In Ben Shapiro’s Sunday interview with Gina Carano that I linked yesterday, there were several passages that resonated.
One in particular:
I would go to a barbecue on the beach in California, and all these people would go [switches to sotto voce] “Hey, I agree with you. Messed up, isn’t it?”.
And I’d be…’This is your house. Why are you whispering?'”
It reminded me of another episode.
I was talking with a couple of reps from a metro media organization – TV, newspaper, it matters not. And when one of the representatives and I had a moment without the others around, that person swiveled their head around to make sure nobody was listening, and whispered to me “Don’t tell anyone I said this, but I love [the NARN]. I’m on you guys side. I just have to keep quiet about it”. I felt a little like a reporting working in East Berlin or Warsaw in 1974, getting a furtive, samizdat note from a local that the Stasi or ZOMO wouldn’t be able to trace.
This was over a decade ago.
I think of this because it is now in vogue for lefties to tell people “there is no such thing as cancel culture. There’s just consequences for actions”.
Right. And that “action” is “dissenting from the progressive worldview in public”. No more.
Don’t believe every semi-stranger who tells you, sotto voce, that are really “on your side.”
Speak your mind. Censor yourself out of concern for anything you decide — except fear. What you fear to speak, you will learn to fear to think.
Reminds me of an old joke about Spain’s Franco.
In the late 70’s, when things were loosening up, a journalist asked a Spanish dining friend, “What do you think about Franco now?”
“Follow me,” the guy said as he got up from the table then exited the restaurant through the kitchen. They jogged down an alley hopped a bus and rode it far out into the seaside where they got off to rent a boat and rowed far out into the ocean.
“I like him,” the friend said.
Ms Carano is/was an outstanding athlete and competitive mixed martial arts fighter. She went from Star Wars to working at a Shapiro tabloid. She is one step away from just doing porn. Sad really. Apparently actions do have consequences.
Everybody knows, and nobody can say.
If you believe in cancel culture, you will be canceled.
And yet, Emery, you condescending little slug, you don’t have the stones to tell her that to her face. I would pay money to see you do it. Now, get off of the computer before your mommy catches you playing with it.
Emery delivering yet another lovely Ad Hominen attack. Don’t know why it would surprise anyone.
Does anyone know why Carano was canceled? I know what Disney said, and it did not pass the stink test.
It’s fine to say “actions have consequences,” but these days, if you are a public figure, you don’t know what the actions that lead to consequences are. There are no broad and well known social taboos that discretion tells you it would be best to honor.
I could fill my spare hours by helping out with open source software projects. I have some expertise in Python and Astropy. But the PSF CoC is vague and gives too much power to the Python community Code of Conduct Team, which may take any actions it desires against the people it investigates, and members are expected to — not allowed to, but expected to — police the speech of one another online.
This is bullying, which the PSF CoC expressly forbids.
FYI, Richard Stallman (a name that will be familiar to anyone who has used products of the GNU software project) has been canceled and is no longer part of the GNU project that he created.
His crime was to opine that a colleague caught up in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal did not have non-consensual sex with anyone, and that the accusation that this colleague had had non-consensual sex with one of Epstein’s girls was based solely on the fact that the girl was seventeen years old and not eighteen years old at the time of the incident.
This is hair-splitting, I think, but being canceled for simply expressing his opinion on the topic sends a chilling message about free speech.
Anyway, I won’t have any part of them. I will not be bullied into mangling the English language by a forced use of “pronouns of choice.”
“Actions have consequences.” So if one person doesn’t like what another person says, the offended party can cancel the offender, is that what I’m hearing?
Interesting. Because it seems to me that Democratic Socialist James Hodgkinson shot Republic Steve Scalise and Democrat Rene Boucher broke Republican Rand Paul’s ribs, both stemming from disliking opinons. Having established the precedent that cancel culture includes physical violence as well as blacklisting, we’re into a whole new set of rules for society.
Ad feminem and then ad hominem, since Emery insulted Miss Carano and Shapiro both. Never mind the ludicrousness of the insult–is working for a lesser producer than Disney really that close to doing porn? If it is, Emery’s just accused most of Hollywood of doing blue movies, really.
As we said in elementary school, “smooth move, Ex-lax.” Now that characterization of Hollyweird may be truer than we might like to know–Star Wars movies are not selling a ton of tickets because there is a ton of viable competition–but it’s not like Miss Carano has fallen from a huge height in cinema to the brothel from Les MIserables or anything.
She is one step away from just doing porn.
Is Reek Jr. showing her the ropes?
BB commented: “Ad feminem and then ad hominem, since Emery insulted Miss Carano and Shapiro both.”
Do as I say, not as I douche
Do as I say, not as I douche
lol…OK Reek. Douche on, douchebag.
Like most lefties, Emery shows his commitment to feminism by debasing a conservative woman into a sex object.
Action have consequences, yes. Yes, private company, blah, blah, blah. Are there any prominent conservatives calling for Disney to reverse its decision on Carano? No, just people calling out Disney for it’s seemingly lopsided approach to what sort of egregious behavior they’ll tolerate, and from whom they’ll tolerate it. I mean, it’s not like any government officials sending letter to private businesses and suggesting they stop giving a platform to views they deem as unworthy of being seen and heard by the masses.
Oh.
Yes, private company, blah, blah, blah.
I think that ship has sailed. Democrat politicians are now openly calling for social media & broadcast companies to censor conservative voices.
Perhaps someone should explain to the dems that there is not a clause in the constitution that allows congressmen to override it.
Perhaps someone should explain to the dems that there is not a clause in the constitution that allows congressmen to override it.
But MO, it’s a living document 😉
Observed a Twitter exchange last night where a lefty said “Allowing people to simply choose their own media isn’t working.” No sense of the future dangers to himself and others with such a mindset, but he didn’t strike me as a long-term or nuanced thinker.
I mean, it’s not like any government officials sending letter to private businesses and suggesting they stop giving a platform to views they deem as unworthy of being seen and heard by the masses.
Put another way: That’s a nice network you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it…..
“That’s a nice network you got there. Be a shame if someone were to regulate it.
Right-wing cancel culture.
In First Amendment news: Every Tennessee GOP senator has signed a letter that encourages chancellors and presidents of the state’s universities to punish student athletes who protest while at sporting events.
This is a great moment to re-read one of the great SCOTUS opinions in American constitutional history, West Virginia v. Barnette: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/319us624
Tennessee GOP Lawmakers Want To Ban Student-Athletes From Kneeling Following ETSU Protest
https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-gop-lawmakers-want-to-ban-student-athletes-from-kneeling-following-etsu-protest/
From the article: “State Sen. Rusty Crowe, R-Johnson City, is one of the signees. During a hearing Monday, he said he supports the right of student athletes to protest, as long as it is during their free time.”
Nice try at deflection, Emery.
I mean, that is way worse than a couple of Democratic representatives bullying cable, satellite, and streaming platforms to stop carrying opposing views. /sarc