Long Duck Dong
07-12-2020, 09:23 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8513779/DOUGLAS-MURRAY-Overgrown-babies-say-think-like-invading-bedrooms.html
Do you believe in thought crime? In picking people off, one by one, till everybody agrees with just a single point of view? Each week, we see this world come a little closer.
Many of the victims are famous. But people who are not remotely well known are writing to me every week to say that they, too, now fear for their livelihoods.
Still more are keeping their heads down, fearing what will happen if they dare to speak out against the dogmas of the time and the new totalitarians who promote them.
Theres been a steadily rising tide of conformity in recent years. Increasingly, we have been told what we are allowed to say, hear, see and know.
Swarming over the internet, the Left-wing mob is waging a campaign to silence dissenting voices and get free-thinking people removed from their jobs. And they have succeeded. Now the wokerati want to enter the bedroom and say who we may sleep with, too.
Take last weeks attempt to cancel the Killing Eve actress Jodie Comer. Her crime? Nothing she has said or thought.
Instead, the online trolls had been enraged to discovered who she is dating. The supposed culprit is an American lacrosse player called James Burke.
His crime? Mr Burke is alleged to be a registered Republican and a Donald Trump supporter. Cue an internet meltdown and a demand by activists that Comer be prevented from working again.
Its ludicrous. How can anyone demand that we restrict ourselves to partners who are in 100 per cent ideological alignment with the views of a Left-wing sect?
The bullying of inoffensive Jodie Comer might be a new low, but Ive seen it coming for some time.
Two years ago, a 26-year-old racing driver called Conor Daly lost his sponsors because of something said in the 1980s. Daly competes in the full-blooded series run by Nascar the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing which is much-loved in the southern USA.
Yet consider this: Daly was not alive at the time of the alleged offence. How had he mis-spoken before hed even been born?
The answer is he hadnt. Daly lost his sponsorship because his racing driver father was alleged to have made a racial slur three decades earlier. And there was no reprieve.
This totalitarian instinct has crept up on us with amazing ease. It is the product of a vindictive Leftism which used only to reside on certain US university campuses.
Yet today, boosted hugely by the internet, this half-baked ideology, tribal and dogmatic, obsessed with the language of racial, sexual and gender politics, is running riot.
All decent attitudes, not least the British idea of fair play, have been driven out. It is perfectly normal to have a point of view and argue it. It is perfectly fine to dislike and even disdain some ideas. Who doesnt?
But no one has the right to get people fired or made unemployable because of views that differ from their own, let alone because of their partners views.
That is neither democratic nor acceptable. It is fascism. Red fascism, but fascism all the same.
Do you believe in thought crime? In picking people off, one by one, till everybody agrees with just a single point of view? Each week, we see this world come a little closer.
Many of the victims are famous. But people who are not remotely well known are writing to me every week to say that they, too, now fear for their livelihoods.
Still more are keeping their heads down, fearing what will happen if they dare to speak out against the dogmas of the time and the new totalitarians who promote them.
Theres been a steadily rising tide of conformity in recent years. Increasingly, we have been told what we are allowed to say, hear, see and know.
Swarming over the internet, the Left-wing mob is waging a campaign to silence dissenting voices and get free-thinking people removed from their jobs. And they have succeeded. Now the wokerati want to enter the bedroom and say who we may sleep with, too.
Take last weeks attempt to cancel the Killing Eve actress Jodie Comer. Her crime? Nothing she has said or thought.
Instead, the online trolls had been enraged to discovered who she is dating. The supposed culprit is an American lacrosse player called James Burke.
His crime? Mr Burke is alleged to be a registered Republican and a Donald Trump supporter. Cue an internet meltdown and a demand by activists that Comer be prevented from working again.
Its ludicrous. How can anyone demand that we restrict ourselves to partners who are in 100 per cent ideological alignment with the views of a Left-wing sect?
The bullying of inoffensive Jodie Comer might be a new low, but Ive seen it coming for some time.
Two years ago, a 26-year-old racing driver called Conor Daly lost his sponsors because of something said in the 1980s. Daly competes in the full-blooded series run by Nascar the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing which is much-loved in the southern USA.
Yet consider this: Daly was not alive at the time of the alleged offence. How had he mis-spoken before hed even been born?
The answer is he hadnt. Daly lost his sponsorship because his racing driver father was alleged to have made a racial slur three decades earlier. And there was no reprieve.
This totalitarian instinct has crept up on us with amazing ease. It is the product of a vindictive Leftism which used only to reside on certain US university campuses.
Yet today, boosted hugely by the internet, this half-baked ideology, tribal and dogmatic, obsessed with the language of racial, sexual and gender politics, is running riot.
All decent attitudes, not least the British idea of fair play, have been driven out. It is perfectly normal to have a point of view and argue it. It is perfectly fine to dislike and even disdain some ideas. Who doesnt?
But no one has the right to get people fired or made unemployable because of views that differ from their own, let alone because of their partners views.
That is neither democratic nor acceptable. It is fascism. Red fascism, but fascism all the same.