The Woke Cancel Culture is Nothing New

We conservatives and deplorables are just now rather annoyed at the ruling class for insisting that there ain't no election steal, no sir, and you are a racist.

After all, aren't we supposed to have a First Amendment, and aren't we supposed to have free speech?

Truth is: we don't and we never did. If you publish views offensive to the ruling class, in any place and any era, you are headed for oblivion. Oh, maybe not to a concentration camp, but certainly out of the sweet spot of celebration and publicity.

There's an amusing piece about China's lies about COVID from "hacked documents." For instance,

In early February, a directive from President Xi himself directed the CAC [Cyberspace Administration of Chine] in Zhejiang Province to exert efforts to control messaging on COVID-19 domestically and to “actively influence international opinion.” 

Why, the Chinese even pay their citizens $0.40 for flagging a harmful media post!

Gollygeewillikins! You mean the Chinese actually have to pay people to do this? Here in the US we have the bearded @jack and the Zuck that seem to be eager to censor harmful media without even being asked to. And the Twitter wokerati mobs are just slobbering for the chance to cancel someone making wrong comment. Absolutely free!

So then I got to read a Quillette piece about how, sorry chaps, all the systemic racism stuff is a bunch of baloney. Who are doing best in America? Asian immigrants. And whatabout Muslims?

For example, the latest Census data indicate that the median earnings for full-time, year-round female Palestinian American workers ($52,061), female Iranian American workers ($64,220), and female Turkish American workers ($67,759) were all higher than those of white women ($45,581). Turkish and Iranian women also out-earned white men ($57,003). The vast majority of these women have not two but three “oppression variables” because of their gender, ethnicity, and religion (Islam).

Or whatabout this on household income in 2019? 

Indian Americans	$126,705
Taiwanese Americans	$102,405
Filipino Americans	$100,273
Indonesian Americans	$93,501
Pakistani Americans	$87,509
Iranian Americans	$87,288
Lebanese Americans	$87,099
Chinese Americans	$86,281
Japanese Americans	$85,007
Turkish Americans	$83,375
Israeli Americans	$81,901
Korean Americans	$76,674
Syrian Americans	$74,047
Vietnamese Americans	$72,161
White Americans	$69,823

Heck! Who cares? Well, our pal Joe Biden is going to go pedal to the metal on "systemic racism" in the next four years. And you are not allowed to disagree with him, unless you are a racist. And if you are a racist you are going to be canceled, so shut up.

Then there is World War II. Ron Unz has written about the writers of the 1930s that just disappeared. For WrongThink. From them you get the heretical notions that both Churchill and Roosevelt wanted war, to erase their failures. That Churchill started the bombing in 1940 because he was afraid that the British people didn't want the war to continue. So he bombed German cities and the Germans responded. Is that true? And Roosevelt wanted war to erase the utter failure of his New Deal; that FDR provoked the Japanese by freezing Japanese assets and embargoing oil shipments; and by omitting to tell the Navy on Oahu about the fleet steaming towards Oahu to attack the fleet in Pearl Harbor.

Is any of that true? Are you allowed to discuss it?

Or will the official history continue down to the day that our current regime is shown the door?

So yeah. If you are outraged by the narrative control being exercised in the wake of the election, it ain't nothin' new.

But it is so much easier to go with the flow.