Megyn Kelly Desperately Grovels to her New Friends on the Left After Committing Wrongthink [Warden]

Apologizing out of her... wherever.

The quivering lip was a nice touch. And here I thought this broad was tough. Well, there's a cost to everything, Megyn. You've only yourself to blame for your willing humiliation.

“I’m Megyn Kelly. And I want to begin with two words — I’m sorry,” the Megyn Kelly Today host said as she fought back tears. “You may have heard that yesterday we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes, and that conversation turned to whether it is ever OK for a person of one race to dress up as another — a black person making their face lighter or a white person making theirs darker… I defended the idea.”

She added: “I was wrong and I am sorry. One of the great parts of sitting in this chair each day is getting to discuss different points of view. Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen, and yesterday I learned. I learned given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country, it is not OK for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise.”

Al Roker then took the opportunity to kick her while she was down, demanding that she apologize further to all "people of color" and also America.

I'm not going to lose any sleep over Megyn Kelly's treatment--she willingly threw in her lot with these cretins after all--but I do have a few questions.

First, who elected Al Roker to High Priest of Forgiveness. And second, why is there any need to apologize at all?

Megyn Kelly is literally paid to have an opinion. That's what these shows are about--conflicting viewpoints--and that is her role. It is, then, to be expected that she or others might sometimes take a position that a significant part of the viewership might find distasteful.

She insulted no one. She belittled no one. She harmed no one. She simply offered an opinion and an argument.

But argument in this culture is no longer a vehicle with which to establish truth, standards, or the best way forward. Rather, it is used as a means of establishing who is the better person.

There are good people with their good opinions and bad people with their bad opinions and that is that.

We've gotten quite used to these modern day struggle sessions--the blubbering, the self condemnation, the begging--but even as we cast a cynical eye toward the gleeful mobbing of any who dares deviate from current year left-wing groupthink, it's easy to forget what a healthy approach to disagreement looks like.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that Kelly got it wrong. If the purpose of argumentation is to convince and convert others to your position, then wouldn't her change of heart be cause for celebration?

We've changed the attitude of an influencer! Hooray! We're making progress in winning others to our point of view. Good news, indeed!

That is the attitude that healthy, mature adults would take, but notice that this isn't ever what happens.

No, leftists remain outraged even after apology and contrition--angry that the heretical thought ever dared exist at all.

This twisted reaction has its roots in Leninism where spoken heresies earned you removal from the party-- stripped of rank and power if lucky, a bullet delivered to the head in some dank basement if unlucky, worked literally to death in the gulags if unluckier still.

The brokenness of this malicious method of establishing "correctness" (for it cannot be considered a quest for truth) is compounded by the precarious, ever shifting landscape of what is deemed appropriate expression. Power decides what is permitted to be spoken and what is not. But we often do not know who has that power until the disagreement has been fleshed out. And because an argument always must have at least two sides, one position will always lose and thus be condemned

It is eliminationist in both deed and thought, stunting and stifling the ability to think and reason en masse.

A healthy, robust society would have very few intellectual taboos. A rotting one has innumerable ones. The reaction to Megyn Kelly's apparent heresy has nothing whatsoever to do with thought or reason. It is simple will to power travelling a bent path of unearned self-righteousness.

Here are the words to be uttered that make you the better man, my faithful NPCs. Tomorrow there will be others. Some will be dropped, others added. Be sure to tune in and do not unplug! For to unfailing say the correct things at the right moment is to be saved. To do otherwise, no matter the reason, is to cast oneself into the lake of fire.

Update: Remember when we could laugh at things?

posted by Open Blogger at 08:30 PM

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