June 04, 2014
Michelle Obama
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All social justice warriors are paper tigers, but damn convincing ones, apparently. If we removed the outrage of the week from the media and academia, I can scarcely imagine what would be left.
Extrajudicial witch hunts might be at an all-time high in the United States, but we might enjoy some of the most freewheeling laws with regard to free speech. Even relatively conservative Australia has both federal and state laws prohibiting so-called “hate speech.” The 51st state has its own “Human Rights Commission,” which our own Kathy Shaidle has written and spoken about extensively. Nearly every country in Europe has laws demarcating the limits of acceptable free speech. In America, we have no laws, just shrieking mobs of overeducated and underemployed rabble, longing for the day when they too can pen takedown pieces at $50 per.
So-called “hate speech” codes are no more or less than the blasphemy laws of the West. Who cares? Me and Reason, probably, though they seem to be less interested with each passing week.
Gone are the days when the Democratic Party represented the (primarily unionized, urban) American working class. They”ve been of increasingly fading relevance since kids went clean for Gene. The new base amount to little more than religious zealots: They want Michelle Obama to tell people what to think. They don”t think you”ve got differing opinions, they think you”re an obstacle on the way to Shangri-La. They yearn to know the latest and greatest methods of rooting out heretics and witches.
Be careful no one throws you in the lake to see if you can float.
