Learned today of the case of Amy Sacks, a twenty year teacher fired from her position as Principal of Evergreen Elementary School in Pennsylvania, chiefly because of her “conservative” leanings. My personal favorite of her Internet postings was her declaration that if forced to choose between a potato and Joe Biden, she would vote for the former. Barbara Russell, the superintendent of Sack’s school district, fired her in July stating there was no room for those of right-of-center political views in the educational system. Ms. Sacks is suing.
This, unfortunately, is not an anomaly within the contemporary Western world. Dare express any views not in keeping with “political correctness” and you are likely to be “cancelled.” Of course those prone to that fascist impulse suggest “political correctness” to be a perfectly legitimate defense against “hate speech,” their definition of the latter absurdly being any speech that does not please them.
Michigan State Representative Cynthia Johnson, a Black Democrat, recently unleashed a passionate diatribe against so-called Trumpers, suggesting they had better watch their backs once Biden assumes the presidency. The Left is a seemingly endless source of such poison yet I have seen no willingness whatsoever among the geniuses at CNN or NBC to distance themselves from such.
Trump and his populist conservative minions, we are told relentlessly by the mainstream media, are rife with intolerance of various strains. No doubt the President’s often abrasive manner has contributed to that narrative. But nothing of any substance is ever offered in its defense. The desire to close America’s Southern Border to illegal immigrants is Not racist! The policy of monitoring those seeking to enter the country from hotbeds of Islamic Fanaticism is Not racist! Outrage over the lawlessness rampant in America’s city streets this past summer is Not racist! In the States and indeed throughout the West, examples of those who have had their lives destroyed for expressing “progressive” views on matters of Race, Gender or Sexual Orientation are few and far between. Yet our roadsides are littered with the bodies of those who, like Amy Sacks, dared express a “conservative” opinion. Imagine, 60 or so members of the staff at The National Post tried to have Rex Murphy fired for daring to suggest that Canada is Not Systemically Racist.
Both Canada and the States have become Fascist “Progressive” Dystopias. Step out of line and you will be destroyed. And of course those responsible for this Regime of Tyranny, CNN, NBC, the CBC, Twitter, Facebook, Google, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, etc., etc., etc., those who convey only the information that suits their bias, those whose basic political stratagem is to call you names, are incapable of acknowledging that it is they who are the purveyors of Hate, they who are the enemies of Free Speech, they who are the Cancers eating away at the very substance of our Democracies.