An outstanding article. Like the author, I’m displeased by the silence of the professionals that we all expect to act…professional and ethical and moral. I think there’s an assumption that the mob has the numbers as well as the noise. But I don’t think that’s true. They’re just noisy. They aren’t the majority opinion. They’re noisy speci…
An outstanding article. Like the author, I’m displeased by the silence of the professionals that we all expect to act…professional and ethical and moral. I think there’s an assumption that the mob has the numbers as well as the noise. But I don’t think that’s true. They’re just noisy. They aren’t the majority opinion. They’re noisy specially to intimidate the majority. Reasonable people exist in the majority of voices in the United States. Don’t let Twitter fool you. They need you to be afraid in order to keep uncomfortable truths from being revealed. I’m nobody. And I’m more vocal about this nonsense than people with power and frankly it’s frustrating. And as someone that leans “conservative” I can tell you that this has been “our” lives for decades. Thankfully progressives have become so intolerant that they’re eating their own, pushing classic liberals, conservatives and centrists together into an enormous population concerned with preserving the Bill of Rights - the very fabric of this country, the most liberal form of government ever devised. So, welcome to sanity. I started to follow Bari when she wrote that we all need to be brave and stand up, even those of us without power. No truer words were ever spoken. Progressives and their army of scolds have been emboldened by our silence. Listen. If you have friends that can’t tolerate your opinion that it’s bananas - BANANAS I say - for a man to compete in the Olympics as a women, then they aren’t people worthy of your friendship. They’re not friends. They’re people you chill with because you enjoy the false trappings of popularity for the sake of popularity - you’re in high school. So if you’re a doctor, a scientist, or some other pedigreed a-hole that can’t speak up (about the Wuhan lab leak) lest you be associated with Trump, then you’re not ethical, and you’re certainly much closer to Trump then the “reasoned science based super enlightened” person you claim Trump opposes. When I was on Twitter I felt like I was battling millions of intelligent adolescents - all of them as deep and reasoned as, “you’re not the boss of me!!” And I’d receive lots of hate. Then I left Twitter and suddenly…silence. All those trees were falling in some far off woods (or were they?). The people, the real flesh and blood individuals I had contact with, on both sides of the political divide were nothing remotely close to that pack of ass-clowns on Twitter. Which means, again, that they’re the minority. A loud minority. We are self censoring because we are seeing allowing them to convince us that they’re everywhere and everybody. Unclutch those pearls and tell em all to to piss up a rope. Besides. You have a new friend. One that doesn’t care about your well intentioned opinions as long as you’re a genuinely decent person - me. You’re welcome.
An outstanding article. Like the author, I’m displeased by the silence of the professionals that we all expect to act…professional and ethical and moral. I think there’s an assumption that the mob has the numbers as well as the noise. But I don’t think that’s true. They’re just noisy. They aren’t the majority opinion. They’re noisy specially to intimidate the majority. Reasonable people exist in the majority of voices in the United States. Don’t let Twitter fool you. They need you to be afraid in order to keep uncomfortable truths from being revealed. I’m nobody. And I’m more vocal about this nonsense than people with power and frankly it’s frustrating. And as someone that leans “conservative” I can tell you that this has been “our” lives for decades. Thankfully progressives have become so intolerant that they’re eating their own, pushing classic liberals, conservatives and centrists together into an enormous population concerned with preserving the Bill of Rights - the very fabric of this country, the most liberal form of government ever devised. So, welcome to sanity. I started to follow Bari when she wrote that we all need to be brave and stand up, even those of us without power. No truer words were ever spoken. Progressives and their army of scolds have been emboldened by our silence. Listen. If you have friends that can’t tolerate your opinion that it’s bananas - BANANAS I say - for a man to compete in the Olympics as a women, then they aren’t people worthy of your friendship. They’re not friends. They’re people you chill with because you enjoy the false trappings of popularity for the sake of popularity - you’re in high school. So if you’re a doctor, a scientist, or some other pedigreed a-hole that can’t speak up (about the Wuhan lab leak) lest you be associated with Trump, then you’re not ethical, and you’re certainly much closer to Trump then the “reasoned science based super enlightened” person you claim Trump opposes. When I was on Twitter I felt like I was battling millions of intelligent adolescents - all of them as deep and reasoned as, “you’re not the boss of me!!” And I’d receive lots of hate. Then I left Twitter and suddenly…silence. All those trees were falling in some far off woods (or were they?). The people, the real flesh and blood individuals I had contact with, on both sides of the political divide were nothing remotely close to that pack of ass-clowns on Twitter. Which means, again, that they’re the minority. A loud minority. We are self censoring because we are seeing allowing them to convince us that they’re everywhere and everybody. Unclutch those pearls and tell em all to to piss up a rope. Besides. You have a new friend. One that doesn’t care about your well intentioned opinions as long as you’re a genuinely decent person - me. You’re welcome.