"The remarkable thing about Colin Kaepernick’s banning of Nike ’s Betsy Ross flag sneaker to commemorate the Fourth of July isn’t that it happened, but how easily it happened.
Nike’s management simply folded over “concerns that it could unintentionally offend.”
...No one has ever thought to go looking inside corporate headquarters for profiles in courage, but the lurch toward timidity in our time by individuals at the top of America’s private and public institutions is something to behold.
Pusillanimity has become a plague.
...But for the increasingly Mao-like American left, even this choked-down acceptance of their political assaults isn’t enough.They no longer seem content with winning.
The left today has a compulsion to force obedience again and again.
Thus, You didn’t like Wahoo and Kate Smith?
Try this: We’re getting rid of your racist Betsy Ross flag, and you’ll shut your face and take it.
What they want from their opposition isn’t agreement with their ideas but submission—a kind of political lobotomization.
And disturbingly, a lot of contemporary leaders—at Nike, the Yankees, the Flyers, almost any university—are volunteering to assist in the procedure..."
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