If you are a conservative, it is easy to
believe that the tech giants have it in for conservatives. But what
if that isn't true? What if the "Googlers" and the
Facebookers and the Twittites are just idiots and don't know any better?
I was down in the South Bay Area visiting a young Applite, and it
just seemed to me that all these tech guys and the tech H.R. and diversity
enforcers are just ordinary mortals, reflexively doing what they think they are
supposed to.
After all, unless you were an instinctive contrarian, you would
have picked up the default educated-class culture as part of your bums-on-seats
progress through high school and college like a fish in water.
And if you ask me, the silly Google Girl, Susan Wojciki, involved
in the
firing of James Damore sounds like the kind of woman who never has a
thought in her head.
So I think the tech higher-ups just think they are doing the
lord's work by doing their bit for diversity and inclusion.
The real relationship between politics and government is the
gangster relation: nice little business you got here; pity if something should
happen to it. Most conservatives don't have a gangster bone in their
bodies and really don't want to get in the faces of good honest businessmen.
Problem is, then all the businessmen in America will end up paying
protection money only to the Democratic Party, because liberals do care about
power and do want to tell business who is boss.
Unless our leaders throw a bit of elbow, these poor innocent
businessmen will continue to truckle to the liberal activist agenda as the path
of least resistance. Then one day they will wake up, like the
National Football League, to find out that their customers are leaving in
droves. We can't let this happen to them!
Lately, it seems that Twitter and Google and Facebook are really
starting to bite into conservative muscle with, e.g., curation algorithms
designed to shut up "s-----
people." If you ask me, this could really impact the 2018
midterms and the Trump re-election bonanza in 2020, unless someone up at Trump
Tower decides to Do Something about It.
The tech war on conservatives and conservative ideas is one thing
and one thing only: it is injustice, straight up, and someone needs to teach
those persecuting it that censoring conservatives ain't gonna
fly. It doesn't matter that conservatives and Alt-Right orcs are
monsters. Too bad. We have a First Amendment and freedom
of the press, and the whole point of freedom of speech is to allow speech you
absolutely hate.
So what do we do? Do we send a policy wonk from AEI down to Silicon
Valley to explain the deep philosophical reasons for conservatism and the folly
of allowing only one point of view on the internet? Do we send Steve
Bannon down there to "larn 'em" on economic
nationalism? Or do we prompt President Trump to go on late-night TV
and do a profanity-laced act like the edgy and award-winning Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel?
I doubt if any of that would work. I realized that at
an art museum today after viewing an exhibition of political
posters. Do you know that every one of them was left-wing, from
angry workers to angry blacks to angry Occupy Wall Street to oh-so-tasteful
climate change? There was not a single poster advertising a Tea
Party meeting. Not even a "We
All Knew" poster from street artist
Sabo. Imagine! Well, of course. The gay SFMOMA
associate curator for political art probably never heard of Sabo, or if he did,
he would make sure that Sabo would never be exhibited at the MOMA on his watch.
Every day, the reason we have President Trump becomes more and
more obvious. We need someone with the cojones to
take on the liberal hegemony and shake it to its foundations. We
need a president who will send someone from the Anti-Trust Division of the
Department of Justice over with plenipotentiary powers to negotiate a deal that
will avoid the horror of splitting up Google and Apple and Twitter.
If I were a tech billionaire I would know that the one thing I
would want to avoid would be the ignominy of facing my buddies after President
Trump – Trump! – had cut up my lovely trillion-dollar baby into pieces.
My feeling is that the tech guys are all political naïfs: they
have no idea that the identity liberalism they just picked up as kids because
they were Good Little Boys is a monstrous and unjust evil. Hey,
Teacher never told me!
It's time that someone did tell them. And it needs to
be someone with real credibility, straight from Mr. Big. Otherwise,
the old South Bay Area precinct captains will just say: "I don't talk to
nobody what nobody sent."
Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill runs the
go-to site on U.S. government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also
get his American Manifesto and his Road to
the Middle Class.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/someone_needs_to_sort_out_the_tech_idiots_on_censorship.html