It’s all about the ceremony.
**NOTE: At 40:15 I misidentified the hip hop artist in question as Lil Wayne. The person I was referring to was actually Fifty Cent. I apologize for the error.**
https://youtu.be/LsmGNQv29oI
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It’s all about the ceremony.
**NOTE: At 40:15 I misidentified the hip hop artist in question as Lil Wayne. The person I was referring to was actually Fifty Cent. I apologize for the error.**
https://youtu.be/LsmGNQv29oI
17 replies on “AMERICAN SEPPUKU”
It might be closer to seppuku if this public apology was followed by a resignation This is a slap on the wrist, at best, for those without a spine.
It is the French guillotine, if anything. You have broken fraternal bonds and broken away from undeniable truths established by the consensus of the unnamed. Renounce or else.
In the words of my wife’s Irish ancestors: Apologize? Hell no…FOOKUM!
Too bad the ritualistic apology for woke violation is so seldom accompanied by the canceling of the executive officers and the board of directors of these spineless organizations.
My stand on apologies is similar to others here. If I did something wrong and know it is, I apologize. But if someone takes offense that normal people would shrug off (or laugh at) I may tell them off or I may say “I’m sorry you feel that way.” And I would be. Sorry that this person is so touchy that almost everything offends them. How can they funtion? I also, if think they in effect, want my blood I may tell them off and/or say. “Well, I’m offended that you think I’m that nasty. You don’t know me you bigot/sexist/racist/ageist) or all of them as applies.
In our church the essence of forgiveness is based on two things: acknowledgement of the wrong committed and acceptance of the punishment. While a vague statement, the importance is that a person accepts responsibility for the right reasons. The punishment is to be appropriate, of course, and the act of acceptance is not simply tan attempt to avoid punishment or, in the case you described, to avoid damage to one’s business. We are a snowflake society nowadays and even as you describe, “ordinary” people see the “damage” inflicted by “free speech.” Of course there is an intention involved in some actions, which leads back to the matter of needing “forgiveness”. What you emphasize is the willingness to trade “right” for “dollars”. As a link to your last comment about Dane geld, Jefferson said, “Millions for defense and not one penny for tribute.”
And on the subject of American Seppuku, let me once again call out the episode of “The Orville”, “Majority Rule”. It shows a society completely governed by upvotes and downvotes in social media.
One of the things I noticed and rather admire about Donald Trump is that he just plain doesn’t care about race. Because of this, he doesn’t dance around the politically correct language of the moment. And because of that, he gets called “racist” and other names the Left uses to control behavior.
But he doesn’t care, because he doesn’t care about race in the first place.
God bless your moral courage bill…I stand with you.
Nascar bowed down to the woke mob earlier this year and Nascar was my last professional sports pleasure until then, when I swore off viewing and following the Cup races.
I am disgusted that the NFL, NBA, MLB and even hockey, not to mention the obviously biased women’s soccer league, feels the need to appease the public terror of today’s Jacobins erroneously known for being so morally “woke.”
I’m awake, not woke.
I think that the best way to apologize to The Radical Left was uttered @ 30 years ago by the urban poet Michael Muir in this instructional video: https://youtu.be/nxcJW6bs5os?t=285
I won’t apologize for an inadvertent offending of someone claiming to represent 0.02 percent of the population. Or any percentage of the population, if I lacked intent.
Generally, I tend to suggest performing what biologists might refer to as some sort of hermaphroditic reproductive exercise.
I will never apologize for anything I’ve done or said because chances are I meant what I did or said. If it offends them, it was meant to offend. I won’t be adjusting my life to fit anyone else’s narrative just to please them. I pride myself with being a fair person and expect to be treated the same way. If your intention is to offend me, expect to get it right back. I’m sick to death of having to fit someone else’s mold and just want to be myself and give you my respect if you deserve it. You have to earn that. I don’t owe you anything just for being a minority. If you come at me with an attitude, expect to get one in return.
I think I’ve said enough.
Isn’t it interesting that while people allow themselves to be shamed and disgraced for nonexistent offenses. The behaviors that used to bring shame and disgrace when many of us were growing up are now accepted as normal, getting thrown out of the military, out of wedlock birth, failing to support your children, idleness, drug use, chronic unemployment , being on public assistance while able bodied, on and on . People may no longer be judged for their self destructive lifestyles instead we are instructed by our ‘betters’ that we must ‘understand’ them. In fact it is our lack of understanding that is the problem.
I don’t apologize for things I say. Never have, never will. Except when it’s the right thing to do for individuals I care about. So, basically, what Bill said.
Reminds me of a song . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eXIOK2vOhM
I about fell out my chair when Bill said that about 50 Cent.
We sure do need to stand up for ourselves.
One that made me cringe was Drew Brees who ended up dissing his forebears who fought for this country. So sad!