At the RedState blog, Hunter Baker provides a very good summary of what the Great Hate directed at former NBA star Tim Hardaway is all about:
Every living American probably has received their instructions by now:
"Tim Hardaway has checked out of polite society. He is not to be rehabilitated by any means. Besides, he is about five abject apologies away from being nearly apologetic enough. He has sinned against our new god who is named Tolerance. A sin against tolerance is worse in its social stigma than theft, extortion, insider trading, perjury, and spousal abuse. The Tolerance taboo is broken by hating. The penalty for breaking the taboo is to be hated. A hate for a hate as the good Book says in a socially relevant and proper interpretation."
Exactly. This whole thing is siimply an open effort at intimidation, against not just Tim Hardaway but against anyone who would question the elites’ forced consensus on any issue the latter deems important.
If this situation reminds you of a private-sector version of the government’s activities in 1984, you understand the situation correctly.
You have been warned.
Great points, Aleks, about the connection to Orwell, to which both Hunter and I were alluding, and about the conclusion that the overwhelming majority of Americans somehow don’t belong in our society. Maybe the elites are the ones who don’t fit in, and perhaps it’s time the American people stood up on their hind legs and worked to change who wields power in this society.
These are the kinds of thoughts that arise when elites impose alien values on the people who actually build the roads and houses, grow the food, keep the books, etc.
There are often times when the elites and general population differ, but this is a time of extraordinary social schism, I think.
Yeah, as soon as I saw the title of this post, I thought of the “two minute hate”.
It’s true though, and very unfortunate that Hardaway must apologize for his wholly acceptable beliefs. So he doesn’t like to shower with gay people; neither do I. Does that mean that we have no place in this society? Absolutely not, we are supposed to have an open marketplace of ideas in this country and it is sad that he (and the rest of us) can’t talk about it.