...and I would have included this one as well, but there was no room!
You probably already know this, but Matt Walsh has been a target for online puritans for quite a while owing to his movie What Is A Woman? Additionally, the rage escalated because his next movie Am I A Racist? was actually quite well received, pushing the cognitive dissonance into utterly boiling over.
Walsh has established himself as the right-of-centre version of Michael Moore - and I distinctly remember in the 2000s when documentary film-makers complained about Moore's didactic approach to film-making, a position I feel I would no longer encounter if I still moved in those circles. What I have called 'intolerant tolerance' continues to escalate in the US, and it remains one of the primary cultural exports from that land where I currently live to my homeland of the United Kingdom.
Since we cannot reign in the ideological excesses of others, all we can do is hold the line with our own principles and hope, trust, and pray that this ship can be turned around before hitting the iceberg.
Another excellent essay on the digital-political mess we live in today. I'd like to add one observation and another warning.
The observation is that there's now also an increasing trend to 'guilt by association', i.e. if one of your acquaintances has been 'outed' in the social media as 'nazi', then you're also one unless you break off your relationship. Never mind that this is precisely how the real Nazis acted ...
The observation: the more people can be whipped into participating in the social-media witch-hunts the fewer people will have the time and energy to look into the other direction, i.e. left, to the increasing assumption that socialism/communism plus Net Zero is the way to go. Thus there'll be less criticism and more acquiescence. Currently Germany is a prime example of how this works out in daily life.
...and I would have included this one as well, but there was no room!
You probably already know this, but Matt Walsh has been a target for online puritans for quite a while owing to his movie What Is A Woman? Additionally, the rage escalated because his next movie Am I A Racist? was actually quite well received, pushing the cognitive dissonance into utterly boiling over.
Walsh has established himself as the right-of-centre version of Michael Moore - and I distinctly remember in the 2000s when documentary film-makers complained about Moore's didactic approach to film-making, a position I feel I would no longer encounter if I still moved in those circles. What I have called 'intolerant tolerance' continues to escalate in the US, and it remains one of the primary cultural exports from that land where I currently live to my homeland of the United Kingdom.
Since we cannot reign in the ideological excesses of others, all we can do is hold the line with our own principles and hope, trust, and pray that this ship can be turned around before hitting the iceberg.
With unlimited love,
Chris.
Another excellent essay on the digital-political mess we live in today. I'd like to add one observation and another warning.
The observation is that there's now also an increasing trend to 'guilt by association', i.e. if one of your acquaintances has been 'outed' in the social media as 'nazi', then you're also one unless you break off your relationship. Never mind that this is precisely how the real Nazis acted ...
The observation: the more people can be whipped into participating in the social-media witch-hunts the fewer people will have the time and energy to look into the other direction, i.e. left, to the increasing assumption that socialism/communism plus Net Zero is the way to go. Thus there'll be less criticism and more acquiescence. Currently Germany is a prime example of how this works out in daily life.