When I lost my $10 million a year TV show for making the simple observation that Black people are intellectually inferior by genetic design, well, that was cancel culture working overtime! So unfair that my opinions are not valued, treasured, protected! Unlike SOME privileged types of people!
However, when YOU lost your $30,000 a year job because your boss saw your "I'm With Her" bumper sticker, THAT is simply justice for your poor decision making and believing that you have a right to express your political views.
Speaking of elitist victimhood, Dreher has within the last 24 hours tweeted his despondence about his local Sur La Table store closing and lamented the decline of Brooks Brothers, but he likes to refer to himself in his blog posts as Your Working Boy. Such a man of the people! But then living in reality was never Dreher’s strong suit.
It’s like we’ve been saying: you have the right to be as racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobic, anti-worker, anti-immigrant as you want to be and use your platform to put your opinions on blast. What you don’t have is the right to be above criticism, and these entitled babies will continue to throw tantrums until they learn tantrums don’t work. They’re on the same learning curve as toddlers, it would seem.
I don’t really think it’s a learning curve. They either know they’re full of crap or will never realize it. It’s more an opportunity to simply rework 30 years of “political correctness” rants by calling up old columns and doing a simple find and replace with “cancel culture.” Boom, you’ve got six months of content before you’ve finished your morning coffee, time to catch up on Netflix!
I generally agree and vote for “will never realize it.” The learning curve refers to them slowly recognizing the tantrums won’t *work* this time. You can’t pull a Dixie Chicks move on 55+% of the population. But they’ll never stop bitching because “how dare you, sirrah!” is in their cultural DNA.
Charming that the Right is so investing itself in the idea that rich white dumbasses who've never missed a meal are the REAL populist champions. But 1/3 of our population in this godforsaken country fully believes that Hollywood elites molest children in underground Tunnels before sacrificing them to Satan, so there we are.
"Because they know people are starting to talk back to them. It’s not like back in the day when Peggy Noonan and George F. Will mounted their high horses and vomited their wisdom onto the rabble and maybe some balled-up Letters to the Editor might feebly come back at them but that was it. Now commoners can go viral! People making fun of Bari Weiss might reach as many people as Bari Weiss herself! The cancel culture criers may have wingnut welfare sinecures, cushy pundit gigs, and the respect of all the Right People, but they can’t help but notice that when they glide out onto their balconies and emit their received opinions a lot of people — mostly younger, and thoroughly hip that these worthies are apologists for the austerity debt servitude to which they’ve been condemned for life — are not just coughing “bullshit” into their fists, but shouting it out loud."
I'm so grateful that Roy ('s writing) exists. Because for anybody curious, I can just point to his oeuvre and say, "This is 100% what I think, but written by somebody smarter who does good words"
It’s the mindset that thinks we should respect erroneous opinions just because they’re printed in The NY Times (David Brooks, Bret Stephens, et al.). One paragraph of Edroso is worth more than Brooks entire oeuvre. The truth is, after being wrong so often, they should be cancelled. Op ed writing doesn’t deserve tenure.
The whole point of free speech and assembly is to say what you want in front of a crowd. They're meant to be rough and tumble. That includes my right to mock you and encourage others to do the same. BTW, at-wiill employment is BS. As long as I show up on time and do my job, I can say what I want on my own time. That's what I think.
It turns out Bari Weiss is leaving the NY Times because she was bullied for not being liberal enough to start a business venture with *check notes* Andrew Sullivan and Ben Shapiro.
The closet Trump apologist snipers love this stuff. "I'm not a Trump supporter (though I play one on social media), but..." One guy claimed that charging the random freaks who paint over BLM murals or street signs was hypocrisy, if you don't object to pulling down Confederate monuments. If you like football players kneeling, why don't you accept outright racist speech? Aren't all expressions morally equivalent? Isn't it the same if white tell black people to get back in their place as those black people fighting for equality, two sides of an argument? Seriously, that seems to be what they believe.
I know that Freedom of Speech was never listed as one of the 'unalienable' rights, and the Declaration has no current legal force anyway, but when signing anti-disparagement agreements after being non-prejudicially fired I always hated that I was alienating my free speech rights in exchange for a bonus I might very well need after being let go.
Jeez, how are you going to motivate the proles to work, if not for the threat of poverty? Everyone hates their job and their boss, as popular culture has taught us, and we put up with it for the pittance they toss our way.
We mostly don't need the proles to _work_,and we soon won't need them so at all.
We do need for them to have bosses, no un-enervated free time, and to be afraid and to hate, fear and hate that can be transferred where it can do the most good, where 'good' as always means 'good for us'.
(Note: I understand that the above would not be out of place in an anti-Semitic conspiratist screed. That is unfortunate, but 0.) 'Anti-Semitism is the Marxism of fools.', though for 'Marxism' I'd say, rather, 'deep socioëconomic analysis', and 1.) I don't think much or any conspiracy is necessary when all the incentives for the amoral powerful point in one direction.)
For very many people, jobs are not about work any more. I think this is the root of much of the anomie that is at the roots of or exacerbates the growth of fascism, especially in men who've been indoctrinated into believing that our jobs are what give us worth—I know _I_ have been.
When I lost my $10 million a year TV show for making the simple observation that Black people are intellectually inferior by genetic design, well, that was cancel culture working overtime! So unfair that my opinions are not valued, treasured, protected! Unlike SOME privileged types of people!
However, when YOU lost your $30,000 a year job because your boss saw your "I'm With Her" bumper sticker, THAT is simply justice for your poor decision making and believing that you have a right to express your political views.
Thanks! Haven't been interested enough to dope out this cancel thing because it sounds so stupid. But I think this is enough of an explanation.
Speaking of elitist victimhood, Dreher has within the last 24 hours tweeted his despondence about his local Sur La Table store closing and lamented the decline of Brooks Brothers, but he likes to refer to himself in his blog posts as Your Working Boy. Such a man of the people! But then living in reality was never Dreher’s strong suit.
It’s like we’ve been saying: you have the right to be as racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobic, anti-worker, anti-immigrant as you want to be and use your platform to put your opinions on blast. What you don’t have is the right to be above criticism, and these entitled babies will continue to throw tantrums until they learn tantrums don’t work. They’re on the same learning curve as toddlers, it would seem.
I don’t really think it’s a learning curve. They either know they’re full of crap or will never realize it. It’s more an opportunity to simply rework 30 years of “political correctness” rants by calling up old columns and doing a simple find and replace with “cancel culture.” Boom, you’ve got six months of content before you’ve finished your morning coffee, time to catch up on Netflix!
I generally agree and vote for “will never realize it.” The learning curve refers to them slowly recognizing the tantrums won’t *work* this time. You can’t pull a Dixie Chicks move on 55+% of the population. But they’ll never stop bitching because “how dare you, sirrah!” is in their cultural DNA.
Charming that the Right is so investing itself in the idea that rich white dumbasses who've never missed a meal are the REAL populist champions. But 1/3 of our population in this godforsaken country fully believes that Hollywood elites molest children in underground Tunnels before sacrificing them to Satan, so there we are.
They volunteered to work triple shifts at the Bad Thoughts Factory, and now they're moaning about how nobody appreciates their sacrifice. . .
Please make this column public, Roy!
Thanks, it is public.
This is fantastic and spot-on:
"Because they know people are starting to talk back to them. It’s not like back in the day when Peggy Noonan and George F. Will mounted their high horses and vomited their wisdom onto the rabble and maybe some balled-up Letters to the Editor might feebly come back at them but that was it. Now commoners can go viral! People making fun of Bari Weiss might reach as many people as Bari Weiss herself! The cancel culture criers may have wingnut welfare sinecures, cushy pundit gigs, and the respect of all the Right People, but they can’t help but notice that when they glide out onto their balconies and emit their received opinions a lot of people — mostly younger, and thoroughly hip that these worthies are apologists for the austerity debt servitude to which they’ve been condemned for life — are not just coughing “bullshit” into their fists, but shouting it out loud."
Reminds me of something I just read.
I second making this one public
I'm so grateful that Roy ('s writing) exists. Because for anybody curious, I can just point to his oeuvre and say, "This is 100% what I think, but written by somebody smarter who does good words"
That was very kind and reassuring, thanks!
I aspire to draw like Kirby, Moebius, and the Brothers Hernandez, and I aspire to write like Orwell, Wodehouse, and Edroso.
Same. So much same.
It’s the mindset that thinks we should respect erroneous opinions just because they’re printed in The NY Times (David Brooks, Bret Stephens, et al.). One paragraph of Edroso is worth more than Brooks entire oeuvre. The truth is, after being wrong so often, they should be cancelled. Op ed writing doesn’t deserve tenure.
The whole point of free speech and assembly is to say what you want in front of a crowd. They're meant to be rough and tumble. That includes my right to mock you and encourage others to do the same. BTW, at-wiill employment is BS. As long as I show up on time and do my job, I can say what I want on my own time. That's what I think.
I'm with you!
So you're an originalist, eh? At least half the time.
Now look what you all did. I hope you're happy
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay47q/bari-weiss-is-leaving-the-new-york-times
Tell it Roy!
Bari Weiss has apparently left the NY Times, although she is not whining about being cancelled so probably this was of her own accordshe
No, she's whining all right. It's a big part of the Bari Weiss brand.
https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
Well she resigned so not cancelled, but yes whining is her modus operandi
She was bullied into self-cancelling! Oh, the humanity!
It turns out Bari Weiss is leaving the NY Times because she was bullied for not being liberal enough to start a business venture with *check notes* Andrew Sullivan and Ben Shapiro.
Momentary mystery: Where she ends up.
Maybe the Cotton debacle revealed to the higher ups that the op-ed department is a mess.
Not a chance.
Au contraire. Bennet was whatever because the publisher was unhappy with the shit show, which was more than just Bennet.
The closet Trump apologist snipers love this stuff. "I'm not a Trump supporter (though I play one on social media), but..." One guy claimed that charging the random freaks who paint over BLM murals or street signs was hypocrisy, if you don't object to pulling down Confederate monuments. If you like football players kneeling, why don't you accept outright racist speech? Aren't all expressions morally equivalent? Isn't it the same if white tell black people to get back in their place as those black people fighting for equality, two sides of an argument? Seriously, that seems to be what they believe.
With you on Brad all the way Roy.
I know that Freedom of Speech was never listed as one of the 'unalienable' rights, and the Declaration has no current legal force anyway, but when signing anti-disparagement agreements after being non-prejudicially fired I always hated that I was alienating my free speech rights in exchange for a bonus I might very well need after being let go.
How about 'Keep employment-at-will, add a generous guarantied income scheme.'?
Jeez, how are you going to motivate the proles to work, if not for the threat of poverty? Everyone hates their job and their boss, as popular culture has taught us, and we put up with it for the pittance they toss our way.
(For some values of 'we'.)
We mostly don't need the proles to _work_,and we soon won't need them so at all.
We do need for them to have bosses, no un-enervated free time, and to be afraid and to hate, fear and hate that can be transferred where it can do the most good, where 'good' as always means 'good for us'.
(Note: I understand that the above would not be out of place in an anti-Semitic conspiratist screed. That is unfortunate, but 0.) 'Anti-Semitism is the Marxism of fools.', though for 'Marxism' I'd say, rather, 'deep socioëconomic analysis', and 1.) I don't think much or any conspiracy is necessary when all the incentives for the amoral powerful point in one direction.)
For very many people, jobs are not about work any more. I think this is the root of much of the anomie that is at the roots of or exacerbates the growth of fascism, especially in men who've been indoctrinated into believing that our jobs are what give us worth—I know _I_ have been.