I know about this phenomenon; my books have been, literally, burned and the videos posted to Facebook. The crime, speaking out against CRT's effects on my community. And I, too, received a large number of similar email messages. Many of those who openly spoke up in support of my work and commentaries were themselves attacked. Some of the…
I know about this phenomenon; my books have been, literally, burned and the videos posted to Facebook. The crime, speaking out against CRT's effects on my community. And I, too, received a large number of similar email messages. Many of those who openly spoke up in support of my work and commentaries were themselves attacked. Some of them then retreated for fear of what would happen to them if they did not. What is most discomfiting about it all is that I have known and been friends with many of the people who are doing this or who are publicly agreeing with positions they do not agree with at all AND in years past they adamantly insisted that were they in Germany when Hitler took power they would NEVER go along with it but would speak out. I am incredibly ashamed of their cowardice, ashamed of them.
I am continually thankful that people like Abigail Shrier and Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying and others, as well as so many of the writers on substack are speaking up. It seems to me that the impetus to do so is spreading, that more people are gathering what courage they can and stepping up. That people are doing so has helped me immensely over the years, as the radical left members of my liberal tribe became insane, as I became the subject of their attacks, as I saw them fervently insist that the Constitution of the US was an antiquated document, that everyone who did not agree with them must be destroyed.
we are in tough times, it is going to be a bumpy ride. I don't think it is going to get better for a very long time.
A critical mass of opposition is building. I don't think this situation is going to take as long as that. Don't let go of possibility.
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe in Americans. We can be shallow, tempestuous, silly, bigoted, and impatient. But we are a generous people and a hopeful one. And we are fighters. It just takes a bit to rouse us. Hang in there.
Speaking of having the courage to speak up against tyranny, here's the powerful two minute "I Am Spartacus" slave revolt scene from the 1960 movie Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. Interestingly, the film's two authors, Dalton Trumbo and Howard Fast, had previously been attacked during the McCarthy era in the 1950s.
I know about this phenomenon; my books have been, literally, burned and the videos posted to Facebook. The crime, speaking out against CRT's effects on my community. And I, too, received a large number of similar email messages. Many of those who openly spoke up in support of my work and commentaries were themselves attacked. Some of them then retreated for fear of what would happen to them if they did not. What is most discomfiting about it all is that I have known and been friends with many of the people who are doing this or who are publicly agreeing with positions they do not agree with at all AND in years past they adamantly insisted that were they in Germany when Hitler took power they would NEVER go along with it but would speak out. I am incredibly ashamed of their cowardice, ashamed of them.
I am continually thankful that people like Abigail Shrier and Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying and others, as well as so many of the writers on substack are speaking up. It seems to me that the impetus to do so is spreading, that more people are gathering what courage they can and stepping up. That people are doing so has helped me immensely over the years, as the radical left members of my liberal tribe became insane, as I became the subject of their attacks, as I saw them fervently insist that the Constitution of the US was an antiquated document, that everyone who did not agree with them must be destroyed.
we are in tough times, it is going to be a bumpy ride. I don't think it is going to get better for a very long time.
A critical mass of opposition is building. I don't think this situation is going to take as long as that. Don't let go of possibility.
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe in Americans. We can be shallow, tempestuous, silly, bigoted, and impatient. But we are a generous people and a hopeful one. And we are fighters. It just takes a bit to rouse us. Hang in there.
Speaking of having the courage to speak up against tyranny, here's the powerful two minute "I Am Spartacus" slave revolt scene from the 1960 movie Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. Interestingly, the film's two authors, Dalton Trumbo and Howard Fast, had previously been attacked during the McCarthy era in the 1950s.
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