#politicallycorrect

#2- Diplomacy

The original full page strips here:

Let us cancel the cancel culture

that has infected the land of supposed

free speech, where differences should

breed debate and not instant banishment,

where a citizen should be able to say what

they want or make honest mistakes without

losing everything—career, livelihood, home,

while exercising their constitutionally

protected right to individual

expression.

If this idea offends you,

if you think I am wrong for

suggesting that everyone’s opinion

is of equal legal and political value

no matter how ‘reprehensible’

then I am talking to you.

If my not agreeing with you

makes you want to destroy my life

my reputation, my privacy,

everything I’ve worked for—

consider The Spanish Inquisition,

Protestant-Catholic persecutions,

The French Reign of Terror,

Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia,

American McCarthyism.

They all agreed with you.

The first amendment was passed

specifically to protect speech

that was unpopular,

because that is the most

dangerous kind.

And you don’t have to murder someone

to end their life.

You can just ‘cancel’ them

and feel good about yourself

in the morning.

(Just remember,

Why do we, as a society, waste so much time tip-toeing around grown-ass people's feelings?

I know that with coronavirus, gender politics is somewhat overshadowed, and good, even the snowflakes have realised their internal obsessed monologue of self hatred is not actually important in the grand scheme of things. Suddenly the question of what gender you are is secondary to self isolation and social distancing and I'm loving it.