The Cowards Among Us; Understand What's At Stake

If you fired someone knowing they didn't deserve it because of the zeitgeist,
You're a coward.
If you snitch on a neighbour or a even a friend,
You're a coward.
If you run to HR for stupid things,
You're a coward.
If you Tweet and Instagram shame a person for expressing an opinion you don't accept,
You're a coward.
If you call someone without fact or reason or justification a racist,
You're a coward.
If you make an unjust claim and react with indignant fury to a factual rebuttal,
You're a coward.
If you ask people to deny or denounce their own culture or history,
You're a coward.
If you purposely seek to ruin a person's life because of politics,
You're a coward.
If you're a Dean of a university and pursue policy that destroys a student's future,
You're a coward.
If you push racial diversity for its own sake and not diversity of ideas,
You're a coward.
If you're part of #cancelculture,
You're a coward.
If you pick and choose which crimes to be outraged by based on politics,
You're a coward.
If you just sprout talking points,
You're a coward.
If you willingly and blindly fall prey to government demands that divides people,
You''re a coward.
If you riot and loot,
You're a coward.
If you sit in silence and watch a colleague be attacked,
You're a coward.
If you encourage mob rule on any level,
You're a coward.
If you promulgate anti-intellectual positions like 'math is colonial',
You're a coward.
If you don't debate but shout down and engage in ad hominen attacks,
You're a coward.
If you're company cynically partakes in virtue signalling,
You're a coward.
If you virtue signal,
You're a coward.
If you bully a young person working for politics,
You're a coward.
If you applaud the destruction of historical figures,
You're a coward.
If you apply modern standards of judgment (especially misguided ones) on the past,
You're a coward.
If demand people repent for past acts they didn't commit,
You're a coward.
If you commit voter fraud for party,
You're a coward.
If you're a race hustler,
You're a coward.
If you undermine a duly elected leader by conducing a shadow government,
You're a coward.
If you use the power of the state against a citizen,
You're a coward.
If you're a public servant and don't do right by citizens,
You'e a coward.
If you're an elected official and divide the people,
You're a coward.
If you want to take another person's rights away,
You're a coward.
If you're a public official and enact law that undermine personal liberty,
You're a coward.
If you use social media to control people's thoughts,
You're a coward.
If you bully companies and people into taking sides - YOUR side,
You're a coward.
If you give into pressure from groups that alienates,
You're a coward.
If you demand apologies from people for innocuous reasons,
You're a coward,
If you refuse to call out violence for what it is,
You're a coward.
If you beat up an old lady,
You're a coward.
If you excuse wholesale destruction of communities,
You're a coward.
If you allow for cures that continue to be worse than the disease,
You're a coward.
If you mock literate minds,
You're a coward.
If you deride a man's honest job,
You're a coward.
If you use the legal system to punish enemies,
You're a coward.
If you feign objectivity to push an ideology,
You're a coward.
If you're a journalist and knowingly tell lies or fabricate narratives,
You're a coward.
If you engage in vapid propaganda,
You're a coward.
If you you shakedown law abiding citizens,
You're a coward.
If you're a professor and use your position of power to advance your agenda,
You're a coward.
If you refuse to accept data and evidence that challenges your bias,
You're a coward.
If you you engage in group think,
You're a coward.
If you destroy for wrong think,
You're a coward,
If you bully a child on the Internet,
You're a coward.
If you blindly believe corporate media narratives,
You're a coward.
If you get a decent person fired,
You're a coward.
If identity politics is your mantra,
You're a coward.
If you ignore due process and the rule of law for partisanship and politics,
You're a coward.
If you're a politician and refuse to answer questions and only look to lecture,
You're a coward.
If you protect your fears onto children,
You're a coward.
If you fear-monger,
You're a coward.
If you attack your leader from the comforts of your social media,
You're a coward.
If you stood against the right for people to earn a living because you were afraid of a virus,
You're a coward.
If you then forgot about the virus when it became politically expedient to do so with protests,
You're a coward.
If you work for a public broadcaster and engage in censorship,
You're a coward.
If you're a SJW and celebrate SJW activism,
You're a coward.
If you embrace illiberalism,
You're a coward.
If you say 'woke' things to be accepted,
You're a coward.
If you believe yourself to be liberal but tolerate censorship of any kind,
You're a coward.
If you revise art and history to fit modern norms,
You're a coward.
If you tolerate a politician breaking their own demands and attack people who don't,
You're a coward.
If you accepted the loss of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars spent for a virus,
You're a coward.
If you shrugged your shoulders at the unintended consequences and still pushed for lockdowns,
You're a coward.
If you then permitted people on your side to gather and protest despite said virus,
You're a coward.
If you engaged in the unconscionable act of depriving someone of their right to operate a business,
You're a coward.
If you can't bring yourself to understand why a life without liberty is one that welcomes misery,
You're a coward.
If you let ideology govern your honour and integrity,
You're a coward.
If principals over principles pollute your mind,
You're a coward,
If you think because you do good acts this permits you to pummel people's opinions,
You're a coward.
If you're a celebrity bailing out criminals,
You're a coward.
If you allow yourself or institution to lose part of its identity,
You're a coward.
If you claim to want to start a conversation then it expect it to be one-way,
You're a coward.
If you have white guilt,
You're a coward.
If you support affirmative action,
You're a coward.
If you use cynically used AA/PC forms to advance your career,
You're a coward.
If you foster hate for our civilization borne straight from illiberal ignorance or otthewise....
You're a coward.

Never cede a fucken inch to these cowards.

Ever.

And we know damn well who the cowards are.

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Is the shelving of Gone with the Wind the beginning of a long censorship run?

That it even happened is extremely unnerving.

Do people realize in this atmosphere any movie made before 2019 is 'marked for death' now?

Any of your favourite movies. Landmarks in the Llibrary of Congress' are not safe anymore.

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I don't think people quite grasp the stakes at play here.

Doing the Cold War, the values of the West led by the United States was indivisible. We stood united against the scourge of Soviet communism fresh off the heels of killing tens of millions of people and crushing satellite nations in its expansionary path.

But in the end the thirst for basic human rights and liberty prevailed. Humans want freedom and that's that.

Now we have a new challenge and this is by way of China. The new communist scourge.

China is on the march.

Only this time there are two key, though not insurmountable, obstacles in our way. One is they have a massive edge on the Soviet Union in terms of wealth making them much more of a serious threat. Two, the West isn't united.

After the war, Europe had little choice because they were too exhausted and broke to stand against Stalinist Russia. Thanks to the Marshall Plan, they were able to rebuild their economies and by that point, capitalism and liberty was a clear winner for them.


But something changed along the way. As they grew wealthier and I argue complacent thanks to American military and economic protection, the European Union thought itself ready to go off on its own and with it meant forming their own path on the global stage. Always under the, wink, protection of American might.

And the United States pretty much allowed them to pursue it just like they left Canada alone. As long as neither didn't publicly side with the Soviets, it was good enough for America.

Then in the early 1990s the Soviet empire collapsed with the fall of the Berlin wall acting as its symbolic end.

Suddenly there was no enemy.

Or was there?

China slowly began its rise soon after. Offering its gigantic market to the West not seen since the Open Door Policy this time on their terms.

China began to join organizations and play the part of a nation willing to play by the rules but they never did flouting agreements and stealing intellectual property with reckless abandon as well as earning a reputation for an abhorrent human and animals rights record.

As they grew, they began to invest in Western counties and companies as well as stockpiling on gold.

The market was simply too big to ignore and Corporate America simply moved operations there hallowing out America. A massive sell out of North American workers began and we slowly became beholden to their demands.

Since the election of Trump and the impact of the Coronavirus originating in Wuhan, people are slowly waking up to the fact China is in fact an enemy.

The new enemy fighting for our souls.

Cold War redux. A battle for ideas. The winner gets to mould the world.

Not only America finding itself with a luke warm EU and Canada (though we may have to fall in line when push comes to shove depending on the depth of Chinese influence on our financial and real estate markets), but it doesn't even have complete support from within.

Democrats can't be trusted while the celebrity class and athletes in particular, are more interested in preserving their brands.

The behaviour of athletes could help but teams like US women's soccer team and leagues like the NBA aren't advancing and championing on the global stage the very ideals and values that made them success stories. The former isn't using its power to fight for women's rights around the world enjoyed by American women, while the latter lies in bed with China having already spectacularly failed when faced with a controversy as we saw so starkly in the Daryl Morey case.

The two biggest voices in those sports are Lebron James and Megan Rapinoe and both fail to appreciate the wider geo-political context to which they operate. Whether they like it or not or willingly or not, they're pawns of Chinese power. They can choose to take a principled stand or be useful idiots.

They have made their choice.

Lebron is a hypocrite here. He shoots off his mouth on twitter blasting the President because, well, he can. He lives in a nation that allows for that. Ironically, the country he refused to take to task not only accords rights to its citizens but is overtly racist.

Lebron was thinking all about his brand. When push comes to shove, Lebron thinks of Lebron. It's much easier to criticize his country and than a country that richly deserves criticism.

They talk about justice but they don't really care.

Lebron should be extolling the virtues of his country abroad. It made him fabulously rich and famous. He should actually put something on the line.

But he won't because Lebron Inc. prevails over actual principles.

Which is why the NBA brass should shut its mouth politically. They live themselves open to such obvious hypocrisy and cowardice in my view. Everyone, in general, wants to believe or think they will be on the 'right side of history'. A tad presumptuous in my view, but this is how they view it. I don't think the NBA's silence on Hong Kong will age well. Posterity will judge James and the league poorly on this front. Hong Kong is fighting for its existence and the NBA turned its back on it.

Here's my bet. If you want to be on the 'right side of history' don't bet against human rights and liberty. And which country (and its allies) advance these values and principles? The USA.

The contradiction in their position is that it has never been safer to be an American citizen as the opportunities to achieve prosperity equally as great for minorities. The United States, probably has less racism because of its laws, transparency and ability to assimilate than any nation on the planet.

It's not a complex issue as Kerr made it seem like. It's not complex at all if you have principles and share common value of democracy with another place. Kerr was just trying to skate around the awkward position he found himself in and it was 'complex' only in the prism of NBA-China relations.

There's no risk to them bashing America. This is what makes their indignation against Trump sophomoric if not comical. Trump can't arrest them. But if they spoke this way about China in China, the results would be drastically and dismally different. They got a taste of it when one of their own dared to merely speak his opinion on American soil and China flexed its muscles and the NBA brass bowed before them while throwing one of their own under the bus.

If I'm Daryl Morey? I have a sick feeling deep in my soul.

James is so obtuse he called a man with two degree one from MIT 'uneducated'. Worse, he and Nike are essentially, ironically, slave plantation owners themselves with the sweat shop labour they use in Asia to manufacture their little shoes at high mark ups.

I don't think they shed too much of a tear when they lay off workers in those places, right?

And James has the blinding arrogant audacity to attack Drew Brees?

That James does good works is not enough to shield him from this hypocrisy and cowardice. He can and should do more. If he really truly cared, he'd pick up the phone and ask Trump what he could do to help blacks as Trump seems genuinely committed to.

If they didn't engage in Trump bashing, then it would be easier (though still wrong) to accept their bowing to China. Business is business.

Alas, this is not what's happening. They made this game. Needless to say, I won't be watching a lick of NBA or any sport that cowers like this.

The NBA, of course, is far from alone with their silence not just on Hong Kong but the systematic and actual genocide of Uyghur Muslims (subjected to re-education camps) in China. Disney severed its ties with Tucker Carlson because reasons but maintains a relationship with, you guessed it, China.

So brave. Such heroes we have ruling our corporations and institutions.

Here's your BLM empty black square.

It's not looking good right now. Trump seems battered but not defeated.

But I believe the long-term trends and the intangible assets remain firmly on America's side.

We need to set our differences aside here and close ranks and ensure our way of life and system of government and economics prevails.

Are you in or out?