I have before me dozens of examples of decent individuals who have been fired, publicly vilified or had their Facebook or Twitter accounts cancelled by Leftist simpletons so devoid of self-awareness that they have actually come to believe that it is Free Speech rather than their brazenly intolerant world-view that is the main threat to our Western Democracies. Their tactic, of course, is to denounce any statement not mindlessly devoted to the sentimental value of Inclusiveness as mere “hate speech.” Should I disagree with your assertion that 2+2=17000, I am the villain in their postmodern, “progressive” narrative. Absurdly, most of our “intellectuals” tend to agree! Some random examples:
In Sept., 2021, The National School Boards Association asked the U.S. government to denounce as “domestic terrorists” those parents who had taken to showing up at various school board meetings to express their opposition to the teaching of Critical Race Theory to their young children. A few days later Attorney General Merrick Garland concurred. Now CRT is demonstrably Ideological as opposed to Factual, though the average 10 year old is hardly able to make that distinction. Quite literally, teaching CRT to the young without highlighting its utterly subjective nature is the grossest form of political indoctrination. Yet in our current cultural climate, it is the parents of the victimized children rather than the “thought police” abusing them we are being asked to demonize as “terrorists.” Ted Cruz pointed out, in response to Garland’s idiotic statement, that the people in question had shown no tendency to violence whatsoever. His point was predictably lost on those given to recklessly using terms such as “terrorist” to describe parents peacefully exercising their right to express their views, while nevertheless constantly, ironically, hypocritically, demonizing everyone who disagrees with them as perpetrators of “misinformation.”
Here in Canada, high school teacher Chanel Pfahl expressed her concerns in 2021 that a Neo-Marxist narrative, CRT, was being taught as fact in Ontario’s schools. Apparently not seeing her comments as controversial in any way, she was shocked to find herself being investigated by Ontario’s College of Teachers which suspended her without pay for a week in March, 2021. Ostracized by several “woke” fellow staff members for her “conservative” views, she decided to quit in August, 2021.
As reported by The Blaze on May 20, Facebook flagged Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn for engaging in hate speech. Blackburn had had the audacity to suggest that individuals born Male ought not to be allowed to compete against biological Females in athletic competitions. That both Reason and the vast majority of the American people seemed to concur was of no consequence to the self-righteous tech giant!
On August 5, The Blaze reported that cultural critic James Lindsay had been permanently banned from Twitter for “hateful conduct.” Lindsay had scornfully referred to Harvard Law School’s Alejandra Caraballo as “a child sexualization specialist.” Caraballo is a trans-activist of the first order seeking not just tolerance and respect for the trans population but its acceptance as a perfectly normal human permutation. Deeming this narrative to be not only biologically inaccurate but also socially irresponsible, Lindsay clearly saw its impact on young boys and girls coming to maturity as needlessly confusing and ultimately destructive. In objecting to its inclusion in America’s elementary school curricula, he was not expressing hatred for transgenders but simply taking exception to the fact that an inordinately small number of people was attempting to impose its decidedly subjective view of human sexuality upon the rest of the species. That he was cancelled by Twitter is but another example of the “woke” Left’s utter indifference to rational argument.
As reported by Common Sense with Bari Weiss, the children of Paul and Beka Sinclair, aged 5 and 8, were kicked out of their private and very expensive Marin County Day School in May because their parents had dared complain about the recent introduction of Gender Politics into the curricula even at the grade one level. Stating that many other parents were equally outraged though unwilling to step forward, the Sinclairs deemed it absurd that their kids should be taught that Heterosexual Boys and Girls were not Nature’s Norm, that Gender was not inevitably allied to Biology, indeed that it was all just a matter of choice. Beka admits, after the fact, that she ought not to have been surprised by this brazen promotion of Leftist nonsense inasmuch as she had noted in 2020, when her kids were being taught virtually, that excerpts from Ibram X. Kendi’s “Antiracist Baby” were included on the grade one reading list. Kendi’s “anti-racism,” as I have discussed elsewhere, is Racist to its very core, any educator endorsing it or indeed the LGBT gender narrative as unequivocal facts rather than highly questionable hypotheses being utterly unworthy of their status as teachers.
Thousands of accounts have been suspended for violating Twitter’s Covid misinformation rules. Among those so dispatched were users who insisted that the vaccinated could indeed still spread the disease. Ironically, the CDC itself admitted as much in the spring of 2021! Twitter’s rules, it seems, are designed not to facilitate the free and open discussion of highly complex issues, but rather to promote what it and, up until very recently, Jack Dorsey considered those opinions most likely to contribute to the general welfare. But who gave Twitter/Dorsey that right? Is it not incredibly arrogant for any individual or institution to assume that he/it knows what is best for the rest of the species? Indeed is not that arrogance the basis of the Left’s disdain for Populism, a disdain rooted in its assumption that “ordinary” people are just too stupid to know what’s good for them?
A few months ago Project Veritas recorded Twitter’s Alex Martinez admitting that his company was ideologically motivated rather than just a neutral platform for the free expression of ideas. O’Keefe’s people had of course also recorded executives at CNN saying, as the 2020 election approached, that they would do everything in their power to see that Trump didn’t win! But did we really need Project Veritas to inform us of that network’s brazen bias. Whereas CNN had engaged in 705 on-air discussions of the sexual misconduct charges brought against “conservative” Brett Kavanaugh in an attempt to deny him a seat on the Supreme Court, it chose to barely mention Tara Reade’s similar accusations against Presidential Candidate Joe Biden! Gee, I wonder why!
Point out the dishonesty and hypocrisy of the tactics generally employed by the Left and you will surely be denounced as a conspiracy theorist [i.e., liar]! Religious fanatics are rarely given to self-awareness. That CNN did in fact “conspire” to defeat Trump by “editing” the news to support their agenda [i.e., publishing misinformation] is apparently lost on the simpletons there convinced of the righteousness of their cause. I invoke the cancer of Religious Fanaticism by design, for those devoted to Inclusiveness are by definition hostile to a Rational, Intelligent approach to the Human Condition, that Enlightened [“conservative”] approach which must inevitably reveal that some People, some Values, some Ideas, some Cultures, are NOT worthy of our respect.
The Left purports to be disdainful of Religious Fundamentalism, yet its tendency to fire, deride, silence or otherwise punish anyone of an opposing viewpoint entails the very sort of narrow-minded intolerance typical of the Medieval Inquisition! Yes, so “progressive” is the contemporary Left that it is basically engaging in the same sort of systemic, cultural oppression practiced by the Catholic Church in the Twelfth Century!