Weaponized Indignation, macerating in a teapot tempest…

Society has once again proven itself to be caught up in the paradox of tolerance.  I have witnessed media authorities needlessly walking on eggshells in deference to the rhetorical echoes of racism from a distant past while simultaneously embracing crude utterances of misogyny. That distant past is so far removed from the 21st Century that references to “racist” remarks are far less harmful than they are a convenient political tool. Well, that political tool has been used… again… very effectively by the National Socialists here in America.
Recent events have shown several things that need to be pointed out:

• Conservatives need to stop apologizing… period.  Phony umbrage is only used for political leverage; there is no true harm arising from anyone’s “racist” language.
• No more is there need for the three R’s of allegations of racism:  Recoil, Recant, Resign.  That obligatory decorum has been exploited for factitious political manipulation appealing to the trite jeremiad of a far removed societal scourge.
• If umbrage were grounds for torpedoing someone’s career, then it should be consistently applied.  Samantha Bee should be cancelled, or Roseanne should be reinstated… fair is fair.
• Punishment applied to the casual error of cacology as though it were truly reflective of a pervasive attitude… which it is obviously not to anyone who is not simply policing the political correctness of one’s verbiage.
• Roseanne’s “racist” joke was not racist; there was no attempt to promote the superiority of one race above others, or to imply the inferiority of any other race…it was merely a joke.
• Samantha Bee, on the other hand, can freely spout misogynistic vulgarities in a jejune malediction that caused the adoring audience to fleer out of disdain for our president but had no comedic merit.
• That which is arguably a mere cacology should not be elevated to the significance of “racist” sentiments.  All you are accomplishing by this overreaction is cheapening the claim of racism, macerating its seriousness by steeping it in the teapot tempest of phony claims.
• The cast of “Roseanne” got screwed, royally, for no good reason.  The weapon of indignation that was used effectively as an overture of disdain for Roseanne’s support for President Trump affected several cast members who lost their job in a political gambit to remove a public forum for the intolerable flaw of espousing an opposing opinion.

Conservatives need to stop apologizing and capitulating to the career-ending consequences to their comments. There are no white supremacists in our government. I am sick of hearing the obligatory platitudes of denunciation, such as “repugnant” and other terms of abomination one is expected to use in order to avoid being slandered as racist by default.

Anyone who slanders you as a racist should be censured vehemently, because they do so at the peril of your reputation and, dare I say, safety. (Notice how Hollywood dehumanizes “racists” as objects of socially acceptable murder for zombie protagonists who need to eat “repugnant” humans.)

The actual danger of white supremacist oppression of racial minorities is miniscule. According to my research, there are only 5000-8000 fools in the United States who adhere to the tenets of white supremacy. That is a micro-population of 0.00025% of the 325.7 million people in the United States. There is nothing to fear from “white supremacy” but the fear of white supremacy itself, with apologies to FDR. The “fear” is nothing more than conveniently sanctioned umbrage feigned for purposes of political leverage.

Roseanne got cancelled for her reference to someone looking like a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes. I fail to see the harm in that. No one’s reputation was besmirched by those comments, nor was anyone oppressively dehumanized. On the other hand, Samantha Bee’s epithet of misogyny was given a free pass. Wake up, society! “Planet of the Apes” is far less dehumanizing as a racist comment than “feckless cunt” is sexually demeaning misogyny! Where is the feminist outrage over that?

Yet Roseanne and the entire cast of her show lose their jobs because of “Planet of the Apes” while Samantha Bee goes on to laudatory praise as an advocate for social change. The failure to apply any consequences for “feckless cunt”, which is sexually demeaning and is as unmentionable as the “racial epithet that must n-ever be uttered”.

To the executives that cut Roseanne but made no attempt to reprimand Samantha Bee I say:

You are nothing more than a political janissary of the National Socialist Movement looking for a convenient commination used to torpedo Roseanne’s show because her intolerable beliefs did not match your political agenda.

The paradox of “tolerance” is embodied in the following terms:

• Social Justice
• Tolerance Movement
• Restorative Justice
• Social Change

Those are the new eponyms of societal intolerance masquerading as “tolerance”, “inclusiveness”, and “diversity” that will become dangerous if we continue to be politically complacent.