American Thinker:
By Clarice Feldman
The left everywhere, from college campuses and newsrooms, to corporate headquarters and city councils, has gone stark, raving mad. I’m not the first to say it, and probably not the last, but most Americans are rational and aren’t going to take this much longer.
As for those wanting to defund and abolish the police, and — in colleges and newsrooms — forbid dissent from the BLM injustice mantra, Edmund Burke’s observation is timeless:
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites… in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
The Newsroom Revolts
In an essay in which this leftist writer bends a necessary knee to Trump hatred, Matt Taibbi nevertheless hits the press where it deserves to be smacked:
It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness.
The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily.
They’ve conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense, from a UCLA professor placed under investigation for reading Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” out loud to a data scientist fired* from a research firm for — get this — retweeting an academic study suggesting nonviolent protests may be more politically effective than violent ones!
Now, this madness is coming for journalism. Beginning on Friday, June 5th, a series of controversies rocked the media. By my count, at least eight news organizations dealt with internal uprisings (it was likely more). Most involved groups of reporters and staffers demanding the firing or reprimand of colleagues who’d made politically “problematic” editorial or social media decisions.
Only people who miss hearing the ravings of the juiced-up sophomores in their college dorm will continue reading the bilge produced under these constraints. read more
h/t systemically confused
i was self flagellating in the shower earlier….. i think!
The brilliance of your comment is staggering, Master. All the way up there with 7th grade locker room humor. We should all aspire to your lofty heights.
Hmmm…Black warlord…Adid…? Out of food? Ah!..”Chazadishu” !!!
The last letter is the one read it is the one under the bold Type, Black Lives Matter.
Don’t be lazy read it. It spells out what is wrong with all most all colleges and the so called black leaders across the country.
It will never see the light of day on the left where it needs to be seen.
Geoff, thanks for your comment and second your endorsement. Would suggest that ALL of it is worth a read and will be passing ALL of this on wherever I can.
Fear that it might not get proper exposure among the crew here on a Sunday night.
@Geoff C. The Saltine, @Anymouse — Make mine a second seconding, if you will. It is very rare to read a piece written with such passion, persuasion, and precision. It was written by a man I would dearly love to meet.
I strongly urge everyone to read the anonymous historian’s whole letter.
Edmund Burke’s “Rules for Thee, But Not For Me”?
Deep. Deep something.
I’d delete my “Onion” bookmark, and replace it with “American Thinker”. But I’ve been warned that thinking those “Americans” are “Thinking”, is anything other than truthy, is now a hatethought crime.