"One of the great things going for Democrats who want to silence their opponents is that they don’t have to fumpher around with the First Amendment’s prohibitions against censorship.
Instead, corporate America, unconstrained by the First Amendment, will do the silencing for them.
The latest example comes by way of Professor Gad Saad, a famed evolutionary behavior scientist and author, who found himself silenced at Psychology Today for daring to say mean things about Seth Rogen.
In today’s America, if you’re a leftist, you’re perpetually above reproach.
...Seth Rogen is worth about $80 million.
He’s also an avowed socialist.
...It was this hypocrisy that led Gad Saad to get into a Twitter spat with Rogen at the end of January.
After the Twitter back-and-forth, Saad wrote up an essay for Psychology Today (which you can find archived here) in which he quoted at length from their exchange.
He concluded that Rogen is a “hypocritical fraud” and that he and the other leftists in his world are “vacuous parasitic virtue-signalers”:
Bottom line: In order for a signal to be an honest one, it must be handicapping; it must be costly to the one who emits the signal.
Bottom line: In order for a signal to be an honest one, it must be handicapping; it must be costly to the one who emits the signal.
...Seth Rogen and other champagne socialists do not live out their convictions.
They are vacuous parasitic virtue signallers who wear Che Guevara t-shirts from the luxury of their Malibu homes.
...The article took off, probably because people were delighted to see someone speak honestly about the vapid hypocrisy that permeates Hollywood.
Psychology Today, though, pulled the article...Read all.
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