It’s
always distasteful watching Hollywood celebrities like Meryl Streep stand
before a room full of their showbiz cohorts at one of those lavish “Dig Me”
parties, and harp to the cameras about how mistreated they are, how
misunderstood they are, how vilified they are, and yes, how McCarthyite their
detractors in flyover country are for daring to call them out on their empty
virtue signaling and self-promoting social justice screeds. To see them cry
crocodile tears to a room full of their pampered, fellow-travelling social
justice cheerleaders—who, not coincidentally, agree with their politics and
social justice platforms at a rate of 99.9%--and then have the audacity to
proclaim how BRAVE they are for regurgitating boilerplate platitudes to a room
full of people who think exactly as they do…well, inmy opinion you’d have to tune in to the The
View to witness ruminations as childish and bankrupt.
If you would be interested
in witnessing a public speech which is both TRULY brave and delivered with
understated elegance, may I suggest to you this speech by Stefan Molyneux,
given before members of the European Union Parliament. To stand before such a
powerful body (who most undoubtedly differ wildly from him in their outlooks)
and rain on their parade in such a clear and unequivocal voice…now THAT is
bravery. It’s a magnificent presentation, and drives home his point—with utmost
clarity, thoughtful insight, and hard data—that big tech censorship is anathema
to a supposedly free state or union. To call yourself a democracy, whilst at
the same time penalizing and silencing every contrary voice and opinion, is
sophistry of a most damnable order. They may be fooling some, but, as Stefan
most articulately points out, they aren’t fooling everyone. There is a large and
growing segment of the population that has become wise to their totalitarian
machinations. These companies have come to believe that they can get away with this
partisan censorship—and perhaps they will—because they are on the side of the
gods of progressivism. But we now know—in large part because of the alternative
media, which big tech does their best to silence for self-serving and painfully
obvious reasons—what they are up to. We know how they are sparing no expense to
propagandize and indoctrinate us into their belief systems, and although they
are reaping their fair share of victories, they will lose in the end—not because
we will outfight or outlast them—but because their ideas are selfish, covetous
and perennially calamitous in the extreme, and an awake population is a population
which will no longer swallow force-fed tyranny.
We Americans sure like our freedom--or at least we talk a good game. The topic is addressed with some regularity in the news media, and makes frequent appearances on television shows and in the movies. It is even cropping up more and more often in casual conversation as we opine, thrust and parry with our friends and neighbors about the latest real and/or imagined usurpations of our rights by an ever-expanding federal government leviathan and its more petite state and local siblings. Although governmental kneecapping of its citizens has always been--and will always be--a valid and fertile point of discussion amongst concerned citizens, I was thinking of addressing here a somewhat overlooked and seldom enunciated dimension of the whole "freedom" discussion. Our default connotation of freedom is now and has forever been positive. We in this country have always bestowed upon the term the utmost reverence and respect. It is sacrosanct--and not without reason. So many o...
Transitions There is a movement afoot. Those with an ear to the ground can hear it coming. If your daily routine includes even the most cursory perusal of the day’s headlines you probably have noticed its increasing presence in the print media. What I’m speaking about is the growing transgender movement, heralded by the LGBT movers and shakers as a necessary forward step in our evolution—an overdue and much needed affirmation of not only the rights of what has been termed “the trans community,” but also a demand for unquestioned acceptance of its legitimacy as an alternative and moral lifestyle choice. Those of us old enough to remember Phil Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael’s daytime talk shows can recall the titillating episodes that featured transgenders, and how the hosts always did their level best to portray this psychosexual deviation in the most glowing and positive light. Donahue and Raphael were high-visibility cheerleaders for this new wave ...
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