New Levels Of Crazy
Article by Derek Hunter in "Townhall":
A friend who works for a conservative website shared an
email with me that was sent to the staff, “We have to be careful” about
how they write about Black Lives Matter, it said. Not because what they
were reporting was inaccurate, but because it could upset the mob, and
upsetting the mob nowadays is worse than being inaccurate. “Truth” can
be whatever you want it to be, the mob, on the other hand, can seemingly
make reality anything they want it to be by force of will or worse.
It’s
not even Black Lives Matter, really, at least not the rank and file
protestors taking to the streets in righteous indignation over what
happened to George Floyd. It’s the Marxist leadership that coupled with,
or refused to de-couple with, ANTIFA and other Black Bloc groups
hell-bent on destruction of property and society. There’s a lot of money
in this racket and it’s all based on fear.
The “woke”
companies funding these radicals are doing so for a few different
reasons. The first is they want to appear to be down with the struggle.
The target demographic of Nike, for example, isn’t a married 40 year old
professional with a couple of kids, they’re the kids who can barely
afford their products because, like the people in China making them for
pennies per day, they’re just little kids.
How “woke”
can a company be if it uses sweatshop labor? How interested in “justice”
can a movement be if it embraces a company doing that?
Doesn’t really matter, both are making bank. Turns
out “rage” is all the rage these days, and being offended is a growth
industry, even in a time of pandemic.
The problem with
rage is you have to keep it going. An emotional state is only useful
during it, and they tend to quickly burn out - there have been lots of
feuds in history, but very few Hatfields and McCoys.
In
order to keep the rage fires burning, anything is being used for fuel.
The comments section of conservative websites? As the Federalist and
Zerohedge found out this week, it’s game on. Weird how a company like
Google, which exists in its current configuration only through a blind
eye being turned to its content control abuses by regulators and
spineless or complicit legislators who immunize it from liability for
content on their sites, is making other outlets responsible for the part
of their websites over which they explicitly exert no control. It
screams of hypocrisy, mostly because it is, but the people who’d have
any impact by calling it out are literally on the same team – this case
being NBC News – so who’d do it who would matter? No one.
You can act 10 feet tall and bullet proof when the guards against abuse are helping you abuse.
But
it’s not just conservative websites and Tucker Carlson, who is
destroying everyone else in the ratings but is facing a boycott by these
fascists because of his refusal to conform and stop speaking the truth,
it’s everything. Anything that can be combustible will be used to keep
the rage burning, no matter how absurd.
Aunt Jemima? She’s got to go. A hundred years
ago she was a racist stereotype, today she’s a smiling black woman. You
don’t see many faces in the grocery aisle, of any color, but the people
who are changing what constitutes a movie worthy of being considered one
of the year’s best based upon “representation” or “inclusion” are
demanding Aunt Jemima be wiped from history for sins committed before
anyone demanding the change was alive to be offended by them.
It’s
not limited to the United States, crazy cannot be contained. Everywhere
there are leftists, this insanity has spread. Statues of Winston
Churchill are under threat, a brewing company in Australia is having
their products pulled from shelves because its name is “Colonial Brewing.” When will they go after Sam Adams? Laugh, but if they’re going after an Abraham Lincoln statues in Boston because 8,300 signed an online petition, it won’t be long.
The only way any of this works is through the
exploitation of the fact that we’re out of real problems. Something
about the brains of liberals will not let them accept that we have it
better than anyone who has lived before us. I wrote about this in my book
– we don’t get up every morning struggling to forage for enough food to
keep our family alive that day, only to do it again the next. We don’t
have to worry about a cut on our hands that could get infected and kill
us; or some random stranger coming along and stealing everything we have
or drafting us to fight in their army against someone we’ve never heard
of. Even our homeless need charging stations for their iPhones; obesity
is a problem among the poor.
We have the freedom to create things to be outraged over,
and leftists seem to have the need. That need is being exploited to make
some people very rich and powerful.
This movement,
like so many others, isn’t about justice, it’s about control. And it’s
about money. Every old tweet, blog post, Facebook status, or even rumor
of something “unacceptable” said in the past is now potential kindling
to keep that rage going and that cash flowing.
There are so many things to call this mentality: cancel culture, fascism, you name it. But one thing it is not is sane.
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