I don’t revel in the misery of others, as a general rule, but every once in a while I do enjoy watching some leftist, or group of them, get a big dose of their own medicine. When 70 employees of the lie factory HuffPo were laid off by their new owners at Buzzfeed, I felt bad for the individuals, none of whom I know. But in a broader sense, I couldn’t care less. And if I’m being completely honest, I laughed a little.
I wasn’t laughing at the people who lost their jobs. They weren’t real people in my mental digestion of the affair/ I laughed at all the leftist journalists, members of the blue checkmark brigade who’d cheered or were indifferent at the cancelation of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the jobs lost there. Anyone parroting the “they can build solar panels” lie, or failing to report the reality of those jobs not existing, thereby destroying 11,000 good jobs, is unworthy of sympathy when the snake bites them.
I don't celebrate each round of newsroom layoffs. I just don’t care. Journalists are activists now. Why should I care if a bunch of liberals lose their livelihoods?
When the tweets come about how so-and-so is a good reporter, I couldn’t care less. And when one gets canceled, one of their own, there’s a tinge of poetic justice to it all.
Alexi McCammond was a reporter at Axios. You might remember her name from a scandal a few weeks ago when her boyfriend, a former press aide at the Biden White House, threatened another female reporter attempting to report on their hidden and wildly unethical relationship. It didn’t work, and he was fired for the threats.
After a scandal that should have had her out of journalism, she got a new job, a few steps up the ladder of success, as the editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. If you don’t know what Teen Vogue is, it’s a worthless rag filled with “you don’t need a boyfriend” and “here’s how to keep your boyfriend happy” stories sandwiching some of the most-woke drivel you can possibly imagine. They cheerlead every leftist cause and every cancelation of someone on the right.
When McCammond was hired to run the place, it was a natural fit.
Then a funny thing happened on the way to the corner office: the left-wing cancel mob turned on her.
When Alexi was in high school, she’d tweeted out things that are deemed racist and homophobic by today’s ever-changing, always crazy standards. You’d think something from a decade ago, something for which she’d already apologized, wouldn’t matter, but that’s not how the new wokeness works.
The staff at Teen Vogue did what they’d been hired and trained to do – attack. Just this time it was one of their own. They demanded Alexi’s head, and they got it, before she even officially started the job.
In her statement announcing her “resignation,” she exposed why she shouldn’t be a journalist, even at someplace like Teen Vogue. “I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities,” it starts. That’s the mantra of an activist, not a journalist. “My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issue that I care about,” it continues. Again, activism and not journalism.
She also played the, “As a young woman of color” card and wished to rejoin some journalistic outfit because “There are so many stories left to be told, especially those about marginalized communities and the issues affecting them.” She shouldn’t have lost her job over tweets from when she was a kid. She should have never gotten it in the first place.
That she did lose her job to the woke mob set off her fellow journalists – they rushed to express their disgust over her dismissal. I couldn’t care. What happened was wrong, but all of these people have either partaken in the attempted destruction of conservatives, or sat silently as others tried. Why should anyone care when the monster they created takes out one of their own?
You name a conservative who’s been attacked, smeared, banned, deplatformed, lied about, etc., and these people were complicit through deed or neglect. When it’s one of their own, suddenly they care. You either have principles or you don’t. True principles are not situational or dependent upon who they protect.
Leftists can be as outraged as they want to be over how unfair what happened to Alexi McCammond is, and they are right, it is unfair. Were they not the creators of cancel culture and the people helping fuel the mob’s attacks on others, particularly conservatives, I’d be right there with them in disgust. But they are. And since common decency and humanity hasn’t been enough to inspire them to stand up for anyone who isn’t a committed leftist, maybe a giant dose of their own medicine will. If not, who cares? Let them destroy themselves.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host of a daily radio show on WCBM in Maryland, and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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