{"id":211360,"date":"2021-03-26T02:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T23:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/never-apologize-rally-friends-and-punch-back-harder\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T02:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T23:23:48","slug":"never-apologize-rally-friends-and-punch-back-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/never-apologize-rally-friends-and-punch-back-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"#Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder<\/strong>”
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Americans hate woke culture, as I noted in these pages not too long ago. Black, white, Republican and Democrat, a large majority of Americans oppose it. Even people like former President Barack Obama, Bill Maher and ultra-liberal comedienne Sarah Silverman hate it (Maher calls it \u201cStalinist\u201d).<\/p>\n

But it keeps going. Why is that? And what can you<\/em> do about it \u2014 especially if you or someone you are close to comes under attack? In short, it keeps going because it\u2019s easy and fun \u2014 and you have to make it less so.<\/p>\n

Lesson one: Don\u2019t panic \u2014 and don\u2019t give in. Ian Prior, of Loudoun County, Va., publishes The Daily Malarkey, an Internet humor site that goes after what he calls the \u201cChardonnay Antifa.\u201d\u00a0As he recently recounted to Fox News<\/a>, after he published an op-ed attacking political correctness, he found himself on the sharp end of woke attacks led by a group of teachers, administrators and woke citizens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to news reports, the Loudoun Stalinists put together a list of people opposing their policies and planned to \u201chack\u201d them, \u201cexpose\u201d them and \u201cinfiltrate\u201d them.\u00a0Did Prior chicken out?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

No. He called them out, he mocked them, and he made sure the whole thing got as much attention as possible.\u00a0Now there\u2019s a criminal investigation into the group. The publicity not only generated blowback against the people who targeted him, it also brought in lots of new subscribers to The Daily Malarkey.\u00a0Win-win.<\/p>\n

Learn from this. Never apologize, don\u2019t act afraid, and, to borrow a phrase from Obama, \u201cpunch back twice as hard.\u201d Call the mob out for what it is:\u00a0a bunch of bad people trying to pretend they stand for something moral.\u00a0Going after people for their political views this way isn\u2019t an act of morality. It\u2019s an attempt at political terrorism, and it\u2019s un-American.<\/p>\n

The second lesson: Stick together. The woke mob tries to isolate its victims and to make others afraid to stand up for them.\u00a0Instead, it\u2019s important to ask for help from friends and potential supporters, if you\u2019re a target, and to offer it to the targets if you\u2019re on the sidelines. Solidarity.<\/p>\n

This is what\u2019s going on with the University of San Diego Law School, whose dean shamefully capitulated to an absurd student campaign against a professor who did nothing wrong. In a post on his personal blog, Professor Thomas Smith said that those who dismiss the possibility that the Wuhan coronavirus escaped from a lab there were \u201cswallowing whole a set of Chinese\u201d\u00a0\u2014 and here he used an scatological phrase meaning, in effect, \u201cbalderdash.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was, of course, referring to the Chinese regime\u2019s denials, which are facing growing scientific skepticism.<\/p>\n

Asian students complained \u2014 preposterously \u2014 that this was somehow a racist slur against Chinese people, rather than a criticism of the brutal Communist regime. Rather than telling them that, as law students, they needed to work on their reading skills, Dean Robert Schapiro issued a craven response, suggesting that there was some basis to the complaints.\u00a0In an e-mail to the law-school community, he charged Smith with \u201cbias\u201d and with using \u201coffensive\u201d language and announced an investigation.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s where the story changes.\u00a0Some of the most eminent faculty members at the law school \u2014 including such big names as Larry Alexander, Maimon Schwarzschild, Steve Smith, Chris Wonnell and Gail Heriot \u2014 fired back at Schapiro. They wrote: \u201cWe are concerned that treating these complaints the way you are doing validates student reactions and strained interpretations that are misguided, that reflect a lack of critical thinking and that will chill faculty members\u2019 teaching and scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then outside groups got involved, including various organizations that fight for free inquiry and free speech on campus. These included the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which sues universities over such things. FIRE demanded that the university \u201cimmedia<\/a>tely cease\u201d its investigation of Smith.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bad week for Dean Schapiro.\u00a0And that\u2019s lesson three.\u00a0University and corporate bosses give into the woke because it\u2019s painless and easier than fighting them. Make it painful and difficult instead, and they\u2019ll change their ways. Take this to heart. The sane can<\/em> win.<\/p>\n

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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