{"id":5686,"date":"2014-05-02T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T04:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2014-05-02T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T04:35:40","slug":"if-you-arent-sufficiently-with-the-mob-you-are-their-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/02\/if-you-arent-sufficiently-with-the-mob-you-are-their-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Aren&#8217;t Sufficiently WITH The Mob, You are Their Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5687\" title=\"Turtle Rock Mob purges Josh Orin over Sterling quip\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Turtle_Rock_Mob.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Turtle_Rock_Mob.jpg 485w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Turtle_Rock_Mob-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The figurative drawing and quartering of Donald Sterling gave <a title=\"Private Thoughts, Public Punishment\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/02\/private-thoughts-public-punishment\/\" target=\"_blank\">fair warning<\/a> about the danger of an outraged mob.\u00a0 That danger has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/05\/02\/man-defends-donald-sterlings-right-to-be-an-old-bigot-in-his-own-home-is-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\">realized<\/a>: A man was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2014\/05\/01\/report-turtle-rock-evolve-community-manager-fired-over-donald-sterling-remarks.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">fired<\/a> for simply stating that Sterling had a right to say what he wanted in private:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The comments made by our former community manager stand in stark contrast to our values as a game development studio. &lt;1\/2&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Turtle Rock Studios (@TurtleRock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TurtleRock\/statuses\/461985205323317248\">May 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What was his sin?\u00a0 Simply this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Here&#39;s an unpopular opinion: Donald Sterling has the right as an American to be an old bigot in the security of his own home. He&#39;s a victim.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Olin (@JD_2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JD_2020\/statuses\/461613922370351104\">April 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While this isn&#8217;t a question of the 1st Amendment, <em>per se<\/em>, it does involve the broader concept of being able to think and say what you want without having a mob of zealots chase after you with pitchforks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Orin&#8217;s crime wasn&#8217;t even racism or bigotry, it was the defense of the right to be wrong and the right to <a title=\"When Everything is a Public Issue, Then You Have No Private Existence\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/29\/when-everything-is-a-public-issue-then-you-have-no-private-existence\/\" target=\"_blank\">privacy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His crime was daring to pint out hat he wasn&#8217;t one of the rabid jackanapes of the frothing &#8220;get Sterling&#8221; mob.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is nothing but Marcuse&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcuse.org\/herbert\/pubs\/60spubs\/65repressivetolerance.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Repressive Tolerance<\/a>&#8221; essay put into practice.\u00a0 Daniel Hannan MEP astutely notes how this differs from that broader concept of free speech:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>&quot;That&#39;s an unacceptable view,&quot; (as opposed to &quot;I disagree with that view&quot;) situates the speaker pretty reliably on the Left-Right spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanHannanMEP\/statuses\/460466063776686080\">April 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The irony that this condemnation comes from the &#8220;huzzah for diversity&#8221; and &#8220;I heart tolerance&#8221; crowd is so expected, that it has ceased to be ironic.\u00a0 &#8220;Diversity&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t mean what it used to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The word &#39;diversity&#39; has come to take on the opposite of its literal meaning. It now means &#39;bringing your thinking into line with ours&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanHannanMEP\/statuses\/415155562016305152\">December 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The veritable Ace, of the Ace of Spades HQ, <a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc\/?post=348928\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a> on your humble author&#8217;s statements:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This guy didn&#8217;t even say &#8216;I can see why Sterling didn&#8217;t want his mistress hanging out with black guys.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He was only saying that the &#8220;old bigot&#8221; had the right to be an &#8220;old bigot&#8221; in the privacy of his own home &#8212; which is true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;And so &#8212; not for agreeing with sterling, he didn&#8217;t, but for merely questioning the PENALTY imposed on sterling, he gets fired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Now it&#8217;s not even a matter of questioning if something is racist. You can agree it&#8217;s racist, and wrong, but just argue that the penalty is disproportionate &#8212; and that is now a Racial Firing Offense, too. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It just goes to prove, that in this brave new world, when <a title=\"When Affirmation is Mandatory, And Silence is Oppression\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/06\/03\/when-affirmation-is-mandatory-and-silence-is-oppression\/\" target=\"_blank\">affirmation is mandatory<\/a>,\u00a0 silence becomes oppression, and merely questioning is a sin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The same people who demanded that <em>you<\/em> stay out of the <em>privacy<\/em> of <em>their<\/em> bedroom now happily invade the <em>privacy<\/em> of other and punish you for exercising their freedom in a way they don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"If You Aren't Sufficiently WITH The Mob, You are Their Enemyl\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The figurative drawing and quartering of Donald Sterling gave fair warning about the danger of an outraged mob.  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