What do we do about the lefty habit of launching boycotts against conservative media types?
This week it's Laura Ingraham's turn as young teenage activist David Hogg, presumably prompted all the way by David Brock's Media Matters outfit, has successlfully scared most of the Laura's advertisers to stop advertising on her FoxNews TV show.
Oh, and don't forget the NRA. Lefties love to launch boycotts against the eevil NRA.
Of course before Laura it was Sean Hannity, and before him Bill O'Reilly. And they have tried a few times to scare Rush Limbaugh's advertisers off his program.
So what do we DO about it?
Do we return fire, and punch back twice as hard, as a famous community organizer once said, and target advertisers on lefty shows? Do we ignore the lefties? Do we turn the other cheek?
Or do we adopt the strategy of Vox Day, advertised in his SJWs Always Lie and SJWs Always Double Down ebooks. Here is the SJW Survival Guide from SJWs Always Lie. Rule Three is: never apologize, because it only encourages them. Rule Seven is: make the rubble bounce.
So Laura Ingraham should not have apologized to David Hogg.
Vox Day's bigger agenda is that, if you don't like social media deplatforming you then you need to take action and make your own platforms. That's why Day has produced a "fork" to Wikipedia, calling it Infogalactic. Only trouble is that Infogalactic's traffic is going down, not up.
The problem for conservatives and non-lefties is that we don't believe in boycotts. That's because we don't believe in the basic faith of the left in political action. We don't believe that labor unions are the solution for the workers. We don't believe in the wonders of the welfare state. We don't believe in the efficacy of government experts. We don't believe that Affirmative Action or "inclusion and diversity" is going to correct historical discrimination.
So, while everyone on the left believes in the use of activism and "peaceful protest" to fight against injustice, we don't. Oh, we believe in laws against major discrimination, but not much more.
Actually, we believe that only government should be forbidden to discriminate on the basis of race and sex. Because the whole point of freedom is the freedom to discriminate. So, on this view, if Google and Facebook want to drive conservatives out of the public square, go ahead fellahs. Of course it might not be a good strategic plan and good for business to piss off half of the country, but, as they say, it's a free country, and the whole point of freedom is the right to make mistakes.
The big risk for companies that bail on conservative media advertising is that sometimes the boycott backfires as the listeners and viewers decide to boycott the boycotters and, sometimes, the conservative show won't have the advertisers back if they suddenly get sadder and wiser.
The best thing to happen would be that all the rumpus and accusations the 2018 activist wave result in the reelection of the GOP Congress in November. Because what cooled the jets of the last lefty activist era, the fabled Sixties, was that the voters elected Republican Presidents five times out of six between 1968 and 1988. It was only when Bill Clinton declared himself a New Democrat that the voters elected a Democrat. And then, after he sicced Hillary on the health care system, the voters elected the first GOP Congress in 40-odd years.
That is the sort of thing that people with a faith in the saving grace of political power really understand. The trouble is that there is always a new generation of well-born youngsters with a desperate hunger for revolution, baby.
This week it's Laura Ingraham's turn as young teenage activist David Hogg, presumably prompted all the way by David Brock's Media Matters outfit, has successlfully scared most of the Laura's advertisers to stop advertising on her FoxNews TV show.
Oh, and don't forget the NRA. Lefties love to launch boycotts against the eevil NRA.
Of course before Laura it was Sean Hannity, and before him Bill O'Reilly. And they have tried a few times to scare Rush Limbaugh's advertisers off his program.
So what do we DO about it?
Do we return fire, and punch back twice as hard, as a famous community organizer once said, and target advertisers on lefty shows? Do we ignore the lefties? Do we turn the other cheek?
Or do we adopt the strategy of Vox Day, advertised in his SJWs Always Lie and SJWs Always Double Down ebooks. Here is the SJW Survival Guide from SJWs Always Lie. Rule Three is: never apologize, because it only encourages them. Rule Seven is: make the rubble bounce.
So Laura Ingraham should not have apologized to David Hogg.
Vox Day's bigger agenda is that, if you don't like social media deplatforming you then you need to take action and make your own platforms. That's why Day has produced a "fork" to Wikipedia, calling it Infogalactic. Only trouble is that Infogalactic's traffic is going down, not up.
The problem for conservatives and non-lefties is that we don't believe in boycotts. That's because we don't believe in the basic faith of the left in political action. We don't believe that labor unions are the solution for the workers. We don't believe in the wonders of the welfare state. We don't believe in the efficacy of government experts. We don't believe that Affirmative Action or "inclusion and diversity" is going to correct historical discrimination.
So, while everyone on the left believes in the use of activism and "peaceful protest" to fight against injustice, we don't. Oh, we believe in laws against major discrimination, but not much more.
Actually, we believe that only government should be forbidden to discriminate on the basis of race and sex. Because the whole point of freedom is the freedom to discriminate. So, on this view, if Google and Facebook want to drive conservatives out of the public square, go ahead fellahs. Of course it might not be a good strategic plan and good for business to piss off half of the country, but, as they say, it's a free country, and the whole point of freedom is the right to make mistakes.
The big risk for companies that bail on conservative media advertising is that sometimes the boycott backfires as the listeners and viewers decide to boycott the boycotters and, sometimes, the conservative show won't have the advertisers back if they suddenly get sadder and wiser.
The best thing to happen would be that all the rumpus and accusations the 2018 activist wave result in the reelection of the GOP Congress in November. Because what cooled the jets of the last lefty activist era, the fabled Sixties, was that the voters elected Republican Presidents five times out of six between 1968 and 1988. It was only when Bill Clinton declared himself a New Democrat that the voters elected a Democrat. And then, after he sicced Hillary on the health care system, the voters elected the first GOP Congress in 40-odd years.
That is the sort of thing that people with a faith in the saving grace of political power really understand. The trouble is that there is always a new generation of well-born youngsters with a desperate hunger for revolution, baby.
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