Libtards constantly proclaim themselves to be the most welcoming, oh-so-tolerant people who have ever existed ... when, in FACT, their actual behavior is the most mean-spirited, intolerant, and tyrannical. Of course, if the libtard snowflakes were to acknowledge the truth about themselves, they would never be able to sleep at night ... and might even feel the need to off themselves ... but, they utilize psychological projection to save the day by falsely rejecting the existence of their very own defects and attributing them onto others with whom they disagree - namely Conservatives, otherwise known as Classical Liberals. Case in point ...
Ironic: Names are dropping off letter decrying an intolerance of opposing views because of opposing views
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/07/07/ironic-names-are-dropping-off-letter-decrying-an-intolerance-of-opposing-views-because-of-opposing-views/
This is a difficult post to write, because somehow Vox's Matthew Yglesias ends up the good guy. Here's the deal, and it's been making the rounds of the Twitter elite most of the day. Harper's Magazine published a letter with some 150 signatories that will appear in the October print issue.
Vox's Yglesias is a libtard asshat. He is not a good guy, here or ever otherwise. What is happening here is that he is getting eaten by his own because, like I have said in previous posts, the imbecilic libtard mob mindlessly lashes out at any inanimate object (a statue honoring Norwegian immigrant/Civil War hero Hans Christian Heg who was an abolitionist who gave his life to help end slavery for instance?) or any person (applying "cancel culture" against author J.K. Rowling because she believes men are men and women are women for instance?) simply because they aren't in immediate sync with the droning mantra of the politically correct hive. Yglesias signed a letter that laments the use of "cancel culture" by libtards against other libtards. In other words, the signatories want libtards to quit eating their own ... like the childish Pffffarters going after that St. Louis couple who defended life, limb, and property against rabid, riotous BLM protestors who threatened them outside their home. Of course, where libtards are involved, hilarious hypocrisy soon abounds and the irony becomes waist-deep! ROTFLMAO!
Harper's Magazine ~ A statement signed by 150 people incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie expresses concern over the illiberal trend intensified by our national reckoning.
It's about cancel culture in a way; the first paragraph is filled with the obligatory "we all hate Trump" stuff, but the second paragraph gets interesting:
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right ...
Ah yessssss ... please note the highlighted psychological projection ... in order to protect our fragile psyches, "we have come to expect" that Classical Liberals are actually the ones exhibiting this bad behavior, when in fact, it is actually only us. "Cancel Culture" is a tool of intolerance invented and utilized by libtards ... they own it.
... censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.
Sounds good, right? There's a problem, though: It seems as though some of the cool kids didn't know some uncool kids, like the notoriously transphobic </sarc> J.K. Rowling would be signing too. So in a piece about the open exchange of ideas, signatories are getting called out for allowing the open exchange of ideas by other signatories.
For example, Emily VanDerWerff, a trans woman and critic-at-large for Vox, told Vox she was very disappointed to see Yglesias' name on the letter next to so many anti-trans voices.
Emily VanDerWerff ~ I sent a version of this to the editors of Vox. (I have redacted some bits that are internal to Vox and shouldn't be aired publicly.)
"But his signature being on the letter makes me feel less safe at Vox."
The "transwoman" (i.e., a male posing as a female) snowflake, Emily VanDerWerff, is trembling in fear at Vox, which he thinks should be a protected safe place, literally because some other person at Vox apparently holds a differenct opinion than he does. OH, THE HORROR OF IT ALL! And Emily is emotionally transfixed by his very own intolerance despite the fact that he mentions several times within those three paragraphs that Yglesias is entitled to his own opinion and has been supportive of Emily in the past. WOW ... talk about neurotic!
Author Jennifer Finney Boylan also didn't know who else's names were attached to the letter:
Jennifer Finney Boylan ~ I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company.
The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry.
You should be sorry.
Yeah ... for being a spineless idiot.
InTheRightColumn ~ "I am so sorry", she grovelled over supporting free expression.
My first thought on seeing things like this is that should civil war ever come, people like her are so weak it would be over in a weekend.
But then I realize that the real enemies are the people who terrify her...
Yeah, we shouldn't be afraid of those weaklings, either.
Ian Miles Chong ~ This is how they bully liberals.
Just perform a little guilt by association et voila, instant retractions and apologies.
The mob grows larger in number, made up of invertebrates, each as scared as the next of being seized upon by the self-devouring, ever hungry mass.
Again, this letter was supposed to be a warning about the shrinking free exchange of information and ideas among lefties.
Historian Kerri Greenidge, whose name did appear on the letter, has gone missing.
Kerri Greenidge ~ I do not endorse this @Harpers letter. I am in contact with Harper's about a retraction.
BWHA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Yet another intellectually dishonest coward.
NR_Garrett ~ But you signed it. You do realize what a signature means right?
Shevek ~ Good job validating the concerns articulated in the letter.
Karyn Lisignoli ~ Thereby proving its need.
Seems Greenidge succeeded in getting her name removed:
Jesse Singal ~ Her name's been removed but was on earlier today. I'm curious how you can sign a statement you don't agree with...
Grady ~ Along with @JennyBoylan
Corie Whalen ~ Removing their names after being shamed by the mob shows exactly why the letter exists in the first place. Amazing, really.
Noam Blum ~ The only thing that changed is they found out who else signed it.
Noam Blum ~ "I was on board with this message until I realized who else was on board with it" should be a credibility-ending statement.
Damon Linker ~ Self-canceled.
Guy David ~ Principles: 0. Guilt by association: 1.
Tim Carney ~ I kinda thought the Harpers letter was pointless. Then it instantly outed everyone who WANTS there to be a climate of fear. So it was a great service.
Ben Shapiro ~ Not sure who's funnier - the cancel culture maniacs insisting that cancel culture doesn't exist while trying to cancel those who disagree, or the brave souls who signed a letter decrying cancel culture then immediately unsigned the letter out of fear of cancel culture.
It's a shame when progressives better than ourselves can't agree that the open exchange of ideas is a good thing - but it's the right-wing that's all about censorship.
Yeah ... riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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