Never Apologize to the Mob
What once was the start of healthy debate is now just as often a catalyst for personal and professional destruction. “The mob” is out to cancel anyone who crosses it. Paris Dennard describes the problem and offers a solution.
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Script:
Niel Golightly had a long and distinguished career as an executive at Boeing.
Until he didn’t.
Gary Garrels had a long and distinguished career as a curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Until he didn’t.
James Bennett had a long and distinguished career as an editor at the New York Times.
Until he didn’t.
All three were cancelled, their careers, their life’s work ended in a virtual instant.
Golightly wrote an article thirty years ago, objecting to women taking part in military combat. It was published in Proceedings, the magazine of the U.S. Naval Institute which is about as far from the popular press as you can get. Somehow it came to the attention of an employee at Boeing who found it sexist. The social media mob got riled up. Golightly apologized, of course. His views had changed in the intervening decades. But it didn’t matter. He was forced to resign.
Garrels concluded a presentation about purchasing art from more racially diverse artists by saying that he would still continue to buy art from white artists. This outraged the staff at the museum who found his remarks smacking of white supremacy. Garrels apologized, of course. He should have been more sensitive to his colleagues’ feelings, he said. But it didn’t matter. He was forced to resign.
Bennett published an opinion piece by Republican Senator Tom Cotton, arguing that if the Black Lives Matter inspired riots continued to overwhelm local police, the federal government should send in the National Guard to restore order.
New York Times staff claimed that Cotton’s words were threatening. They personally felt endangered by them. They demanded Bennett’s head. Bennett apologized, of course. He just thought the Times readers should be exposed to a different point of view. But it didn’t matter. He was forced to resign.
Former Times columnist Bari Weiss perfectly described the situation in her resignation letter shortly after Bennet’s banishment.
“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor.”
This is the “cancel culture” that now pervades America. Yet, people on the left, the very people responsible for it, claim it doesn’t exist. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocks those who fear its growing influence: “Odds are you’re not actually cancelled,” she tweeted. “You’re just being challenged, held accountable, or unliked.”
The representative’s claim that this is merely “accountability culture” is common on the Left.
Don’t believe it.
“Accountability” means “a duty to explain.” Accountability involves confronting a person with their actions in a way that allows them to explain themselves or ask for forgiveness—and otherwise continue the dialogue.
The purpose of cancellation is very different. It seeks to bring all conversation to an end—to strike fear in the public so that no one else dares to speak up.
That is cancellation—and it extends far beyond criticism. Cancellation involves social media mobs engaged in public shaming and the creation of blacklists. It seeks the destruction of the career and reputation of anyone who differs with a leftist position.
“The bullies,” says social critic Douglas Murray, “want to stop the rest of us talking or thinking.”
Virtually no one is immune. Not Kevin Hart, not JK Rowling, not Woodrow Wilson, not Drew Brees.
Not the famous or the unknown; not the living or the dead.
So many have been burned at the social media stake, one has to wonder if the mob is going to run out of victims.
But this fire will not burn itself out. We have to stop it.
How?
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The United States has the largest Christian population in the world and, more specifically, the largest Protestant population in the world, so, yeah, never apologize to the mob. Always remember, when you're use to privilege, equality can feel (or can be made to feel) like oppression. So maybe it's not what you are being told, maybe it's just what Prager U wants you to believe. Serves to keep them well off I'd venture to say.
Prince Ea said it best that cancel culture is 21st century bullying.
more evidence that the Left is not kind, is not tolerant, and doesn't really care about justice. the ideology of the Left promoters mean-spirited behavior, hatred.
The Left's self righteous attitude is worse than that of the Pharisees of Jesus's day.
Never apologize, Scott Adams were right and Budweiser lost money for follow this leftist agenda. In fact all leftist are fascist!
GREAT video !
Well said !! Keep learning, following the right path , above all God’s way!! And you will stand firmly for sure 🙏
Make no mistake. The ultimate goal they want for you when they cancel you is your death. It's soft execution. They won't kill you themselves. They'll just make it impossible for you to live. And after you've been run out of society, and they still torment you, and you tell them you just want to be left alone, then they tell you you're part of society. Not that you're welcome back. Just that you're available to be harassed and ridiculed and attacked.
This is the modern-day version of ignorant villagers running someone smarter than them out of town are stoning them to death because they're afraid of their dark sorcery.
When they come for you, fight back with any and all means. Nothing is too extreme. They want you dead. You need to be willing to seek the same for them to protect yourself and your own.
It should be pointed out that the Cancel Culture mob is not a group that thinks for itself.
These idiots latch onto any cause that comes up, even if it's for abusing children.
marxists/maoists
Woodrow Wilson sucks, that is pure truth.
Well, the founders of BLM should apologize and be arrested for spending the donation money on multi-million dollar mansion rather than donating to black communities struggling everyday.
Feelings and your hysteria is not a valid argument. Where are your facts, evidence, and at what cost? Is what should be said to the emotional mob.
Make the mob apologize, for being evil, intolerant scumbags.
The woke is not a mob — they are a cult.
Cancel culture is like a communist state remove people with different views . Wtf
Another option SUE.
#istandwithvic
Why can't you people just call cancel culture what it actually is?…..it's called communism
"There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God"
2 Timothy 3: 1-4
https://youtu.be/73rwD8cvmUQ
Say stupid things, win stupid prizes. There is such a thing as consequences. 😉
Mr Dennard, very well-spoken and yet very practical. Thank you for your input.
I fear that, one of these days, Cancel Culture will PHYSICALLY KILL its victims! What it will do is send out lynch mobs to abduct those it wishes to cancel, and then those lynch mobs will summarily execute those people! I'm afraid that the Cancel Culture lynch mobs' most common execution method will be Necklacing (forcing a gasoline-soaked tire around the victim's neck and shoulders and then setting said tire on fire).
Dear Crazy Narcissistic Radical Leftists:
(Not Liberals)
-Accept the fact that you cannot change your ancestry, you cannot change your date of birth, you cannot change your place of birth, you cannot change your gender or sex, you cannot change your race & you cannot change your species.
-Capitalism may obviously not be perfect but it is a decent economic system to protect your private business and your private healthcare from the corrupt government.
-Communism is evil and oppressive ever heard of the Cold War plus communism is just as dangerous as anarchy, fascism, imperialism, marxism, monarchy, nazism & socialism.
-Do not abolish the police we need them to protect our society from criminals, I agree some men and some women who are corrupted cops need to be fired & held accountable for their recklessness because they make other genuine cops look like monsters, however we still need selfless cops.
-Drag queens are only for adults not for kids.
-Femininity is not weak it is the grace of our world because it symbolizes beauty and nurture.
-Free speech is about debating with peaceful people whether you agree or disagree with them without being violent plus you must stay mature and tolerant.
-Gang life is evil, stupid and self-destructive.
-Illegal immigration is a crime.
-Judge humans as individuals based on their behaviour. Never ever generalize people based on their identity group and always judge them on their character period.
-Keep politics out of religion.
-Keep politics out of sports.
-Late-Night Television is meant to be apolitical.
-Masculinity is not toxic it brings safety to our world because it symbolizes courage and protection for example take firefighters who are brave & tough.
-Math is not racist it is a numeracy knowledge education.
-Men (Males) cannot get periods plus they cannot get pregnant and give birth to babies only women (Females) can.
-Obesity is not healthy it is dangerous.
-Stop adding more sexual orientations.
-Stop forcing random people around the world to love you because that is called narcissism.
-The Boy Scouts are only for boys.
-The Girl Scouts are only for girls.
-The law should be you are innocent until proven guilty.
-The military is a place of physical combat training to defend and protect your country, it is not an institution of identity fantasy narcissistic childish feelings.
-The news media is meant to report facts not feelings and also they must remain neutral.
-The United States of America is not a horrible country and if you hate America then leave the country, no one is stopping you.
-There is no such thing as binary and non-binary you are either a female or a male.
-There is no such thing as Latinx just Latino so stop pandering to Latino people because that is just condescending and most Latinos hate that term.
-There are only 2 genders female and male so get over it.
-Universities are an institution of educating people not a place of indoctrination.
-Victimhood also known as Jussie Smollett is embarrassing, fake & stupid plus it symbolizes immaturity, irresponsibility, laziness and weakness.
-White Privilege is a lie because Non-White race-hustlers are simply just lazy to fix their own life plus they are just jealous of White people.
[Stop with this delusional sick insanity and come back to the real world by taking personal responsibility of your own life period. This is coming from a Gen Z straight black male myself.]
Censorship. once fb starting deleting posts i knew “welcome to the new China/Russian”
Someone send this to Joe Rogan!
They eventually eat their own. It’s never enough
✨PLEASE help Elle Darby, a British youtuber who’s being CANCELLED for tweets she sent OVER 10 years ago. Please make a video on this 🙏 ✨
The mob tend to forget the standards they set are those by which they will be judged in the coming backlash.
The national guard should use force to stop BLM and Antifa rioters. If you are a rioter, then yes, you should feel threatened.
I am not sorry for being white. Skin color is just as meaningless as hair color. Get over it.
Dave Chappelle had a long and profitable career as a comedian until he….wait he has balls so he didn't apologise and he still is a comedian.
This video needs to be viewed by everyone. SO TIRED of Cuckservatives apologizing.
Good thing Mike Pence didn’t apologize to the mob of mindless trump supporters that stormed the capitol.
Nicely done 🙂
As long as they're views are changed, they should get their jobs back
If we cant stop online cancellation then we must get rid of social media
The left is the devil.
if someone commits a crime, do we just allow them to apologize, explain, and then go on with their lives scot free? ofcourse not. Actions have consequences. And while racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism etc arent legal crimes, they should have consequences.
Truth! Stand Firm!
They deny it's existence until it happens to them
Ocasio is a crybaby when she's challenged, held accountable, or disliked.
Never thought about it once in my life.