From Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury (emphasis hers):
We need more people to start speaking out, writing whatever they want, and risk their jobs and "reputations" to do so.
You need to vocally violate all rules and regulations about "political correctness" at every opportunity.
This is part of a response to a petition going around Canada that asks that politicians stop violating free speech in the name of political correctness and other identity/victim politics. The point being that petitions (especially online ones) are a safe and thoroughly ineffectual method of engaging in politics.
Which is a very good point. Petitions don't get a politician to do what you want. Getting a bunch of people to politely ask the State to give them rights that the State itself took away is as naive as believing that if we ask nice Iran will stop build nukes. No, the will of the people only matters because of the threat of the mob.
So long as middle class conservatives allow these indignities and do no more than follow the official democratic process, they will see their rights and liberties disappear. Boycotts and strikes work because they hurt. Liberal protests matter, even with only a dozen (career) protesters, because they carry the threat of violence.
Political correctness will be the rule until conservatives stop appeasing liberals and avoiding trouble and actually risk something.
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