Posted on 04/30/2021 9:05:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan
A few days ago, 216 employees of Simon and Schuster, along with several thousand people from outside the trade publishing house, sent a petition to top executives of the company demanding that they stop publishing anyone who had anything to do with the Trump administration. Their rationale for making such a demand was that Trump’s presidency was a dangerous historical aberration. According to the Wall Street Journal, the letter insists that Simon and Schuster not treat “the Trump administration as a ‘normal’ chapter in American history.”
Before I sat down to write this essay, I had to ask myself several questions. Will the opinions I express jeopardize my position at the liberal university where I teach? Will they endanger my relationship with my liberal publisher? Will they roil my relations with my neighbors in the ultraprogressive New Jersey suburb where I live?
That I had to ask is not “normal.”
For a long time, dictators, from the European tyrants of the 1930s to the military leaders of the Latin American juntas, skillfully used the violent excesses of dissenters to seize and preserve power. Now so-called liberal “resistance” to “fascism” justifies its attacks on freedom of speech by citing the threat posed by a former American president. Susan Sontag famously enraged the New Left by calling Communism “fascism with a human face.” The current woke movement has all the trappings of fascism with an anti-fascist face.
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Apparently, bat crap crazy libtards.
Yes, fire them, all 216 of them. Short of that, reprimand each for undermining and embarrassing the company business, skip them for their next promotion and raise.
As if we haven’t already, now would (and forever) would certainly be the time to boycott Simon & Schuster. Sounds like they might not publish anything TRUE, anyway.
The democrat party hears the roar of the avalanche of Trump and team coming futile fight won’t save them.
How about we all boycott the market?
Much negative power would suddenly evaporate.
Exactly. And I think you can back it up if you proceed wisely. To make it extra fun, I would announce I am going to replace them all with H1Bs.
Your services are no longer required.
Remember this federal employee tantrum. Every one of them should have been fired.
No more Simon & Schuster published Authors for me! (And I am a voracious reader!)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors
Boycott their ‘Imprints’ as well; books published by them, but under other names. Every big publishing house does this, now.
https://about.simonandschuster.biz/divisions-and-imprints/#adult
Announce they are all being replaced by H1Bs. Tell them if they don’t train their replacements, they are racist.
Laugh at the ones who pop a critical vessel.
GMTA. See Post #10.
There can’t be a “normal” because that is a concept that can be deconstructed (like literally every other concept including deconstruction itself). This is why we can’t know anything anymore. There is an entire intellectual culture built on this manner of critique.
Yep.
we are thru the looking glass, so... adjust accordingly
Irony.
A company that should respect the freedom of the press, wants to inhibit that by censoring the publishment of people they politically disagree with.
Ah well. Par for the course for Leftists. It is why so many of them have, or in danger of mental illness. All that cognitive dissonance.
I'd remind them of the First Amendment, offer to send their on-file resumes to ABCCBSCNNNBCNPRNYTWAPO, and then fire them.
Which is why I do not write essays. I would immediately lose any future contracts at either of the colleges I presently teach for, and also at the testing company I have paid my bills with for the last two decades. If any of the three institutions knew I was here, that would be enough to wipe me off their HR rolls.
If this is true of America, there is no hope left in the world, short of massive actual-not-astroturfed insurrection, for which I am as old as Benjamin Franklin was when we had our last actual insurrection.
I would really like to see a list of the crimes and aberrations.
"He racist"
"You racist"
"He a hater"
"He worse than Hitler"
"I'm outraged that you don't already know the answer"
"Shut up"
I don't think these people are any argument at all. They don't seem to feel they need one. Donald Trump? Well, he's not a Democrat, therefore he is an aberration and must be eliminated from the historical record. Or something.
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