Is it time to bring back the pejorative “snowflake”?
We got used to the term in the early days of woke political correctness, but maybe the most egregious snowflakes are the elites in government and Big Pharma.
They melt when anything is said challenging their narratives about disease and cures and public health measures.
An article on online censorship in The Epoch Times, by Naveen Athrappully, discussed recent revelations that Representative Jim Jordan (R‑Ohio) calls “the Facebook Files” — all about COVID-19, and the official Government Narrative surrounding it.
In July 2021, “President Biden accused Facebook of ‘killing people’ by not censoring COVID-19 content that the administration perceived to be ‘misinformation,” Mr. Athrapully explains. “The White House wanted Facebook to remove humorous or satirical content that it thought suggested the COVID-19 vaccine wasn’t safe. The Biden administration even wanted to remove honest information about the vaccines.” [Emphasis added.]
I mean, wouldn’t you add the emphasis? Forbidding even honest and true information that might give an inconvenient take surely goes too far. Facebook’s communications documents say that the Surgeon General wanted the social media giant “to remove true information about the side effects if the user does not provide complete information about whether the side effect is rare and treatable.” Astounding!
This level of touchiness, this obsession for control, shows a remarkably fragile bearing on the part of bureaucrats. The winds of doctrine and the gales of opinion? Mustn’t let that whirl around!
It’s the fainting couch set who most desire to control speech.
These government officials should be fired on principle.
Every. Last. Snowflake.
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Of course, it’s not just issues of contagion and injection. It’s all parts of the main-stream narrative.
More recently, many people (including me) have been warned by the ZuckerBorg that in simply posting two images of weather reports, taken on the same day of the month but separated by five years, we are failing to provide some necessary context, will have our entries lowered in the feeds of our friends, and may face greater sanctions if we continue to post such things.
For a while, the ‘Borg even added a pseudo-correction to entries about the definition of “recession”, as the Biden Administration insisted that two consecutive quarters of economic contraction did not constitute a recession.
Without freedom of speech there is no freedom, especially where the narratives are controlled. We are well past 1984 and into the Brave New World and Fahrenheit 461.
We are experiencing revisionist history and mental programming. Youth is being taught there is no future and humanity itself is the enemy of life.
What could go wrong?
Your favorite subject and yet you don’t give any to the China solution. Do you want to go to war with China? If we do you won’t have to serve!
Keep harping!
Goodness! Paul writes of how the Biden Admimistration subcontracted censorship of fact (and of plausible opinion) concerning SARS-CoV‑2, and you want to change the subject to war with the Chinese state, even as the Biden Administration has the US in a semi-proxied war with the Russia state.
(I say “semi-proxied” because the destruction of the Nordstream Pipeline wasn’t proxied.)
Pam, why don’t you go to Ukraine and fight? Try not to shoot yourself in the foot literally. Here, you so often shoot yourself in the foot figuratively.