Re:Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say
by DownvoteMeToWin on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @04:44PM
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Indeed. This mass behavior has the interface of Mao's Culture Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution) while serving the purpose of a Stalinist purge. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge) But why? Why now? Well, #hilary2016 is obvious, but more insidiously, after unlimited funding for super PACs became the de facto unit of all political engagement, everyone is organizing a massive push to counter people like Adelson and the Kochs. And when you form the kinds of mass coordinations that only billions of dollars can afford, (George Soros put in $33 million this year so far) you cannot have dissent in the slightest or your ROI gets impacted.
Perhaps the difference now, is that networked gangs of self-described 'progressives' have been organizing attack mobs on social media, with the targets not just 'evil right wingers', but liberals like Chait who do not pay sufficient homage to the tenets of political correctness.
And who defines what the tenets are? Let's just say that if you have to ask, it probably isn't you.