🔥 Journalists cannibalizing each other is becoming common practice in the prestige motivated grandstanding realm. (See: Courier Journal woke writers vs WAVE3 headline authors). Today's top clickbait sport for newby activist journos is torching colleagues. WTTG/Washington news anchor Blake McCoy tweeted his thoughts on obese people getting COVID vaccinations ahead of some "essential workers." His bosses at WTTG have suspended the anchor for his tweet, even though McCoy deleted it and issued a subsequent apology. The twitter mob, always searching to scorch non-woke speech, mobilized quickly to take down McCoy. But then there's this guy...a fellow journalist whose twitter feed has been non-stop trashing McCoy as if his insensitive message is the only news item in the universe. I smell jelly, Chris Weidmer. Weidner,
Tag: virtue signaling
Cancel Culture is in the eye of the beholder
Is Cancel Culture generated by sensitive millennials or sensitive rich, powerful people? Great topic analysis from this dude. Let's check his old Tweets before we decide if we actually like him. Comedian Sarah Silverman has been pushing back on the cancel culture concept. Silverman WOKE to the cancel culture conundrum after her 2007 anti-racism blackface sketch was recently used to drag her on the internet. It cost her a movie role and limited other opportunities so Silverman pushed back against the "perversion" of "gotcha mining" of dated comedy. The cancel culture people did not understand the nuance of a white woman mocking racism with racism. Silverman says she no longer stands by the sketch. The cancel culture saw only blackface without enough intellectual curiosity
Journalism Matters. Lazy journalism does not. Objective journalism…well, that ship has sailed.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Remember how the media and celebrities tweeted their disgust and demonization of the Covington Catholic students in Washington DC on January 23rd? A few of those evil high schoolers were wearing MAGA hats so clearly they are Satan's spawn! Oops. Pump the brakes. That story was way off. One week later and lots of the same prominent buffoons fell for another false narrative. "This was an attempted modern day lynching" - @kamalaharris"The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching." - @corybooker "The racist, homophobic attack on @JussieSmollett is an affront to our humanity." - @speakerpelosi https://t.co/MtkPn4u4xl— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) February 14, 2019 Imagine
Megyn America Grate Again
Creators of The Simpsons are quietly purging all scenes of Apu the Kwiki Mart owner. The character is Indian. White actor Hank Azaria provides the voice for Apu and a dozen other characters on the show. ‘The Simpsons’ producer confirms Apu is being written out of show following controversy https://t.co/lKzFCe1wFa pic.twitter.com/s34IUDUtqs— NME (@NME) October 26, 2018 America's current woke sensitivity has revved up another faux crusade. One person complained and suddenly 30 years of scenes are being clipped out of the archives. Instead of allowing the creators to evolve the character, complainants demand that Apu is purged. This is the same sort of media control seen in North Korea and Iran. The Apu firestorm has inspired some clever replies
Is straw hatred a straw man argument?
All of the uproar over banning straws makes greenies feel good but are we missing the forest for the trees? USA Today lists the enemies of planet earth and it starts with smokers and careless fast food consumers. New rule: cigs and quarter pounders should be eaten on the spot without the need for packaging. Magicians eat cigarette butts in their act and never die. As for all of the virtue signalers blaming America, choke on this fact. 90% of ocean plastic waste comes from Asia and Africa. Shrill hysteria is great in movies but loses its effect when used as inaccurate finger wagging. Take it down a notch, straw bashers. Pollution is reprehensible but you're overplaying your hand on this
Muhammad Ali? Never heard of him.
Imagine how Muhammad Ali would have been destroyed by today's virtue signaling youth once they heard his views promoting racial segregation. The internet mob would have chased Ali into oblivion for pulling at the corners of his eyelids to imitate a Chinese man. "They love (their) little slant-eyed pretty brown skin babies." On mixed race children, Ali asked "Who want to spot up yourself and kill your race? You're a hater of your race if you don't wanna stay who you are. You ashamed of what God made you?" But Ali is forgiven for his brash promotion of racial segregation during the 1960s (and well into the 80s). He was simply spouting his religious beliefs according to his mentor Elijah Muhammad,