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==Liberal hypocrisy==

==Liberal hypocrisy==

As leftists mob unleashed against Rogan to be booted off ''Spotify'', Jan/Feb 2022,<ref>Rich Lowry, [https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-anti-joe-rogan-mob-shows-free-speech-needs-stalwart-friends/ ‘The Anti-Joe Rogan Mob Shows Free Speech Needs Stalwart Friends’], ''NRO'', February 8, 2022.</ref> liberal hypocrisy<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/the-five-on-democrats-covid-hypocrisy.amp The Five on Democrats Covid Hypocrisy] <font size=1>(Feb.7.22 rush transcrip)</font>, ''Fox News'', Feb 9, 2022.</ref> was on full display:<ref>[https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2022/02/06/msnbcs-mehdi-hasan-joe-rogan-and-the-lefts-cancel-culture-double-standard-n1556664 MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, Joe Rogan, and the Left's Cancel Culture Double Standard], PJMedia, Feb 6, 2022</ref><blockquote>

As leftists mob unleashed against Rogan to be booted off ''Spotify'', Jan/Feb 2022,<ref>Rich Lowry, [https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-anti-joe-rogan-mob-shows-free-speech-needs-stalwart-friends/ ‘The Anti-Joe Rogan Mob Shows Free Speech Needs Stalwart Friends’], ''NRO'', February 8, 2022.</ref> liberal hypocrisy<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/the-five-on-democrats-covid-hypocrisy.amp The Five on Democrats Covid Hypocrisy] <font size=1>(Feb.7.22 rush transcrip)</font>, ''Fox News'', Feb 9, 2022.</ref> was on full display:<ref>[https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2022/02/06/msnbcs-mehdi-hasan-joe-rogan-and-the-lefts-cancel-culture-double-standard-n1556664 MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, Joe Rogan, and the Left's Cancel Culture Double Standard], PJMedia, Feb 6, 2022.</ref><blockquote>

Everyone knows the double standard is in place. It is taken for granted so much that people barely remark upon it anymore. When someone who dissents from the Leftist agenda offends Leftist sensibilities, his or her career is ruined for good. Remember Roseanne Barr, Tim Allen, and a host of others. Now the Left has Joe Rogan in its sights for daring to dissent from COVID orthodoxy and has suddenly discovered that years ago, he used a racial slur. Spotify has removed over a hundred of his podcasts, and the end is not in sight. But if someone who is reliably Leftist says something that offends the self-appointed guardians of acceptable opinion, the punishment is slight at best, as we have just seen with Whoopi Goldberg’s two-week suspension for Holocaust denial (which doesn’t really bother the hard Left, but they have to keep up some semblance of an attachment to truth and basic decency). And if the offending speaker is a member of a group with enough victimhood privilege, he or she won’t be punished at all, as the career of Mehdi Hasan indicates.

Everyone knows the double standard is in place. It is taken for granted so much that people barely remark upon it anymore. When someone who dissents from the Leftist agenda offends Leftist sensibilities, his or her career is ruined for good. Remember Roseanne Barr, Tim Allen, and a host of others. Now the Left has Joe Rogan in its sights for daring to dissent from COVID orthodoxy and has suddenly discovered that years ago, he used a racial slur. Spotify has removed over a hundred of his podcasts, and the end is not in sight. But if someone who is reliably Leftist says something that offends the self-appointed guardians of acceptable opinion, the punishment is slight at best, as we have just seen with Whoopi Goldberg’s two-week suspension for Holocaust denial (which doesn’t really bother the hard Left, but they have to keep up some semblance of an attachment to truth and basic decency). And if the offending speaker is a member of a group with enough victimhood privilege, he or she won’t be punished at all, as the career of Mehdi Hasan indicates.