(This NYT article is behind a paywall but I can read it - like Washington Post articles - by refreshing the browser screen, using control-A to select all the text and then control-C to copy it to the clipboard before the javascript dimming code is activated. Then I can copy the text into an editor such as Word.)
I wrote the following comment to Joel Hirschhorn's substack, but for some reason it did not appear:
Thanks very much for this. "Very liberal" actually means doctrinaire wokeists, who try to assuage their own guilt by making the world a better place in a way which doesn't cost them much, but which enhances their own social standing according to their own way of thinking. Most often this is by using social media and other forms of action to make other people feel guilty about what they think, feel, do or don't do. This is a viral phenomenon which would not get very far if the mainstream media was critiquing it. Instead, those on the left participate in it.
For the wokeists the COVID-19 panic and vaccinocentric response was like a new religion, a whole new set of things to add to their list of causes, such as the bizarre mis-characterisation and over-dramatisation of transsexuals, who were making their way in the world without too much fuss until about 5 or 10 years ago when they were sucked up into the vortex of the trans-activist shit-storm.
This small, social justice warrior, Woke, proportion of the population wield outsized influence in social media, mainstream media and education.
The Californian legislature has passed an act which would allow the deregistration of doctors who communicate whatever the government regards as "misinformation", including in private to patients: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/100471 ", though there is now an exception for public communication: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/100471 ". . . misinformation defined as 'false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus' that a licensee 'deliberately disseminated with malicious intent or an intent to mislead'."
A little more grateful for those who spoke out everyday, and for Substack allowing them to do so.
Joel Hirschhorn https://joelshirschhorn.substack.com/p/which-americans-are-most-concerned reported a NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/briefing/covid-poll-liberal-anxiety.html which shows that the "very liberal" are far more concerned about COVID-19 in a personal sense than all other folks, and that this concern has declined - it was even higher in the past. These are the new Red Guards.
(This NYT article is behind a paywall but I can read it - like Washington Post articles - by refreshing the browser screen, using control-A to select all the text and then control-C to copy it to the clipboard before the javascript dimming code is activated. Then I can copy the text into an editor such as Word.)
I wrote the following comment to Joel Hirschhorn's substack, but for some reason it did not appear:
Thanks very much for this. "Very liberal" actually means doctrinaire wokeists, who try to assuage their own guilt by making the world a better place in a way which doesn't cost them much, but which enhances their own social standing according to their own way of thinking. Most often this is by using social media and other forms of action to make other people feel guilty about what they think, feel, do or don't do. This is a viral phenomenon which would not get very far if the mainstream media was critiquing it. Instead, those on the left participate in it.
Those on the right are not entirely uninvolved. They have their own ways of virtue signaling, not least enacting laws which prohibit the termination of pregnancies in which the fetus has no head:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-woman-carrying-fetus-skull-seek-abortion-another-state-rcna45005. (BTW, you can make these URLs whatever you like if you retain the final characters: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/eat-at-joes-rcna45005 .)
For the wokeists the COVID-19 panic and vaccinocentric response was like a new religion, a whole new set of things to add to their list of causes, such as the bizarre mis-characterisation and over-dramatisation of transsexuals, who were making their way in the world without too much fuss until about 5 or 10 years ago when they were sucked up into the vortex of the trans-activist shit-storm.
This small, social justice warrior, Woke, proportion of the population wield outsized influence in social media, mainstream media and education.
This makes interesting reading in the light of the Biden administration's violation of the First Amendment in its program of encouraging or forcing media companies to censor viewpoints contrary to their corrupt vaccinocentric, early treatment and nutrition denying official policies. See the parallels with this and Mao's Communist China: https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/michael-senger-on-faucis-red-guards and https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/faucis-red-guards-lawsuit-reveals .
The Californian legislature has passed an act which would allow the deregistration of doctors who communicate whatever the government regards as "misinformation", including in private to patients: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/100471 ", though there is now an exception for public communication: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/100471 ". . . misinformation defined as 'false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus' that a licensee 'deliberately disseminated with malicious intent or an intent to mislead'."
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