Everything I don’t like is akin to the holocaust!
Half the country are Nazi’s!
Also, how dare Gina Carano compare our subjugation to Naziism!
There isn’t too much to add to this conversation that hasn’t already been said. The contradictions to the enforcement of cancel culture and the double-standards are as useless to fight against as they were the last time a global super-power succumbed to socialism. Mind you, I do not view what is going on today as simply a socialist take-over. It’s more like the steady unveiling of The Great Technopoly. However, the tactics of un-personing enemies of the new state religion are very much the same.
Gina’s comments were deemed ‘abhorrent’ – in other words, she simply didn’t sign onto the latest set of religious dictums assigned by the left onto their country. Contrast this with the words used to describe actual terrorists by the Washington Post, “Austere Religious Scholar”. Reality warping seems to be the strategy set in place to make sure we will swallow anything from impeachment to woke.
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Most of what we are seeing is signaling, and no I do not mean virtue signaling. We are beyond that. Virtue signaling implied gain was to be had from espousing the ‘correct’ opinions. We have stepped beyond that point to where the signaling is done now as way of keeping the secret police away from your door – it’s become a matter of survival now. A new passover..
Companies espousing ‘core values’ isn’t new but it is a recent phenomenon that their purpose has shifted in its use. The core values of a company were there for workers to hold against the company when it wasn’t living up to them – resulting in resentful employees. Today however, the professional activists have found ways of holding companies ransom and turning a rather strong profit. BLM took in billions by shouting ‘RACIST’ at the sky when a random white person killed a black person. It’s lucrative and hard to blame them for exploiting this – but the effect it’s had on businesses to put out statements and fundamentally rewrite the businesses value structure is unprecedented in modern America.
It’s no wonder Disney fired Gina Carano. It’s no wonder the Twitter trending column calls her ‘abhorrent’. Everyone is putting lambs blood over their doors.
America is being held ransom by unimpressive, undeserved, and morally reprehensible people. Add Gina to the list of many who have come before her and many who will come after.
One thing I’ll never understand is a hard-right conservative continuing to play into a sort of victimhood. The claims of being limited by free speech. The claims that their guns are being taken away. Etc.
I think hard-right conservatives just fear change and growth. If change happens, they want to do it on “their” terms and timeline. The trouble is, most of us were sold a bill of goods and have adopted this subconsciously into our worldview. We’re living in a time that a lot of social ills against women, minorities, etc, have bubbled up to the surface in a way like never before (#MeToo, #BLM, etc) and a lot of basic truths are airing out in the open. A lot of people (particularly white people of various economic backgrounds) cannot deal with these truths. So, they cloak their struggles into an infringement on individual “rights.”
There seems to be some kind of incapacity to empathise.
*Free speech is still free.
But, free speech was never free of consequences.
*Ask The Chicks (formerly known as The Dixie Chicks) circa 2003, when they took a massive hit to their career and record sales.
They bucked up and turned being cancelled into art:
“Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting
“I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price, and I’ll keep paying
“I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell, and I don’t have time
To go ’round and ’round and ’round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is
You think I should
“I know you said
Why can’t you just get over it?
It turned my whole world around
And I kinda like it
“I made my bed, and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets, and I don’t mind saying
It’s a sad, sad story
When a mother will teach her daughter
That she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Saying that I better
Shut up and sing
Or my life will be over?”