When did censorship become ho-hum in America?

…today’s blacklisting (Isn’t it ‘racist’ to use that word?) would make Eugene McCarthy proud.

From our work lives to the milestone events in the lives of our friends and family, every aspect of life for the average American has been upended in 2020. Even funerals have been restricted or canceled unless they are giant propaganda opportunities for Democrats.

More creativity than ever has been required to find “happy places” to escape the misery and confusion of this collective alternate reality because many of our most reliable pastimes have been denied to us as well.

With that in mind, I binge-watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the wildly popular series expected to return for a fourth season if the cast and production crew ever emerges from lock down.

The story of Miriam “Midge” Maisel begins in the late fifties but makes occasional departures from the era to be more politically correct for the average modern viewer.

Liberals and Leftists aren’t the least embarrassed to demand that historic portrayals be held to their own twisted modern moral standards. If Hollywood doesn’t self-censor, their work could be Gone with the Wind.

It’s particularly interesting to know then, that the fictional character of Mrs. Maisel, regularly interacts with the historic figure of Lenny Bruce.

A liberal darling of the late fifties and early sixties, Bruce was constantly being arrested on obscenity charges. This became a cause célèbre for liberals of the day who railed against censorship and fought passionately for Bruce’s rights to the freedom of speech and artistic expression. They had a point.

Without acknowledging an ounce of irony, Liberals of today and those in Hollywood who created “Mrs. Maisel” still take credit for their early support of Lenny Bruce while blatantly encouraging or ignoring censorship by their compatriots in 2020.

There’s no doubt that Lenny Bruce would be arrested in a New York nano second today were he or any other comedian to perform some of his routines, particularly the ones concerning race.

 

How come our new social media and internet jailers haven’t ripped that video down from their site while they consider Prager University videos about the Bible and the Bill of Rights “partially false” and verboten to us peasants.

Lenny Bruce skewered faux outrage over charged racial language by using that same language repeatedly to make the point that they’re just words.  Who gets to decide what words we are allowed to use?  Does the mere use of a word without context automatically mean that you’re a racist?

The accusation of racism has become so prevalent by the unhinged Left, that a person who simply utters what someone else said to tell a story can be branded a racist, sexist or homophobe for quoting them  Those accused can lose their livelihoods and their reputations, particularly if they happen to be conservative or liberals who have been marked for destruction.

Hollywood still hasn’t given up their sense of outrage and victimhood about the blacklists of the late fifties, yet today’s blacklisting (Isn’t it ‘racist’ to use that word?) would make Eugene McCarthy proud.

Most shocking of all, is that this brazen thought and language control is being met with the same passivity or catatonia as this 2020 march into Soviet-style communism. If that’s met with a yawn, what won’t be?

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