This is why your apolitical local lawn-care company is sending out e-mails promising to dedicate itself to Black Lives Matter no one wants to be accused of harboring counterrevolutionary sympathies. Not to speak out in the way progressives dictate is violence. This is a neat trick: To speak out in the wrong way is violence.
Now you must also actively champion woke progressive positions - or you, too, are tacitly engaged in violence and racism. You may also have noticed another progressive slogan gaining circulation these days: “Silence is violence.” It’s no longer enough to renounce wrong-think in the op-ed pages of the local paper. The Times has been cleansed of reactionary elements. What editor at a major newspaper is going to stand up for ideals of open and free debate if doing so means putting “black lives in danger” and ends his career? Few, if any. They bowed to the internal mob and pleaded for forgiveness. None of the Times’ editors, who routinely run fabulist apologias for Communist tyrannies, pushed back against the caustic notion that engaging in debate was an act of violence. The column, they said, put black lives in “danger.” Cotton op-ed calling for deploying the military into cities. New York Times staffers, for example, had a meltdown over a Sen. Popularized by a generation of coddled college kids, it now guides the editorial pages of major newspapers. “Words are violence” is an illiberal notion meant to stifle speech. We’re in the dawn of a high-tech, bloodless Cultural Revolution, one that relies on intimidation, public shaming and economic ruin to dictate what words and ideas are permissible in the public square. Students reveal ‘forbidden lessons’ taught at anti-woke University of Austin Joy Behar reflects on career and cancel culture: ‘I just say what I say’ĭave Chappelle appears as surprise opener at Chris Rock-Kevin Hart MSG show From Lea Michele to James Franco: The Great Un-Canceling is upon us
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