The stories of Stalin executing the first person to stop applauding him appear to be apocryphal, but understanding the history of the communism makes them believable.
During the communist revolution in China, those who were critical of the movement were the first to be tortured in the struggle sessions. By the end, however, citizens were being tortured for the crime of not being sufficiently supportive of the revolution. Anything less than full-throated celebration of the movement was tantamount to treason.
Welcome to social media under the Left in 2020.
With cities across America burning and black communities in pain, many white people have continued posting selfies and pictures of food on social media as if nothing is wrong — and it is not going unnoticed https://t.co/dGdNmM6VZy pic.twitter.com/Ifm1VpOEy3
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 5, 2020
It’s not enough to be apolitical, posting anodyne things like muffin recipes or pictures of your kids having a picnic in the park.
You will post full-throated support of whatever message the Left wants you to support or you will be subjected to torment.
You will be no longer punished for just saying something the Left find offensive, you will now be punished for not reciting the shibboleths that the Left requires you to recite.
What happens if you don’t?
You will be unpersoned, including by members of your family.
Today, The New York Times ran an op-ed telling people to withhold affection from their relatives unless they protest or give money to anti-racism organizations.
Where does this end? I want racial equality, but I utterly disdain any person or institution endorsing such tactics. pic.twitter.com/vVTnKq75mo
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 6, 2020
That’s right.
If Grandma on her fixed income doesn’t support BLM, don’t visit her.
If your mom uses Facebook only to play Farmville and look at pictures of her nieces and nephews and doesn’t participate in Blackout Tuesday, don’t call her.
This is evil.
I’ve never been so glad that I don’t have social media to attract the unwanted attention of the new Child Heroes for not posting the mandated pieties.
The more this false dichotomy of you’re either with us or against us with no regard of context or nuance is pushed, the closer it comes to a time where lots of people of normal people who are overall supportive of theessage are going to have to make unfortunate decisions to abandon support.
No to mention the contuinal catch-22 you are in. Support the movement maybe it is a white saviorism or guilt complex. Maybe its where were you at time xyz its too late now. Maybe it’s we just don’t believe you. Maybe it’s thanks for your support but shut up shit down and move out of the way because you can’t advocate a lived experience you never had. Maybe it’s thanks for being and ally but you need to keep proving yourself to be one. Or maybe it is skepticism and hesitation about any aspect of you or your motives. Or you did great this time so you better come out going hard in the paint next time.
There are of course the times when there is no catch-22 as well.
Ah what do I know anyways, I’m just some cis white male scum. /Sarc
If you are not for us, you are against us.
Well, once the police are gone, the community enforcement units will reeducate these non-participants quite quickly, through one method or another.
[…] The riots are only the tip of the iceberg. The internet hate mob is equally destructive, going after people who criticize the protest or fail to show enough fawning obsequiousness for the movement on their social media. […]