We need to be braver – IOTW Report

We need to be braver

Standing up to woke intolerance isn’t easy. But we must do it.

Sp!ked [Andrew Doyle]:

During a recent conversation about groupthink in the arts, a playwright friend of mine told me about his experience last year of rehearsing his latest drama. A director had been enlisted to take charge, and from the outset was determined to impose his ideological values on to the production. Before long he was cutting lines that he considered ‘problematic’, and policing how these topics were discussed in rehearsal. The characters as portrayed in the script were morally ambiguous but, to the frustration of the writer, this director was adamant that the show must convey the ‘correct’ message. For him, theatre was simply another tool to spread the word of social justice.

Anyone who works in the arts will be aware of the deleterious impact that woke politics has had on creative freedom, although few will be bold enough to admit it publicly. That this director was enjoying his power was obvious, and I did suggest to my friend that perhaps a more open-minded practitioner might have improved the process. ‘That’s the trouble’, he said to me, ‘we couldn’t find one’. By the time the production’s run had started, my friend was struck by a terrible realisation. He had been treating this director as one might a dangerous dog: overly anxious not to cause him any displeasure, and always aware that he could lash out and bite at any moment.

If you have ever had dealings with identity-obsessed ideologues, this analogy will doubtless ring true.  more

12 Comments on We need to be braver

  1. They keep telling us to Stop the Stigma.
    We should tolerate this and tolerate that.
    Fine.
    I will tolerate quite a bit.
    BUT DON’T TURN AROUND AND STIGMATIZE ME BECAUSE I AM NORMAL.
    And that is what is happening to us.
    They are stigmatizing normal people.

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  2. I ran into a mask Nazi. At the gym 6:30, a couple morning ago. Very few people show up then. There’s a big sign in the front door that says “Masks are recommended but not mandatory”. Very few people wear them. This little fat troll of a woman with her 160 pound husband in tow steams up to me and says “You really should be wearing a mask”. I figured I’d try something a little different. So I say, Gee, you think they do any good? I keep reading they don’t. Her reply, “The only idiots that believe that are Trump voters”. So I say, Well you’re wearing a mask, isn’t that enough protection for you?
    “No, the only way we stop this virus is everyone wears a mask”
    Multiple masks huh? Why don’t you put about 10 of them on lady and fuck off.
    She’s informing the owners what an asshole I am and going to get me kicked out. Lol

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  3. The referenced article has a link to Critical Race Theory (CRT) which is defined as …a scholarly and political approach to examining race that leads to a consequential analysis and profound understanding of racism.
    I’m betting it doesn’t lead to a profound understanding of any fucking thing. This conclusion is easy to reach if you have the stomach to read through to the bottom, you’re rewarded with this:

    CRT rests on several foundational pillars: First, racism is a relentless daily fact of life in American society, and the ideology of racism and white supremacy are ingrained in the political and legal structures so as to be nearly unrecognizable. Racism is a constant, not aberrant, occurrence in American society. “Because racism is an ingrained feature of our landscape, it appears ordinary and natural to persons in the culture.” Second, “as a form of oppositional scholarship, CRT challenges the experience of White European Americans as the normative standard” against which societal norms are measured. “CRT grounds its conceptual framework in the distinctive . . . experiences of people of color and racial oppression through the use of literary narrative knowledge and storytelling to challenge the existing social construction of race.” Third, CRT questions liberalism and the ability of a system of law built on it to create a just society. An interest convergence critique posits that white elites will tolerate or encourage racial advances for blacks only when such advances also promote white self-interest. Fourth, CRT seeks to expose the flaws in the color-blind view of everyday social relations and the administration of law by positing that ending discrimination and racism through legal means has not occurred because of the contradiction between a professed belief in equality and justice and a societal willingness to tolerate and accept racial inequality and inequity.

    I am utterly amazed that they can stack shit that high and then expect me to swallow it. Nope, not gonna happen. Go away before you get hurt.

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  4. Bad_Brad
    I like Nifter comment on “It’s just a Mask”

    “I would love to wear your mask, but it’s illegal to cover my face while carrying a concealed handgun”. Then you see the mental gymnastics going on, they start nervously looking me up and down. I smile and say “that’s the concealed part”.
    Never had anyone argue.

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  5. Different Tim

    Why yes they do. I’ve been a member at this place since the mid 90’s. I can spot a Libtard in a gym. The frumpier they look the more Liberal they are. She and her hubby have not been back during that time slot.

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  6. Cmn¢¢guy

    The problem with that is I do carry a handgun. Not at the gym of course. But the stores will refuse you entry without a mask. So I keep the gun thing quite. As always should be done.

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  7. I carry and tell stores I have a condition that prevents wearing a mask.
    No deaths from or with covid in 10 days in Maine but General Mills issues more orders. My city posts on fb squeeing about how great mask wearing is.
    No. I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I asked someone who told me to just be kind and wear a mask how long she thinks we should wear them. Frigging leftists love govt control and jump at every chance to be obedient.
    Back on to the writer and director, it must be so frustrating wanting to keep leftist politics out of today’s entertainment.

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  8. Bad_Brad
    I carry as well, when I go to the city. Not many issues in a town of 300.
    I love when I can tell my comment makes their head pop and my wife’s comment usually is “You said that out loud”.
    Even better, is when you can tell they don’t even catch on, beauty may only be skin deep, but stupid is to the bone.

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