It’s deeply depressing to sit here waiting for 8:46 am and watch a news anchor roughly my age just… not know what Islamism is and lazily call anyone who notices American political figures aligning themselves with it bigots.
The “I don’t agree with him but no one deserves to be shot and killed” take is such a low bar in basic human empathy
Better to say nothing at all than to denigrate Charlie’s life’s work and signal moral superiority while you make sure people know you don’t condone murder
After Oct 7, Douglas Murray said that there are moments in history when a flare goes up, and for a brief second you can see where everyone around you stands. Look around. This is one of those moments. Don’t sleep on it.
It’s one thing to see the vile garbage being spewed by anonymous trolls here on X. It’s another to see it from people you know being edgelord assholes on Facebook and celebrating death. Anyway, friend list is a little lighter this evening.
There's someone, or many someones, who after today will hold his opinion to himself instead of speaking up, because why risk it if there's the slightest chance speaking up gets you killed? And that's how America slowly dies.
A brief word on “privilege:”
Over the last decade or so, we’ve been treated to endless lectures on that subject from so-called progressives. These insufferable sermons are often some combination of tendentious, weaponized and antiquated.
Recently, we’ve seen many of these same people — from the safety and comfort of free societies and tolerant cultures, in which they are imbued with a miraculous array of rights and protections — keyboard warrrioring on behalf of repressive, ass-backward regimes and terrorist groups. These people traffic in morally bankrupt, ignorant moral equivalencies, and outright lies, in order to drag down their own societies while glorifying theocratic tyrants.
They do so while posturing as brave, “liberation”-minded dissidents engaging in “resistance”…the authentic versions of which are brutally crushed by their far-away heroes. It’s especially breathtaking seeing this from self-described queer activists, who embarrass themselves and discredit whatever cause they think they’re advancing.
Tapping away on expensive electronic devices in the glow of freedom, while spouting off against capitalism and the values of said free society — and fetishizing heinous regimes they’ll never experience or live under?
THAT is the *definition* of privilege. Check yours, lecturers.