Joe Concha: If You Say Something Against the Woke Mob, ‘You Will Be Eliminated’
KILMEADE: “That’s called winning a debate. You go back and forth, ‘Here is where you are wrong, Mr. President.’ Then you win. Let’s see if he can do that. Next, I want you to hear what Bari Weiss, the former ‘New York Times’ opinion editor, said on Bill Maher’s show about the cancel culture.”
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WEISS: “In order to do your job well, writers and editors, we need to have a level of bravery and thick skin and fearlessness. And when you are living in fear of an online mob, that’s extremely dangerous. What cancel culture is about, it’s not criticism. It’s about punishment. The writer Jonathan Rouch has called it something like social murder.”
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KILMEADE: “That’s very interesting. Left-wing Bill Maher talking to somebody who leans left, the former editor of the ‘Times’ agreeing that we have gotten too intolerant as a country.”
CONCHA: “As a columnist, Bari Weiss, right, she was maybe center for ‘The New York Times,’ maybe a little bit left of center. I found that to be a fascinating conversation on Friday night. And she also said something I found very interesting. When you take away civil debate, Brian, right, and you lose the ability just to simply disagree on things but find a common ground, the next logical step is violence. And we are seeing that on a nightly basis in cities like Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, New York, Atlanta, across the country. We can’t even debate anymore. Now it’s just, ‘Okay, burn it down.’ Because it’s not just about correcting somebody or disagreeing, to Bari Weiss’s point, it’s about making somebody radioactive and taking away their livelihood. Brian. That’s a dangerous time now. We saw it at ‘The New York Times,’ Bari Weiss’s own paper, where an editor was literally eliminated, forced to resign because he ran an editorial from Tom Cotton, Republican, advocating for the use of the military during mass protests that get out of control, that get violent. A majority of the American people agreed with that according to polling. No, not good enough. The woke mob came for that editor and now he doesn’t have a job today. We are seeing that across the country. You say something that the woke mob doesn’t agree with and you will be eliminated. And, boy, is that a scary time right now.”
KILMEADE: “But, Joe, you know what’s interesting? You know the person who has not been eliminated after four years, who says things that are not politically correct every single day in Tweets? This guy named president Donald Trump. And it drives people nuts they can’t eliminate him. That’s why it’s all-hands-on-deck to get Joe Biden as president. They couldn’t stop him with the Russia investigation. They couldn’t stop him Ukraine. Now they’re trying to stop him after four years. They were spreading words, telling other countries, ‘Don’t worry, he is going to be impeached. You are not going to have to deal with him for long.’ He is the only one they have been unable to stop.”
CONCHA: “And the reason why, Brian, is he is unapologetic. You can agree or disagree with what the President has to say, but the bottom line is that he stays with his principles regardless of what the reaction is. And we saw that with the Goya CEO recently, right? Where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the online mob, tried to cancel him, his company not far from me here in Jersey, 4,000 employees, just because he said something nice about President Trump, just like he said something nice about President Obama. You say anything nice about this president, apparently your company has to go out of business. He said, ‘No, sorry. I’m standing by exactly what I said and I’m not going to bow to a social media mob that doesn’t really represent the country. It represents five minutes in the Twitter sphere and that’s it.’ Companies in general and people in general shouldn’t overreact to something that catches fire in Twitter for about five minutes.”
