Tel-Chai Nation

Melanie Phillips writes about former NY Times staffer Bari Weiss resigning after other staffers demonized her because she dared to defy their lockstep anti-Israel positions. But, as Phillips notes, there's right-wingers who've also made alarming mistakes of shunning even the best viewpoints, or mention of the same:

Even worse, though, is that it hasn’t just been Jews on the left who have taken this “canceling” position. It’s also been some supposedly nonpartisan pro-Israel groups, and even some whose members overwhelmingly voted Republican; while still others have simply been too terrified of giving a platform to any view that might upset anyone.

Turning up to address one such national nonpartisan organization, I was discreetly asked by the organizers not to mention certain sensitive subjects, such as the Israeli settlements or the divisions in American politics. I hadn’t intended to talk about either of these issues since my chosen topic was the onslaught upon core Western values by man-made ideologies.

But my list of these ideologies included deep green environmentalism, which I explained was a dogma whose roots lay in anti-human population control and which, in negation of core scientific principles of open-ended inquiry, brooked absolutely no dissent.

The following morning, the organizers told me I had upset some of the audience by my attack on green concerns. Since then, this entity has never invited me to speak again.

Subsequently, as the culture wars in America intensified, things got worse. Speaking to largely Republican groups, I was told that under no circumstances whatsoever should I even mention President Donald Trump because people would walk out if I either supported him or criticized him.

And I shouldn’t mention abortion. Nor the Democratic Party. Nor, heaven forbid, the settlements.

This is definitely disturbing, and obviously not new. Anybody who thinks political correctness of this sort doesn't exist on the right would be sorely mistaken. It may have even taken place at CPAC over the years. Well it's time for somebody to make it clear this paralysis-prone mentality demonstrating an inability to speak up because of fear you'll lose support of some PC baboons has got to stop. It's not helping one bit, and it's exactly why the world collapsing.

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