A question I always want to hear in these types of discussions would go something like:
"James, you have described what it's like to be in an environment where you were judged to be insufficiently woke by the majority of the group. Does this make you reconsider any events over your three decades in the theatre where you were part of the…
A question I always want to hear in these types of discussions would go something like:
"James, you have described what it's like to be in an environment where you were judged to be insufficiently woke by the majority of the group. Does this make you reconsider any events over your three decades in the theatre where you were part of the group that deemed someone else to be insufficiently liberal?"
Without knowing much about James or the places he's been, I feel safe in saying he's been a part of more than one production or group or company where there was universal conformity across the left/right spectrum. How were non-leftists treated when they stumbled into those arenas? If he sees how bad it is to be the one non-woke liberal in a room full of woke liberals does he also understand what it is like to be the one non-liberal in a room of liberals? And does he see that as a problem?
These are the questions I want people like JK Rowling to be asked when they bear witness to being bullied for not being "left enough" on certain issues. Do they (1) object to any politically-motivated bullying by liberals in power OR (2) do they only object to it when they disagree with the issue at hand?
The pants-wetting over Twitter provides a clear answer to your fundamental question. The left's heartburn is almost always a matter of principals, not principles.
A question I always want to hear in these types of discussions would go something like:
"James, you have described what it's like to be in an environment where you were judged to be insufficiently woke by the majority of the group. Does this make you reconsider any events over your three decades in the theatre where you were part of the group that deemed someone else to be insufficiently liberal?"
Without knowing much about James or the places he's been, I feel safe in saying he's been a part of more than one production or group or company where there was universal conformity across the left/right spectrum. How were non-leftists treated when they stumbled into those arenas? If he sees how bad it is to be the one non-woke liberal in a room full of woke liberals does he also understand what it is like to be the one non-liberal in a room of liberals? And does he see that as a problem?
These are the questions I want people like JK Rowling to be asked when they bear witness to being bullied for not being "left enough" on certain issues. Do they (1) object to any politically-motivated bullying by liberals in power OR (2) do they only object to it when they disagree with the issue at hand?
The pants-wetting over Twitter provides a clear answer to your fundamental question. The left's heartburn is almost always a matter of principals, not principles.