When truth is the enemy
By: Frank Wright
It is sad how closed minded the American progressive left have become. They are so uncertain of the legitimacy of their beliefs that out of weakness they impose censorship and cancel culture upon all who disagree with them. To them the truth is enemy #1. They view political opposition as evil and view belief in God and the Bible literally as even a bigger threat to their dark world view. A great article!
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At its base, the progressive cancel culture is less about de-platforming extreme ideas and more about persecuting people with whom they disagree. Their aim is not correction but destruction – and they want to make sure nobody hears ideas with which they disagree.
Ensconced among the cherry trees ringing the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, rests the Jefferson Memorial. The rotunda of this stately edifice shelters a statue of the great man. Among his many inscriptions adorning the walls are these words:
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
With a craven cancel culture now in full sway, one can only wonder what the man who crafted the Declaration of Independence might say about it. Perhaps he would rehearse the Declaration's self-evident truths:
"That we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
George Washington too 'controversial'?
Well, apparently what the Lord giveth the Lifetime Network taketh away. After nearly three years of Lifetime airing our weekly "Truths That Transform" television program – one in which we apply biblical truths to the great moral, ethical, and cultural question of our day – officials at Lifetime have suddenly decided our program content is too "controversial," forcing us off their network.
They objected to our exposé on Planned Parenthood, in which we documented their sale of baby body parts derived from abortions. They objected to our exposé on billionaire radical George Soros and his systematic efforts to undermine American laws and institutions. They even objected to our program on the spiritual life of George Washington.
At the same time the Lifetime Channel is giving us the back of their hand, we received reports from others in the community of Christian broadcasters that other major cable television channels and networks are cancelling entire blocks of religious programming. This is the new face of corporate responsibility in America – viewpoint discrimination, prior restraint, and outright censorship.
This spitting in the face of those with viewpoints differing from the new woke orthodoxy by broadcast and cable television is bad enough, but it gets worse. Others providing business services to those holding non-favored viewpoints are falling all over each other to demonstrate their woke bona fides by denying services to those with the heretical temerity to hold views diverging from those permissible under Progressive woke-ism.
Mail Chimp knows best
Witness the good folks at wannabe-gatekeeper Mail Chimp , the simian-friendly email platform whose Standard Terms of Use were recently modified to include this language:
"Mailchimp does not allow the distribution of Content that is, in our sole discretion, materially false, inaccurate, or misleading in a way that could deceive or confuse others about important events, topics, or circumstances."
How Mail Chimp is singularly qualified to adjudicate matters of truth or falsity across a wide range of cultural issues escapes the notice of most neutral observers. But herein lies the genius of Progressive thinkers: If the viewpoint in question is different than ours, it must be false. Case closed.
Or witness the noble work of the enlightened folks at Wells Fargo in forcibly closing the financial accounts of people highly visible in the conservative and Christian landscape. Or California-based Logix Federal Credit Union refusing accounts to people even doing business with religious organizations. Naturally, the elephant-in-the-room question is: When will woke financial institutions begin targeting the supporters of Christian and conservative organizations?
In a biblical context, many are familiar with the predictive prophecy that restricts buying and selling to those with "the mark of the beast." What we see emerging today is a secular version in reverse order. Instead of everyone having the mark, those with disfavored viewpoints and ideals are anointed with a latter-day scarlet letter. More like the "No soup for you" pronouncements from Seinfeld's Soup Nazi.
However it's characterized, at base the progressive cancel culture is less about de-platforming extreme ideas and more about persecuting people with whom they disagree. Their aim is not correction but destruction. If the Southern Poverty Law Center were true to their own disingenuous and defamatory definition of hate, they would have to include two-thirds of the Progressive left (and themselves!) on their infamous map. Today's Progressives more resemble Orwell's dystopian epic "1984," where Winston Smith, who was outed as non-conforming, is brainwashed back to Oceanian orthodoxy and then awaits his execution.
More speech, not less
One might argue that the foundational question here is: Why are Progressives so deathly afraid of the free marketplace of ideas? They are in urgent need of reading – perhaps for the first time – John Milton's "Areopagitica." In his polemic against the state-sponsored cancel culture of his day, this Puritan(!) declared: "Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"
Milton argued that the best defense of freedom of speech and expression was the debate and discussion of ideas – where good ideas would tend to rise and bad ideas to fall. Perhaps the cancel culture is a latent acknowledgement that Progressive ideas suffer under the weight of scrutiny.
Whatever the case, it's self-evident that the solitary idea nearest to the Progressive heart is to make sure nobody hears your ideas. This is nothing less than Jefferson's "tyranny over the mind of man." For those who understand how hard-won freedom actually is, we too must swear eternal hostility against the efforts of those who would steal it.
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bummer huh? I guess fake xtians should have seen their bullshit propaganda dismissal coming when they threw in with alt-media fascists for some kind of dumb-ass grassroots theocracy. tough shit. f'm.
"At its base, the progressive cancel culture is less about de-platforming extreme ideas and more about persecuting people with whom they disagree. Their aim is not correction but destruction – and they want to make sure nobody hears ideas with which they disagree."
Yawn ... how about Trumpists and their censor culture?
I can’t say that I see what PP or Soros have to do with religion. I don’t know what the real objection would be to those stories, but I don’t see how it could be religious. I’m pretty sure the Bible is silent on both topics.
While the Bible doesn’t have much to say about Soros other than what it says about all rich people, I think you can pretty effectively surmise that god is either apathetic or enthusiastic about abortion. I mean cmon, in the Bible the guy is killing babies left and right, he’ll he might even kill you if you suggest he stop.
I'm fairly certain it has something to do with spreading unverified or doctored misinformation ( doctored videos already discredited by a Texas court )ie. known false hoods about PP and or Soros.
It appears that networks are taking notice of the Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems lawsuits for defamation and misinformation
spread by previously respected lawyers and journalists.
doctored misinformation ( doctored videos already discredited by a Texas court )ie. known false hoods about PP
what are you talking about?
It’s a great example of your seed. Fusion GPS authors a press release and gullible liberals swallow it hook, line and sinker and they propagate a lie going forward.
Jury finds for PP in civil case in California.
Criminal case against Dalelion & Merritt to continue in CA.
Crackpots who defame for religious beliefs.
Oh.. So you didn't read your summaries. Not one court found the tapes were "doctored," like you claimed.
In fact, in the only case where the validity of the tapes was examined by the Court, PP didn't contest their validity nor the expert who validated them and the Federal Circuit cited them as an appropriate basis for Texas to deny funding to PP.
It's not your fault by you were bamboozled by talking points and a media that pushes them to support the Democratic Party.
Thank you for proving my point, yet again. Unsurprisingly, your post is completely devoid of substantive argument. Why not be a useful contributor and point out where exactly, a Court (and not PP) held the docs were heavily edited? Should be easy if your post had any validity.
This is the benefit the Democrats get from the media pushing a lie for them. The low information person will retain the first narrative they hear and not pay attention or be too lazy to consider reality when the story get quietly walked back. You know, the people who will still believe the "hands up, don't shoot" narrative, or that Officer Sicknick was beaten with a fire extinguisher, or that a FISA application would, never ever rely on something as flimsy as the Steele dossier. The media starts a false narrative and progressive useful idiots will push it on others until eternity.
Anyone can see that none of SP links are to a Court finding that the videos were heavily doctored. The only court case where the tape's veracity was at issue is in the case I cited and the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld it's use as a basis to deny PP funding. But truth doesn't matter to those invested in the "heavily doctored" lie. .
This article can be summed up with one sentence, “waaaaahhhhh, people don’t HAVE to listen to my opinions and that isn’t fair!”
Fuck off with the cancel culture crap, the fact of the matter is companies care about their reputations and image and are under no obligation whatsoever to give you or anyone else a platform to express your opinions. Especially when you violate the terms of service.
Honestly, because it seems to bother certain stupid people so much, I hope we see a hell of a lot more of the “cancel culture”.
A religious person can have an opinion on something, but that doesn’t mean that opinion actually derives from the religion they follow.
And so just because someone opposes that opinion, or its expression, that does not mean that opposition is anti-religion.
I hope that makes sense to people. It made sense in my head.
"They are so uncertain of the legitimacy of their beliefs that out of weakness they impose censorship and cancel culture upon all who disagree with them."
LMAO What hypicrital Bull Shit.
Fox news chat room used to "Poof" any post that wasn't strictly conservative.
then the other posters would laugh.
Translation of article: I can't speak, so I am going to talk about it.