There is hardly a slow news week anymore, and the past few days have been no different. The first interesting thing to happen was the discovery that the New York Times' newest editor has a highly racist Twitter feed. Even more interesting was the decision not to fire her. We're well aware that the foremost sin of The Cult - racism - is selectively enforced by race. Still, it's quite a thing to see the New York Times, their "paper of record", officially adopt the stance that only white people are racist.
Candace Owens sought to showcase how racist Jeong's tweets were by retweeting them herself, but replacing all instances of white with black. In one of the most stunning confirmations of an argument perhaps ever seen, Twitter - who had not taken action against Jeong - suspended Owens! The incident proves that the New York Time's hired an editor that is certainly racist, unless one adopts the racist credo that only certain races can be racist. And it follow right on the heels of the discovery that the New York Times was literally prostituting itself to government employees for access to documents. What a piece of tabloid trash. It's the left's vaunted institute. What next, Harvard dealing crack?
I say it's a killshot, because you don't get more persuasive than this. Good on Candace Owens for the role she is playing. Twitter later canceled her suspension and called it a mistake. Well, it was, because it underscored the racism going on at the Times. But it's all quite consistent from their viewpoint. Jeong can't be racist. Owens's logically equivalent tweets were racist, because they were about blacks, so she was suspended. Then they realized she is herself black, so she can't be racist, so she was re-instated. The whole ordeal has made it very clearly that the left hates white people. The only whites that could possibly remain aligned with them are the grossly uninformed, the self-hating whites, and the sociopaths who use minorities, as Owens puts it, as "political bargaining chips."
The next big news was Alex Jones getting deplatformed. It wasn't completely unexpected. I had decided just a number of weeks ago that Infowars would serve as my Facebook politicization litmus test. If Infowars was banned, I'd close my account. (Hardly used anyway, these days.) It was pretty clear that if they wanted to start outright banning conservative voices, it would start with Infowars. What I didn't expect, however, was the co-ordinated strike across multiple platforms. Who would have thought they'd be so brazen behaving openly like a social media cartel? Well, we tend to underestimate just how brazen they can be.
The Anonymous Conservative talks about how the r-selected - who can't naturally compete, are terrified of being out-grouped above all things. Psychologically, for them, out-grouping is like a death sentence. They can't survive on their own. Their own out-grouping campaigns are largely a matter of psychological projection. They do unto their enemies that which they fear having done to themselves. Getting an enemy banned from mainstream & social media is their killshot. That is the progressive going for the jugular. Does anyone really think they care about the major principles of liberal democracy, like freedom of speech? Please. The entirety of their political existence is to have the tribe provide them with resources, and isolate anyone who might oppose that outcome. That single sentence explains their behavior with more consistency and predictability than any body of political theory out there. How else can you account for the fact that they say blacks are economically disadvantaged but push for unlimited illegal immigrants; that they hate religion, misogyny, and homophobia, but love Muslims; that they hate racism but also hate the white race; and on and on. Their internal contradictions are unending and confounding, until you realize the prime directive of progressives. I deliberately say the prime directive of progressives - rather than the prime directive of progressivism. Often we think of liberalism as a mind virus, infecting hapless victims. Thus, we try to attack the disease rather than the patient. But, at the core of it, there is no ism there. There are progressives, the group of people who tend to share the prime directive within their psychological fabric, and all ideology is downstream from that.
Outgrouping isn't necessarily the killshot the left believes it to be. It can be fatal, no doubt, but often it has served as a catalyst that drove the great men of history. Famous examples include Genghis Kahn, Jesus, El Cid, Napoleon. In the 20th century, Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin were all politically imprisoned or exiled, as were Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Out-grouping can be as ineffective against a strongly self-driven man as a rational argument is against a progressive. The wind extinguishes a candle but fuels a wildfire. Not only does exile make an opponent more resolute, it gives him status amongst his compatriots, and sympathy in general as people always love an underdog. If they are going to make Alex Jones a martyr, and other conservative voices, they had better make sure they can thoroughly destroy him in the process. Hence the collaboration to ban him from all major outlets. It is possible that this all ends up hurting the social media giants more than Alex Jones. He's already working on marketing spin, encouraging viewers to Subscribe to the Banned Show.
All the companies that have acted in solidarity to deplatform Jones have effectively signaled their membership within a social media cartel. I am moving to deplatform myself from all those services, and I encourage everyone else to do the same. (Yes, I even canceled my Spotify.) This blog is hosted through Google. I've wanted to change that for quite some time, and this event has given impetus to finally do so. The migration process is already started. This blog will be moved to a neutral platform and rebranded in the coming weeks. We'll make this blog great again.
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