Does anybody out there remember McCarthyism? I myself don’t remember it, I wasn’t even born yet. My father was still a teenager so all I know about it is from what I’ve read.
Joe McCarthy’s campaign began on February 9, 1950, in West
Virginia in which he claimed to have a list of over 200 people in the State
Department known to be members of the Communist Party. His claims were always
changing, with shifting names and numbers many times.
McCarthy’s charges were inflammatory and false, and were so
vague that fact-checking was nearly impossible. But his bluster and
manipulation of the era’s fear of global communism allowed him to build power through
the unwillingness of most of his colleagues to stand up against false charges,
clear abuses of power, and destroying lives and careers.
Does this sound familiar? Haven’t we heard this many times
lately? These tactics, of McCarthy are the same ones which are performed by
social justice warriors on the internet.
The internet has given a small group of
people anonymity and just too much false power. In the age of social media, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr coupled
with eight years of a democratic president and Social Marxism, so many lives
have been ruined; the biggest loser though, has been free speech.
Just try to express an opinion which is unpopular with the
Left and you will be destroyed. The SJW’s will smear you on their platform of
choice: Twitter. Since most SJW’s don’t have a real argument against those they
rail against, 140 characters is more than enough for them.
They will publically shame and defame their victim. They
will get their victim’s employer involved and most of the time the victim will
be fired and make it so he can never be employable again. They will insult his intelligence
and call him a racist and bigot (SJW’s favorite terms) even if what he said has
nothing to do with race. They will call him an anti-Semite, xenophobic, homophobic,
misogynist, and a whole host of insults ending in –ist.
Ironically enough, most of the time (but not always) the
victim will be a white male. One exception that I can think of off the top of
my head is celebrity chef and former cooking show television host Paula Deen who
resides in Savannah, Georgia.
In June 2013, Deen was the target of a lawsuit alleging
racial discrimination. The suit was eventually dismissed and her sponsors such
as the Food Network, Walmart, Target, and others dropped Deen.
These companies didn’t drop Deen because her recipes were
bad or her restaurants had no business, in fact her restaurant saw a rise in
customers and the sales of her books skyrocketed. Her sponsors dropped her only
because of the pressure from SJW’s. Most of her sponsors renewed their
contracts with her after the suit was dropped.
Just look at the case against George Zimmerman. When he shot
and killed Trayvon Martin, in self-defense there were so much disinformation
and lies spread about him despite the fact that all the lies had been debunked.
But the truth didn’t matter, the main stream media and the
race baiters such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, President Barack Obama, and the
Attorney General Eric Holder kept spreading the lies. Even when Zimmerman was
found innocent in court, the lies continued and his reputation was destroyed.
The MSM is more than glad to toe the line and keep the false
narrative going. In the world of the MSM, that is the alt-left fake news
networks sensationalism sells papers and more importantly sells ads in the
papers. This, more than any time before in print media and televised media is
more important than ever now that more Americans than ever distrust the MSM.
The alt-left fake news networks have been called out as “the enemy of the
American people” by the President of the United States: Donald Trump.
There are so many examples of the SJW’s destroying lives
just as Joe McCarthy had. The shooting of Michael Brown is another good
example. Ferguson police officer Darren Brown’s life and reputation is all but
destroyed even after all the facts proved the racist narrative wrong, even
after Wilson was acquitted.
It’s no secret that the MSM and social media giants tends to
cater to a more liberal audience and have certainly used their brand of New
McCarthyism to stifle differing opinions. Breitbart Tech editor and provocateur
Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter as well as former Washington Times
editor and Blogger Robert Stacy McCain.
Facebook had suspended conservative personality Lauren
Southern for complaining about that website’s censorship practices, so Facebook
[ironically] censored her. Christopher Cantwell was suspended for comments he
made supporting rape victims in Europe.
McCarthyism has returned only this time it has returned as a
tactic that anybody can use and in a much quicker and deadlier form. New
McCarthyism is actually Cultural Marxism which uses multiculturalism and
political correctness to stifle any ideas that the Left disagrees with or contradicts
their ideology.