They have a standard that cannot hold up.
In many ways, these leftists remind me of that small group of Christians who believe they are the arbiters of morality, but they themselves cannot live up to those standards.
These leftists remind me of conservatives who believe in “purity” tests that would have eliminated Reagan and Trump from ever running.
Well, they each should learn to code. Even a journo can learn that, apparently
Be at ease. No one mourns the fate of a traitor or entire groups of them.
These are the same people who would deperson any one of us in a heartbeat over an misused pronoun or mangled prepositional phrase.
Oh, I care greatly when leftist cretins are tossed from their jobs as propagandists. I care to guffaw heartily at their richly deserved plight.
Exactly!
Learn to code or build solar panels, bitches!
"Ducklo contacted Politico reporter Tara Palmeri, intimidating her over a phone call with sexist comments and threats. According to Vanity Fair, Ducklo told Palmeri "I will destroy you", adding that he will damage her professional reputation if she pursued the story about Ducklo's and McCammond's relationship. He went on to the extent of saying that Palmeri was "jealous" of their relationship and that she was 'jealous' of McCammond because an anonymous man in the past had "wanted to f*ck" McCammond “and not you.”"
The lovely couple
#4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
Schadenboner.
I have one.
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In her demented mind the 'most vulnerable' tend to be criminals sociopaths, and white liberal 'elite' bullies... the predators who hurt the rest of us.
You want powerless and vulnerable Alexi? Go to a Walmart and talk to the shoppers...
Actually layoffs are far too lenient treatment for these Marxist propagandists.
here then is the laugh.... .......AAAHHHAahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting website.
Hypocrisy is part of the human condition.
If the Christian arbiters of morality had the control of the new technology, homo marriage etc would not have gained a foothold and people would lose their jobs for being the same, BUT most importantly, it being publicized to millions of people daily to warn other non-heteros to stay in the closet or else.
If the “conservative purists” controlled the party, I am not sure whom they would have put in ... I know not a “pure conservative” nor know how to define. And I spent 10 years in very active state party politics.
The cancel culture is a different strain and it is beyond hypocrisy. It’s part of an attack on the 1st Amendment and is anti-American in the end, and using the power of the internet. Judge Silbermann wrote a dissenting opinion, released this week past, that is relevant to the bigger picture.
Anyone who tries to cancel another person, ought to first have their bona fides, including picture, political viewpoint, party membership, their picture, arrest record, drug use, etc publicly broadcast first, then we can see how much weight to assign to their hypocritical outrage of destroying another person in front of millions, even one of their own. That is fight hypocrisy with hypocrisy.
The leftards are always a detached from reality woke pontificators and socially moral arbiters over others until the destructive wokeness visits upon themselves personally. Then the hypocrisy takes on further mutated forms of leftist triangulations of twisted mind and soul. Only solution is reject and repent of that evil mistake and walk towards Truth and Light.
Teen Vogue had to go digital only a while ago, and their figs suck. But they still have influence.
And that’s a problem.
And why we should care.
Though given the rag’s owner, Conde Naste, none of this should come as a surprise.
With her short existence on this earth thus far, what does she know about the “most vulnerable communities?” Those are leftist dog whistle code words for being a leftist racist, classifying people according to race and using them to advance a politicial agenda.
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