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USA Today Deputy Editorial Page Editor David Mastio authored an op-ed Thursday charging that House Republicans who voted for a change in leadership were a greater threat to the republic than the 9/11 hijackers.

Mastio characterized the recall vote on Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheneys role as Republican conference chair as a singular referendum on President Donald Trumps claim the November election was stolen, which Mastio decries as The Big Lie, a comparison to the Nazi propaganda campaign which led to Holocaust. Cheneys opponents, therefore, are Trumps co-conspirators on a mission to overthrow the government.

As surely as the terrorists of 9/11 wanted to tear down American democracy in 2001, the terrorists of Jan. 6 want to tear down our democracy as well, even as they pose as its defenders, Mastio wrote. And unlike the Sept. 11 attackers, they are going to get another chance.

Mastio argued claims the Democrat Party hijacked the election are the source of revolution.

If our democracy is being stolen, we will rise up in arms, wrote Mastio. If I thought our democracy was being stolen, Id have joined in support of the broader Jan. 6 protests, if not the violence.

On the contrary, it is these exact kinds of inflammatory claims that breed violence. By Mastios own logic, if one truly believes their political opponents are as great a threat as the terrorists who killed almost 3,000 Americans, then the U.S. government ought to wage war. In some respects, U.S. intelligence agencies already have, with double-standards of justice and intrusive dystopian surveillanceconducted, evenby the Postal Service.

When reached for comment, Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief of USA Today, refused to say whether she disagreed with Mastios claim that Republicans who voted against Cheney are worse than 9/11 hijackers who killed 3,000 Americans in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. She directed The Federalist to the papers public relations department.

A spokesperson for USA Today did not immediately respond to The Federalists inquiry.

In 2019, the same editor smearing those with he disagrees with who voted for a change in leadership as domestic terrorists, blacklisted The Federalist from being cited in USA Today pages for accurately reporting on the Russia collusion hoax under the Trump administration.

Cheney was ousted from her number three role in House GOP leadership Wednesday after the Wyoming lawmaker and dedicated Never Trumper continued to undermine the conference and engineer an inner-party civil war to rid the GOP of Trump and Trumpism supported by the base.

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik was elected the new conference chair to replace Cheney on Friday.

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While speaking at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony Wednesday, President Joe Biden scolded the class for not clapping.

You are a really dull class, Biden said. Come on, man. Is the sun getting to you? I would think youd have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap. To be here together.

Biden was attempting to make a joke about how the Coast Guard is what keeps the Navy in check. The graduates then provided an applause once the president showed a bit of insecurity. Later in the speech, Biden seemed to forget the name of a lieutenant commander.

Several years ago, Biden pulled a similar stunt. A video emerged last year of him telling U.S. service members they are dull and stupid bastards at a military base in Abu Dhabi, Arab Emirates in 2016.

Clap for that, you stupid bastards, Biden told the service members when it was silent. Then, Biden appears to tell the individuals in attendance they were a dull bunch and must be slow. At the time, a Biden campaign spokesman told The Daily Beast he was just joking.

Vice President Biden was jokingly encouraging the audience to clap for an airwoman on the stage, and a number of service members can be seen laughing and smiling at the comment. Seconds before, he praised them for the incredible sacrifices [they] make for our country, campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates said. He thanked them for their patriotism and courage throughout, and closed his remarks by saying, youre the finest generation of warriors the world has ever, ever knownreceiving an enthusiastic ovation.

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After Prince Harry described the First Amendment as bonkers last week during a podcast interview with actor Dax Shepard, The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech blasted the former royal on Fox & Friends on Tuesday.

The reality is that Prince Harry should be tarred and feathered and sent back to his grandma, Domenech said. He is not someone who appreciates anything that makes America great.

Domenech pointed out that the former royal has a lucrative partnership with the Aspen Institute to combat media disinformation. If he doesnt even know what the First Amendment is, if he thinks its bonkers, what is he doing participating in a prominent and respected institution that is designed to try to battle disinformation in media? asked Domenech.

Domenech added that Prince Harry should stick to podcasting, not influencing American life, since he clearly has no respect for Americas institutions and founding documents. This is someone who ought not be participating in American society or our reordering anything related to media in any serious way, and yet he is, said Domenech.

The royals are yet another decaying Western institution morally and financially bankrupt, concluded Domenech. I think we ought to dump [Prince Harry] into Boston Harbor along with all the tea.

Evita Duffy is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at the University of Chicago, where she studies American History. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1

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Chinese-owned TikTok, a short-clip video-sharing platform weaponized as a Chinese Communist Party surveillance tool, has reportedly removed satirical impressions of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Comedian Tyler Fischer, whose impressions have gone viral, wrote on Twitter Monday TikTok banned his mocking of Fauci, the face of Americas detrimental lockdowns, over violations of its community guidelines.

Fischer told The Federalist two videos were removed on TikTok but remain up on YouTube, including an impression of Dr. Fauci and an impression of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

TikToks parent company, China-owned ByteDance, did not immediately respond to The Federalists inquiries.

As the novel Wuhan coronavirus pandemic comes to an end, earning its name from its first outbreak in the Hubei province of central China, Fauci has been the fiercest defender of lockdowns despite their colossal costs. The Chinese intelligence tool, TikTok, which U.S. national security officials sought to ban within American borders, has responded to Faucis impending irrelevance with apparent protection from criticism. Fauci has also consistently thrown cover for the China-dominated World Health Organization (WHO) and rejected theories the coronavirus emerged from a lab in Wuhan involved in research funded by Faucis NIAID.

President Donald Trump sought to ban TikTok last year over heightened risks to national security, but the app remains available after a federal judge blocked the order.

Capitol Hill lawmakers on both sides of the aisle remain concerned about TikToks use as a surveillance service for communist China, enough so that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed a bill last week to ban the app on government devices.

Earlier this month, one of Fischers impressionist videos racked up more than 400,000 views on Twitter alone and more than half a million on TikTok, where he mocks Faucis strict demands that Americans adhere to mask for wearing regardless of immunity status. Fauci often wears two masks despite being vaccinated.

Id say even if you live alone, I would wear a mask in the house, especially in the shower, Fischer said. Because, frankly, droplets can make their way through the drain, and come up through somebody elses toilet, infecting them through the anus.

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The U.S. Department of Defense released a memorandum Monday outlining its critical race theory initiative in the Department of the Navy that will take shape through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning Actions (DEI).

The new effort instructs Caroline Kessmeier, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, to direct several policies, programs, and operations among the military. Kessmeier has been assigned to be the Chief Diversity Officer and told Defense Daily in April I believe we must embrace and advocate for a diverse workforce and workplace environment.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker signed the memo, which calls for reviews that ensure the branch aligns with its determined goal of imposing affirmative action.

Equal opportunity is the bedrock of our democracy and diversity is one of our greatest strengths; both are critical to the readiness of our Navy and Marine Corps team and, ultimately, to our mission success, Harker said. Aligned with these guiding principles, it is the policy of the Department of the Navy (DON) to continue making transformative and meaningful steps that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our policies, programs, and operations across the enterprise.

Harker discusses equal opportunity but the memo directly calls for an initiative that resembles an equitable framework or equality of outcome. This includes improving the pace of diversity and the strength of the applicant in the Navy and perpetual reviews by officers to put forth diversity policies.

There are various outlined initiatives by the Navy, which are extraordinarily vague. One calls for a commitment to DEI internally, another relates to partners and contractors, and another introduces a process of [re]naming Navy and Marine Corps assets to identify measures to improve diversity representation. The memo instructs the Navy to only assign those in alignment with the DEI ideology to positions of power, including Senior Executives. Additionally, the Navy says it will examine all authoritative data to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.

People need to understand that these words, diversity, equity, and inclusion, dont mean what people think they mean, and theyre used by the people pushing them to install politically friendly apparatchiks under a socially responsible-sounding cloak, James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses told The Federalist. The easiest way to realize this is whats going on is how overtly political yet operationally vague these projects are.

Government agencies have increasingly embraced left-wing doctrine on identity and equity. The Pentagon hired Richard Torres-Estrada as a Diversity Chief, only to be reassigned after inflammatory tweets re-surfaced in which Torres-Estrada compared former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

The Central Intelligence Agency released recruitment videos promoting arbitrary gender theory and diversity, and the Department of Defense went woke in March in its targeting of Fox News host Tucker Carlson for critiquing the feminization of the military. Earlier this month, Tennessee Republican Rep. Mark Green put forth a measure to ban critical race theory from being taught in U.S. military service academies.

In June 2020, the Navy created a task force to address the issues of racism, sexism and other destructive biases and their impact on naval readiness. This included a woke pledge mandated for individuals to recite if they wish to join the Navy.

The task force will seek to promptly address the full spectrum of systemic racism, advocate for the needs of underserved communities, work to dismantle barriers and equalize professional development frameworks and opportunities within the Navy, the Navy said in a statement last year.

The released memo does not clarify how the Navy plans to ensure legitimate equal opportunity for people of all races.

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A new grassroots group launched Monday to take conservatives on offense against cancel culture.The group, Unsilenced Majority aims to target unfair firings, cancellation in education, and corporate political activism by constructing a cohesive nationwide grassroots coalition.

Mike Davis, a former senior adviser to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley who now runs the Article III Project and the Internet Accountability Project, will spearhead the new organization as its founder and president.

Corporate censorship, thought-policing and politically motivated blacklists and boycotts are having a corrosive effect on our country and will ultimately lead to a less free world, Davis said in a statement announcing the launch. The Unsilenced Majority speaks for an emboldened majority of Americans who recognize the imminent threat that cancel culture poses to our nation.

Davis will be joined by a team of prominent conservative attorneys and strategists active in the culture war for years, including Daily Malarkey Co-founder Ian Prior as its spokesman and senior counsel, Human Events Editor-in-Chief Will Chamberlain, and GOP operative Andy Surabian, who worked in the Trump White House.

The groups launch comes weeks after another grassroots organization was launched to target the rise of identity politics infecting K-12 schools, Parents Defending Education, as conservatives mobilize and reinvigorate a new cultural Tea Party 10 years after the arrival of the first.

Cancel culture is the deliberate de-platforming or ultimate unemployment of an individual for views fraudulently held to be outside an increasingly turbulent public square, often featuring past statements dug up in bad faith to deploy online mobs against the dissident. The culture is wielded as a tool to penalize people for things that could otherwise be a justifiable position or an apology-level offense, and excommunicate the guilty culprit from the public square.

The cancel culture weapon has been capitalized by aggressively woke leftists in particular, who, in pursuit of a 21st-century cultural revolution, press the reimagination of historical facts and figures through the modern-day lens of racism.

Six books authored by Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss, are among the most recent victims of 21st century cancel culture. In March, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would cease publishing the titles over racist and insensitive imagery. The books include, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligots Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cats Quizzer.

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Multiple corporate media outlets relied on anonymous sources to report that the Colonial Pipeline would not pay the ransom demanded by cyberattackers who targeted the fuel transportation system. That turned out to be false, and Colonial did in fact pay the $5 million ransom, but several outlets have yet to retract any of their previous reporting.

Reuters reported Colonial would not pay the ransom based on sources familiar with the companys response. And while theres a notice on the story headlined Colonial Pipeline has no plan to pay ransom to hackers -sources that this story refiles to fix typographical error in paragraph 10, Reuters did not respond to The Federalists questions about whether they would be issuing a retraction of the article.

The Washington Post also cited two anonymous sources as the basis for its reference to Colonial Pipelines decision not to pay a ransom.

Meanwhile, Colonial and its cybersecurity consultants were working to secure its servers, having decided not to pay a ransom demanded by foreign hackers, according to two people familiar with the matter, one Washington Post article from Wednesday claimed.

Another article, headlined Colonial Pipeline said to have no plan to pay hackers ransom repeated and promoted the information from Posts sources as fact.

Colonial Pipeline has no plan at this point to pay a ransom to decrypt data files, said two people familiar with the matter. Rather, they are working with the cybersecurity firm Mandiant to restore the data from backup systems where possible and rebuild systems where backups are unavailable, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter is still under investigation, the article states.

CNN was one of the only outlets to issue a correction on their false reporting. The article, originally headlined Colonial Pipeline not likely to pay millions in ransom demanded by hackers, claimed that anonymous sources and experts familiar with the response confirmed that the pipeline was not interested in paying the cryptocurrency price.

Now, the article is headlined Colonial Pipeline did pay ransom to hackers, sources now say and features paragraphs walking back CNNs former claims. A correction notice is tacked to the bottom of the digital story stating that it had since been modified to reflect new reporting, but the corporate media organization did not respond to The Federalists questions about why the article was not fully retracted.

An earlier version of this story said Colonial Pipeline was not likely to pay a ransom. The headline and story have been updated to reflect new reporting that they did pay and clarify the data recovery process, the correction reads.

The New York Times was one of the first corrupt media organizations to be dishonest in its coverage of the Colonial Pipeline and the ensuing gas shortages. Shortly after the Colonial Pipeline shut down, the New York Times claimed there were no lines at gas stations along the East Coast even though some had already completely run out of fuel.

Colonial Pipeline, a vital U.S. fuel artery that was shut down by a cyberattack, said it hoped to restore most operations by the end of the week. Since the shutdown, there have been no long lines or major price hikes for gas, the New York Times wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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Country music is gone and its not coming back, said country music icon Alan Jackson in an interview with HITS Daily Double Monday.Jackson, known for his classic 90s country sound and hits like Livin On Love, Little Bitty, Chattahoochee, and Remember When, has a dim view on the future of traditional country music.

Real country songs are life and love and heartache, said Jackson, reminiscing on what country music is not these days. Theyre drinking, singing about Mama and having a good time, sad things, fun things. It reflects the sounds of the instruments I grew up on, steel and acoustic guitar, the fiddle, and the way they all came together. It gave you a sound, but also a real feeling or emotions no other music really had.

Jackson is absolutely right. If you turn on the radio, country musics message and sound have been replaced by bro and boyfriend country, pop and rap singers, and the notorious snap track.

Jackson and country fans can thank Nashville executives for pushing pop- and rap-sounding country. The less authentically country the songs sound, the better chance the execs have of making money by drawing in a larger base of pop and rap fans. Also, as Jackson points out, while modern corporate country may be bringing in the big bucks, they are slowly killing the distinct country sounds like the steel and acoustic guitar, fiddle, and banjo.

While Nashville and the big labels want fans to believe country music is becoming more diverse, with high-profile pop-country and rap-country collabs, it is actually causing all country music to sound homogeneous. And the unique regional sub-genres that make country music the distinctly American art form that it is are no longer getting played on the radio, and therefore losing the chance for the nationwide attention they deserve.

Of course, the message behind the new stuff is also not as wholesome and relatable as the rootsy classic country songs. Justin Bieber and Florida Georgia Lines Yummy country remix can never compare or stand the test of time to Garth Brooks Unanswered Prayers.

Jackson describes his latest album, Where Have You Gone, as harder country, in order to actively subvert the prevailing pop-country sound. But honest as ever, Jackson says he, along with other aging classic country icons, need young artists to also stand up for the integrity of the genre. Im 62 years old; Im not some 30-year-old stud, says Jackson, but somebody has to bring it back, because its not just people in their 50s, its people in their 20s, too.

Just because corporate country is turning its back on what makes the genre so unique and beloved doesnt mean young people no longer enjoy the classic tunes. As Jackson notes, All the kids and young people around my house? The older theyve got, the more hardcore and traditional what theyve leaned into has become. Its not old-school, its the real school. And Im kinda pissed off about whats happened to the format, or whatever they wanna call it.

Thats exactly why Im a little more optimistic about the future of country music than Jackson. When young people are exposed to the original sounds, they love it. With Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and iTunes available to budding artists, it is becoming increasingly less necessary for musicians to depend on country executives to greenlight their music.

Young artists no longer need the Nashville execs, they can make their own fan bases. Luckily for country music, there are many young rising stars who are fighting to preserve country musics traditional sounds in unconventional ways.

One country singer determined to bring back the country music he grew up on is reality TV star Jon Brennan from MTVs The Real World. Brennan is a talented singer who at one time was an opening act for Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, and Tim McGraw, among others. Today, he is trying to bypass the big labels and go straight to the fans via technology.

It is the democratization of country music, Brennan told The Federalist. You can put your music out there online, and people that are interested in your genre your grassroots style of music can go find you and they dont have to necessarily look to radio and the major labels.

Technology has really worked in the benefit of artists because we can put our music out there on YouTube, rather than a major label, he continued. And so people are literally making records on their MacBook, rather than spending $200,000 in a recording studio. Its kind of like a Screw you to the huge record companies. We needed you and you werent interested, but now we dont need you.

Fortunately for country, there are tons of artists like Brennan who are excited about working outside of the Nashville corporate machine. Young artists who are sharing their talent with a front-facing camera and TikTok account are everywhere. And fans on social media have become the new big-time executives.

Jackson is right: true country has been ousted from the radio and real budding country singers arent getting big record deals. But all hope is not lost. Country is still alive and well in the digital world. And maybe one day fans will help country execs to once again appreciate the traditional sounds and American storytelling that made the genre great.

Evita Duffy is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at the University of Chicago, where she studies American History. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harryannounced last Tuesday they have made a deal with multibillion-dollar consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble, despite the company selling skin-whitening creams.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussexs Archewell Foundation said the multi-year global partnership with Procter & Gamble will seek to unleash systemic cultural change by building more compassionate communities.

The creams P&G sells advertise that they reduce the production of melanin in users skin and have been criticized by many who say the products are creating a toxic belief that light skin is superior to dark.

In India, Malaysia, and Singapore, P&G brand Olay sells White Radiance moisturizer, which promises to create radiant and brighter skin, while lightening the tone. The company also sells Olay White Radiance Light Perfecting Essence in the Philippines to inhibit melanin formation in the deepest layer of skin. In Nigeria, people can buy Olay Natural White cream for pinkish fairness.

Meghan has talked a lot about the issue of race and racism, so this does stick out like a sore thumb, said former P&G executive Alex Malouf.

Some cosmetic firms have recently stopped selling skin-lightening creams over accusations that they are deeply racist. Johnson & Johnson dropped its Fine Fairness line, sold in Asia and the Middle East, after an investigation. LOreal stopped using the names white/whitening, fair/fairness, and light/lightening for its products, and Unilever is renaming its Fair & Lovely brand, which is popular in India.

The skin-lightening industry is worth over $7 billion a year, and P&G, unlike other companies, isnt willing to give that up. It has promised to continue selling its White Radiance and Natural White products, and Olay is defending the creams by likening them to tanners.

Nina Davuluri, the first Indian American to win Miss America, slammed P&G for the whitening creams and said she is shocked P&G is still selling them. Davuluri said the creams sell a racist ideology that you need white skin to be beautiful, you need white skin to be successful.

San Jose State University Professor Joanne Rondilla, who has researched skin-lightening creams sold in the Philippines, said Harry and Meghan have a responsibility to speak out about the products. Like everyone else around the world, I saw that interview with Oprah that Meghan did, said Rondilla. It was important for her to bring up these issues of colorism. I dont think this partnership advances that conversation.

The fact that P&G has continued to be complicit in human rights abuses, in environmental devastation, is reason enough why this partnership shouldnt be formed or shouldnt continue, said Robin Averbeck from the Rainforest Action Network. It showed that full due diligence on the company was not done.

When Markle was 11 years old, she wrote to P&G, objecting to sexism in a dish soap commercial that included the line: Mothers around America are fighting greasy pots and pans. She also appeared in an interview with Nick News in 1993 to talk about her campaign, saying she was furious by P&Gs soap advertisement. When they heard this, the boys in my class started saying, Yeah, thats where women belong in the kitchen, Markle said at the time.

The company subsequently changed the ad to people all over America instead of mothers.

Jumping off her five seconds of fame from nearly 30 years ago, Meghan and Harrys partnership with P&G focuses on build[ing] a more equitable and just future for women and girls, according to the Archewell website.

Now that Markle is financially benefiting from her relationship with P&G, shes not so keen on taking morals stands. As the new woke czar of corporate America, shes definitely not above being selective when it comes to her gender and racial outrage. If theres one thing weve learned about Markle, its that her most important social cause has always been herself.

Evita Duffy is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at the University of Chicago, where she studies American History. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1

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The controversy roiling Bravos Real Housewives of Dallas reflects two of our countrys broader conflicts. The first is a lack of consensus on the definition of racism, a problem triggered by the lefts intentional effort to expand the term. The second, which is downstream of the first, is our inability to debate contentious issues.

RHOD cast member Kameron Westcott and her family have been engaged in a heated back-and-forth with Dr. Tiffany Moon, Kamerons co-star. Moon is the franchises first Asian housewife. Heres a useful excerpt from Vultures breakdown of the squabble, which flared up last week:

Prompted by Moon and Westcotts sparring during the reunion, Westcotts husband Court and brother-in-law Chart began attacking Moon on Twitter. Court called Moons anti-racist views open vile racism, while Chart claimed Moon was blackout drunk one of the only times he met her. (Court later deactivated his Twitter account.)

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@tiffanymoonmd Anti-racism is racism. It discriminates by the color of ones skin. They tried that once in Germany, it did not work out well. I dont understand how many of your patients would be comfortable with you treating them with your open vile racism.

Drawing Nazi parallels is almost always a bad idea, which may explain why Westcott deactivated his account. But his contention that anti-racism is racism is an entirely reasonable opinion. Id argue its the correct opinion, as would many black intellectuals ignored by the corporate establishment.

Indeed, Bravo, a subsidiary of Comcast, cast its opposition to Westcott as a matter of fact in a statement supporting Moon. Anti-racism is, in fact, not a form of racism and the network stands by Dr. Tiffany Moon and her advocacy against racism and violence, the network said last week.

Proponents of antiracism, such as Ibram X. Kendi, explicitly argue all people who fall short of the definition of antiracist are necessarily racist. To be antiracist, according to Kendi and his fellow travelers, is to be fully anticapitalist. To many on the cultural left, it also necessitates being pro-feminism, anti-nuclear family, pro-Palestine, pro-welfare, pro-abortion, anti-police, and more. Anti-capitalism alone, by Kendis definition, renders most of the country racist.

Anti-racists also routinely stereotype white people as white supremacists based on the color of their skin, even using agreement with that judgment as a litmus test for antiracism. The ideology peddled by Kendi and the far left counterproductively engenders bigotry.

Westcotts assertion about anti-racism is hardly racist or unreasonable. This is why the backlash speaks to two broader conflicts. The corporate media has worked hard to mainstream Kendis radical ideology, donating millions to his organization and giving him friendly platforms on major networks like CBS. An expanded definition of racism is at the crux of his ideology, and its sowing deep divisions in the country as moderate, conservative, liberal, and neutral Americans realize theyre being implicated in a heinous and rightfully stigmatized belief.

Downstream of this conflict over the definition of racism is our inability to talk through disagreements. As the left settled on its radical progressive-or-bigot binarywhich categorizes every dissenter from cultural leftism as a bigotconversation has become enormously difficult and risky across the ideological spectrum.

In this example, Court Westcotts clumsy and aggressive disagreement with Moons anti-racism drew cries of bigotry. Make no mistake, the tweet would have erupted into controversy whether or not it included the ill-advised Nazi parallel.

Westcott is not a victim. Moon is not a victim. Theyre both celebrities with the resources to wade into these storms. Indeed, Moon intentionally used her platform on the show to fight perceived racism, as Bravo seems to have instructed a handful of new cast members.

Therein lies the problem. Bravo is trying to brush off criticism of its politically incorrect reality stars by balancing them out with contrived lessons from enlightened new cast members. Its not constructive.

I have zero problems with the housewives wading into politics. It can actually be pretty great. But when forced, its divisive and canned. Further, when the network calls political balls and strikes to placate its employees and social media critics, it reinforces radical leftist standards that hurt working people most, setting norms that chill their speech and put their jobs on the line while enhancing the power of corporate giants.

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