{"id":42848,"date":"2014-04-09T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42848"},"modified":"2014-04-08T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T00:05:08","slug":"chanting-points-memo-the-new-gulag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42848","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: The New Gulag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last January, I pointed out<\/a> that the left’s newfound demand for “transparency” – in the form of making sure every (conservative) causes’ donors were made publicly available – was the prelude to an attempt to purge conservatives from business, academia and any other place the Big Left could get them purged from.<\/p>\n

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And the purging has started; Brandon Eich – inventor of Javascript (a frequently-misused tool that is also one of the most important factors of the past decade and change for making the web\u00a0usable<\/em> to non-geeks) and a long-time browser engineer, one of the foremost experts on how the web actually works – was cashiered from Mozilla (maker Netscape) for donating to California’s Proposition 8, which headed off gay marriage for a few years:<\/p>\n

When this fact first came to light, Eich, who was then CTO of Mozilla,\u00a0published a post\u00a0<\/a>on his personal blog stating that his donation was not motivated by any sort of animosity towards gays or lesbians, and challenging those who did not believe this to cite any \u201cincident where I displayed hatred, or ever treated someone less than respectfully because of group affinity or individual identity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There were no examples. \u00a0There never are. \u00a0“Thoughtcrime” – like most offenses in the “progressive” legal canon, like “sexual harassment” and their definition of “racism” – requires no actions, or even intent.<\/p>\n

Conservatives think liberals are wrong; liberals think conservatives are evil. \u00a0The Eich incident is only the latest and largest example of “progressives” trying to purge dissenters from private as well as public life. \u00a0Even at the lowest and most meaningless level; one of every conservative blogger’s nightmares is when a pack of liberal droogs starts snooping through your private life, trying to get you fired or at least make your political beliefs an issue with your employers or clients. \u00a0I’ve been there and done that, and it’s one reason I never mention where I work on any social media, and never talk about politics in the office (even in offices where people know my politics and extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it’s time for choosing for “progressives”; either:<\/p>\n