It takes a whole lot of sanctimonious hypocrisy to condemn half the population because they didn't agree with the
Party of Tolerance
This is what the left would have had the electorate believe
(Funny thing is, there are still a
large number of progressive media types, politicians and Hillary
supporters who sincerely feel - and what matters more than feelings? -
this to be the case)
Censorship, like elections, has consequences. As part of the wholesale revolt against elitism on both sides, the carefully crafted walls of political correctness have cracked, most notably in the dismissal of candidate Trump's almost complete disregard of political sensitivities. By and large this censorship campaign was a decade's old product of the progressive side, and their well-trained media sheep. It would appear 'the boys who cried racist' have done it too many times to be believed any more.
The Pendulum is Swinging
(found this online - credit Benjamin Studebaker except for the odd string lengthening when it swings to each side)
I had been struggling with how to express this sentiment
without being labeled a racist or misogynist (that’s how pernicious this
censorship is), when I read an editorial that pretty much summed it up. Peg Tyre’s piece in Politico (“Why Women Rejected Hillary” 14 Nov 16) addressed why
women are not simply a voting block politicians can take for granted or assume
will act as one, but her last point hit upon the silence imposed using political
correctness.
“Lesson
Five: Please Stop Talking and Listen, Lefty Feminists
When Trump talked about his rejection of
political correctness, it may have been a coded call for racism for some. But
for a lot of the former Barack Obama, now Trump, supporters, it was a reaction
against what they see as the tyranny of the left. It was a rejection of the
kind of discourse, first found on campuses and enforced by the Title IX
compliance squads and increasingly accepted into progressive society at large,
where political engagement takes the form of policing the language and
expressions of others. This is a tricky point to raise right now, when social
media is filled with the worst kind of hate, but in spaces that purport to have
room for civil discourse—starting with college classrooms—one side cannot
express its point of view and then claim that the other side is victimizing it
by merely expressing its side.
The left muzzled the middle of
the road and the right and mistook their silence for tacit agreement. Now the
left is shocked to see that those women who said nothing not only disagreed,
but wanted to exercise their right of free expression all along. Now they are.”
Turns out, this concept doesn’t just apply to women, but
regular people across the board. The
establishment doesn’t listen or want to hear views that might rock their
comfortable little boat and worldview. Even
worse, disagreement isn’t just ignored but suppressed. Frustration builds up and when the only way
to vent is to cast a vote in the privacy of the booth, surprises result.
