Dealing with crybullies
For some time now, we've been plagued with an onslaught of "Social Justice Warriors." They get into people's faces and scream and scream and scream until they get their own way. Whether it's gay marriage, transsexuals, or the minority-du jour, nothing will satisfy them but getting their own way. And, of course, running anybody who dares to stand up to them or who "offends" them (an easy thing to do; their skins are as thin as newborn mice) out of his employment.
Some while ago, Brendan Eich, one of the people who made Mozilla (creator of the Firefox web browser among other things) possible, was forced out of the company. Had he stolen anything? No! Had he harmed anybody? No! Was he under indictment for loathsome crimes? No! He'd donated a thousand dollars or so to a campaign for Proposition Eight, an initiative (which comes from the voters, not from the legislature) to the effect that only marriages between one man and one woman were recognized in California. You know---the rule that was universal until the SJWs started screaming about how "unfair" it was. So for this thoughtcrime, he was kicked to the curb. (And a lot of people who didn't like this uninstalled Firefox on their computers; I'm told that its market share has gone down precipitously.)
Orson Scott Card, having made the mistake of standing firm on his Mormon beliefs, has been the repeated target of flak from these maniacs. He's a former Hugo winner, but having dared to utter the blasphemous words "I oppose gay marriage," his chances of ever seeing another award in the field he's been in for decades are about like my chances for employment. And when he was going to be writing for the Superman comic, they raised such a fuss that DC had to let him go. They'd love to see him starving in the gutter.
And it isn't just the gays. "Black Lives Matter" has become a plague on the land, abetted by the round-heeled press which is dominated heavily by veterans of the Civil Rights Movement era, and by cowardly authorities who give in endlessly to them. They've forced resignations of people who they took a dislike to, invaded college libraries to scream at people who're trying to study, and rioted again and again and again, usually because they were butthurt over the police shooting some poor misunderstood youth who was about to turn his life around, release a rap album and be a good father to at least some of his children, just because the misunderstood youth (or "gentle giant") assaulted a police officer, or pointed a gun (or what looked extremely like a gun) at one, or jumped and tried to beat to death the wrong person.
The reason these crybullies get so much of what they want is because nobody has the stones to stand up to them. If the pro-Second-Amendment people had been as cowardly as those faced with the SJWs' tantrums, I would bet that BB guns would be illegal now. The way to deal with these people is not to retreat, not to concede one thing, not to give in one goddamn inch!
The authorities at the University of Missouri should have expelled all those protesters, and made damn sure that no other college would ever take them, ever. Let them work at Mighty Mart for the rest of their worthless lives, asking themselves if reliving the glory days of the campus protests of the Sixties was really worth it. And the people dealing with riots should get orders to put them down with as much force as needed, as well as protection from the media and retaliatory lawsuits. Once a protest is no longer peaceful, as far as I am concerned, it is fair game.
Speaking of our Pravda-like media, one tactic I've long advocated is for those of us who are sick of its one-sided coverage to take action. No, not protest outside their offices---they'd just spin it as a bunch of racist/sexist/fascist/cisgendered/transphobic/homophobes making a fuss about their inevitable defeat. Instead, if everybody who dislikes the news media bought a few shares in the companies that own that media, and give the proxies to people who'll use them. Even an owner of one share has the right to attend a shareholders' meeting, or to send a proxy to that meeting if he or she can't make it. If I had the proxies for about, say, one-fourth of all shares in the Washington Post, or Time-Warner, and I made it very clear that I'd be voting to oust all the current members of the Board of Directors unless some changes were made in coverage, I'd get some action. And biased editors and reporters would get the word, fast, that a new sheriff was in town, and either start trimming their coverage to reflect the new reality, or be out on the street trying to get new jobs in an industry that's slowly dying.