There has been a slew of stories about people who have lost their jobs because they have celebrated the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk. Some of these people have been people with very high profiles. Jimmy Kimmel is one such individual.
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) went on MSNBC (now MS NOW) to share her reaction to Disney’s ABC pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely.”
“This is a five-alarm fire. It is deeply concerning to me and ought to be to every single person watching the perilous course that we are on. We didn’t have to agree with what Jimmy Kimmel said, but we have a right in this country to speak freely. And having the government sanction what we say, to censor what we say, to control what we say is a very dangerous, dangerous precedent.”
Apparently, Alsobrooks is a little short on facts perhaps intentionally so. Jimmy Kimmel has not been censored. His employer decided that his “schtick” was no longer appropriate for ABC. Kimmel is still able to spew his venom anywhere that he wants to in this country. It is just that his former employer has decided that Kimmel can no longer do it while working for them. And this is part of the First Amendment as well. It is called Freedom of Association.
Some of Kimmel’s friends in show business have decided that they will boycott ABC. Again, this is their right to do so. If it happens to remove some lunatics from the discourse in this country, that is a good thing.
The thing that stands out in all of this is the fact that these people seem surprised by the reaction of normal people to the venom that they spew. Scott Adams has discussed why people are shocked to have to face consequences for cheering the murder of Charlie Kirk.
There are numerous stories of teachers and people associated with schools who are getting canceled—meaning fired—for saying horrible things: essentially being happy, or saying it was justified, that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. What do you think about that? People are losing their jobs all over the place.
Well, let me tell you the thing that is most shocking about that. The most shocking thing is that the people who spoke out that way believed they wouldn’t get fired. I think they were all surprised, which means they’ve been living entirely within a bubble in which they thought other people would agree with that. Are you kidding me?
Just how warped is one’s view of reality that one would think it is okay to murder an upstanding, moral person. Not only think it is okay, but to think that almost all people would cheer that act? This has nothing to do with free speech. Kimmel will not be prosecuted for what he said.
Predictably, the Democrats are defending the venom that Kimmel spouted. Mortgage fraudster Sen. Adam Schiff had this to say.
“This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in American history. What will be left of the First Amendment when he’s done?”
It has everything to do with what are acceptable social norms within a civilized society. Some want to excuse Kimmel’s remarks as something he misspoke. However, judging by his past history, something akin to this was to be expected from him.
Scott Adams: They thought they were in the bubble of reality where—let’s say that Hitler was an American and he died—would you feel bad about saying, “Thank God Hitler died”? No, you wouldn’t, because you would assume that almost every single person would agree with you. So it would be easy to say that.
These people are saying it in public for the world to see, as if that’s what a normal person would think. How hypnotized would you have to be?
So, in my mind anyway—and I think I’ve said it online at least once—I think of these people as the “hypnotized Hitlerians.” You can drop the “hypnotized” if you need to. But the Hitlerians are people who live in this little world where they think Hitler actually came to power in the United States because so many bad people on the left have been saying that. People should know better.
It is far past time that the fantasy bubble that many on the left live in is shattered. The country will be better off if that happens sooner rather than later.