Apparently, Cancel Culture is coming after Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass:
All of this is against the backdrop of an America divided into camps, between those who think they can freely speak their minds and those who know they can’t.
Most people subjected to cancel culture don’t have a voice. They’re afraid. They have no platform. When they’re shouted down, they’re expected to grovel. After the groveling, comes social isolation. Then they are swept away.
As a columnist and political reporter, I have given some 35 years of my life to the Chicago Tribune, even more if you count my time as an eager Tribune copy boy. And over this time, readers know that I have shown respect to my profession, to colleagues and to this newspaper.
Agree with me or not — and isn’t that the point of a newspaper column? — I owe readers a clear statement of what I will do and not do:
The left doesn’t like my politics. I get that. I don’t like theirs much, either. But those who follow me on social media know that I do not personally criticize my colleagues for their politics. I try to elevate their fine work. And I tell disgruntled readers who don’t like my colleagues’ politics that “it takes a village.â€
I sometimes whether when the dust has settled there will be no American newspapers left standing.
And blogs won’t be immune either. The smaller ones might be even more vulnerable than the bigger because their disappearance won’t be missed as much.
The problem is these bastards believe (or pretend to believe) that they (and only they) are privy to the Revealed Truth. That they know the General Will. And of course anybody who disputes the Revealed Truth or opposes the General Will are evil by definition and must be suppressed.
That’s what has changed in the last few years, the assumption of absolute certainty by so many, especially in positions of power and influence. An utter refusal to listen to any other viewpoints, because all other viewpoints must be bad. And because they no longer have the courage, or the ability, to admit error when confronted by inconvenient facts, rather than apologize they double down. Because an admission of a mistake in the piranha-laden waters of social media is effective suicide.
Was fun watching the cancel culture running into an immovable object, A.G. Bill Barr.
Ask him a question then shout accusations over his answer, then protest that his attempt to answer put an unwelcome claim on their allotted time .
They be clowned themselves.
Yes they did, grey. It’s a shame it’s not more widely broadcast. I find it a character defect that those with a voice haven’t shouted to the heavens as best they can. They will be devoured next.
Some guy writing in one of the premier American newspapers about how he isn’t being allowed to write? Guess I am missing something here. So look, I know that I cannot freely speak what I think. Almost got fired once for doing so. You just dont talk about politics and religion at work.
In this case he doesnt like being criticized as conspiracy monger because he cited Soros money. Well, anyone on the right blaming Soros for stuff probably is passing on a conspiracy. Note what his “source” says. It was a PAC founded by Soros. No evidence that the current money came from Soros. AS I have noted many times Soros just doesnt have the time or money to do everything of which he is accused. Sorry, this just comes across like some old guy watching Fox and repeating the latest conspiracy.
He gets points for not quoting Trump’s latest favorite expert who believes we get sick by having sex with demons, or something, but we can find this kind of drivel at Breitbart or Red State or American Thinker. Maybe next week he can prove the Clintons really do have a child sex slavery ring in that pizza joint.
Steve
The Los Angeles Times noted that Soros was “spending big to help decide who’s your next D.A.,†and that some of the funding was “hidden.â€
And we all know what a bunch of crazed right wing conspiracy theorists the LATimes are.