Loaded up Google to find a list of cancelled people to see if there was anyone I actually miss but then thought omigod what am I doing???

Anyway, top-of-head, I want Louis CK back. He was funny, and as of last December's bootlegged club show, he still is. What he did was weird, and not something for which he'll be admired, and is probably in some context illegal or at least legally actionable.

But he didn't do it to me, which is a big consideration for a offenses of that category... The non-violent sexual conduct of distant strangers category. If the women want to pursue the matter legally, or his business partners want to get after him for squandering their shared investments, it's got nothing to do with me.

Also, the Azari guy obviously got burned for no good reason, but since I'd never heard of him theretofore, it's hard to imagine what a corrective opportunity would be.

Anybody know if Weinstein is in jail? Wiki says—

No.

Weinstein was later released after $1 million bail was posted on his behalf. He later surrendered his passport and was required to wear an ankle monitor, with travel being restricted to New York and Connecticut.

Okay, more in the spirit of the post: David Edelstein. Wiki says he's still working:

In 2018, WHYY-FM, the producer of Fresh Air, ended its relationship with Edelstein. Edelstein made a joke on his Facebook page about a rape scene in the film Last Tango in Paris which some viewed as "offensive and unacceptable."[8][9] Edelstein stated that he was unaware of the link between the film and rape, apologized and deleted the post. Edelstein was defended by media outlets such as Salon and the editorial board of the New York Post and The American Conservative.[10][11][12]

(I haven't liked NPR since about June of 1977.)

Joy-Ann Reid was forgiven.

I haven't liked NPR since about June of 1977.) ~ Crid at September 24, 2019 12:48 AM

I listened to George Takei compare Trump to an orangutan last night on NPR. It was instructive. He spoke with such vehement hatred about the president, not constructive and well-thought criticisms, but highly emotional hatred.

Then, I remembered a tweet by Denise McAllister that I'd read a while back: "The problem here is broader than Trump. It shows that liberals invest too much in the federal government. When they like the politician, they invest too much hope. When they hate him or her, they invest too much fear and despair. They have made the State their God or their Devil."

Exhibit Number 1

Exhibit Number 2

Takei used to have a pretty funny Facebook feed. Not anymore. The Left is allowing the monster that they built to eat their souls.

The Left puts all of their hopes and dreams in the federal government, because the Left is about one thing: absolute power. How can you exercise absolute power in a nation where power has been devolved? You can't. Hence the drive that we've seen for the past century to centralize political power in Washington, and cultural power in New York and Los Angeles. If some other party succeeds in seizing one of those centers of power, that's a severe setback for the Left. (If that other party succeeds in re-devolving power, that's a death blow.)

Make no mistake: the Left does not love the concept of America. It covets American resources, but it has no love whatsoever for American principles. When America, and Western civilization in general, succeeds, it means the Left has failed. The Left is all in for the fall of the West, and it will settle for nothing less.

Those are some creepy books Conan. But illustrative.

Our Gracious Hostess: I think people should think twice about joining a mob of any kind on social media.

Or twice or thrice.

And people should remember that no matter how skilled at political nastiness they think they are, there's always, always going to be someone nastier. That's true whether you're playing politics online, on campus, or in the office.

Oh, I think that joining a social media mob is always evil. Period. Just a sip of evil if you are but one voice of thousands, and full-on soul-rotting evil if you attempt to get someone fired or doxx them.

We're watching the working out of the ethics and morals of a strange new religion that has gripped the world.

We're passing from a West that was at least marinated in Christian ethics if not in Christian religious belief to the generation that finally has none of that. The schools certainly don't teach anything that would look like it came from an Abrahamic religion.

Who is at fault in a case before the court? Whoever is the greater victim is the angel; whoever is not the victim is the devil - and automatically wrong.

Look at the noise regarding the white guy pummeled to death this week: The scribes and keepers of this new religious understanding explain that a group of teenage black boys are justified in beating a 59-year-old white man to death because they allege he said the "N-word" when refusing their demand for his money, and that word made them fear for their lives, so they beat him to death.

This new religion loves youth because they have no track record of opinions - they are mindless idiots who do exactly what they are told TODAY.

Yet, 10 years on, they'll have a track record, and the acceptable views will have shifted - because the entire game is proximity to the center of the maelstrom of ever-changing views - and they'll be consumed by the new angry mob for having voiced perfectly-acceptable views demanded of the mob in the past. Examples:

What would happen if somebody brought up a video of one of the Democrat front runners demanding a separate-but-equal "civil union" legislation to avoid the use of the term "marriage" but keeping all the benefits? End of the career!

What would happen if somebody brought up a video of one of the Democrat front runners demanding a curtailment of immigration as Obama did to protect the wages of the bottom of American society? Racism! He's through!

You can't even go and pay the priests at the temple for forgiveness; you would think they would have gone with the "sacred sex" route - pay and purchase an hour with the priestess - but there's not even that route.

There is no forgiveness in this strange new religion - they just expect you to apologize, admit guilt, and die.

What would happen if somebody brought up a video of one of the Democrat front runners demanding a separate-but-equal "civil union" legislation to avoid the use of the term "marriage" but keeping all the benefits? End of the career!

Like Joy Reid, that'll be forgiven. They've grown and become more open minded you see. That's an exception, as those people are still potentially useful. Anyone else? excommunicado.

We'll see if Joltin' Joe Biden survives his Ukrainian (and Chinese) entanglements.

"I think people should think twice about joining a mob of any kind on social media."

How do you convince anybody that they're not individual examples of enlightenment and worth...

...like your regulars? ;)

Point out that they haven't done any reading? At least we do that.

> "They have made the State
> their God or their Devil."

I think Coney's McAllister is right. Human beings are born subordinate to irresistible authority; we're supposed to grow out of it, but of course many of us do not, as we'd expect of an animal form: There are offspring for every beast who simply will not thrive, and who will want the comforts of adulthood to be the same as the ones of childhood.

So they grow up and demand centralized authority in every context, and only later figure out how much fun it is to tell distant people how to live.

And only later than that realize that they personally, don't like being told how to live.

"only later than that realize that they personally, don't like being told how to live"

I'm totally on board with the save-the-environment stuff but how long before Greta "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" Thunberg figures this one out?

✓ Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at September 24, 2019 7:28 AM

The Scruton piece inspired me to repost the poem "Into Our Town the Hangman Came", with commentary about its relevance to the current Cancel Culture:

https://ricochet.com/679357/when-they-came-for-those-other-people/#comments

It won't be forever.

SJW mobbing has been a feature of online communities for several years now. Eventually people recognized that their behavior was disingenuous and malicious and stopped rewarding them.

That trend would have petered out if the media hadn't revived it in the aftermath of #MeToo. But I can see that the public is catching on as well. And the actions of Google, Twitter, TY and FB have really clarified the true motive - control of poltical speech and purging of political dissidents.

At this point it's just a matter of people being willing to acknowledge that it's all a lie, that we all know that these mobs aren't acting in good faith.

What's really sick about the whole thing is that they're humiliating all of the causes they claim to represent. They've all been turned into cynical excuses for the thrill of degrading people.

"They've all been turned into cynical excuses for the thrill of degrading people"

Indeed, in many cases the main motivation for these attacks is the sick pleasure of going after a socially-approved target.

See my post Conformity, Cruelty, and Political Activism:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/57600.html