Friends, you've just got to read this article, which exposes the slapdash, biased manner in which the tech titans are policing free speech. The same rank intolerance that governs academia is increasingly prevailing in social media as well. Conservatives should be more than outraged -- they should be petrified, because when we lose our ability to share ideas, we lose any hope of competing with the Left for both political and cultural power. The stakes could not be higher!
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Dr. Waddy: San Francisco has swung so far left that it is probably irreemable. It may well be that San Francisco and Silicon Valley are symbiotic,their geographic proximity being an important factor. There are regions of the U.S. which simply are not the U.S. anymore.Some kind of separation from the real America may become existentially necessary, just as cancerous organs are sometimes excised.
ReplyDeleteYou have often expressed your concern about a bizarre capture of corporate America by the American left and I had tended to minimize such concerns. No more. This article and your comments are very alarming.
I have always seen corporate America essentially as it is portrayed in Madmen, with some accomodation to superficial fashionable changes in the last 50 years. But that we well be in the midst of a sea change manifested first in the MSM and now most ominously in the incalculably important on line corporate world appears to me now an onerous plausibility.
We can be sure that the left is very serious when it "suggests" that Constitutionally guaranteed free speech is an obsolescent and unjust "right". Its continuous and terribly extensive campaign to suppress all expression of opposition to its presumptuous ideals predicts the totalitarian nature of its administration should it achieve the full power it seeks with morally unbridled assurance.
Dr. Waddy: Not "irreemable" - irredeemable.
ReplyDeleteHear hear, Jack! In truth, I don't see corporate America as liberal territory, but as contested ground, with perhaps the Left in the ascendant position. Academia, Hollywood, the public schools -- these are mostly lost to us. Not irrecoverable, but lost, for the moment. Corporate America is worth fighting for, because it is valuable real estate. Corporate interests largely dictate terms to our political and cultural institutions. Thus, fighting to prevent a leftist takeover of corporate America can help us, eventually, to wage a war to retake other political, cultural, and economic "high ground". Big tech is an interesting front in this war. The obvious way to negate the Left's influence over them is to duplicate their mob-like tactics, but that will be hard, because conservatives just don't have the same fascistic impulses. Government and media oversight, and perhaps legislation, may be more effective.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Certainly those who have suffered the worst of totalitarianism,had they the chance to go back, would have been willing to support any measure to save themselves. We do not yet have enough Americans convinced of the consummate destruction the American left intends to support a groundswell of revulsion toward them, though there may be a turn against the MSM at hand. But maybe the empowerment and encouragement of Presidents, legislators and judges willing to fight back will be enough. The defense of the unborn appears to have advanced considerably of late (excepting of course our NY) and fanatic opposition to that is a hallmark of the left. Its very hard for people of good will to comprehend those who (!!!???)literally CELEBRATE the willfull murder of unborns at any stage. When you defend a right to choose an act you know will consequently be done very frequently, then you support the act itself.
ReplyDeleteJack, you have put your finger on an important phenomenon: conservatives have been reliably losing every battle in the culture wars, albeit gradually, but the exception is abortion. Public opinion has moved, seemingly, against the "pro-choice" position, and laws have grown more restrictive too. How is it that the Left has proven so adept at getting its way on cultural matters -- indeed, on all matters -- but has failed to deliver the death blow, so to speak, to the pro-life movement? I'm genuinely curious!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: I would predict that there will be a day when Americans will lament the fact that so much abortion occurred and will consider it to be one of the salient hallmarks of a bizarre era. There may well be monuments erected to those so wrongly denied life itself.
ReplyDeleteThe left and ,most vindictively its radical, manhating faction has hitched its wagon to this issue and in doing so, invited Nemesis in the form of eventual generalized public revulsion. We may well be seeing the incipient genesis of this now. They will be beaten on this and perceived as the sociopaths they are for their enablement of the expulsion of millions of viable (half of them female) humans from the setting, the womb itself, in which ALL those consummate innocents are divinely due physical comfort and primal love. The manhaters see it as the definitive example of resistance to men's control of their bodies. When men forced clitorectomy in certain cultures, mastectomy, bound feet or similar disfigurement in any society, then resistance to it was the duty of all ethically bound people. But to kill the human within one? This is beyond the defense of one's own body since it clearly involves yet another body, yes? Consequently it cannot be dismissed or, horridly, CELEBRATED, as do some blithe radical femiminist subhumans, without generating profound condemnation.
Those women who resent the burden placed upon them by the possibility of pregnancy must address their outrage to their creator and not to the completely innocent beings which may take residence in their bodies. Modern, informed women have available to them many methods to prevent birth. They can reasonably be held responsible for availing these methods.
In instances in which pregnancy was forced upon them then society should afford them comfort and support beyond birth. Only when the mother's very life is threatened should the fearful choice of abortion be made. That SHOULD be fully the mother's to make; how could anyone ever ask anything else?
When I was a kid, we thought horror movies were real keen. So we went to see the 1950's version of The Fly and the scene where the enwebbed half fly, half human is approached by an obviously monstrous spider appalls me to this day. I would think the sight of the corporal consequences of an abortion would similarly horrify most people. The general broadcast of such an image would, I think, put paid to the "Pro Choice" movement overnight. And the truths it would reveal, will, I'm confident, destroy the radical feminist movement, since it has foolishly embraced this reprehensible issue.
Jack, you're right that images of fetuses seem to have a profound effect on many people. It's hard to deny the fetus's resemblance to a human being, after all... Be that as it may, most people seem to hold positions on abortion that are somewhere in the middle. Even you seem to be willing to empower mothers to decide at their sole discretion when their lives are at risk, and thus abortion is allowable. That sounds like a potential loophole to me. In any case, not many Americans seem to support the repeal of Roe v. Wade and/or the banning of abortion, but not many support abortion on demand up to the moment of birth either. It's always been a morally hazy issue that befuddles the Silent Majority.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: But in its freely chosen demonstration to the now not so "Silent Majority"how very willing the left is to champion inhumane measures, that discredited faction yet again demonstrates to us its willingness to abide any and all means to advance its beliefs. Abortion of nearly born humans? Liquidation of undeserving people? Same -same! No difference!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Jack. The Left's position on abortion grows more extreme by the day. Hopefully facts matter, but remember that the liberals have a compliant media that will spin the abortion issue whichever way they please. How big a story was the Alabama law? MUCH bigger than the other laws that have been passed in blue states to enshrine abortion as a "right" and a blessing, as the Left sees it. It's this sort of sleight of hand that could, I fear, cost us victory in 2020.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy: If only, if only, a video of a fetus with a face, arms, legs and vital torso painfully recoiling from the substance introduced into its haven to EXPEL IT! - if that were broadcast only the emotionally deadened could countenance it! Why doesn't Fox do it!? If they do not choose to do so we must motivate them. It is the hallmark of the left! The popular perception of that will destroy them since it reveals them for ALL they are.
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