Thank you Bari. I admire your courage to speak out in this environment of cancel culture. Completely agree with you and the commenters that holocaust analogies should be avoided by everyone. What i believe that Gina and others like her are seeing, is that conservatives are being discriminated against in getting jobs, expressing themselve…
Thank you Bari. I admire your courage to speak out in this environment of cancel culture. Completely agree with you and the commenters that holocaust analogies should be avoided by everyone. What i believe that Gina and others like her are seeing, is that conservatives are being discriminated against in getting jobs, expressing themselves at universities, publishing books and simply speaking their minds in person or on social media. On top of this, we have commenters on MSNBC saying conservatives should be sent to “reeducation camps”. The word “camps” was chosen quite intentionally. Then, when conservatives compare themselves to Jews, they are demonized for doing so. It is a classic “gotcha” set up.
I’m not sure that Germans in the late 1920s and early 1930s thought that the ideological, religious and economic persecution of the Jews would lead to something so horrible as concentration camps. So while analogies to the Holocaust are indeed not helpful, it is on the other hand naïve to think that something so terrible could not happen again when the wokesters are controlling social media, print media, television media, federal government, universities and schools.
The comparison may be sloppy but it is efficient. When you dehumanize "the other" because of their beliefs, the upstream effect can have devastating consequences. Given how freely the blue wave #resistance has compared Trump and his supporters to Nazis, I find Carano's tweet innocuous and to the point. Using this tweet to cancel her was just a convenience and that to me, is the real story.
Thank you Bari. I admire your courage to speak out in this environment of cancel culture. Completely agree with you and the commenters that holocaust analogies should be avoided by everyone. What i believe that Gina and others like her are seeing, is that conservatives are being discriminated against in getting jobs, expressing themselves at universities, publishing books and simply speaking their minds in person or on social media. On top of this, we have commenters on MSNBC saying conservatives should be sent to “reeducation camps”. The word “camps” was chosen quite intentionally. Then, when conservatives compare themselves to Jews, they are demonized for doing so. It is a classic “gotcha” set up.
I’m not sure that Germans in the late 1920s and early 1930s thought that the ideological, religious and economic persecution of the Jews would lead to something so horrible as concentration camps. So while analogies to the Holocaust are indeed not helpful, it is on the other hand naïve to think that something so terrible could not happen again when the wokesters are controlling social media, print media, television media, federal government, universities and schools.
The comparison may be sloppy but it is efficient. When you dehumanize "the other" because of their beliefs, the upstream effect can have devastating consequences. Given how freely the blue wave #resistance has compared Trump and his supporters to Nazis, I find Carano's tweet innocuous and to the point. Using this tweet to cancel her was just a convenience and that to me, is the real story.
Well said