I was walking today and began thinking about "Cancel Culture"
Surely you've heard of this... the Cancel culture online on Twitter or Facebook or Tik Tok etc. that seems to be all the Rage (pun intended) these days...
So where did "Cancel Culture" come from?
People now in 2021 or 2020, or even 2019, that have been so enraged at someone on social media that types or says something this person disagrees with, a Mob of like minded Twitterati that fully believe they have the god given right to not only disagree with the person with a differing idea, but they have the right to personally berate, bully, sling personal insults at, condemn, or even report said offensive persons post to a higher authority of some sort...As we've seen the last few years the "Twitter Mobs" are quite effective, shutting down speech of very well known people, or just your own kid in the sixth grade. It's even gotten to the point where the Twitter Mobs are now out in the streets attacking homes of Congressmen, Senators or Mayors who are not necessarily Conservative or on the political right at all but on the political left...I'm sure that came as a shock to some Democrat Politicians recently...
I recall about 8-9 years ago reading an article by a very liberal professor at a very prestigious university who was alarmed by his students showing up on Campus speaking events of well known speakers like Milo Yiannopoulis or Ann Coulter, or Ben Shapiro or other speakers with very conservative beliefs and ideas and watching his students forming shout down groups, or walking into these speakers events and using bullhorns to shout down said conservative authors and speakers, or even get somewhat contentious and maybe even violent protesting that these conservative speakers were even INVITED to speak at their Campuses...
This Prof was now telling his own students "Hey, wait a minute, You shouldn't be violently shouting down speech of those you disagree with, that's not my message"
I was amazed at this liberal progressive Professors profound blindness and naivete..."Seriously?" I thought. "You created these little monsters, surely you know that right?"
Here was a Professor at an Ivy League University that was so blind to the fact that for years or even decades he and a thousand other Left wing socialist, Anti God, anti capitalist College teachers have pumped into young minds that "America is a bad evil place, America has never been great, America is a Racist nation, Most Conservatives and Republicans are white racists and secretly KKK members, conservative Christians are homophobic Islamophobic bigots, the conservative right are narrow minded bigots, All Trump voters and conservatives are inherently racists and White supremacists, the conservative Republican right are deplorable ignorant white southern racists that still have the Dixie flag in their garages" And suddenly this Teacher is SHOCKED that his students are now rioting on Campus because Ann Coulter. or Ben Shapiro, or Pamela Geller or Dennis Prager showed up to give a speech on Ideas he's been drilling into these kids heads are "The most backwards evil propaganda since Adolph Hitler and Rudolph Hess were goose stepping in Berlin"
That an Ivy League professor finally woke up and began seeing his own Campus students rioting and canceling the speech of well known conservative authors was somehow wrong and a violation of free speech had finally dawned on him, But he still was unaware that it was HIS OWN dogma and TAUGHT IDEOLOGIES served into these 18-21 year olds impressionable brains that was the cause of it surprised me...
He had no Inkling...
Which leads me to C.S. Lewis' Quote from "The Abolition of Man"
"And all the time, such is the Tragi-Comedy of our situation, we continue to Clamour for those very qualities we render impossible....In sort of a ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function, we make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise, we laugh at honour and are SHOCKED to find traitors in our midst, we castrate, and bid the Geldings be fruitful" (Emphasis mine)
In other words less cerebral than Lewis' It's the college profs own far left wing anti American, humanist, socialist, anti God, Communist, hate America first Lectures that are causing these College kids to take bullhorns into the streets and pipes or bats or boards with nails in them (and more recently guns) so as to not only shout down Milo or Ben Shapiro's speeches but for the last 10 months loot a few Wal-Marts, burn a few hundred Cop cars, attack a Police station, and destroy several hundred small businesses of even Black Small business owners...
The professor who seemed shocked at what his Campus students were beginning to do 8 years ago, is just one example of I'm sure a thousand others perhaps not as naive and innocent as this one mentioned, but I think many, many others who knew EXACTLY what they were drilling into impressionable students minds and that's been their plan all along...
And for those types I offer some Bible scripture...
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight. Isaiah 5:20-21
It is inevitable that stumbling Blocks must come, but woe to the one through whom they come, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the Sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. Luke 17:1-2
Don't shoot me I'm just the sax player...
