Jay Weber Show transcript 2-1-22 6:40am
It is now an unimpeachable statement to make: the liberal left of the 70s and 80s who were defenders of free speech and rigorous debate- have now turned their party over to a group that is even further to the left- pseudo socialists-who want to chill all dissent and eliminate all debate.
And it is an alarming development for America, and for free expression and free thought, in America.
The crybullying left has been routinely leaping to shut down all dissent and cancel and ruin all dissenters, and if it doesn’t stop, it really will lead to a totalitarian ‘Orwellian style’ government whose minions control every thought and aspect of our lives.
This is dangerous stuff, and sadly, i don’t think America’s younger people appreciate and recognize how dangerous it is.
Just over the last few days, we have seen Georgetown university move to cancel the dean of their law school because he put out a few tweets the activist left didn’t like.
They were-honest tweets.
They were-true tweets- but that doesn’t matter. They ran afoul with the crybully left’s acceptable speech codes- of the moment.
And this is another hallmark of a totalitarian, bullying movement: they make up the rules as they go, and then expect everyone to conform to them, often when we haven’t even gotten the memo as to what is ‘acceptable’ now.
This dean- Ilya Shapiro- simply criticized Joe Biden’s vow to put a black woman on the supreme court. Biden is overlooking every other person with better experience and credentials-simply because of their race or gender. And that’s wrong.
That-defines- what is racist and sexist if we really want to ‘bottom line’ it.
Biden’s pledge here is a racist and sexist one-and by the left’s own definitions of those ‘isms’, over the past several decades.
Shapiro simply made the mistake that all sorts of liberals in good standing are starting to make they told the truth without thinking.
Without first checking with the left’s new ‘crybully overlords.
This is the misstep that Shapiro made. And it took all of two days for the bullying ‘woke’ crowd to convince the leftists who run Georgetown to suspend him.
It’s amazing how responsive these university officials around the country are to the demands made by leftist organizations, and how difficult they become very time we conservatives ask for some fairness or equal treatment.
The UW Madison will pay 50-grand to the racist crackpot who invented this new 1619 lie about our racial history-and will advertise here speech city-wide, but they’ll block or cancel any conservative who might be invited to speak there by more conservative or mainstream students.
This whole outrage over Joe Rogan’s podcast is another great example of how today’s left-supports censorship. If the liberals of the 70s were sensitive to it, and insisted everyone had the right to express an opinion-
Wow-has that changed. Today’s leftists have absolutely no problem censoring any views, positions, or opinions that they don’t agree with and it doesn’t matter if it’s a high-profile instance, or a little tweet that only a few hundred people might see all dissent must be crushed and canceled.
The outrage on the left-over Joe Rogan is-clearly- clearly-coming from people who have never even heard his podcast- which is mostly about MMA fighting and other silliness that he’s interested in.
But he-does-get political. And in a way that your uncles get political at thanksgiving dinner, except he might be better informed.
And Rogan-is not- a conservative. He’s not even a republican.
And yet, all of the support he is getting-to be able to say whatever he wants to say-be coming from the right. Ditto for bill mahr- who -on this week’s show-marveled at how he has become so popular on the right.
He’s a long time liberal who hasn’t changed his positions on anything over the years, and made it clear: what’s changed, is today’s left. They are humorless, intellectually dishonest scolds who don’t want anyone to express an opinion that they don’t like-
He admitted: somehow, it is the ‘right wing’ that has my back now, not the left.
Same with Joe Rogan. The guy is a Bernie loving leftist who is in trouble with the left for simply being interested in hearing other opinions.
Therefore, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and the -intolerant left-want to silence Joe Rogan. Because if this socialist takeover of America is going to work- other opinions-cannot be heard.
If they are expressed on a podcast that eleven million people listen to, well, all sorts of those people might agree, and might adopt a position contrary to the one that the lock-step leftists want them to have.
That! Is why they want to silence Joe Rogan.
And his response to all this controversy yesterday, was quite ‘disarming’. He started out by saying- i’m just some schlub doing a podcast and I’ve never pretended to know everything, or sway anyone’s opinion.
But, he says, this all originates with interviews that he did with two doctors -very well credentialed doctors-who had a different take on covid than Fauci and the fed govt did, so he wanted to hear the different opinions.
And this is important: all joe Rogan did -to become the latest target for the cancel crybullies-is show an intellectual curiosity and openness.
The liberal left of the 60s, 70s, and 80s encouraged that very thing. Now, the American left has marched far out on the left wing where they want unquestioning loyalty. And no arguments or independent thinking around it.
Comply. Conform. Obey.
This is alarming behavior that we must get more Americans to see and understand: the left finds Joe Rogan dangerous- simply because he offers a platform for other opinion.
That’s it. Bottom line.
Is what this is all about-and what the left’s movement to ‘cancel’ people is all about.
And hold hippies like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are among the people who should know all of this.
Instead-they have joined the regime of the crybully socialists. And to this day, other than bill mahr and Jim Carville, I cannot name a strong, traditionally liberal voice, who is bucking the socialist crybullies.
If you have another instance- send it along, but half of the people on their side of the aisle, and at least half of the voices in their congressional caucuses should be doing the same.
Because today’s brand of new, crybullying, close minded democrat is a danger to the future of this republic.
And that’s not over-stating it.
photo credit: Joe Rogan Instagram page