Cancel culture is all around us. We witness it daily on social media, watch it unfold nightly on cable news shows, and even encounter it in our personal relationships. A society that has always embraced freedom and protected dissent is quickly becoming a nation that eschews freedom and not only silences dissent, but aims to ruin the life and livelihood of those who hold different views.
Research backs up the notion that people across our nation are concerned about polarization, worried by cancel culture, and afraid of being cancelled themselves.
In March, the Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/04/far-more-americans-see-very-strong-partisan-conflicts-now-than-in-the-last-two-presidential-election-years/">found</a> that more than 90% of Americans believe partisan political conflicts in the country are strong or very strong. Just a few months later, Pew found that the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/25/republicans-democrats-move-even-further-apart-in-coronavirus-concerns/">coronavirus</a> crisis has widened the already yawning gap between Democrats and Republicans. Most recently, the Cato Institute <a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/survey-reports/poll-62-americans-say-they-have-political-views-theyre-afraid-share">reported</a> that 62% of Americans are afraid to share their political views. And researchers have only begun studying the effect on national polarization of the protests and unrest surrounding the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
During times of social unrest like these, we must seek common ground — something that binds us together despite our differences…something that can heal our hurting society rather than drive us further apart…something greater than our current cultural upheaval that we can all strive for together.
That something is freedom of speech. And there are encouraging signs that this is a genuine area of shared concern for the left and the right.
The first indication was when, just a few weeks ago, Harper’s Magazine <a href="https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/">published</a> “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate.” Signed by many mostly left-of-center writers, historians, and scholars troubled by the growing intolerance, the letter affirms the importance of the “free exchange of information and ideas” and denounces “a vogue for public shaming and ostracism” of those who do not share certain viewpoints.
As if to prove the very point of the letter, its publication touched off its own round of denunciations and cancellations, with two signatories <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/506458-what-the-harpers-letter-says-about-cancel-culture">revoking</a> their <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/harpers-magazines-cancel-culture-letter-kicks-off-circular-firing-squad-in-media">signatures</a> and <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/its-come-to-this-we-must-defend-matt-yglesias/">another</a> in danger of losing his job after a fellow staffer said that his signature created an “unsafe” atmosphere at work.
Now, a mostly right-of-center group of writers, scholars, and practitioners have launched The Philadelphia Statement on Civil Discourse and the Strengthening of Liberal Democracy. Released <a href="http://www.thephillystatement.org/">Aug. 11</a>, the statement’s signatories are “calling for a renewed commitment to civil discourse and free speech” that is built upon the free speech tradition at the heart of the American experiment.
It’s “the American tradition of freedom of expression,” the statement lays out, that “trains us to think critically, to defend our ideas, and, at the same time, to be considerate of others whose creeds and convictions differ from our own…. And it admonishes us that if we value the freedom of expression, we must extend the same measure of freedom to others, even to those whom we believe have gone very wrong in their thinking.”
The Philadelphia Statement and the Harper’s letter reveal that there are often unexpected points of agreement between even the most divided people. Finding that common ground and cultivating mutual respect despite our differences in political or social beliefs is the only way to work through calamitous cultural moments like our present one.
We will never arrive at the right solutions concerning COVID-19, racial justice, police reform, and myriad other vexing public issues if people are afraid to express their views on those topics. Becoming more tribal, more polarized, more intent on cancelling those with whom we disagree is a recipe for deeper division and greater strife.
It is also the stuff of tyrants and failed nations, not Americans.
Cancel culture, performative wokeness, social media mobs, and public shaming are all not just real phenomena, they are deeply to corrosive to democracy. They are teaching a new generation to countenance but one orthodoxy and to shut down all dissent. They are planting the seeds of totalitarianism. And history has taught us that totalitarian regimes often arise from such toxic social milieus.
What we need is what existed in American life until very recently: a broad understanding of the good that comes from civic discourse unregulated by government strictures and unafraid of social mores or majoritarian “consensus.” We can have it through a renewed commitment to free speech that crosses ideological lines. The Philadelphia Statement and the Harper’s letter, and the principles that unite both, are crucial first steps in the right direction.
But if we want to protect free speech — and indeed, freedom itself — for our children, we’ll need to do more than sign our names to statements. We must live out those statements’ principles in our daily lives, especially when we encounter someone with whom we disagree.
Jeremy Tedesco is senior counsel and senior vice president of communications for <a href="http://www.iamadf.org/">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/AllianceDefends">@AllianceDefends</a>).

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Comedian Judy Gold thought she was immune from Cancel Culture. She doesn’t feel that way anymore. “I always knew about it,” Gold, an Emmy-winning writer, actress and author told The Daily Wire in reference to the toxic trend. “You came to this point and you think you’re safe.”
Now, a comedian’s context or intent can be downplayed, or even ignored. Suddenly, they’re the next victim.
Gold’s new book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Can-Say-That-Cant/dp/0062953753">Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble</a>,” explains the folly of that thinking. Part memoir, part history lesson, “Yes, I Can Say That” chronicles the early free speech battles fought by comedians Lenny Bruce and George Carlin.
Both comics found themselves on the wrong side of the law for spinning R-rated punchlines.
The book also explores how the best comics coax us to explore race, class, religion and, of course, politics. Comedy can heal and educate. It also convinces us to let our guards down.
Cancel Culture stands in the way of that progress, she warns.
Gold, an avowed progressive, ties Cancel Culture to a less openly destructive force. Call it “Everybody Gets a Trophy.”
“This person won the tournament, but you were smiling when they won,” she cracks, citing the 2018 book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897">The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure</a>” as a source on the subject.
“Your feelings are the only feelings that matter… When did we get so powerless?” she asks. “You don’t wanna hurt people’s feelings, but comedy isn’t pretty.”
Gold’s book cites a 2018 incident in which an Indian-American comic, Nimesh Patel, told a progressive joke at Columbia University about how hard it is to be both black and gay in America.
The group overseeing the event quickly unplugged his microphone, despite the joke’s overtly progressive spirit.
Intent didn’t matter. A select group of attendees were “triggered” by the subject matter, including the folks who hired Patel in the first place.
“The bit is brilliant,” Gold says, furious that the audience missed the punchline’s point. “Are we really thinking in 280 characters, too?”
It can’t be easy for a progressive to blame her own side for Cancel Culture’s rise, but Gold isn’t backing down from that position. She stated it during a recent interview with podcaster Adam Carolla, and she told The Daily Wire a similar message.
“It’s really upsetting that the progressive left has stifled free speech … we’re eating our own,” says Gold. “It’s not progressive … to not acknowledge someone who has evolved or shutting someone down.”
She compares speech police efforts to telling a painter he or she can’t use a certain color and expecting the finished portrait to look like it should.
Cancel Culture also means the Academy Awards can’t find a comic host who could survive a woke vetting.
“That says a lot to me,” she says. Comic actor Kevin Hart’s brief fling with Oscar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-hart-confirms-he-will-not-reconsider-hosting-paul-bois">ended after old jokes insensitive to gay people</a> resurfaced.
“The progressive left wants people to evolve … to change their viewpoints. When they do, we should acknowledge that and not bring up sh** they said 15 years ago,” she says.
Gold also defended comic Michelle Wolf who caught flak from both sides of the ideological aisle after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-smacks-comedian-who-mocked-sarah-sanders-james-barrett">her withering 2017 set at the White House Correspondents Dinner</a> as well as Kathy Griffin’s ISIS-like image with the president’s decapitated head.
Some of Gold’s fellow comics fear Cancel Culture’s wrath, self-censoring their material to protect themselves — and their careers. A well-structured joke is no longer a viable defense.
“You trust your craft and your point of view,” she says. “Now? Nope, sorry, that’s not valid anymore… We can’t trust ourselves. Someone is gonna take it the wrong way, so I can’t say it.”
Few entertainers loathe President Donald Trump like Gold, which she demonstrates repeatedly throughout her new book. She still sees free speech as an area where liberals and conservatives can, and should, come together.
“I don’t believe that conservative people should be stopped from giving speeches at liberal colleges,” she says, referencing how Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, and other high-profile conservatives, require security just to speak on select campuses – if they’re allowed at all. “Who are you to tell me that? You have to hear every side of something.”
“Yes, I Can Say That” challenges conservatives with its anti-Trump passages. It also shares warm stories of comedians who directly addressed their fears with humor, like former “Facts of Life” actress Geri Jewell, who has cerebral palsy.
The book lets Gold join a short but impressive list of comedians who vocally oppose Cancel Culture.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gervais-says-the-woke-mob-wants-to-shut-you-up">Ricky Gervais</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-adam-carolla-gets-raw-about-our-all-woke-no-joke-culture-friendship-with-jimmy-kimmel-truth-about-trump">Carolla</a> speak out the loudest on the issue, but so do Bill Maher, Nick Di Paolo, Dennis Miller (he called them <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/dennis-miller-bill-burr-cancel-culture-mccarthy/">“McCarthy hearings with a search engine</a>”), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-video-released-of-dave-chappelles-fierce-hilarious-defense-of-first-amendment">Dave Chappelle</a> and to some extent, Bill Burr.
“Comedians love to push the envelope because it feels so rewarding to lead people into a state of discomfort and then release them from it with a smart and unexpected punch line,” she writes in the book.
Gold, like her peers, is itching to share her comic perspectives about the pandemic and so much more, but of course there’s a catch.
“It’s the perfect storm for stand-up but there’s no place for us to perform,” she says regarding the pandemic. “We’ve been through such hell. We need to f***ing laugh. That’s where the hope is — living without the arts, people are appreciating them a little more.”
More exclusive content from The Daily Wire: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-adam-carolla-gets-raw-about-our-all-woke-no-joke-culture-friendship-with-jimmy-kimmel-truth-about-trump">Adam Carolla Gets Raw About ‘All Woke, No Joke Culture,’ Friendship With Jimmy Kimmel, Truth About Trump</a>
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The school board of Fairfax County, Virginia, voted on Thursday to rename Robert E. Lee High School after the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), effective this fall.
The high school, which despite the name change will remain in the <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/node/33383" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lee School District</a>, said the motion was decided on after taking input from the public for a month.
According to a <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/news/school-board-renames-robert-e-lee-high-school-late-congressman-john-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement</a> from the board, School Board Chair Ricardy Anderson said, &#8220;It was important for us to be mindful of these comments and to select a name that reflected the diversity and multiculturalism that currently exists at the school and in our community. Rep. Lewis was a champion of the Civil Rights movement, and our Board strongly believes this is an appropriate tribute to an individual who is a true American hero. We will also honor his life’s work by continuing to promote equity, justice, tolerance and service in the work that we do.”
According to the <a href="http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:13:7238446703310889::::P0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID:160" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">demographic data</a> from the 2019-2020 school year, the high school is majority-Hispanic, who make up 45.46% of the student population. Asian students make up 23.94%, followed by white students at 14.93% and black students at 12.97%.
“The name Robert E. Lee is forever connected to the Confederacy, and Confederate values are ones that do not align with our community,” said Lee District School Board member Tamara Derenak Kaufax, who proposed the name change along with a colleague. “Our schools must be places where all students, staff, and members of the community feel safe and supported. I believe that John Lewis’ extraordinary life and advocacy for racial justice will serve as an inspiration to our students and community for generations to come.”
Lewis died last Friday at age 80 after battling pancreatic cancer. The Democratic congressman, famous for the role he played in the civil rights movement, represented Georgia for 33 years and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2011. He will <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-lewis-to-lie-in-state-at-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lie in state</a> in the Capitol next week.
The school board&#8217;s decision comes as Confederate names are being expunged and statues toppled nationwide amid a widespread push to remove vestiges of slavery and racism. In the demonstrations that erupted in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death, protesters in the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/Jefferson-Davis-Statue-Richmond.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ripped down</a> a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along the city&#8217;s tree-lined Monument Avenue.
The mayor of Richmond later mandated that all Confederate statues on city property be removed, leading to the removal of Confederate Gens. Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart, as well as Confederate Naval commander Matthew Fontaine Murray.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to remove all statues of Confederate figures from the Capitol, including a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, whose Dred Scott decision in 1857 ruled black people could not claim the rights of citizenship conferred under the U.S. Constitution.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/statues-of-christopher-columbus-stonewall-jackson-taken-down-abraham-lincoln-statue-to-be-removed-in-boston" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Statues Of Christopher Columbus, Stonewall Jackson Taken Down. Abraham Lincoln Statue To Be Removed In Boston.</a>
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In this cultural moment, where the racist origins of even things like <a href="https://wearyourvoicemag.com/objectivity-journalism-white-supremacy/">objectivity</a> and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/the-sleep-gap-and-racial-inequality/412405/">sleep</a> are finally coming to bear, naming or renaming a sports team is a hazardous pursuit that must be handled with the utmost care. Obviously the professional football team in Washington had to get rid of their &#8220;Redskins&#8221; name, as it was deeply offensive to white liberals and a few Native Americans. But the fear was always that they&#8217;d end up with a new name more dehumanizing than the old. It looks as though that nightmare scenario is now a reality.
ESPN reports that the team formerly called the Redskins will, at least for the 2020 season, officially call itself The Washington Football Team. Their <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1286334173947613184?s=20">logo</a> is just a red background with yellow letters that say &#8220;The Washington Football Team, Est. 1932.&#8221;
Needless to say, when I saw it for the first time I nearly vomited. What they had before was merely degrading, racist, and horrifically offensive. The new name and logo is traumatizing to a nearly lethal extent.
First of all, Washington was a slaveowner. His name should not be found on a football helmet, nor anywhere else on Earth. Also, the word &#8220;foot&#8221; inherently otherizes those who identify as disabled, invalidating their lived experience and relegating them further to the fringes of mainstream society. The word &#8220;ball&#8221; obviously brings to mind anti-trans stereotypes, not to mention it marginalizes those who identify as two dimensional.
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It is hard to know where to start with a slur like &#8220;team,&#8221; which, for one thing, is an anagram for &#8220;meat.&#8221; Are we now pretending that vegans don&#8217;t exist? Also the concept of &#8220;team&#8221; has sexist and patriarchal roots, evoking a time when women were considered too fragile and weak to participate in team sports.
&#8220;1932&#8221; is perhaps the most atrociously offensive aspect of the revamped logo. Remember that Arabic numerals were appropriated from Arabic culture and now bring to mind the West&#8217;s history of colonization and violence against brown and black bodies. And 1932 happens to be the same year that Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, making the memorialization of such a year deeply insensitive to trafficking victims. Of course, as everybody knows, 1932 is the year that Mahatma Ghandi began his hunger strike against the British new Caste Separation Laws, an event that Hindus still solemnly remember today I assume. By claiming 1932 on their logo, Washington is ruthlessly appropriating from India and erasing Ghandi&#8217;s legacy at the same time. On the plus side, the Great Depression did impoverish a lot of white people in 1932, but that is hardly enough to balance things out.
If Washington wants to pick a name that will not minimize, marginalize, otherize, dehumanize, problematize, criticize, villainize, or vaporize any protected classes or minority groups, it could go with something like &#8220;The Sorrys,&#8221; with a mascot of a tearful white man prostrating himself in humiliated submission. If they aren&#8217;t ready to take such a socially conscious step, the next best option would be a name that is nothing more than incomprehensible sounds mixed together. &#8220;The Aahhfuushmassligglies,&#8221; for example, or even &#8220;The Flindershins.&#8221;
Really anything would be better than the old name or the new one. Though I fear that, whatever they choose, the emotional damage has already been done.
Post-trigger warning: The above piece of punditry employs insidious devices known as sarcasm and parody. 
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-how-cowardice-fuels-the-cancel-culture-mob">How Cowardice Fuels The Cancel Culture Mob</a>
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The following is satirical, except for the part about Trader Joe&#8217;s being a cowardly eunuch, which is just true.
Trader Joe’s has folded under pressure and announced it will change silly ethnic brand names of products sold in its stores.
Trader Joe&#8217;s said it was responding to an online petition signed by 2,200 people because it didn’t want to miss a chance to join in the nation’s racial hysteria over absolutely nothing.
Trader Joe’s said it hoped that removing jokey ethnic product names would further the cause of destroying the national senses of humor and proportion in order to ensure that race continues to be a source of anger, mutual hatred and violence.
Trader Joe’s said the change would also ensure that the name Joe would no longer be associated with masculine traits like courage, honor or integrity but would instead help the cause of transgenderism by demonstrating that even someone named Joe can behave like a cowering little girl.
The grocery chain said it is even considering changing the grocery chain’s name to Trader Bee-yotch.
The names that came under fire at Trader Joe’s included “Trader José&#8217;s” for Mexican cuisine, “Trader Ming’s” for Chinese products and “Arabian Joe’s” for Middle Eastern dishes.
These products will now be known as “Poisonous Slop from the Gangster-ocracy South of the Border,” “Mao Chow from the nation that brought you mass starvation, Muslim ethnic cleansing and the Kung Flu,” and “Mohammedan garbage from countries that treat women like Mohammedan garbage.”
Although those new names won’t be written on the packages in the store, customers will be secretly thinking them, now that they’re not thinking of happy, friendly names like Trader José&#8217;s, Trader Ming’s and Arabian Joe’s.
The move by Trader Eunuch comes after the Washington team formerly known as the Redskins caved in to agitators representing precisely 30 percent of the American public and agreed to change their team’s name, though they’re still trying to choose between the Washington Spineless, the Washington Pewlers, or the Washington Branch of the Communist Party of China.
Trader Joe’s said they were delighted to join in that tradition of cowardice and hypocrisy.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portlands-violent-anarchists-are-outrage-federal-agents-arrested-them-for-merely-breaking-the-law-satire">Portland’s Violent Anarchists Are Outraged Federal Agents Arrested Them For Merely Breaking The Law</a>

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‘Trader Joe’s’ Agrees To Change Its Name To ‘Trader Cowardly Eunuch With Zero Integrity’ [Satire]

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Filmmaker John Waters characterized politically correct language policing as an issue that mostly wealthy kids wring their hands over and predicted that President Donald Trump will win re-election because of it.
In an interview published Saturday in the <a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/john-waters-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">U.K. edition of GQ</a>, the 73-year-old Waters spoke mostly of his famously transgressive career spanning half a century but also touched on the political climate of the United States.
After speaking of first lady Melania Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hate-melanias-christmas-decor-even-worse-year-here-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Christmas decorations</a> at the White House, which Waters described as &#8220;goth Las Vegas,&#8221; he was optimistic about Trump&#8217;s prospects for re-election. Asked whether he thought Trump would secure a second term, Waters said, &#8220;I most certainly do. I don’t think that we have one of [the Democratic candidates] that’s strong enough to beat him.&#8221;
Regarding whether divided Americans &#8220;need to find something to break bread over,&#8221; Waters said his fellow countrymen at least need to &#8220;openly talk, because they&#8217;re not going to change their minds if we act like they’re stupid.&#8221;
He went on to criticize rampant political correctness, even though he conceded he agrees with it:
<blockquote>You know, the insane political correctness – even though it’s mostly correct – is gonna make Trump win. It’s a class issue. I promise you, in the neighbourhoods in Baltimore that are really struggling with poverty, they’re not worrying about pronoun usage. I’m not saying that some don’t! But it’s rich kids’ schools who are the most stringent police of it. I never understood what a trigger warning was, I thought you went to college to have your values challenged. I thought that was the point of education.</blockquote>
Born in 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland, Waters achieved fame for indie &#8220;Cinema of Transgression&#8221; cult films, such as &#8220;Pink Flamingos,&#8221; &#8220;Multiple Maniacs,&#8221; and &#8220;Polyester.&#8221; His 1988 film &#8220;Hairspray&#8221; was internationally successful and became a long-running hit on Broadway.
Waters, who is gay, was also asked about how he regards fellow &#8220;cult gay heroes&#8221; such as Morrissey and Bret Easton Ellis, who lean right. &#8220;You know, I have friends that are Republicans,&#8221; he responded. &#8220;I don’t agree with them, but as soon as we make other people feel stupid, we’ll never get them to change their minds.&#8221;
Last week, outspokenly liberal film director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oliver-stone-hollywood-too-politically-correct-too-fragile-too-sensitive" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oliver Stone criticized</a> Hollywood as &#8220;too fragile,&#8221; &#8220;too sensitive,&#8221; and too politically correct. In an interview with The New York Times about his new memoir, Stone said, “The problem is in Hollywood. It’s just so expensive – the marketing. Everything has become too fragile, too sensitive. Hollywood now – you can’t make a film without a Covid adviser. You can’t make a film without a sensitivity counselor. It’s ridiculous.”
&#8220;The Academy changes its mind every five, ten, two months about what it’s trying to keep up with,&#8221; Stone continued. &#8220;It’s politically correct [expletive], and it’s not a world I’m anxious to run out into. I’ve never seen it quite mad like this. It’s like an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ tea party.&#8221;
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‘It’s A Class Issue’: Hollywood Director John Waters Claims Political Correctness Will Lead To Trump Re-Election

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Trader Joe&#8217;s, the beloved, Millennial-focused grocery store chain, is under fire for its generic labeling, which nearly a thousand signers on a petition say is &#8220;racist&#8221; and perpetuates ethnic stereotypes.
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/07/18/trader-joes-changing-packaging-ethnic-foods-racial-stereotypes/5464413002/">USA Today reports</a> that 840 concerned consumers have signed a Change.org petition, launched two weeks ago, asking the chain to change the labeling on its ethnic food packaging. &#8220;It says the grocer &#8216;labels some of its ethnic foods with modifications of &#8216;Joe&#8217; that belies a narrative of exoticism that perpetuates harmful stereotypes,&#8217; noting how Trader Ming’s is used to brand the chain’s Chinese foods and Trader José&#8217;s for Mexican foods.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deniselyohn/2018/06/13/six-surprising-facts-that-explain-trader-joes-secrets-to-success/#50da54271601">According to Forbes</a>, the chain sells mostly generic products under its own label, and around 80% of the items Trader Joe&#8217;s carries is labeled with some iteration of &#8220;Trader Joe,&#8221; the nickname of original CEO Joe Coulombe. The program ensures customers associate Trader Joe&#8217;s products directly with the Trader Joe&#8217;s brand.
&#8220;One of the company&#8217;s values is &#8216;the store is our brand&#8217; and Jon Basalone, president of stores, explains the company doesn&#8217;t sell online or wholesale even though those methods could help it grow faster and possibly more profitably,&#8221; the financial outlet reports. &#8220;Our products work the best when they&#8217;re sold as part of this overall customer experience within the store. We&#8217;re not ready to give that up. For us, the brand is too important, and the store is our brand.&#8221;
The petitioners, though, claims that the tongue-in-cheek marketing contributes to perpetuating ethnic stereotypes.
&#8220;The Trader Joe’s branding is racist because it exoticizes other cultures – it presents ‘Joe’ as the default ‘normal’ and the other characters falling outside of it – they are ‘Arabian Joe,’ ‘Trader José,’ and ‘Trader Joe San,’ the petition states,&#8221; the group says.
They&#8217;re asking Trader Joe&#8217;s to follow in the footsteps of other controversial brands and dismiss the ethnically focused marketing. Over the last month, as The Daily Wire has reported, companies like Quaker Oats have discontinued brand names, like Aunt Jemima, that call to mind outdated stereotypes, typically of African-Americans. Cream of Wheat and Uncle Ben&#8217;s rice products are also considering changing their packaging to align with the needs of a new, woke-er consumer.
For its part, Trader Joe&#8217;s says they&#8217;ve actually been in the process of revamping their labeling for several years and told media Sunday that they plan to roll out new packaging without the ethnic terms for &#8220;Joe.&#8221;
&#8220;The company said in a statement that it decided several years ago to use only the Trader Joe’s name on its products and has been in the process of updating the ethnic-sounding labels,&#8221; the company told <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/07/19/petition-calls-for-trader-joes-to-change-racist-packaging/">CBS Los Angeles</a>.
&#8220;While this approach to product naming may have been rooted in a lighthearted attempt at inclusiveness, we recognize that it may now have the opposite effect – one that is contrary to the welcoming, rewarding customer experience we strive to create every day,” a spokesperson for Trader Joe&#8217;s told the network.
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Petition Calls On Trader Joe’s Grocery Stores To Change ‘Racist’ Ethnic Product Names

Trader Joe&#039;s, the beloved, Millennial-focused grocery store chain, is under fire for its generic labeling, which nearly a thousand signers on a petition

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The conversation about cancel culture usually focuses on the mean bullies who prowl the Earth seeking souls to devour and wrong opinions to punish. They are indeed the primary villains but they aren&#8217;t the only ones who keep the cancel culture mill churning. Cowards, though they are so often the victims, are guilty of emboldening the mob and perpetuating the problem. The story of cancel culture is, at least partly, a story of the gutless legions pouring fuel on the fire that consumes them.
Just a few recent examples. Last week, a high-ranking executive at Boeing, named (hilariously and appropriately) Neil Golightly, resigned from his position and issued a groveling apology over an editorial he had written over three decades ago in which he argued that women in the military should not be given combat roles. In the article, Golightly asserts that introducing females into these roles would interfere with male &#8220;cohesion, morale, efficiency, and aggressiveness.&#8221; He doubted whether &#8220;women and men can adapt emotionally to the socially radical step of fighting side by side.&#8221;
He now apologizes profusely for these &#8220;offensive and embarrassing&#8221; comments and has obediently slinked away in disgrace. But the point of view he expressed 30 years ago was neither offensive nor embarrassing, and was in fact correct. I suspect that Golightly still knows that.
Also last week, the actress Halle Berry begged for forgiveness after it was revealed that she was in line to play a &#8220;transman&#8221; in an upcoming film. Following the standard Hollywood apology script, Berry said in a statement: &#8220;Over the weekend I had the opportunity to discuss my consideration of an upcoming role as a transgender man and I&#8217;d like to apologize for those remarks. As a cisgender woman, I now understand I should not have considered this role, and that the transgender community should undeniably have the opportunity to tell their own stories. I am grateful for the guidance and critical conversation over the past few days and I will continue to listen, educate and learn from this mistake.&#8221;
There was no mistake. A transgender man is a female. Halle Berry is a female. If demographic similarity is necessary to play a role on screen, she fulfilled the requirement. But of course similarity is not necessary. The entire job of an actor is to pretend to be something that they are not. The attacks against her were wildly preposterous on multiple levels, yet she caved anyway and without much hesitation.
This week has seen even more egregious cases. Gary Garrels, a prominent curator at the San Francisco Museum of Art, has resigned and apologized after staff members accused him of racism and started a petition denouncing his &#8220;toxic white supremacist beliefs.&#8221; What, specifically, were these &#8220;white supremacist beliefs&#8221;? At a recent staff meeting Garrels had said that the museum would still collect some art from white men. He explained that refusing art from white men based on their sex and gender would be &#8220;reverse discrimination.&#8221; That&#8217;s all it took to put Garrels on the level of a Klan member or Neo-Nazi.
His position was, obviously, reasonable and completely right. The only bone I would pick is that discrimination against whites isn&#8217;t &#8220;reverse discrimination,&#8221; it&#8217;s just discrimination. Other than that, his point was self-evidently true. Nonetheless he left the position he had held for many years and offered a &#8220;sincere apology&#8221; to the stupid cry babies on his staff. Only he didn&#8217;t call them stupid cry babies, as he should have, instead he validated their paranoid delusions. And for this act of contrition, Garrels will no doubt be rewarded with the same ostracization he would have received had he stuck to his guns and maintained his dignity to begin with.
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A final example from this week. A white business owner in Seattle published a long apology on Instagram because she wore dreadlocks. The business owner, Rachel Marshall, said she would get the dreadlocks taken out as soon as possible, and that she&#8217;s very sorry for the &#8220;harm&#8221; and &#8220;pain&#8221; that her hairstyle somehow caused black people. She also promised to hire &#8220;diversity and equity representatives&#8221; to teach her how to maintain an equal and tolerant workplace. Marshall does not explain how, exactly, a hairstyle might have harmed anyone, much less how it could have interfered with equality in the workplace. She probably doesn&#8217;t explain it because it&#8217;s impossible to explain, because it&#8217;s nonsense.
It&#8217;s worth noting, for the record, that dreadlocks have been worn by many races and cultures for millennia. Ancient Europeans were among the earliest to sport them. Black people did not invent the style and do not own it. And even if they did invent it, they still wouldn&#8217;t own it, because that&#8217;s not how style works. Style and fashion are in constant exchange between cultures. A white German immigrant invented blue jeans, but nobody would say that non-whites or non-Germans are guilty of &#8220;appropriation&#8221; when they wear a pair of Levi&#8217;s. Once again, the offended mob is severely wrong on every level and in every way. And their wrongness is validated by the very people who should be flipping them the bird and helpfully suggesting that they piss off.
Many excuses could be offered for the parade of cowardice documented above. They had no choice. Their lives would be destroyed if they didn&#8217;t cave. Their livelihoods were on the line. So on and so on. That may be true in some cases — though I doubt the woman with the dreadlocks was facing life-destroying consequences, and you&#8217;d think that an executive at Boeing would have the power and resources to weather the storm — but we&#8217;ve seen time and again that the mob will wreck your life, if it wants to, whether you apologize or not. The apology doesn&#8217;t seem to have much bearing on the penalty meted out.
But even if some amount of professional and financial security could be maintained by prostrating oneself before the lunatic masses and pleading for absolution, we still must have the courage to defy the mob and accept the consequences of that defiance. There is always a risk in being courageous — that&#8217;s why we call it courageous — but the risk in continuing to grovel on command is far greater. The mob grows in size and in power, and its thirst for vengeance becomes even more insatiable, as liberty, justice, rationality, reality, and truth recede further out of view.
The only way to stop this process, if it can be stopped at all at this point, is to stand firm. There is no other solution. Defy the mob, refuse to cave to it, or watch as it takes and destroys everything. Those are the only two choices.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-left-wants-to-replace-believe-all-women-with-believe-all-racism-claims">The Left Wants To Replace ‘Believe All Women’ With ‘Believe All Racism Claims’</a>
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WALSH: How Cowardice Fuels The Cancel Culture Mob

The conversation about cancel culture usually focuses on the mean bullies who prowl the Earth seeking souls to devour and wrong opinions to punish. They

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Ever pull that loose thread on your sweater? The whole thing unravels.
That’s the state of America today, with the Politically Correct Police pulling on every thread in hopes of unraveling, well, everything.
This summer, they came — again — for the Washington Redskins, and this time they succeeded. The NFL team on Monday announced that it will cave to pressure from the Left, which claims the Redskins name is offensive to American Indians, and change their 87-year-old team name and logo.
But here are a couple of facts (not that those matter nowadays). A poll in May found that nine in ten American Indians are not offended by the name, The Washington Post reported. And the son of Walter “Blackie” Wetzel — the Native American whose 1971 design of the Redskins logo depicts John “Two Guns” White Calf, a Blackfoot chief who also appears on the buffalo nickel — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/native-american-son-of-redskins-logo-designer-says-its-not-offensive">said the mascot is not offensive</a>.
Of the mascot change, Lance Wetzel said, “It takes away from the Native Americans. When I see that logo, I take pride in it. You look at the depiction of the Redskins logo and it’s of a true Native American. I always felt it was representing my people.”
But forget all that. The PC Police — who have been on the warpath of late (can you still say that?) — had decided that the name was offensive. And it’s clear they won’t stop — ever. The language police have no limit to what they find offensive, and until they wipe away everything they deem objectionable, no one is safe.
Consider this: The Oxford Dictionary defines the phrase “low-hanging fruit” as “a thing or person that can be won, obtained, or persuaded with little effort.”
But a college professor says no, it’s racist.
“For African-Americans, if you say ‘low-hanging fruit,’ we think lynching,” said Mae Hicks-Jones, an adjunct faculty member of Elgin Community College in Illinois.
“Grandfathered” is also racist, she said, according to a report this week in The College Fix. To Ms. Hicks-Jones, the phrase “grandfathered in” is reminiscent of a grandfather clause, which privileged white people’s right to vote over that of black people during the Jim Crow South.
Then there’s the “Masters” golf tournament. Rob Parker last month wrote a Deadline piece headlined “We’ve Lived with ‘The Masters’ Name Long Enough.”
“Augusta National was built on grounds that were once a slave plantation and was the property of a slave owner. And according to a 2019 New Yorker piece about the course, it’s believed that enslaved Blacks were housed on the property,” he wrote.
You’ll be surprised to hear there’s more.
The largest cosmetics company in the world <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loreal-to-remove-words-whitening-fair-and-lightening-from-skin-products">announced</a> last month that it will remove words like “whitening,” “fair,” and “lightening” from the packaging of its products.
“The L’Oreal Group has decided to remove the words white/whitening, fair/fairness, light/lightening from all its skin evening products,” the French cosmetics giant said in statement, according to The Associated Press.
Even food brands are being targeted. Quaker Oats announced last month that it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/quaker-oats-announces-it-is-changing-name-of-aunt-jemima-due-to-racial-stereotype">remove Aunt Jemima</a> from its 133-year-old brand of syrup and pancake mix, while the company that makes Cream of Wheat said it is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uncle-bens-rice-to-take-black-man-off-box-cream-of-wheat-mulls-removing-black-chef">reviewing its brand and packaging</a>, which features a black chef holding up a piping hot bowl of cereal.
“B&amp;G Foods, Inc. today announced that we are initiating an immediate review of the Cream of Wheat brand packaging,” the company said in a statement. “We understand there are concerns regarding the Chef image, and we are committed to evaluating our packaging and will proactively take steps to ensure that we and our brands do not inadvertently contribute to systemic racism.”
Meanwhile, the company that makes Uncle Ben’s rice said that “now was the right time to evolve” the brand. Their package features an elderly black man in a tuxedo next to its trademark saying, “Perfect Every Time.”
Mars Inc., the parent company of Uncle Ben’s, said in a release that as a global brand, “we know we have a responsibility to take a stand in helping to put an end to racial bias and injustices.”
Yup, rice is racist. Especially white rice.
Even the word “racism” is racist, at least according to a 22-year-old woman who recently graduated with a degree in law, politics, and society. Kennedy Mitchum complained about the definition, so Merriam-Webster, a dictionary that’s nearly 190 years old, decided to change the entry.
“I basically told them they need to include that there is systematic oppression on people,” the recent Drake University grad said. “It’s not just ‘I don’t like someone,’ it’s a system of oppression for a certain group of people.”
Of course, this isn’t over. And it never will be. Once the PC police wield their social justice batons, everything is on the chopping block.
Wait, can you still say that?
*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.
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CURL: PC Police Finally Scalp The Redskins, Move On To ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’

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The companies that were first to boycott Facebook and denounce the company most vocally for supposedly not doing enough to curb &#8220;hate speech&#8221; had already dramatically dialed back ad buys before doing so.
REI, The North Face, and Patagonia experienced a steep decline in ad buying on Facebook even before they withdrew from the platform in a supposed attempt to combat its alleged allowance of &#8220;hateful lies and dangerous propaganda,&#8221; according to data obtained by The Daily Wire via Pathmatics.
Pathmatics is an advertiser database that is &#8220;driven to bring transparency and accountability to digital marketing,&#8221; according to its <a href="https://www.pathmatics.com/company" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a>. Its information indicated that ad buying from the outdoor retailers had slumped considerably before they took their stance against the social media giant&#8217;s handling of untoward political opinions.
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Patagonia joined with REI and The North Face last month to express indignation at Facebook&#8217;s alleged unwillingness &#8220;to take sufficient steps to stop the spread of hateful lies and dangerous propaganda,&#8221; according to a statement the company released on June 21.
The retailers also accused Facebook of being &#8220;complicit in spreading disinformation and fomenting fear and hatred,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-boycott-patagonia-rei-north-face-stophateforprofit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CBS News</a>.
Their action was reportedly in response to demands from <a href="https://www.stophateforprofit.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stop Hate for Profit</a>, which has claimed that Facebook is not doing enough to curb the promulgation of hate speech on its platform, for which reason it has urged companies to boycott them.
&#8220;We deeply respect any brand&#8217;s decision, and remain focused on the important work of removing hate speech and providing critical voting information,&#8221; said Carolyn Everson, Vice President of Global Business Group Facebook, in a statement to CBS News. &#8220;Our conversations with marketers and civil rights organizations are about how, together, we can be a force for good.&#8221;
Neither REI, The North Face, nor Patagonia responded to The Daily Wire in time for publication.
Other companies that have been <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/03/activists-advertising-boycott-facebook-348528" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lauded for pulling out of Facebook</a>, such as Ford, Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s, Hershey, and Unilever, also significantly dialed back ad buys during the months leading up to their boycott. In what CBS News described as &#8220;a powerful statement,&#8221; ice cream company Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s promised &#8220;to take stronger action to stop its platforms from being used to divide our nation, suppress voters, foment and fan the flames of racism and violence, and undermine our democracy.&#8221;
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&#8220;The protest came after Facebook decided not to take action on a series of controversial posts from President Donald Trump — including one during racial justice protests that said &#8216;looting&#8217; would lead to &#8216;shooting,'&#8221; CNN added.
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Radical movements never end at the original demands.
Let’s harken back to a simpler, more innocent and yet paradoxically more emotionally resilient time, shall we?  Particularly the Fall of, say, 1988.  Imagine a fine autumn day on the great plains of Illinois. The sun blares down through the azure dome of the wide Midwestern sky to warm the faces of  75,000 fans crowded into the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium. (Yes, back then we filled the place.) A sea of orange and blue shimmers in the stands and the roar “I-L-L!  echoes from one side of the stadium, followed by the obligatory response of “I-N-I!” from the other.   Colorful pennants orbit the arena, swirling and snapping in the warm breeze.
It’s halftime during another Big Ten football Saturday at Urbana-Champaign and a celebrated ritual dating back to 1926 begins again. The Marching Illini band parts with military precision, clearing a path for a lone figure who seems to just materialize in the end zone and strut proudly to the center of the field.  He is barefoot, clad in buckskin and leather tassels, his face painted bright orange and blue, and he wears an impressive headdress of eagle feathers.
Chief Illiniwek bows to the throng of admirers as the calling of “Chieeeef!” fills the stands.  Our beloved mascot then dances to Native American music.  He skims across the field as he twists and turns and gyrates. It’s quite a feat of athleticism in fact. Then he suddenly leaps, touches his toes in an aerial split, and lands, bare feet together on the turf.  He stands and raises his arms up like a bishop bestowing a benediction, as the band belts out the Illinois anthem and we all join arm in arm and sway back and forth while singing: “Hail to the orange. Hail to the blue.  Hail Alma Mater ever so true. We love no other so let our motto be: ‘Victory Illinois…Var-si-ty!”  There is no mockery here. We feel no emotion but respect for and communion with the Native American tribe whose namesake we at the U of I adopted as our own.
I recount this little snippet of my youth because it ties into a larger movement building momentum for quite some time; it’s one that seeks to upend national tradition and even identity. A college in the heartland losing its mascot to p.c. sensibilities is just one of countless outbreaks of this spreading disease. And the latest, and most powerful wave of social justice fanaticism has injected the drive to stamp out so many vestiges of our national identity with “woke” steroids. It’s become obvious by now that the pretext of the BLM “police reform” has served as cover for the larger forces of bitterness, divisiveness, hyper-sensitivity, and outright nihilism rampaging through our country with impunity. One wonders how is it that what were, ostensibly, protests against specific acts of police brutality has now expanded into a movement to wipe out every memory and tradition and historical figure before Rosa Parks?  When exactly did expressing outrage over an obvious murder of one man by one cop morph into a crusade to upend the entire American experience root and stem and replant it in this new woke Year Zero?
Those of us who went to the University of Illinois back in the day might have seen this coming. Mascots, and the “offense” they give to select groups of self-appointed aggrieved, have been the canary in the coal mine for some time. That story I told you? No more. Chief Illiniwek and the halftime ritual that was one of the traditions that actually sold me on my alma mater? Gone. Buh-bye, Chief.
In fact, this college football season – if it happens at all – will mark the thirteenth year of the Chief’s banishment from our campus by the NCAA for being a mascot “hostile and abusive” to Native American sensibilities. (His last official performance took place in February 2007 at a home basketball game.)
How did this come to pass? It’s interesting and relevant to today in that it is a revealing microcosm of the greater movement of wiping out monuments and memories occurring nation-wide.  And how quickly, frighteningly so, attitudes can shift and lurch suddenly and violently leftwards almost overnight.
Apparently those who took it upon themselves to speak for an Indian nation long vanished found Chief Illinwek’s very existence so traumatizing, so insulting, that they forced the NCAA to coerce my school into killing this 80-year tradition or be banned from hosting any post-season activities.  So the political correctness wave that would eventually build to a tsunami washed over my school, sweeping away a most cherished tradition when it receded.  Courtesy of those who took it upon themselves to feel offense on behalf of others.
Nor did the leaders of this anti-Chief movement, like those tearing down statues today (more on that in a moment), have any grasp of the history of the very people for whom they assumed the mantel of feeling offense. Forget that the tribes of the Illinois confederacy were wiped out or displaced by the end of the eighteenth century by more powerful Native American enemies. Were any of the student protesters driving the movement to eradicate the Chief even descended from the Illini? Not to my knowledge. But, as we have learned from so many wealthy progressives who live in sheltered, often racially homogenous leafy neighborhoods far removed from the disastrous consequences of their own enlightened attitudes being translated into policy imposed on others, one’s direct standing on an issue matters little when there’s a p.c. crusade afoot.
The speed of the change in attitude was quite breathtaking where Chief Illinwek was concerned.  For decades the closest living descendants of the confederacy, the Peoria, who were relocated to Oklahoma in the nineteenth century apparently never had an issue with the Chief for over seven decades. As late as 1995, Don Giles, then Chief of the Peoria Tribe, said, “We’re proud that the University of Illinois…is drawing on that background of our having been there. And what more honor could they pay us?” But just five short years later, in 2000, the tribe’s position radically changed after the new chief, Ron Froman, met with several Native American student groups at the U of I. Froman apparently just needed to be told that he was offended, and even offered this historically dubious viewpoint: &#8220;I don’t think [the Chief’s creation] was to honor us, because, hell, they ran our butts out of Illinois.”  That the Illini were wiped out by rival tribes which included the Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Chippewa, Ottawa, Cherokee and others well before any white men could “run their butts out of Illinois” matters little when there’s a opportunity to manufacture synthetic outrage to help the indignation industry churn out its favorite product: identity politics.
We are seeing that same radical shift in attitude now, with monuments being torn down all over the nation. Mascots aside, the movement really  started off with the drive to banish Confederate memorials from the public square. This is a legitimate beef in my view. I cannot imagine being an African-American in 2020 having to every day pass by bronze or stone celebrations of the men who, had their side won the Civil War, would have happily overseen my continued enslavement. Indeed, men who fought to win independence for a new nation that referred to itself as “The Slave-Holding Confederacy” and made no bones about the fact that its government, as its Vice-President shamelessly declared, was “based upon this great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.”  So, sure, I totally get that.
But, as with so many movements, it never ends at the original demands. The first question that would be asked by the masked marauders after they banished every mascot and tore down every last Confederate statue would be, “alright, who’s next?” This is because for many of them, the idea of “offense” is but a pretext to exercise their nihilistic impulses. It’s not mascots or the Southern Confederacy they hate per se. It’s the United States itself, our laws, our system of government, our mercantilism, our national pride, our civil rights, our traditions and history, our very essence.  We know this because we already know the answer to “who’s next?” Everyone! As the leader of the murderous Red Legs proclaimed in The Outlaw Josey Wales: “Doin’ right ain’t got no end.”  (This wholly un-self-aware line elicited a mocking belly laugh from the wise old Granny listening from her porch.  As it should have.)
And as we have learned, the mob’s zealous sense of moral supremacy is only matched by their shameful ignorance of the country that someone, or some institution, has taught them to hate so much.
The woke crowd is so militant in their anarchism that goes far beyond just protesting police brutality, or even “systemic racism” that they are literally upending or defacing statues of anyone who chose to be born before 1965.  And I do mean anyone. Consider this. In Boston, a monument to the 54th Massachusetts, the first African-American Union regiment armed and sent into battle in the Civil War, men who literally fought to preserve their own freedom, was recently defaced.  One might argue “yeah well they were only allowed to be led by white officers so it’s still a symbol of systemic—” Yawn! What these historical ignoramuses do not consider is that the white officers who volunteered to lead these men of color, from the idealistic Col. Robert Gould Shaw, son of a wealthy Bostonian who could have pulled the right strings to keep his son as far away from the front as possible, down to the company commanders all knew full well that if captured on the battlefield, the Confederates would not extend them the courtesy of prisoner status. Rather, the Confederate government had made it very clear in written proclamations that any white Union officer caught leading black troops would be considered leading a slave revolt, and summarily executed. Other than carrying the regimental flag, there was probably no more dangerous duty in the Civil War than being a white Union officer  leading black troops in combat. And they knew it. Yet they stayed, despite offers of transfers if they so chose. How many of the masked men who attack statues in the dead of night could have mustered even one iota of such courage or conviction to the cause of advancing racial justice?
Not to be outdone by their laughably foolish compatriots, another woke mob actually vandalized a monument to, ready for this one?&#8230;Frederick Douglass! Did any of these vandalizing buffoons even know who Douglass was? And why not? In their entire drift through our K-through-college graduate education system did they never learn of this extraordinary man who went from being a run-away slave to becoming the national face of abolition in the North? A man who met with presidents, governors, congressmen, and tirelessly, passionately lobbied for equal rights for his black brothers and sisters.  Indeed, the first black man to receive a vote for President at a major political party convention (Republican).  This man was, in fact, the absolutely antithetical embodiment of racism, then as well as now. They are like the peasants in Monty Python and the Holy Grail who, when presented with the evidence that the woman they’d captured was not a witch, nevertheless screamed, “Burn her anyway!” Yeah. Actually a part of me hopes that those fools who attacked the memory of Mr. Douglass had no idea who he was. Ignorance can be fixed with a few updated history texts and curricula. But if they did know him, and decided to burn him anyway then something much more seismic and existentially threatening to the very fabric of this nation is afoot. And it must be taken seriously.
Two generations of unrelenting and unchallenged leftist indoctrination in our schools, our universities, our media, our culture, have culminated in the scenes of brave African-American freedom fighters and a famous run-away-slave-turned-vocal abolitionist being attacked by people who claim to do so in their minority group’s name. There is something so unbelievable in this that one would think these stories ripped out of Babylon Bee or The Onion. If only.
Again, those in my college experienced the first red and itching lesions of the woke psoriasis now spreading across the body of this great nation back when The Chief became persona non grata…for giving offense to those no longer even here.
But not all is lost. Common sense does still sprout up here and there. Fortunately for the students of Florida State University, their Indian symbol, Chief Osceola, was allowed to live by the NCAA. Why? Because (get this now) the Seminole Tribe of Florida, who are still alive and well,  find nothing offensive about him. Who could have imagined that?
This does not mean that sensibilities, if wide-spread and reasonable, should be ignored. As I said, I do believe Confederate monuments fall under this category making them worthy of public re-examination and removal if it is so voted. And even where Native-Americans are concerned, are there some monikers that may be insulting?  Is the term “redskin” the equivalent of deeply offensive “darkie” in the eyes of Native-Americans?   After all, is it not often the Indian yin to the white man’s “paleface” yang? Polls are ambiguous, and one can find any to support the notion that it is or is not.  But in the realm of re-naming the Washington football team, especially one that represents our nation’s capital and thus all Americans in a way, maybe a compromise ought to be reached. My suggestion is to rename the team the Washington Red Tails, in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black World War II fighter group who brazenly painted the tails of their aircraft scarlet to announce their presence before serving up a helping of pain stew to Hitler’s Luftwaffe. Not only does it honor a group that all Americans admire, but it even keeps the “Red” in the name. At least we can talk about it without burning down FedEx Field. 
That would be a rational approach. Indeed it would be a way to both honor our past, and celebrate our more diverse present. But rationality is the farthest thing from the mob’s mind. At first I would have called those who feel moral imperative to deface and destroy that which they do not understand, and do not care to, but just know that it offends them somehow, cry-babies. But that doesn’t give this new wave of social upheaval enough import, for it is much more of a threat to our national fiber than that. Any student of far-left or far-right revolutions, two sides of the same coin, whether they originated in Munich, Petrograd, or Beijing, knows the pattern.  The similarities in tactics and rhetoric between the fascism/communism of old, and the masked thuggery of today are eerie: public denunciations, cancelling out those they brand as enemies of the movement and ruining their lives, weaponizing the law in an uneven application to punish political adversaries, street violence, total disregard for the rule of law in order to achieve a new cultural Utopia. And those who have actually read a history book, which I can say with 99% confidence does not include the members of the woke mob, know that this pattern never ends well.  Nazism begat the Holocaust. Stalinism the Gulag.  Maoism the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. Throw in the Khmer Rouge for good measure and you have some pretty in-your-face lessons coming at you. But that is neither here nor there. There’s work to be done. A country to be erased and redrawn in the image of the many ‘isms’ that make up a faculty lounge lexicon.
So what was the canary in the coal mine of my university losing its mascot? What did Chief Illiniwek’s eradication portend? It showed that we have unleashed a wave of criminally uneducated, un-challenged children upon this land whose ignorance is matched only by their sense of absolute righteousness in their cause. And worse, those of us who managed to break free of the event horizon of the education and cultural indoctrination black hole are nevertheless left with a wariness to tread lightly and leave no offending footprints should someone, somewhere, with time on their hands and a Twitter mob at the ready, come a-calling. How can this but stifle healthy debate–which is the life-blood of a free people.
I may be labeled as racist for even expressing in an open forum these sentiments, but I’ll just call you an anti-German/Irish bigot and be on my way. Oh, and perhaps I’ll petition to ban any future airing of The Godfather for using the offensive term “Kraut-Mick.” Too bad if it’s your favorite movie. I have feelings to consider.
When I first pondered the Chief’s demise in 2007, I thought that maybe I was reading too much into what was then a novel p.c. wave. But now I know better. I see the anarchy across the land with its totalitarian proclivities as the demise of this nation should this dialogue-crippling and balkanizing movement continue. Thirteen years ago it targeted a venerated tradition at an island of learning in a sea of corn and soybeans that was doing no harm to anyone–save those who seek to re-create this country in their own narrow and paradoxically intolerant image. Now the dam has burst. And the wave has come to wash us all away.  But even in my last drowning breath I will defiantly cry out: LONG LIVE THE CHIEF!  And if this offends you, well, as Dennis Leary says: “Life’s tough.  Wear a helmet.”
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Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone (&#8220;Platoon,&#8221; &#8220;JFK&#8221;) has had enough of Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;sensitivity.&#8221;
Speaking with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/13/magazine/oliver-stone-interview.html">The New York Times</a> to promote his upcoming memoir, Stone said the film industry has become too politically correct, &#8220;too sensitive,&#8221; and &#8220;too fragile.&#8221; This shift has pushed him into making documentaries instead of narrative-based films such as &#8220;Snowden,&#8221; about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, which was released in 2016.
&#8220;The problem is in Hollywood. It’s just so expensive — the marketing. Everything has become too fragile, too sensitive,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Hollywood now — you can’t make a film without a Covid adviser. You can’t make a film without a sensitivity counselor. It’s ridiculous.&#8221;
When pressed to explain why a &#8220;sensitivity counselor&#8221; is ridiculous, Stone said, &#8220;The Academy changes its mind every five, ten, two months about what it’s trying to keep up with. It’s politically correct [expletive], and it’s not a world I’m anxious to run out into. I’ve never seen it quite mad like this. It’s like an &#8216;Alice in Wonderland&#8217; tea party.&#8221;
&#8220;In what respect?&#8221; the interviewer, David Marchese, shot back.
&#8220;Oh, David, don’t go there. That’s going to be your headline,&#8221; responded Stone. &#8220;You know, I just read something about how films are going to be very expensive to make now, because you need to take all these precautions, and a 50-day shoot becomes a 60-day shoot, and social distancing for actors. That’s what I’m talking about.&#8221;
Asked if he&#8217;s &#8220;felt marginalized by Hollywood in the past,&#8221; Stone said, &#8220;I don’t think they think about me. I don’t feel bitter about it.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Savages&#8217; was my last was my last movie in the mainstream, so to speak,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I thought it was mainstream, and Universal did too, up until they distributed it. They decided to move it at the last second from fall to summer. So they put us in the middle of a schedule that was pretty tough.&#8221;
&#8220;I do still get offered stuff, but I’m not inspired to make a movie,&#8221; said the director. &#8220;I don’t feel anything inside me, fire for going through that pain and misery. The last film I did was &#8216;Snowden.&#8217; It was so difficult to make. We struggled to get financing — I believe — because of the subject matter.&#8221;
Regarding his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin following the 2016 presidential election, Stone said that the United States put way too much emphasis on Russia&#8217;s influence on the election.
&#8220;I think he sees American destabilization as a dangerous thing because he thinks about the safety of the world,&#8221; Stone said of Putin. &#8220;If anything, he would like a balance of power to exist and he would like to have a nuclear treaty with us. It’s very difficult to talk when America doesn’t talk. It hasn’t been dealing honestly with him in a long time.&#8221;
When the interviewer suggested that perhaps Stone was being a &#8220;useful idiot,&#8221; Stone replied that much of the documentary was filmed in 2014 before the election took place.
&#8220;Where is it clear that I’m an idiot? I think it’s a very articulate dialogue,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I would also point out that when we started, which was in 2014 roughly, the relationship with the United States was not as bad as it would become.&#8221;
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Pity the modern screenwriter.
He or she opens a laptop, fires up a new Word document and takes a long, slow breath.
“How do I write a story that doesn’t trigger a Cancel Culture attack? What if my characters aren’t woke enough? Am I addressing systemic racism in my narrative? Will I ever work again if I anger the wrong people?”
Sound dramatic? Think again.
The scribes behind “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” admit <a href="https://www.cbr.com/brooklyn-nine-nine-scraps-season-8-scripts-will-start-over/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">they scrapped existing scripts</a> because they didn’t fit into the Black Lives Matter world. “We have to start over. Right now we don’t know which direction it’s going to go in,” said show co-star Terry Crews, himself <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-carson-defends-terry-crews-black-lives-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">attacked for being critical of BLM</a>.
Time Magazine ran an article suggesting superhero films <a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/07/01/time-magazine-declares-superheroes-a-problem-because-they-star-straight-white-men/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">can no longer feature white heroes</a> ignoring racial injustice.
The co-creator of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” admits he has a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/kenya-barris-greg-daniels-comedy-showrunner-roundtable-1300305" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">staff of young, presumably woke Millennials</a> overseeing story creation to “show me what’s not only funny but what’s relevant, what’s changing, how is it changing, and how can we continue to be on the cutting edge …” Remember how well that worked for <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/how-feminism-crushed-neighbors-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Neighbors 2?”</a>
These are three anecdotes. Think bigger.
We’re already told Hollywood should think twice about telling more police stories. Stories that show heroic cops, a staple of TV and films for decades, are now problematic, or worse. Heck, “Paw Patrol” <a href="https://decider.com/2020/06/11/is-paw-patrol-being-cancelled-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">narrowly escaped cultural cancellation.</a>
Delicate satire, the kind that might feature characters <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/505086-hulu-removes-golden-girls-mud-mask-episode-prompts-pushback-what-the-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">covered in mud masks</a>, is no longer permissible. Can you imagine a comedian whose name isn’t “Chappelle” telling hard but funny truths about race in a Netflix special? Even Dave himself might get cancelled if he yukked it up about Black Lives Matter in a way that clashes with the hard-left narrative.
The timing, alas, simply couldn’t be worse.
For starters, the movie-going experience is on a delayed pause due to the pandemic. Who knows when it will return to full strength?
Crowds may flock to see James Bond and Black Widow again, but not every film boasts a must-see component.
Audiences are <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/woke-broke-movies-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">preternaturally opposed to woke storytelling</a>, witness sizable flops like “Charlie’s Angels,” “Ghostbusters” and “Late Night.” Doubling down on Guilt Cinema is a recipe for financial ruin.
More importantly, we’ve been awash in a golden age of TV content. Theatrical releases remain inconsistent, with a heavy emphasis on loud, IP-driven fare. Last year proved a notable difference, given a crush of quality stories including “<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/critic-v-critic-joker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joker</a>,” “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and “Jojo Rabbit.”
It’s on the small screen where the greatest creative progress has been made. For now.
To list all the superlative shows streaming into our homes is too tall a task. What’s more remarkable is the eclectic platforms providing them. HBO. Netflix. Hulu. Syfy. Showtime. AMC. Amazon Prime. Paramount Network. You could spend every waking hour watching the best new shows around and still not keep up with the dynamic flow.
Will that change moving forward? Productions remain mostly on hold due to the pandemic, but screenwriters are working feverishly to prepare for the grand re-opening.
What stories will they tell? What narratives will they be permitted to share?
Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threatens to upend the organic storytelling process. The Academy is finalizing new rules mean to address<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/12/876481972/oscars-future-films-must-meet-diversity-and-inclusion-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> diversity issues for Oscar-bait films</a>. Think that won’t have an impact on the stories to be told?
There is an upside to the current cultural revolution. We will get to know artists, primarily people of color, who might otherwise have gone unnoticed. Hollywood has had a diversity problem for some time, one not miraculously solved by sharing black squares on Instagram.
Perhaps another Jordan Peele, Issa Rae or Donald Glover will emerge &#8212; young, exciting talents whose work both challenges and entertains.
That’s wonderful.
What a shame the downsides could greatly overshadow that progress.
More from Christian Toto: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-shut-up-the-celebrities-said-hoping-the-pc-police-would-spare-them">‘Shut Up,’ The Celebrities Said (Hoping The PC Police Would Spare Them)</a>
A version of this article was also published on <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/woke-hollywood-crush-tv-golden-age/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.

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The principal leader of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said on Friday that the West should think again about its depiction of Jesus Christ as a white man, adding that some statues of historical figures in Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey “will have to come down.”
Justin Welby, who was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in March 2013, was asked if the “way the western church portrays Jesus needs to be thought about again.” Welby answered, “Yes, of course it does, this sense that God was white . . . ” He noted of churches around the world, “You go into churches and you don&#8217;t see a white Jesus. You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jesus — which is of course the most accurate — you see a Fijian Jesus.”
Welby continued, “Jesus is portrayed in as many ways as there are cultures, languages, and understandings. And I don&#8217;t think that throwing out everything we&#8217;ve got in the past is the way to do it, but I do think saying ‘that&#8217;s not the Jesus who exists, that&#8217;s not who we worship,&#8217; it is a reminder of the universality of the God who became fully human.”
Welby said of people who have been memorialized in statues that people should forgive them their “trespasses” instead of knocking them down, but added, “We can only do that if we&#8217;ve got justice, which means the statue needs to be put in context. Some will have to come down … some names will have to change. I mean, the church, goodness me, you know, you just go around Canterbury Cathedral, there&#8217;s monuments everywhere, or Westminster Abbey, and we&#8217;re looking at all that, and some will have to come down,” according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8462735/Archbishop-Canterbury-says-Church-think-portraying-Jesus-white.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
But asked by BBC Today specifically if statues will be torn down in Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby stated, “No, I didn&#8217;t say that. I very carefully didn&#8217;t say that. We&#8217;re going to be looking very carefully and putting them in context and seeing if they all should be there. The question arises. Of course it does.”
Welby said that reconsidering statues is “what people do at times like this . . . And it&#8217;s a good thing, but there has to be, for forgiveness, there has to be this turning round, this conversion, the Pope called it. The change of heart that says we learned from them not to be like that, and to change the way we are in the future.&#8217;
Welby added: “We&#8217;ve seen in some of the crises we&#8217;ve first over the last few months, not just Covid, but also Black Lives Matter and the economic downturn, that there is great injustice. And we need a collective turning away from that, which is what repentance means, but we also need to learn to forgive.”
He continued, “There can be forgiveness, I hope and pray as we come together, but only if there&#8217;s justice. If we change the way we behave now, and say this was then and we learned from that, and change how we&#8217;re going to be in the future, internationally, as well.&#8221;
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Head Of Church Of England: West Should Reconsider Its Depiction Of Jesus As White

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The principal leader of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said on Friday that the West should think again about its depiction of Jesus

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The actress Jenny Slate has apologized for her “flawed” decision to voice a non-white character on the Netflix show “Big Mouth.” Slate announced that she is stepping aside from the role, acknowledging that her initial decision to voice the animated character was a symptom of her “white privilege.”
She explained that she originally thought it was okay because her character, Missy, has a white Jewish mother. But she now understands that she could only take on that role because of “unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy.” She makes a salient point, of course. It is well known that the ultimate goal of any Nazi or Klan member is to be a voice actor for a mixed race cartoon character. Slate promised to do her part to fight the white supremacist scourge by “engaging in meaningful anti-racist action,” and she expressed deep remorse for anyone she may have “hurt” by doing voice overs on a cartoon show.
On the same day, actress Kristen Bell stepped aside from her role voicing a non-white character named Molly on the animated show “Central Park.” She apologized for her “lack of awareness” of her “pervasive privilege,” and admitted that “casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and Black American experience.” It is not clear how a cartoon character’s voice could “undermine” anyone’s “experience,” or even what it means to undermine an experience, but whatever it means, and however it happens, the point is that Kristen Bell is very sorry and wants you to know that she’s one of the good inherently racist white people, not one of the bad ones.
In the Twitter thread she posted on this issue, the humble Bell responded to a person thanking her for her decision by saying she doesn’t “deserve a thank you” but instead “deserves to acknowledge my part in the problem, and then rectify it.” This was an impressive answer and it goes to show that in no way whatsoever did Kristen Bell come to this racial enlightenment at this particular moment in time, and dramatically announce that enlightenment in a public forum, because she wanted applause and approval. That was absolutely not the point at all, to be clear.
I personally find these decisions by Bell and Slate to be so inspiring that I’d like to suggest other characters that should be canceled along similar lines. Obviously Darth Vader has to go. He is a white man in a black suit voiced by a black man. I’m not sure how this is racist but I’m sure that it must be, in some way. Bart Simpson is a boy voiced by an adult woman. For years I accepted this problematic dichotomy because I assumed that “The Simpsons” was headed for a story arc where the young Bart discovers his inner female identity, comes out as transgender, and begins hormone therapy. But after 30 years on the air, this moment still has not arrived, and I’m beginning to despair that “The Simpsons” will ever make the expected transition into a nuanced, introspective drama about the  experiences of transgender adolescents in modern America.
Other characters that should be canceled, abolished, outlawed, imprisoned, executed, or at least recast, are perhaps a little less obvious but nonetheless crucial to defeating white supremacy. E.T., from the film “E.T.,” has only a few lines of dialogue (a problem in and of itself), and those lines are handled by a white voice actress named Pat Welsh. It boggles my mind that, in the whole entire cosmos, populated by 100 billion galaxies and trillions of planets, Steven Spielberg could not find even one actual extra terrestrial to take on this role. A white actor cannot empathize with the lived reality of alien beings enough to capture the fullness and depth of their experiences on screen.
We have to remember something: acting is not about pretending to be something you’re not. Acting, in an ideal society, would consist of people being themselves, and doing and saying all of the same stuff they would do and say on a normal day. In a truly progressive culture, films would have no characters, no script, no plot, and instead the audience would watch people — none of them white, of course — going about their day, running errands, checking the mailbox, preparing dinner, etc. Every film would be like this, all of them would be titled “Experiences,” and all of them would win every Oscar every year. The fact that this scenario I concocted in my head is not a reality just proves that white supremacy is real and literal Nazis are running the country.
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Another bigoted film that must be eradicated or changed immediately is a disturbing fascist manifesto called “The Brave Little Toaster.” The film, released in 1987, tells the story of appliances, led by the titular Toaster, who embark on a quest to find their owner. There are a number of obvious problems here, including the deeply insensitive reference to “owners,” which brings to mind the legacy of slavery. But more to the point, none of the characters — Toaster, Lampy, Blanky, Radio, Kirby the Vacuum — are voiced by actual household appliances. It is difficult enough for toasters to find work in Hollywood. If they aren’t even allowed to play toasters, how are they supposed to find a foothold in the industry?
Similar problems can be found in the film “Babe,” where the protagonist pig is not portrayed by an authentic pig; “Boss Baby,” a film in which Alec Baldwin ruthlessly appropriates a role that could have gone to an actual toddler instead of a man who simply acts like one (both in the film and in real life); “A Nightmare Before Christmas,” a movie about undead humans that exclusively casts fully alive humans; the 90’s Nickelodeon cartoon “Hey Arnold” which features a person with a normal-shaped head voicing a character with a grotesquely deformed head, a casting decision that still rankles the Grotesquely Deformed Head (GDH) community to this day. Many other examples could be provided. The point is that a great many films and television shows — arguably, all of them — have for decades featured actors playing characters that are in some way different from their real selves. This needs to change. Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have helped us to take the first step. We must have the courage to go all the way. Until then, all movies and shows are canceled.
NOTE: This piece employs a once widely familiar device known as parody and contains flashes of what some might call sarcasm.

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WALSH: Our Country Is Finally Realizing That It’s Simply Not Okay For Actors To Pretend To Be Something They Aren’t

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Mike Rowe has parted ways with his fair share of friends. In fact, in one year, he lost as many as a million of them. 
It was around 2013, and in his re-telling, his Facebook following dropped from three million to two after he appeared on “Real Time” with Bill Maher, the left-leaning political commentator who he has described as “opinionated, polarizing and controversial,&#8221; and, that same year, joined conservative radio host Glenn Beck for an interview. 
“My buddies on the right just didn’t know what to do with the optics of me sitting next to Bill Maher,” said Rowe, who recalled the incident in a 2018 interview. “And my pals on the left just had no notion of how to square the cognitive dissonance that forced their heads to explode when they saw me sitting there with Glenn Beck.”
The former “Dirty Jobs” host added: “We’re in the world now, where it’s not what we say that gets us in trouble, it’s what we don’t. And it&#8217;s not where we are that makes people’s eyebrows arch, it’s who we’re next to. It’s the proximity of outrage. It’s the geography of all of it.”
Rowe’s observations, made during a “Sunday Special” conversation with Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro two years ago, continue to hold true — maybe even more so. 
Earlier this month, The Washington Post published a 3,000-word tome about a random woman’s decision to attend a 2018 Halloween party as Meghan Kelly in blackface. Why? Two party guests who confronted the woman at the time were still upset over it, and wanted her to endure a full-throttled public humiliation, nearly two years after she privately apologized to the host. 
Notably, Lyric Prince, one of the two guests, also wanted the host, an editorial cartoonist at the Washington Post, to condemn the woman — his own friend and a non-public figure — in public: “I want people who read this story to say to themselves, ‘I cannot excuse my friend’s bad behavior because it does reflect on me if I say nothing.’” 
The woman has since been fired from her job. Cancel culture abounds. 
According to Rowe, part of the problem can be attributed to social media. Like a gun, social media is a tool, and it demands a level of responsibility from its user. 
“We’re right on the verge, I think, of discovering some really interesting parallels between the First and Second Amendment. And I think people who would never, ever consider or associate a firearm with goodness, are ironically using speech as a real cudgel and restricting it in so many ways,” Rowe told Shapiro. 
But, how you use the tool remains an open question. “Most people simply don’t have the training or the maturity to handle it,” said Rowe. 
“The violence and the anger, and the outrage that you’re seeing, I think in part, is a result of having an unlimited amount of access to a platform that gives you both the mechanism to say whatever you want, and the anonymity, and the comfort to hide behind it,” he said. 
“So people are very shrill and they’re very brave in those scenarios,” said Rowe, who argued that those factors, when combined together, serve as the “portent to a mob.”
“I think that’s what you’ve probably seen. Things get accelerated, and then there&#8217;s no place left for it to go, and so they have to act out,” he said. 
The New York Times recently reported an uptick in high school students and alumni using “social media to expose racism,” including the use of anonymous Instagram accounts, where students can submit stories about others for public humiliation. 
One of the Instagram accounts, described by The Times, was used to share screenshots and videos of local students using anything from racial slurs to engaging in “cultural appropriation.” When students became angry about it, some started photoshopping images to retaliate, and fights between friends broke out online. 
The Times reports that the specific Instagram page in question has since been shut down. 
During the 2018 interview, Rowe told Shapiro that people in society seem to confuse passion with conviction, an observation that reminded him of the “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats’ early-20th Century poem that is infamous for its apocalyptic imagery. 
<blockquote>The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity</blockquote>
“If you don’t have the certainty of your convictions. If you can’t make a case….Then what is left? Nothing is left but an explanation of how you feel,” said Rowe. 
“If your philosophy ultimately redounds to an explanation of how you feel, then you’re completely beholden to whatever feeling you might be experiencing at any given point. And then you’re just one of those people who follow their passion. Good luck with that,” said Rowe. 
So what’s better than relying on feelings? Rowe suggests that “a good-natured skepticism, a ton of gratitude, and some honest intellectual curiosity” could be the best replacement for the “let me tell you how I feel” philosophy that dominates outrage mobs.  
“I really don’t care how you feel, honestly. I mean, over a beer it&#8217;s kind of fun,” he said. “I just don’t care. It’s so much more interesting to understand why you believe what you believe, than it is to understand what you believe. That’s why mobs are boring,” said Rowe. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/sundayspecialep-12-mike-rowe">Watch Rowe’s full interview with Shapiro</a>.

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Variety just published a list of 10 “problematic” films that deserve a warning label a la “Gone With the Wind.” The list includes “Dirty Harry” (it mocks liberal judges), “The Silence of the Lambs” (not trans friendly) and “The Searchers” (it portrays Native Americans as “savage or comical”).
So we clearly need a competing list of 10 liberal films so “problematic” they demand warnings all their own.
OK, we don’t actually want warning labels on these films, or any movies for that matter. Labels are for children, and adults are smart enough to process thoughts and themes from decades ago ‘til now.
That didn’t stop <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/gone-with-the-wind-problem-films-forrest-gump-1234640666/">Variety</a> from demanding a movie released less than a year ago, “Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood,” come with a warning about its “regressive” content.
“It’s about two middle-aged white guys who long for the old days in Hollywood; in other words, MHGA (Make Hollywood Great Again). The film is set in 1969, when some Americans felt the status quo was being threatened by minorities, hippies and newly liberated women.”
Especially the hippies out to slaughter the main characters, mind you.
Still, as a way to reach across the ideological aisle, here are 10 sticker-worthy liberal films. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Or not!
“JFK” (1991)
What you’re about to see comes from the conspiratorial mind of Oliver Stone. Enough said.
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“Truth” (2015)
This Robert Redford vehicle attempted to resurrect Dan Rather’s career. The disgraced CBS News anchor now bloviates on Twitter and CNN, so let’s assume the resurrection didn’t fully take. More importantly, the film says Rather followed solid journalistic standards by reciting the “fake but accurate” mantra.
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“The Day After Tomorrow” (2004)
Hollywood loves climate change apocalyptic stories. This one, from hack auteur Roland Emmerich, may cause intense giggles and rampant eye rolling. Consult your doctor before watching from start to finish.
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“Vice” (2018)
This Adam McKay fever dream purports to tell the unlikely rise of Richard B. Cheney. Instead, it’s a factually wobbly blog post with killer makeup and a starry cast. And when a movie like “Vice” insists the U.S. invaded Iraq for its oil, but never took over the oil fields, you shouldn’t take it seriously.
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“Avatar” (2009)
Even your favorite tree hugger might wince as the film asks us to cheer on blue aliens over Earthlings. It doesn’t help that hack lines like “shock and awe” reached theaters after President George W. Bush went back to his Texas ranch.
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“Collapse” (2009)
This “Peak Oil” screed hit theaters in 2009. Fracking went wild just a few years later.
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“Bushwick” (2017)
Did you know when the Left/Right civil war begins, the progressives will have the upper hand? Yes, this 2017 turkey tells us so, along with the notion that many Red States want out of the U.S. of A. Sure, it’s a fantasy action romp, and a stupefying one at that, still some coherency should come into play.
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“Game Change” (2012)
Sarah Palin has her flaws. All politicians do. Portraying her as a potted plant, not a popular governor reviving a comatose campaign, shows the HBO film didn’t have reality in mind. It won a boatload of awards all the same, to no one’s surprise.
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“Sicko” (2007)
If we’re giving out warning labels, better print up a bunch for this filmmaker’s canon and perhaps his <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/michael-moore-lying-attacks-life/">dubious brand-building</a>. Any movie telling us you’re better off being sick in Cuba than the U.S. has its head up the wrong place.
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“BlacKkKlansman” (2018)
This 2018 film proved director Spike Lee could still spin a dizzying yarn, something he hasn’t done in ages. The movie caps with a montage of news footage featuring the mother of all selectively edited clips. Yes, the <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/the-charlottesville-lie/">Charlottesville Lie</a> makes a vicious cameo.
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By the way, the Variety listicle got pummeled by the site’s own readers. It’s worth reading every scathing response, but here are a few golden nuggets.
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<li>You guys at The Onion are hilarious! Thanks for the satire but I think you went too far on the unbelievable side.</li>
<li>Tim Gray wants to be the new Tipper Gore. Hey Tim nobody wants to see context, opinions or warnings before watching a movie. Earth to Tim &#8211; These are entertainment movies and not politically correct SJW propaganda films. Warnings are not a form of censorship? You are way off mark.</li>
<li>If you’re an adult and you need a disclaimer before a film, to explain that the past wasn’t exactly like the present, you shouldn’t be going out to the movies or anywhere else in public, unattended.</li>
<li>Please, stop this madness. I remember socialism as a teenager (I am from Prague and in 1989 I was 15) and this is very similar to situation before 1989 &#8211; many films were blacklisted and forbidden because of some “suitable” reason….how can Forrest Gump do harm? Is this really democracy?</li>
</ul>
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10 Problematic Leftist Films That Could Use Warning Labels—Or Better Yet, We Could Just Laugh At Their Absurdity

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Adam Carolla’s upcoming project may put his “no apology” mantra to the test.
The podcaster’s fifth book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1642935883?pf_rd_r=ZF0FPJXYEBRMM5RNXGN8&amp;pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee">“I’m Your Emotional Support Animal: Navigating Our All Woke, No Joke Culture,”</a> shares so many politically incorrect bromides you’ll soon lose count.
Potential publishers didn’t, apparently.
Carolla says publishers weren’t salivating at the chance to claim his latest book, out June 16, even though his previous tomes all became New York Times’ best sellers.
“I think the climate for a voice like mine ten years ago was much different than for a voice like mine today,” he says, referring to his 2010 book “In 50 Years We’ll All Be Chicks.” “The publishers are getting kind of woke, too.”
That may be an understatement, but the comedian isn’t hungry for victimhood status. He thinks that sentiment is crushing our culture, along with wimpy car commercials, Fake News broadsides and, of course, airline passengers requiring more than one support critter.
Off the page, Carolla is worked up over the press making people, especially children, cower during the current pandemic.
“My daughter was freaked out for the last three months. Everyone was scaring her … the news, the moms the dads,” he says. “You’re hurting her life &#8230; they look at it like, ‘I’m doing the responsible thing.’”
He pins much of the blame on the corporate press.
&#8220;Here’s the problem. The facts as it pertains to COVID-19 weren’t that scary. CNN is in the ‘scare’ business,” he says. “They’re not in the ‘facts’ business. The facts are boring, and they won’t scare that many people.
“If they let you know that everyone who was dying was 88 and was in the nursing home, which they should have, you wouldn’t be that freaked out.”
Something similar is brewing over race relations in the country, he says.
“The actual number of cops shooting unarmed black citizens … it wouldn’t be enough to freak people out,” he says, thoughts that echo Heather MacDonald’s <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism">research</a> on the subject.
That narrative, he argues, is amplified by both the press and well-meaning adults.
“It’s a big problem when I see parents sitting down and explaining to their kids that we’re a racist nation,” Carolla says.
He name-checks Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Sandra Bullock for telling their adopted black children “you have a target on your back.”
“That’s scary to the kids,” he says.
Carolla’s early years hardly suggested his rise to culture warrior status.
He grew up poor and famously left carpentry behind for a radio career, thanks to a boost from future chum Jimmy Kimmel. Carolla eventually teamed with Dr. Drew Pinsky for the syndicated “Loveline” radio show where they counseled teens on addiction, relationships and abuse.
He followed a bid to replace Howard Stern on terrestrial radio with “The Adam Carolla Show” podcast. And an entrepreneur was born, one coronated by the <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2011/05/adam-carolla-breaks-guinness-world-record-for-podcast-downloads.html">Guinness Book of World Records</a> two years after leaving traditional radio behind.
Today, the Carolla universe includes several podcasts, stand-up comedy tours, TV shows (“Crank Yankers”) and a small but growing library of car-related documentaries under the Chassy Media banner.
Carolla’s observational humor packs a subversive wallop by 2020 American standards, but he doesn’t think it’s doing him any favors.
“I don’t’ think there’s a clamoring for my message. It’s not overall good for me and my career and brand and legacy &#8230; it’s just the truth,” he says. “I didn’t get into this business to take my talking points from woke idiots who can’t decipher facts … if you’re Mayor [Eric] Garcetti or Gov. [Gavin] Newsom, you must then ignore all facts and take your talking points from your woke constituency.”
“I’m Your Emotional Support Animal” starts with a warning and/or promise.
“I’m not going to apologize for anything in this book… If you don’t like something in this book, you can kiss my…” you get the idea.
That stance makes him unique in celebrity circles, something made clear in recent days when NFL quarterback Drew Brees repeatedly asked for forgiveness after he praised the U.S. flag.
Carolla compared the apology phenomena to a classic “Twilight Zone” episode where Bill Mumy’s all-powerful character wished his foes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)">“into the cornfield</a>.” It’s like what the woke mob does to those who don’t toe the proper narrative, he says.
“We keep talking about having an honest dialogue about race, but if anyone expresses an opinion other than, ‘cops are all racist’ … they have to apologize,” he says. “Would you call that an honest dialogue? How could we have an honest dialogue on any subject if you push back against a thought or notion and for that you were canceled?”
Carolla’s enduring friendship with Kimmel has yet to be canceled despite the chasm between their political takes. Kimmel’s ABC show routinely features the host <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jimmy-kimmel-transformation-liberal/">excoriating President Donald Trump</a>, his GOP allies and even Republican voters.
Kimmel famously said he doesn’t mind losing the latter as part of his audience.
“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHRuBRCShyA">Not good riddance, but riddance</a>,” he explained.
Even Kimmel’s blurb for “I’m Your Emotional Support Animal” suggests the tension in play.
“Within these pages, you will find written proof that Adam Carolla is insane. Buy this for your uncle,” the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host wrote.
The two agree not to get political when they hang out, Carolla says.
“I think more people should do it,” he says of that approach.
“Even when we shared an office for many years we never talked about politics,” he says of the duo’s tenure hosting Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “We’re just dudes who want to make people laugh. We haven’t really changed that … we just continued on not talking about politics &#8230; good people can disagree on subjects.”
Carolla’s book also touches on President Trump, offering readers a unique glimpse at the hard-charging personality.
“I believe he wants to be loved,” he says, something his ideological foes could seize upon if they dropped their Trump derangement for a spell.
“I believe that if Mark Ruffalo and Rosie O’Donnell sent him a fruit basket and said, ‘let’s let bygones be bygones,’ he’d go, ‘Would you like to be Ambassador to Sweden?’” he says.
One reason Carolla can afford his “no apologies” pledge is because he runs his own company, or “pirate ship” to use his phrase. Many Americans lack that luxury, and he says it means they need to think ahead if they dare think for themselves.
“First things first, you need to set yourself up,” he says. “I can get canceled or wished out into the cornfield, but I have stuff I can sell … or I can just retire,” he says with a laugh. “You need to have a Plan B &#8230; something to fall back on, so that you can express your honest opinion and stop apologizing. All it does is begat more apologies.”
The current apology mania isn’t about being kind or respectful, he warns. It’s about power.
“The ultimate power is the apology,” he says. “Being able to beat someone up is a kind of power … but having them apologize in the public square [means] you have dominion over that person.”
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Being John Malkovich sometimes means calling out stupidity.
The 66-year-old actor, who stars in Netflix’s new series &#8220;Space Force,&#8221; blasted &#8220;outrage culture&#8221; on Thursday, calling it &#8220;toxic.&#8221;
“What’s funny yesterday becomes illegal today and the person uttering it must be canceled,” Malkovich told the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/ny-space-force-netflix-trump-malkovich-carell-20200528-6dgcreavh5huvkdkzdgnjekjtm-story.html">New York Daily News</a>. “Outrage culture is as strong as it is toxic.”
Malkovich also said comedy nowadays isn&#8217;t what it used to be. “Part of what makes it difficult is also the tidal wave of idiocy that can be created on social media in a day &#8230; the outrage mob.”
The actor&#8217;s comments echo those made by other comedians, including Jamie Foxx. The comedian recently defended “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon after he was ripped for appearing in blackface while impersonating Chris Rock for a 2000 sketch on “Saturday Night Live.” Said Foxx: &#8220;Let this one go.”
A slew of other comedians have also criticized the political correctness across the U.S. nowadays.
“I don’t play colleges but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so PC,’” megastar Jerry Seinfeld said a few years back.
Rock also said he doesn&#8217;t do colleges anymore because they are &#8220;too conservative.&#8221;
&#8220;Not in their political views, but in their social views and their willingness not to offend anybody,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.&#8221;
Comedians have for eons danced along the edge of what is appropriate, often crossing the line in an attempt to make people laugh and think. But that is changing amid the outrage and cancel culture.
“The main problem with the present day inquisition squad is that many of our ‘open-minded’ watch guards are among our most close-minded citizens,” comedian Dennis Miller wrote in 2015.
Malkovich plays Dr. Adrian Mallory in &#8220;Space Force,&#8221; premiering Friday. The cast is headed up by &#8220;The Office&#8221; star Steve Carell as Gen. Mark Naird, in charge of running the newly created Space Force invented by an unnamed president during a flurry of posts on Twitter (sound familiar?).
&#8220;The surrounding cast of characters are disasters in their own right: F. Tony Scarapiducci (Ben Schwartz), the social media manager who speaks in memes and emojis, scientist Chen Kaifang (Jimmy O. Yang) and Naird’s wife (Lisa Kudrow) and daughter (Diana Silvers),&#8221; The News wrote.
&#8220;The comedy is full of 2020 references that live in today’s 15-minute news cycles, about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and allusions to midnight tweets that are forgotten by dawn.&#8221;
But Malkovich said the show is hopeful. “It’s about the possibilities of an unlikely directive to achieve a goal,” the actor said. “On a certain level, it’s about teamwork, a concept quite lost in this United States of America at present.&#8221;
And Naird does appear to be modeled after President Trump.
“Naird is not a science person,” Malkovich said. “ He doesn’t trust scientists because sometimes they say carbs are good for you and sometimes they say they’re bad. I’d say about 70% of the world agrees with him. Science suffers from a lot of blah blah and speculation.”
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After demanding governors &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW&#8221; and declaring war on California officials for their clampdown on his Tesla factory, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk encouraged everyone on Sunday to &#8220;take the red pill,&#8221; prompting cheers from the right and moans from the left. Now, the SpaceX founder is calling for the end of &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; — and finding that a lot of people are with him, including, at least partly, former President Barack Obama.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-take-the-red-pill">Take the red pill</a>,&#8221; Musk tweeted Sunday. While the debate was still raging over Musk&#8217;s Matrix reference, he dropped another context-less, politically loaded comment on Tuesday. &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-cancel-cancel-culture">Cancel Cancel Culture!</a>&#8221; the billionaire wrote. &#8220;More fun, less shun!&#8221; he added in a follow-up post.
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More fun, less shun!
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Like the &#8220;red pill&#8221; post, Musk&#8217;s &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; tweet inspired a flood of responses. Among them was a flashback to a similar comment made by &#8220;The One,&#8221; former President Obama, that made some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-get-over-being-woke-stop-online-outrage-cancel-culture">headlines</a> at the time. Musk has since responded succinctly to the flashback post.
In a speech to a young audience at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago in October last year, Obama offered his thoughts on &#8220;woke&#8221; culture&#8217;s puritanical attitude and reductive worldview.
&#8220;This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and you know share certain things with you.&#8221;
&#8220;One danger I see among young people particularly on college campuses — Malia and I talk about this — I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that’s enough,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right, or use the wrong verb then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, ‘Cuz man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out! Let me get on TV, watch my show, watch Grown-ish.'&#8221;
But, Obama concluded, &#8220;That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.&#8221;
When a fan tweeted a clip of Obama&#8217;s comments to Musk, the likewise &#8220;woke&#8221;-critical entrepreneur replied, &#8220;True.&#8221;
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Musk&#8217;s &#8220;political transformation&#8221; began in earnest in late April, when he began to publicly push back on overly restrictive social distancing mandates from governors and counties. In a series of tweets, Musk called on officials to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">FREE AMERICA NOW</a>.&#8221;
“Give people their freedom back!” Musk tweeted in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No.&#8221; He also made a point of cheering Texas for being more aggressive than most states in its reopening plans.
The technology entrepreneur made the case in more complete terms during a Tesla earnings call in late April. &#8220;The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!&#8221; he said, as reported by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>. &#8220;If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their godd*mn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.&#8221;
Musk has also gone to war with Alameda County officials over reopening his factory, choosing to do so without their consent. But after the governor signaled that he might back Mush, county officials begrudgingly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-wins-california-will-allow-tesla-plant-to-reopen-with-safety-precautions">allowed</a> him to continue to operate.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tesla-owners-freak-out-at-elon-musks-transformation">Tesla Owners Freak Out At Elon Musk’s Transformation</a>
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