Conservatism is in a difficult position in culture, as we do hold freedom as a value — something we should strive for. But we have to face the reality that freedom isn’t allowed in the entertainment industry for conservatives. If we are held to standards in which our lives can be destroyed for one misstep, the left has to be also. These are the rules, and if we refuse to play by them, we get a continuation of the destructive culture we’ve had for the last 50 years, where our society is pushed further into promotion of sex, drugs, and horrific violence, with anyone who speaks up against it being demonized and destroyed.
Every time the left takes a scalp of someone like Roseanne, we have to fight back by ensuring they don’t protect the likes of a Samantha Bee. We have to find their sponsors, flood the network with emails, become activists ourselves. Bee will always be out there pushing cultural agendas that destroy our values, and letting her do so without opposition only makes our position harder to maintain. We must make large entertainment companies disavow and disassociate with extreme leftists who say and do horrific things if we’re going to begin to bring sanity to culture again.
The problems have escalated in these industries to the point where, unless you can afford not to care about the consequences (like a Peter Thiel or Kanye West), a conservative tech engineer or artist can’t come out of the closet with their real views. It will end a career, cost jobs, and harm families, and most middle class earners can’t afford to do that — and therefore do not have real freedom of speech at all. As conservatives, we are discriminated against and treated like pariahs. It wasn’t long ago that James Damore was fired simply for questioning how Google views diversity in the workplace.
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