Identitarianism

I received a link recently of Piers Morgan on a rant of his own about the Liberal cancel culture and its absurdity, and danger to society. I then forwarded it to some Liberal friends and waited for the reaction. Mr. Morgan was focussing on the purge of the acting industry, but the same thing is going on all over our present culture.

I knew it was like throwing a grenade and waiting for the explosion. The general response that came back from the Liberals was not a surprise to me. They basically said that Piers Morgan is ‘an a-hole’ and therefore he is wrong.

Now, Mr. Morgan may be an a-hole. Admittedly, I don’t know him well at all but he seems to get things wrong as much as right from what I have seen - from my viewport anyway. He is not the most subtle speaker or thinker.

However, and this is a HUGE theme of mine these days, it is an entire leap to suggest that BECAUSE someone is an a-hole, one cannot or should not consider what they say on its own terms.

For example, we will likely agree that Adolf Hitler was an A-hole and more.  But, after reading his book Mein Kampf, it would be intellectual lunacy for anyone to deny that several things he says in that book are logically and factually correct. His grievances concerning the Versailles treaty of 1919 are well known and acknowledged by historians, for example.  Of course, the little Fuhrer goes on to outline his psychotic plans that everyone ignored, but that is another story.

Charles Manson, we can agree , was a sociopath and murderer, yet many things he said were not only true but charismatically expressed. To see this fact is not to grant his evilness any agency - do I need to express the obvious here?

I could go on and on, but you get my point.

I find that Liberals ( and btw I always mean Liberals in a general sense, not EVERY Liberal) tend to reject anyone who is not a member of their dogma club, and simply reject everything they say for that reason. I have ample proof of that point, not the least of which is many emails from Liberal friends who have a coronary if I send them any news story outside of their beloved Fake news CNN and MSNBC.  

I have many on record saying that they will not read ‘right wing news’. Ha! I read ( and recommend) RealClear news. They have direct links to the whole range of news angles, and for me this is the way to go - but Liberals are hunkered down in their little dogma bubble.

They seem incapable or afraid of exercising critical apprehension - this being the whole point of  fundamental good education IMO. Why can they not therefore just listen or read and discuss accordingly?  Their religion might just be challenged!  

Yes, it is like a religiously fervour, and I have ample email protestations from them to prove my point.

One small example of this disease called identitarianism - judging what is said solely on the basis of the Liberal credentials of the source, not on WHAT they are saying is this;  Trump is correct in his criticism of the WHO - anyone who educates themselves on the WHO knows this - the proof is easily available.  Yet BECAUSE it is Trump who says it it MUST be wrong.  

Is Trump an a-hole?  Yes!  Do I think everything he says is wrong?  Of course not. It would be an absurd position to take for logical reasons.  Am I therefore a Trump supporter as so many Liberals hysterically are bound to accuse anyone agreeing with Trump about anything?   My answer is, every issue to be considered on its own merits.  I am a supporter of intellectual rigour, logic, free speech and freedom in general, no matter where that originates.  I CAN say that I would be sad to be an American who must vote for one of those two old boomer dopes, and Trudeau should be put out to pasture for withered flowers in the next election.

Is Piers Morgan an a-hole?  Maybe.  Do I think he should be ignored because of that?  No.

Is he correct in what he says in his rant about cancel culture?.   Absolutely yes, and I can easily give you many examples of this tyranny of the left that is gaining ground in our lives, to which he is referring.

To wit;  Gone with the Wind being banned? Hello? I have heard that the Merchant of Venice is on the block (watch for the crowd to turn on Picasso and more ) and the list goes on and on.

Cultural institutions are tripping over themselves to join the woke mob. Leonard Bernstein, one of the great geniuses of the 20th century, is being banned from performances, because he dared to write West Side Story and depicted hispanics in what the woke call ‘cultural appropriation’.

So, he was Jewish and gay, but that is not enough boxes to tick for the woke mob these days. They will do their best to go after their social engineering goal no matter what.  People who see the idiocy and danger of this generally sit quietly in fear of disagreeing - especially Canadians who are the weakest of the weak - they call it ‘being accommodating’. Being a card carrying Canadian, I can say that with impunity.

Now, if any of them studied history, which they do not by and large, judging from their misspelled placards and illiterate interviews, they would understand that Stalin did exactly the same thing and Xi does the same thing.  Stalin even went so far as to have people erased from photographs after they fell from favour for taking a politically unacceptable position or after creating a work that was deemed ‘inappropriate’.

Composers, writers, painters were banned and ruined if they did not meet the required political standards.

Sound familiar?   I hope so!

I could give you hundreds of other examples of what is going on. Woody Allen is but one obvious one, ironically set upon by Ronan Farrow who pretends to be his son but who was fathered by Frank Sinatra, and who himself is being disgraced for good reason.  Have you tried seeing a Woody Allen movie lately? Read his memoires?

There will inevitably be a more comprehensive list of artists and works of art that will be banned and I for one am leaning hard against it - including the movement afoot to ban the salutation ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’. This is has already been set as a rule by some institutions and it will continue until stopped.

Absolute idiocy and neo-stalinism to the core.  Identitarianism is the smiling woke face of it.

Canadians - not all but most - in their woke stupor, nod complacently while looking around to ensure that they are with the group.