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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

My God, just reading the first few comments here is the perfect illustration of John’s point. There are so many liberals who are addicted to whataboutism, and no matter what topics are raised or what evidence you muster, they can only sputter Trump Republicans Trump Republicans...it is just brain-dead tribalism all the way down.

For those of you who refuse to listen, let me try to simply reiterate the point our gracious host has been attempting to make: Our cultural institutions—journalism, arts and literature, film, TV, theater, academia, etc—are in the process of being fully conquered by an illiberal post-Marxist quasi-Maoist political movement/fundamentalist ideology. The people who propagate this ideology are committed enemies of free thought, free speech, free expression, freedom of association, etc. (And if you don’t believe me, just read any of their founding documents.) And rightwingers have ZERO power in this realm.

Maybe none of this matters to people who view politics as a cross between sports and soap opera, but I have many friends in film, media, publishing etc and they all uniformly walk on eggshells and live in terror because one wrong word, one clumsy phrase, one dissent from dogma, and they know their lives and careers will be destroyed. And I don’t raise this because any of these people need or deserve sympathy, I raise this because the end of free expression means the end of a free society.

But I guess it’s okay to live through a remake of 1984 as long as O’Brien isn’t a Republican.

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AledX's avatar

A good illustration of the power dynamic is that being part of the "woke" mob can end someone else's career; being part of the 'alt-right' only ends your own.

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