Life Destroyed: Meteorologist Accidentally Mispronounces MLK's Name and Fired on Spot
01-10-2019, 01:35 AMQuote: (01-08-2019 11:05 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
Quote: (01-08-2019 09:54 AM)Buck Wild Wrote:
It is important to have an awareness that we live in a post-Christian society now. That means virtues like forgiveness are off the table. Because forgiveness is now not a cultural value, this means apologies are to be dispensed with as well. In a post-Christian climate, apologies are simply used as prima facie evidence of guilt and used to further ensure punishment.
I'm not sure what I would have done in his situation, but there is zero chance I would have tendered a public apology the way he did. The first order of business is to know the climate you're operating in and in this climate, apologies are undignified and ineffective. A post-Christian society simply has no use for genuine contrition. It of course goes without saying that his firing was outrageous and wrong---I wish him the best of luck.
Great post! Let me take your thoughts even further.
A post-Christian society also means all the old sins are null and void (i.e. adultery, sodomy, etc). They've been replaced by new ones like racism, sexism, and misogyny.
This is why we now have massive over-reactions to someone mis-speaking. It's the modern equivalent of committing adultery and having to wear a scarlet letters.
The corporate media now functions as the New Church. Anyone who goes against its teachings gets branded a heretic. The punishment is banishment from mainstream society and economic excommunication (losing your jobs, getting thrown off Patreon).
What's most troubling, though, isn't all of the above. It's the fact that the majority of Americans blindly follow along and get angry at you if you try and point this out to them. It's like questioning the bible back in the old days.
It's one thing to persecute people who express the "wrong" opinion on race and gender. That type of thing is certainly reminiscent of the medieval church and their suppression of dissenting ideas.
It's another level entirely to manufacture racists out of thin air to crucify. This is hardly the first such incidence.
Modern day leftists of course feel smugly superior to the repressive authoritarian regimes of the past, totally lacking the self-awareness to realize that with every baseless accusation that someone is a "racist," and every call to destroy the lives of such people by whatever means legally permissible, they are contributing to something even more sinister. Would even the 1300's Catholic church persecute someone who tripped over a word and mispronounced it in a way that sounds kind of like a thing they don't want people saying, and apologized profusely afterward?
The best analogy for the modern day anti-racism crusade is a massively scaled up version of the Salem witch trials. Witches of course didn't exist, and while virulent racists do exist, there are far too few of them to feed the narrative. So what do you do in that case? Create some. Sacrifice human livelihoods for the cause.