I’ve been following the drama around NPR CEO Katherine Maher, and, while lots of conservatives are dunking on her tweets and statements, I don’t see a lot of liberals circling the wagons around her. But a lot of them were just like her between 2017 and 2020.
If Maher is forced to step down over her “in this house” tweet history, a lot of other people who advanced their careers a few years ago by being performatively woke could also be in trouble. I guess their plan is to just delete their old tweets and try to keep their heads down.
These people went completely fucking insane. They destroyed the lives and businesses of a lot of people who didn’t deserve it. And now they’re going to try to pretend that none of it ever happened.
Katherine Maher espoused exactly the opinions that were expected of her to be promoted as a white female nonprofit executive in the 2010s. She is not an unusual figure. There are people like her in c-suite positions in every company right now.
@DanFriedman81 The trauma of that night in Nov 2016….. it had deep and far ranging consequences.
@DanFriedman81 Don’t call me a pessimist, but feels like premature use of past tense.
@DanFriedman81 same memory hole playbook for COVID and insane vacks coercion. same memory hole playbook for butchering kids. and so it goes.
@DanFriedman81 @zerohedge WE WANT FUCKING MUTINY IN THIS NEVER ENDING HELL
@DanFriedman81 Perfect encapsulation of the 21st century American political system as a whole.
@DanFriedman81 it's basically analogous (though obviously less tragic but of equivalent psychological impetus) to Mao's Cultural Revolution, when everyone after went "wow we went a little nuts there didnt we, lol"
@DanFriedman81 This. I'll never forget though. Neither will a lot of people.
It was a religious mania. The Woke are Narrators; Sowell's "Annointed", those born with Verbal Virtuousity coupled with some mixture of Dark Triad traits. 500yrs ago they were members of the European Narrocracy (The Catholic Church) until the Enlightenment toppled them. They've never stopped fighting to regain their position. The Counter-Enlightenment never ended. They just adopt new names and shift tactics. But under the hood, their objectives remain strikingly constant: reestablishing their monopoly over The Narrative. As Orwell intuited: the purpose of Power is Power for Power's own sake. Everything else is propaganda.