They say revolution eats their own. In the time of wokeness, I woke every day, to find out, that Institutions or people I used to admire have completely changed, became unrecognizable, and each time more and more extreme woke. I remember watching Colbert Report in early 2010. It was funny as hell, now I cant stand to watch it for couple of minutes. ACLU, I admired it, now I dont recognize it.
I have lost some fiends, for daring to question some topics for example made up pronounces, or to say that kids should learn math and science and not have sex ed at age of five.
Many of my American friends, have also awoken from the wokeness, each time story is the same => I was as democrat, a life long liberal then I dared to question dogma, and suddenly I became right extremist.
No wonder people say, I didn't left the democratic Party and Left Wing, they left me, by imposing ever stringent purity tests.
I hope, that this will soon pass, but I told that to myself years ago, when I laughed that no way a man will declare that he is a women and start wining in female sports (i thought, this was some right wing gibberish), I was very naïve, so naïve.
All I could think, Eve, is that you write beautifully. Truly. Maybe you should stop wasting your time writing about fatuous garbage performed by equally fatuous, self-reverential imbeciles and focus, instead, on the themes you do here - life, truth, courage and the wonder of nature. Even with its latest descent into decay and degradation your description of LA - a city we both love - was so evocative of its beauty and promise. Don't be surprised that everything the Left claims it stands for is a lie. It is, and has always been, that way. You are joining a big tent of people who reject those lies, big and small. And who are dedicated to restoring belief in an America that is good, and just and honest and fair. Your voice is an important addition to that cause. Welcome.
It wasn't just synagogues which were vandalized in the LA's BLM march, it was much the city's most Jewish area. But don't you dare speak about it.
Also, don't speak about the dozens of instances of antisemitic incidents in NYC in the last month, the vast majority of which were committed by black people.
Don't speak about the fact that there were more antisemitic attacks in NYC in the last month, than anti-black attacks in the whole last year.
Don't speak about all the anti-Asian violence, also mostly coming from black people.
Don't talk about how according the latest FBI data, black people commit twice as many hate crimes as the rest of the population.
Remember, black people are always the primary victims of racism, even when every data point says otherwise. And don't dare speak about antisemitism either.
For anyone who has been cancelled, ostracized, or otherwise shunned for failing to parrot the woke words of the day, this piece must surely resonate. This will only stop when we, as a group, community, and country stop going along.
I dont know you but Im sitting here so proud of you and your accomplishments. A strong brave woman that deserves to be loved/appreciated for her talents. Stay the course. Cheers to your future!
Hardly any of us are like Eve Barlow, with her skills, audience and reputation as an author. But all of us every day face the choice to live honestly, to trust that the truth is better than lies, and to act out the proposition that wherever a forthright engagement with the people in our lives leads us is preferable to the place deception and manipulation take us. We live in an era of massive moral confusion. Competing claims about this or that code of behavior or lifestyle fascinate and distract us. In the face of all that the basic first question which ought to engage us is the one the author has faced and answered: are we going to trust the truth and demand of ourselves that we live it out? Until we have an answer we probably ought to worry less about the conduct of everyone else and the decay or corruption of the culture around us. The place to start is with ourselves.
I feel presumptuous commenting on your article, as I am no scholar, no accomplished writer, no credentialed intellectual and have not suffered anything close to your experience. Nevertheless, I thank you for courage in the face of calumny, for perseverance in the face of injustice, and for resurrecting the flogged body of Truth. In the atmosphere of mass hysteria we have lived through over the past two years, perhaps actual Truth may prove to be our salvation, and a pathway to a unity that actually celebrates our differences, not our grievances.
All you need to know about BLM is that with all of their millions of dollars raised they haven’t helped one black family pay rent, they haven’t paid one dollar of tuition for any poor black student, they haven’t bought groceries for one black elderly person, and they haven’t done one positive thing for any black family in America. They are imposters. They are thieves. They are the poster child for greedy capitalists. The leaders of BLM have been caught using donations to buy houses for themselves, cars, vacations, jewelry, etc. They’re crooks. And if anyone is canceling Eve over “woke” phoniness she should know there are twice as many people standing behind her for her courage.
Thank you for this piece. It shows how so many of these industries are built not on integrity and merit but on the fragile bullshit of people who will cling to their positions through any disingenuous means possible. I understand it because I worked in the corporate environment and towing the line was the way to safety, but even that didn’t last long when the company was ready to cut your position. I wish you the best of luck in the future.
I want to be sympathetic. No, okay, I AM sympathetic. But. . . But as someone who long ago paid a similar price. And very long ago, lost touch totally with the world of pop culture, the world of the with-it people, a world Eve Barlow inhabited, I find it hard to be completely down about her plight. The Vulture world. Meh. Lady Gaga, I don't care. Father John Misty, I had to look him up to see if I could find out why a "feminist" would have a problem with him. I couldn't. But being conflicted about the George Floyd BLM "protests"? Conflicted about what, exactly? That not enough black-owned businesses got burned down. I just wonder, when are people going to get UN-conflictedly fed up with it all. I hope Eve Barlow is, now. Eve, you do not need that reference group of self-important ninnies. Forget about them. You don't need twitter. I hope you are living without it. You know the song, "How does it feel? To be without a home? Like a complete unknown? Just like a rolling stone?" That is not an angry song. Not song of contempt. It is a joyous song. A happy song. Be happy. Be unambiguously happy to be rid of all of 'em.
Thank you. I too had a similar experience. Mine didn't blow up quite as big as yours. My crime? Pointing out that hate crimes against Asians was not "white supremacy" because not only white people were committing those crimes. Not only was I branded a white supremacist but many of my peers on "Film Twitter" went along with it. I know the feeling of being seeing ghosts too. Every time I go to a screening, every time I go to a film festival - there is that hesitancy of people who think "is this the same person I used to know"? Yes, it's the same person. It's just someone who escaped the cult.
On Election Day 2020, as I was heading home from the park, I heard the sounds of drills. All the apartment buildings and stores were boarding up their glass doors and windows. I remember thinking, "Am I living in America?" Thank God my parents weren't alive to witness this mess and it's only gotten worse. Yes, BLM has been exposed. Yes, many of the protests have quieted. At what cost? Mob rule? A president with dementia and a veep who only garnered 1% during her own campaign. 1%!!! May God help us.
My husband and I no longer discuss issues of race or antisemitism. We have been together for more than 45 years and I thought were both politically on the same page. I no longer question the inconsistency I find in the NYT reporting of race and Israel when he can hear. The NYT is holy writ for him. Anything they write or how they decide to treat writers is fine with him.
A heartbreaking story, one of dozens or hundreds or more at this point. My own attempt to push back against the insanity of cancel culture, following Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" that ridicule is a potent weapon, is my new novel Nevergreen -- a satirical account of campus cancel culture in particular and its ideological excesses (plus it's secretly all about the cancellation of the Jews occurring on many campuses in the guise of anti-Zionism). Full info and great endorsements may be found at https://bit.ly/Nevergreen. One of these is from the executive producer of shows such as Homeland and 24, who presumably knows a thing or two about story-telling. Please check it out.
This was painful to read and the author has my sympathy and -- for what it's worth -- my support. One of her statements, though, strikes me as inaccurate:
It seems to me that in this case it isn't that the truth (about, say, the immorality of defacing a synagogue) scared people -- though certainly there were people scared of speaking the truth.
Rather, there were people who took it upon themselves, with malice aforethought, to punish anyone who didn't fall into lockstep with them. At the source it wasn't fear but cruelty.
They say revolution eats their own. In the time of wokeness, I woke every day, to find out, that Institutions or people I used to admire have completely changed, became unrecognizable, and each time more and more extreme woke. I remember watching Colbert Report in early 2010. It was funny as hell, now I cant stand to watch it for couple of minutes. ACLU, I admired it, now I dont recognize it.
I have lost some fiends, for daring to question some topics for example made up pronounces, or to say that kids should learn math and science and not have sex ed at age of five.
Many of my American friends, have also awoken from the wokeness, each time story is the same => I was as democrat, a life long liberal then I dared to question dogma, and suddenly I became right extremist.
No wonder people say, I didn't left the democratic Party and Left Wing, they left me, by imposing ever stringent purity tests.
I hope, that this will soon pass, but I told that to myself years ago, when I laughed that no way a man will declare that he is a women and start wining in female sports (i thought, this was some right wing gibberish), I was very naïve, so naïve.
All I could think, Eve, is that you write beautifully. Truly. Maybe you should stop wasting your time writing about fatuous garbage performed by equally fatuous, self-reverential imbeciles and focus, instead, on the themes you do here - life, truth, courage and the wonder of nature. Even with its latest descent into decay and degradation your description of LA - a city we both love - was so evocative of its beauty and promise. Don't be surprised that everything the Left claims it stands for is a lie. It is, and has always been, that way. You are joining a big tent of people who reject those lies, big and small. And who are dedicated to restoring belief in an America that is good, and just and honest and fair. Your voice is an important addition to that cause. Welcome.
It wasn't just synagogues which were vandalized in the LA's BLM march, it was much the city's most Jewish area. But don't you dare speak about it.
Also, don't speak about the dozens of instances of antisemitic incidents in NYC in the last month, the vast majority of which were committed by black people.
Don't speak about the fact that there were more antisemitic attacks in NYC in the last month, than anti-black attacks in the whole last year.
Don't speak about all the anti-Asian violence, also mostly coming from black people.
Don't talk about how according the latest FBI data, black people commit twice as many hate crimes as the rest of the population.
Remember, black people are always the primary victims of racism, even when every data point says otherwise. And don't dare speak about antisemitism either.
For anyone who has been cancelled, ostracized, or otherwise shunned for failing to parrot the woke words of the day, this piece must surely resonate. This will only stop when we, as a group, community, and country stop going along.
I dont know you but Im sitting here so proud of you and your accomplishments. A strong brave woman that deserves to be loved/appreciated for her talents. Stay the course. Cheers to your future!
Hardly any of us are like Eve Barlow, with her skills, audience and reputation as an author. But all of us every day face the choice to live honestly, to trust that the truth is better than lies, and to act out the proposition that wherever a forthright engagement with the people in our lives leads us is preferable to the place deception and manipulation take us. We live in an era of massive moral confusion. Competing claims about this or that code of behavior or lifestyle fascinate and distract us. In the face of all that the basic first question which ought to engage us is the one the author has faced and answered: are we going to trust the truth and demand of ourselves that we live it out? Until we have an answer we probably ought to worry less about the conduct of everyone else and the decay or corruption of the culture around us. The place to start is with ourselves.
I feel presumptuous commenting on your article, as I am no scholar, no accomplished writer, no credentialed intellectual and have not suffered anything close to your experience. Nevertheless, I thank you for courage in the face of calumny, for perseverance in the face of injustice, and for resurrecting the flogged body of Truth. In the atmosphere of mass hysteria we have lived through over the past two years, perhaps actual Truth may prove to be our salvation, and a pathway to a unity that actually celebrates our differences, not our grievances.
All you need to know about BLM is that with all of their millions of dollars raised they haven’t helped one black family pay rent, they haven’t paid one dollar of tuition for any poor black student, they haven’t bought groceries for one black elderly person, and they haven’t done one positive thing for any black family in America. They are imposters. They are thieves. They are the poster child for greedy capitalists. The leaders of BLM have been caught using donations to buy houses for themselves, cars, vacations, jewelry, etc. They’re crooks. And if anyone is canceling Eve over “woke” phoniness she should know there are twice as many people standing behind her for her courage.
Thank you for this piece. It shows how so many of these industries are built not on integrity and merit but on the fragile bullshit of people who will cling to their positions through any disingenuous means possible. I understand it because I worked in the corporate environment and towing the line was the way to safety, but even that didn’t last long when the company was ready to cut your position. I wish you the best of luck in the future.
I want to be sympathetic. No, okay, I AM sympathetic. But. . . But as someone who long ago paid a similar price. And very long ago, lost touch totally with the world of pop culture, the world of the with-it people, a world Eve Barlow inhabited, I find it hard to be completely down about her plight. The Vulture world. Meh. Lady Gaga, I don't care. Father John Misty, I had to look him up to see if I could find out why a "feminist" would have a problem with him. I couldn't. But being conflicted about the George Floyd BLM "protests"? Conflicted about what, exactly? That not enough black-owned businesses got burned down. I just wonder, when are people going to get UN-conflictedly fed up with it all. I hope Eve Barlow is, now. Eve, you do not need that reference group of self-important ninnies. Forget about them. You don't need twitter. I hope you are living without it. You know the song, "How does it feel? To be without a home? Like a complete unknown? Just like a rolling stone?" That is not an angry song. Not song of contempt. It is a joyous song. A happy song. Be happy. Be unambiguously happy to be rid of all of 'em.
This can be summed up thusly -
When the left eats its own.
Thank you. I too had a similar experience. Mine didn't blow up quite as big as yours. My crime? Pointing out that hate crimes against Asians was not "white supremacy" because not only white people were committing those crimes. Not only was I branded a white supremacist but many of my peers on "Film Twitter" went along with it. I know the feeling of being seeing ghosts too. Every time I go to a screening, every time I go to a film festival - there is that hesitancy of people who think "is this the same person I used to know"? Yes, it's the same person. It's just someone who escaped the cult.
On Election Day 2020, as I was heading home from the park, I heard the sounds of drills. All the apartment buildings and stores were boarding up their glass doors and windows. I remember thinking, "Am I living in America?" Thank God my parents weren't alive to witness this mess and it's only gotten worse. Yes, BLM has been exposed. Yes, many of the protests have quieted. At what cost? Mob rule? A president with dementia and a veep who only garnered 1% during her own campaign. 1%!!! May God help us.
My husband and I no longer discuss issues of race or antisemitism. We have been together for more than 45 years and I thought were both politically on the same page. I no longer question the inconsistency I find in the NYT reporting of race and Israel when he can hear. The NYT is holy writ for him. Anything they write or how they decide to treat writers is fine with him.
A heartbreaking story, one of dozens or hundreds or more at this point. My own attempt to push back against the insanity of cancel culture, following Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" that ridicule is a potent weapon, is my new novel Nevergreen -- a satirical account of campus cancel culture in particular and its ideological excesses (plus it's secretly all about the cancellation of the Jews occurring on many campuses in the guise of anti-Zionism). Full info and great endorsements may be found at https://bit.ly/Nevergreen. One of these is from the executive producer of shows such as Homeland and 24, who presumably knows a thing or two about story-telling. Please check it out.
This was painful to read and the author has my sympathy and -- for what it's worth -- my support. One of her statements, though, strikes me as inaccurate:
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦.
It seems to me that in this case it isn't that the truth (about, say, the immorality of defacing a synagogue) scared people -- though certainly there were people scared of speaking the truth.
Rather, there were people who took it upon themselves, with malice aforethought, to punish anyone who didn't fall into lockstep with them. At the source it wasn't fear but cruelty.