Don’t let the leftists memory-hole their madness – Latest News
Did the final 5 years, call it “the age of woke,” actually occur — or had been they only a fever dream?
Apparently all of us imagined a time the place COVID and cancel tradition collided to oppress us.
No one was shunned for saying actually apparent and true issues, colleges weren’t closed indefinitely beneath stress from lecturers’ unions, and race battle wasn’t pushed on Americans from each direction.
At least that’s what the left would have us imagine.
On Wednesday when National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher testified in a congressional listening to, she discovered some primary questions . . . involving her own opinions.
“Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?” Rep. Brandon Gill requested her.
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Maher grimaced as if she discovered that perception ridiculous, however ultimately admitted, “I tweeted that.”
“But as I’ve said,” she added, “much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.”
That’s simply 5 years — and Maher is no teenager, whose opinions change on a whim. She’s in her 40s and runs a media company with hundreds of workers.
Gill continued: “Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?”
Maher, feigning confusion that anybody might maintain such a weird place, responded “I . . . don’t . . . believe that, sir?”
Yet Gill informed her she had tweeted that very assertion in 2020, in reference to “The Case for Reparations,” a prolonged polemic by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Maher denied ever having learn the piece. Gill famous that Maher’s own tweet claimed she was “taking a day off” to take action.
It was a satisfying exchange for these of us who spent the final 5 years stating the madness emanating from the left. We’ve gotten all too few of them.
Mostly, we’re nonetheless simply getting gaslighting and denials.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten was a key villain of the COVID years.
In blue areas the place politicians jumped at Weingarten’s whim, colleges stayed closed longer. Where her affect was restricted, colleges opened. These are the information.
But to listen to Weingarten inform it, she was a champion of the open-the-schools motion.
Last week, Weingarten informed CNN host Brianna Keilar, “As you know . . . I wanted schools to be reopened as early as April of 2020.”
“Right,” Keilar stated. And that was it. History rewritten earlier than our eyes.
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The lady who saved thousands and thousands of children out of college — primarily poor children with out different training choices — was recasting herself as the hero and getting away with it.
Keilar is aware of it’s a lie, however the rewrite works in her favor.
In August 2021, in a single of the most noxious information segments of that time, Keilar and co-host John Berman reported that 4 lecturers in Broward County, Fla. had died of COVID in a single day.
They forged the blame on Gov. Ron DeSantis, a favourite punching bag, for opening the colleges in defiance of Weingarten’s stress and never forcing mask-wearing.
What they overlooked: Schools hadn’t opened but in Broward County. The lecturers had died on summer season trip.
Now, we’re informed, each Weingarten and Keilar wished colleges open, and we’re loopy for considering in any other case.
This week additionally noticed The Atlantic’s Jonathan Chait faux that leftists are present process some sort of COVID reckoning whereas conservatives usually are not.
Perhaps as a result of the leftists obtained all the things about COVID flawed, then compelled the dumbest guidelines on the relaxation of us and have by no means apologized for any of it?
Oh no, Chait assures us: “Liberals got some things about the pandemic correct and other things wrong, and over time, many of them have disavowed or at least moved away from their wrong beliefs.”
Where? When?
Chait himself spent the previous couple of years spreading conspiracy theories about COVID vaccination charges in Florida as a result of he was so invested in his twisted narrative. Has he ever admitted that he was deluded?
What about all these who had been shadow-banned or kicked off social media, fired from their jobs, shunned within their industries for saying issues that had been true all alongside?
Did they get an apology? Do they get reparations?
The final 5 years occurred, a lot as the left could need to wipe the slate clean.
There’s an impulse to easily transfer on, with none accountability or apology for their lunacy. As a well-known lady as soon as stated: What distinction, at this level, does it make?
But it issues very a lot. We’re nonetheless dwelling in the thick of so many of the left’s unhealthy concepts and insurance policies.
Biological boys are nonetheless taking part in in women’ sports activities — and each single Senate Democrat this month voted towards a law to stop it.
They’re waving away some of their madness, however definitely not all.
We can’t let the left merely faux the final 5 troublesome years didn’t occur. It’s time to problem outright the lies, the rewrites, the scoffing at concepts they as soon as thought of obligatory.
Those who pushed the very worst insurance policies, and compelled them on the relaxation of us, can’t now get to say in any other case.
Karol Markowicz is co-author of the ebook “Stolen Youth.”
