A tweet about the Holocaust? Sorry, Gina Carano, you’re finished with Disney. A tweet about how violent protests lose elections got you fired? Sorry, David Shor, those are the consequences of your actions. You have to be held accountable.
It’s not “cancel culture,” they insisted. It’s “consequence culture.” Intent doesn’t matter. Only impact does. Not even Thomas Jefferson was safe from the “Eye of Sauron” that sought to root out the thought criminals wherever they may have been hiding.
If you wrote a headline that said “Buildings Matter Too” and lost your job? Too bad, your words caused harm. Said the “N-word” as clarification on a field trip, and your entire legacy at the New York Times goes up in smoke? Those are necessary consequences for your actions.
Liked the wrong tweet, voted for the wrong candidate, praised the wrong movie, had the wrong opinion about Black Lives Matter, had a bad date, wore the wrong Halloween costume, and that was it. If you defended someone who wore “blackface” on Halloween once, you are a convicted racist, and you must apologize profusely or lose your job, sometimes both.
Who gets to stay and who has to go has been the sick little game we’ve all been playing, like we’re trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone and are one wrong opinion away from being wished into the cornfield.
The unholy alliance of screeching, infantile, overly sensitive cry bullies on social media and the major institutions that bowed to them has been spreading like a toxic fungus on college campuses and throughout American culture for far too long. Heck, it’s even been exported to other countries.
No one dared stand up to the little tyrants, lest they found themselves wished into the Cornfield too, so they said nothing. All of them said nothing. Even the President of the United States said nothing. That meant the little tyrants grew into adult tyrants who thought they could blame Israel for the attack by Hamas, and everyone would applaud them as brave activists fighting the good fight.
It didn’t quite go that way. Some of them experienced genuine pushback. Some even experienced — gasp — consequences. Just that tiny bit of resistance sent them reeling into safety rooms as they sobbed hysterically because now they couldn’t get a job at their law firm of choice. Oh, the poor little dears!
But guess what, kids? The worm finally turned, and now, all of that power you held in the palms of your hands can be used against you.
You, too, can now be humiliated in the public square. You can get your name on a list. You can get fired or not hired. Who would want a little monster like you on their team anyway? Not I, said the fly. Not me, said the bee.
Some people have now been fired for praising the Hamas, like Dana Diab:
I don’t think students should have been doxxed. I don’t think they should be banned off of social media or that they should face any legal trouble for their views, not in this country, that’s for sure. This Nikki Haley campaign promise goes way too far for my taste:
That edges too close to the authoritarianism we’ve already suffered at the hands of the Left.
But firing these brainwashed idiots? Warning future employers that they’re about to hire ignorant at best, cult members at worst, even if they graduated from Harvard or any other prestigious university? I’m all for it.
These students didn’t “make anti-Israel statements.” They blamed Israel for the slaughter, suggesting it was justified. That’s like saying the Columbine or Newtown massacres were justified because the shooters had been bullied.
Or that the Manson murders were justified because Charles Manson had been treated so poorly. Or that the mass murder of children in the daycare center at the Oklahoma City Federal Building was justified because of what our government did to David Koresh.
Would you want someone working for you who said Hitler had a point in his mass genocide against the Jews because the United States did not deliver on its promise to help rebuild Germany after WWI?
Let this moment serve as a reality check and a warning to those naive young students that there is a difference between criticizing Israel, even protesting its war on Gaza, and justifying what Hamas did in Israel. Ignorance is no excuse. If your news is failing you, then find better news. Do the work. Educate yourself, as the kids like to say.
War is a terrible thing. But it is not meant only to kill innocent civilians, where terrorism is. Hamas wanted only to inflict pain on a scale that we, as human beings, and as civilized societies, cannot and should not tolerate. They gave Israel no choice but to bomb the living crap out of them. They did this at a time when they knew many would turn on Israel for it, and guess what, they were right?
Here we are, stuck with hundreds of thousands of young people graduating our universities who do not understand the difference between terrorism and war. So who is teaching these kids? Let’s fire them too.
It comes down to judgment, critical thinking, and a commitment to the truth. Everyone must be able to say that there is no justification for what Hamas did on October 7. Stop there.
After that, then the conversation can begin about what Israel should do about it and whether or not the US should involve itself in what looks like a world war.
But if you can’t even get there, something has gone very wrong. They aren’t hearing the truth or refusing to believe it. Either way, They should be grateful they got a wake-up call now when there is still time to rescue their minds from delusion and fanaticism.
And, of course, they aren’t being really punished. Their lives aren’t going to be destroyed. It’s exactly the opposite.
The New York Times has their backs, as would any major outlet or high-minded member of the elite.
Pen America has their backs:
Yes, they’re young, and yes they’re stupid, but who will set them straight if we don’t do it? Not their parents, not teachers, not journalists, not cultural leaders. Let this moment serve as a lesson for all of us about what has been happening to our kids at the hands of the Left. Unfortunately, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
But at least, for one brief moment, the social justice warriors, the fanatics, the pitchfork mob did get a small taste of their own medicine.
Welcome to the real world, kids. Remember all those “consequences” you’ve been shrieking about? Well, here they are! Come and get ‘em while they’re piping hot.
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Cancel Culture Warriors Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine