{"id":435935,"date":"2022-04-22T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/maybe-elon-musk-should-give-up-on-twitter-and-let-it-destroy-the-woke\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:44:15","slug":"maybe-elon-musk-should-give-up-on-twitter-and-let-it-destroy-the-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maybe-elon-musk-should-give-up-on-twitter-and-let-it-destroy-the-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"#Maybe Elon Musk should give up on Twitter \u2014\u00a0and let it destroy the woke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4047428e2b3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4047428e2b3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maybe-elon-musk-should-give-up-on-twitter-and-let-it-destroy-the-woke\/#%E2%80%9CMaybe_Elon_Musk_should_give_up_on_Twitter_%E2%80%94_and_let_it_destroy_the_woke%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Maybe Elon Musk should give up on Twitter \u2014\u00a0and let it destroy the woke&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMaybe_Elon_Musk_should_give_up_on_Twitter_%E2%80%94_and_let_it_destroy_the_woke%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Maybe Elon Musk should give up on Twitter \u2014\u00a0and let it destroy the woke&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Maybe we\u2019re better off if Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to take over <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> fails. No, wait, hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been rooting for the Tesla CEO in his battle with Twitter\u2019s sad board of directors, whose members seem eager to protect their power and position. And it\u2019s been fun to watch all the establishment pundits, academics and regulators circle the wagons against a man whose unpardonable sin is a desire to let people speak freely. He might even stop them from abusing their power to affect elections (always on behalf of Democrats, of course), which is intolerable.<\/p>\n<p>But now I\u2019m having second thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Elon Musk would be good for Twitter, making it a better, more wholesome place. But set against that is the obvious reality that Twitter has been terrible for the left and its institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter isn\u2019t reality. The vast majority of Americans don\u2019t care about what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens on Twitter. The views expressed there \u2014 in favor of \u201cwokeness,\u201d critical race theory and trans issues \u2014 don\u2019t reflect the views of most Americans. But the people running America\u2019s institutions, and the left, act as if Twitter is reality.<\/p>\n<p>Through Twitter they interact with one another, one-up each other in performative politics and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly form a highly distorted view of the world and how it works. Twitter makes them feel powerful because they can band together and gang up on people they want to cancel, and often the folks running the institutions where those people work are foolish enough to think that Twitter sentiment means something.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-2-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Elon Musk attends the official opening of the new Tesla manufacturing plant in Gruenheide, Germany on March 22. \" class=\"wp-image-21992247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Musk attends the official opening of the new Tesla manufacturing plant in Gruenheide, Germany on March 22. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christian Marquardt\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But there\u2019s a reason the world isn\u2019t actually run by Mean Girls. The power of gossip, ostracism and backstabbing only gets you so far, and the price of that power is a narrow, distorted world.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>So Democrats have been courting blacks and importing Hispanics for decades in the hope of building a demographic majority, as Ruy Teixeira once proposed. But, as Teixeira now warns, blacks and Hispanics are moving away from the Democratic Party because it\u2019s getting its guidance from woke white people on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>Struggling members of the black and Hispanic (and for that matter white) working class aren\u2019t excited about drag-queen story hours or sermons on systemic racism. They want good jobs at good wages and a chance to get ahead, not political theater and economic stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually any sensible politician of the past century would have seen the Democrats\u2019 approach as suicidal. But the activists who run the party take cues from each other and brook no departures from the cult of The Current Thing, whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate world is, if anything, worse. As Elon Musk himself <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1516600269899026432\">just noted<\/a>, \u201cThe woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.\u201d His statement came after the streaming service reported it had lost more than 200,000 subscribers, its first drop in over a decade, when it had expected to add 2.73 million. That\u2019s rather a big gap, and Netflix shares tumbled.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-4.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Twitter logo displayed on a phone screen\" class=\"wp-image-21992254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/musk-twitter-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In response to Musk\u2019s bid, Twitter\u2019s board of directors threatened to fight back with a \u201cpoison pill\u201d strategy, creating more shares to dilute the value. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jakub Porzycki\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Why the heavy bleeding? Because, as Musk remarked, Netflix\u2019s executives care more about striking the right political notes than they do about pleasing subscribers. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> include \u201cHe\u2019s Expecting\u201d and \u201cDear White People.\u201d That\u2019s not a sustainable approach, and Netflix is hitting its limits.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just Netflix. On Apple TV+, Jon Stewart\u2019s new show is flopping, with only 180,000 viewers, despite his efforts to go woke with show themes like \u201cThe Problem With White People.\u201d Twentysomethings spouting woke nonsense are tedious enough; guys Jon Stewart\u2019s age doing it are deadly dull.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>CNN+, meanwhile, can only envy Jon Stewart\u2019s numbers. With only 150,000 subscribers against a target of 2 million, it\u2019s shuttering not even a month after it launched. CNN, which once was a hard <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> channel, got woke. And as the saying goes, \u201cGet woke, go broke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woke Disney is also floundering, having picked an unnecessary fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over a bill banning the teaching of sex and gender theory to young children. Though Disney\u2019s employees and executives are strongly opposed to the bill, a majority of Florida voters support it. Now lawmakers are taking a second look at the company\u2019s special legal benefits in Florida \u2014 negotiated when Disney\u2019s public face was the all-American and avuncular Walt.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is exactly right. Wokeness is a \u201cmind virus,\u201d a toxic idea that spreads from one person to another like a zombie plague. It makes you stupid and removes concern for your well-being.<\/p>\n<p>And as I wrote in \u201cThe Social Media Upheaval,\u201d Twitter is the main vector by which this virus is spread. But as long as it\u2019s destroying the left, is it really a good idea to stop it?<\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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