{"id":3039,"date":"2020-07-09T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/youve-been-cancelled-and-sacked-why-grovel\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T10:20:29","slug":"youve-been-cancelled-and-sacked-why-grovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/youve-been-cancelled-and-sacked-why-grovel\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve been Cancelled and Sacked; Why Grovel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even liking the wrong tweets can cost you your career. Mike McCulloch, a math lecturer at Plymouth University, was recently investigated by his employer for liking a tweet that read \u201cAll lives matter.\u201d Here in Canada, Michael Korenberg, chair of the board of governors for the University of British Columbia, was forced to step down because he liked some tweets praising Donald Trump. Nobody is safe\u2014not even the phenomenally popular author J.K. Rowling, who has been hounded and harassed for saying that, when it comes to trans women, biology is still a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

My own field, journalism, has become notoriously full of little inquisitors. In the most disturbing example, James Bennet, opinion editor of the most important paper in the world, the New York Times<\/em>, lost his job in June for publishing an opinion piece that many of the younger staffers didn\u2019t like. It was written by a Republican senator, Tom Cotton, who argued that Donald Trump would be justified in deploying military troops to cities if local police could not maintain order in the streets. Staffers claimed the piece was so toxic that it put some of their colleagues\u2019 lives in danger. Like many others, Mr. Bennet departed with a grovelling apology.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you think the radical mob is now editing your daily paper, you might well be right. Last month, Stan Wischnowski, top editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, was forced to resign over a headline that read, \u201cBuildings Matter, Too.\u201d All of this is dolefully reminiscent of China\u2019s Cultural Revolution, during which students denounced their elders and made them parade through the streets in dunce hats before they were packed off to the pig farms for re-education.<\/span><\/p>\n

And there is no statute of limitations. Last week, Boeing. Co.\u2019s communications chief, Niel Golightly, abruptly resigned after an anonymous employee filed an ethics complaint over an article he wrote in 1987, 33 years ago. In it, the former military pilot had expressed the opinion that women shouldn\u2019t serve in combat (a mainstream position at the time). \u201cMy argument was embarrassingly wrong and offensive,\u201d he said in another cringeworthy mea culpa. \u201cThe article is not reflective of who I am.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you have lost your good, well-paying job, and are now persona non grata<\/em> among the bien-pensant<\/em>, why grovel? The worst has already happened. The Left has yet to build its re-education camps; so at the moment you needn't fear incarceration and 're-education.'  <\/span><\/p>\n

So why  the grovelling apologies as in the fourth  and sixth examples?<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did Golightly go so lightly? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: Even liking the wrong tweets can cost you your career. Mike McCulloch, a math lecturer at Plymouth University, was recently investigated by his employer for liking a tweet that read \u201cAll lives matter.\u201d Here in Canada, Michael Korenberg, chair of the board of governors for the University of British Columbia, was forced to step … Continue reading “You’ve been Cancelled and Sacked; Why Grovel?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}