An astute comment at Steve Sailer's
about the Kevin Williamson firing:
The NR staff currently wailing on twitter about the injustice of dumping a
talented writer for being provocative on an independent website can show it’s
not just crocodile tears by apologizing to Derbyshire.
Apologizing? They should offer to
rehire him with a raise as well. Consider David French's wailing about "the cowardly firing"
with just a few changes to it.
These cuckservative Never Trumpians
simply do not realize that their time is past. They have been exposed for
hypocrites and fools. They do not lead opinions, they are led by the Left
instead, following it slavishly from one societally destructive policy to the
next. Give them a little more time and they'll
be dutifully laying out the conservative cases for cannibalism, child
sacrifice, and Satan worship.
Hence the real reason for their wailing. They know they are losing the right-wing audience that is increasingly rejecting their soft leftism, and now they are beginning to realize that the hard Left has no use for them either.
The Littlest Chickenhawk has been crying about that on Twitter, in addition to issuing the conventional dire warnings of consequences never being the same. He thinks he is one of the "virtuous people" to decide who is acceptable and who is not, to decide who is chased down and disemployed and who is not, intstead of the overt Left.
This is, we are told, the "stone cold truth" and "the Left won't like it".
Hence the real reason for their wailing. They know they are losing the right-wing audience that is increasingly rejecting their soft leftism, and now they are beginning to realize that the hard Left has no use for them either.
The Littlest Chickenhawk has been crying about that on Twitter, in addition to issuing the conventional dire warnings of consequences never being the same. He thinks he is one of the "virtuous people" to decide who is acceptable and who is not, to decide who is chased down and disemployed and who is not, intstead of the overt Left.
This is, we are told, the "stone cold truth" and "the Left won't like it".
The Left continues to radically narrow the Overton Window - the spectrum of
acceptable discourse. They separate discourse into two categories: the
acceptable and the unacceptable. Then they shrink the acceptable down to the
opinions located between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. This necessarily
places Kevin Williamson and @bariweiss and @SamHarrisOrg and me and everyone
else the Left finds unpalatable into the “excluded” category. But the
unacceptable category is already populated by those who are actually
unacceptable: alt-right trolls, for example. This means that the population of
opinion in the unacceptable category - let’s call them Deplorables, since the
Left does - come to be a majority by way of exclusion. Unless, that is,
virtuous people who have been excluded by the Left draw distinctions among
themselves. Which they should, of course - Kevin and @bariweiss and I and
@SamHarrisOrg all get lumped in as Nazis by the Left, but we all fight the
actual alt-right Nazis.
But counting on the virtue of people you’ve just deemed unacceptable not to band together against you is both stupid and unrealistic over time. Which means the Left is doing something unethical here, and deeply dishonest - and something that is likely to foster polarization that results in the mainstreaming of truly gross opinions. This is how you get a reactionary movement willing to countenance alt-right evil: you tell people they’re part of the alt-right when they’re not, and treat them as such no matter how much of a lie that is. What just happened to Kevin Williamson leads conservatives to side with anyone the Left casts out, good or bad, merely as a form of protection. That shouldn’t happen. But it does. And the Left causes it with this bulls***.
But counting on the virtue of people you’ve just deemed unacceptable not to band together against you is both stupid and unrealistic over time. Which means the Left is doing something unethical here, and deeply dishonest - and something that is likely to foster polarization that results in the mainstreaming of truly gross opinions. This is how you get a reactionary movement willing to countenance alt-right evil: you tell people they’re part of the alt-right when they’re not, and treat them as such no matter how much of a lie that is. What just happened to Kevin Williamson leads conservatives to side with anyone the Left casts out, good or bad, merely as a form of protection. That shouldn’t happen. But it does. And the Left causes it with this bulls***.
Demonstrating, once more, that Ben Shapiro is not of the Right at all, but
of the soft Left. That's why they are always trying to a) disassociate from the
Right and b) fix the Left.
Glenn Reynolds and Kurt Schlichter have similar takes. From Instapundit:
Glenn Reynolds and Kurt Schlichter have similar takes. From Instapundit:
What really happened is that women at The Atlantic complained that
Kevin’s abortion views upset them. And since making women feel bad about their
life choices is a mortal sin, he had to go.
The difference between progressives and
conservatives is that progressives assert that making women or blacks or gays
or Jews feel bad is sufficient reason to lose your job. Conservatives, on the
other hand, argue that only making blacks or Jews feel bad is enough to justify
disemployment.