It was starting out to be such a great Summer, but then…
Foot-dragging states like California and New York were beginning to catch up with the rest of us in Texas, Florida and other smart places which long ago reopened our restaurants, movie theaters and other businesses…abandoning myopic “mask mandates” while watching our COVID-19 numbers plummet. Tunnel-vision publishers like Simon & Schuster—which cancelled U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s stunningly important bookThe Tyranny of Big Tech—saw Salem Media’s Regnery Publishing pick it up and reap the profits. And Dr. Fauci was pulled down from his pedestal as even Joe Biden (or his handlers) had to concede the possibility that the Coronavirus began in that lab in Wuhan “can no longer be discounted.”
But just when America seemed to be slogging toward sanity, up popped new reminders that we’re clearly not out of the Cancel Culture woods just yet.
EXHIBIT A: Banking giant JP Morgan Chase announced its political action committee will resume making political donations to American lawmakers. But Chase added it will not make any contributions to Republican members of Congress who voted to challenge the 2020 Presidential election results. In an internal memo, bank execs notified its employees that Chase “believes our elected officials need to put aside their strongly held differences and demonstrate unity.” Oh, and if they don’t—a/k/a even questioning the outcome of the 2020 election—our bank will punish them by withholding political contributions. That’s “unity” for ya.
EXHIBIT B: Facebook is suspending former president Donald Trump’s account for two years…effectively muzzling him on their so-called “social network” until after the 2022 midterm elections. Or as Facebook put it, “until the danger has passed.” And they’ve also suspended the Facebook account of conservative author and talk show host Eric Metaxas for “violating Facebook community guidelines.” That’s code for questioning aspects of the government’s COVID-19 responses and idiotic on again/off again mask policies. As Josh Hawley forecast, Big Tech is simply canceling conservative voices. Because they can. No First Amendment at Facebook…just Geek Tribunals where woke nerds get to stop the free and open exchange of ideas and opinions.
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EXHIBIT C: In the most compelling case yet as to why the District of Columbia should not be granted Statehood, D.C.’s non-voting delegate to the Congress has actually introduced legislation requiring “gender parity” among crash test dummies used by the automobile industry. Norton—who chairs the House Transportation subcommittee on highway and transit—says data from crash tests may endanger women because they “don’t take into account real differences” between the physical size and weight of men and women. (I know, I know…this doesn’t seem to mesh with her Democratic Party’s position of force-feeding biological males on women’s sports.) If the auto industry ever capitulates to her demand that they mandate female crash test dummies, my vote is they give Eleanor the honor of the first ride.
Of course, these examples are just the tip of the societal iceberg as what once was American society descends into the madness of accepting Political Correctness in all aspects of our lives. And, at the moment, my state of Texas appears to be ground zero.
Last week, Democrats in the Texas House who oppose the state’s new voter security laws (radical “Jim Crow” stuff like expecting people to produce the same ID’s they happily wave when cashing a check or picking up Cowboys tickets at the Will Call window before they can cast a vote) walked out of the House chamber en masse, denying the House a quorum. A juvenile stunt that only delayed passage of the laws until a Special Session can be called.
American Airlines is now whining about our stricter voter security laws, although they haven’t yet done anything as monumentally stupid as Major League Baseball pulling this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta (51% black population) and moving it to 90% white Denver…a move estimated to have cost minority-owned vendors back in Atlanta around $100-million.
A friend of mine was so incensed that an airline—which received millions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts to keep it afloat during the pandemic—is now sticking its big nose into state politics that he decided to cancel his American Airlines CitiBank credit card. When he spoke with the bank to cancel his card, he told the Customer Service representative why he was dumping his account. She replied, “Sir, we’re sorry that your values don’t align with ours.” That should be etched in the Wharton School of Business handbook on how not to service business clients.
And this week, a Dallas high school “Valedictorian” (a term reserved for the student who had the highest academic achievements of the class) dishonestly submitted her address to school officials for their review. After it had been approved, she opted to scrap it for a passionate yet uninspiring tirade. Reaching into what appeared to be her bra, she pulled out an unhinged, pro-abortion diatribe about there being “a war on my body” because Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott had recently signed a Heartbeat Bill to protect unborn life in the Lone Star State. This young lady was thus allowed to hijack the crowning event of her graduating class in order to subject her fellow students—and their parents, grandparents and young children in attendance—to her personal pro-abortion hysteria. Sad.
But on the plus side, in our new PC society she’s being hailed as a “hero” on CNN and MSNBC, and even drew praise on Twitter from twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Hey! Maybe Eleanor Holmes Norton could also name the first female crash dummy in her honor.
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