Morgan Wallen, a country music singer, used the N-word and both iHeart and Cumulus took his songs off the radio. Someone videoed Wallen using the word not in anger or contempt at a black person, but in the way a whole lot of people apparently use it in casual reference to a friend.
Mimi Groves, a freshman in high school, used the N-word similarly. In a three second Snapchat clip, she proudly announced to those she referenced with the N-word that she’d gotten her license. Three years after she uttered it, in her senior year with a scholarship to the University of Tennessee, Jimmy Galligan, a classmate, used the video to destroy Ms. Groves’ academic prospects. The University of Tennessee canceled her scholarship. The New York Times wrote approvingly of Mr. Galligan ruing Ms. Groves’ scholarship.
Hunter Biden, the 51-year-old son of the President of the United States, used the same word in the same way repeatedly in text messages. The major media outlets across the country that condemned Mr. Wallen and Ms. Groves are silent. Why? Well, we know why. Had the text messages of Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, or Ivanka Trump been leaked in the same way and said the same thing, the press would have a field day. You cannot deny that.
While Eric Trump was out raising money for children’s charities, Hunter Biden was mingling with crack, prostitutes, and using the N-word. The media routinely pillories the former and his siblings while ignoring or defending Hunter Biden.
The N-word has become the one word, the use of which, can destroy a person’s career. But it is routinely used in popular music that is listened to and enjoyed across racial lines. The word has become weaponized beyond the power any word should have if it can be used to selectively target and destroy.
If the double standard cancelations continue, people will begin to use the word more, supposing the double standard is faux outrage at a word so common in parts of popular culture. Put another way, if the press will ignore Hunter Biden for the same sins of Wallen and Groves, many will presume the use of the word is not really a cultural sin and they will be bolder in use of it.
Erick,
And if we dig hard enough into the pasts of the various members of Woke-O-Haram who got Morgan Wallen's music pulled from the airwaves, or those who casually destroyed Mimi Groves' future, the odds are overwhelming that we'd find something which could be used to destroy them. Christ told the mob of His day that in John 8:7, when He told those who wanted to stone the adultress, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Every one of us has something in our pasts which, were it known in the present, would ruin us. That is in itself a grave error, as judging the past by the standards of the present leads to bad historical scholarship, and worse moral (?) judgement.
As is almost always the case in such things, people are starting to casually destroy each other, each trying to be the most "woke". Even Democrat members of the House are engaging in the practice as regards Rep. Ilhan Omar: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/557859-progressives-rally-behind-omar-while-accusing-her-critics-of-bias The genius of the American Revolution as opposed to others through history, is that we did not start (politically) eating our young, as was the case before it, and again after it. Unleashing the supposedly moral absolutism of "wokeness" has also unleashed rampaging virtue signaling, hypocrisy, and those with the Biblical log in their eyes destroying others for the mote in theirs. The cynic in me hopes this state of affairs will continue to say, next November. The Christian in me hopes everyone will walk back from the Satanic trap being laid. Let's all hope and pray that in this struggle between the angels of human nature, the better ones will win, and soon.
Erick (and Army of Activists): I have legitimate concerns you're being censored by big tech. I use "TuneIn" app to stream live, and the EWEricksonshow.com site to "listen live" which then directs to a radio station that streams via the "TunIn" app. Since syndication, or maybe a few days after, I've been receiving messages on the app from a "radio voice" explaining "there's a problem with our service". This same app doesn't have "problems" with Braves Baseball, or Classic Rock, or even talk shows that don't cover politics. Is anyone else experiencing this? The message talks about listening "over the airways" but that's just not as practical as streaming live. I noticed today the Mark Case show, substituting for Erick was not "having problems." Please weigh in on how you listen to Erick. It would be "shocking" if the one unapologetic Christian who pushes back against Woke-o-Harem was being intentionally censored. Thanks!