March 10, 2021 at 4:42 p.m.
Goodbye Pepe Le Pew, we hardly knew ye
Goodbye Pepe Le Pew, we hardly knew ye
We suppose we shouldn't be surprised. Mr. Le Pew was pretty much the Andrew Cuomo of animated comics, sexually harassing every female in cartoon land. Were it not for Harvey Weinstein, he could be the poster child for male rape culture, as a New York Times columnist essentially (and unbelievably) accused the character of being.
Of course, the negative stereotype was the point. Pepe was never meant to be a role model; the cartoon was a lampoon of the prototypical male harasser and was meant to be seen as a villain - a humorous one, to be sure - never to to be emulated.
Pepe was, after all, portrayed as a skunk with the name "Le Pew." He was a stinker all the way around.
That a columnist in the New York Times started all the fuss while a real-life Pepe is serving as the governor of that state - and still drawing accolades from many Democrats, or at least winning their silence - speaks volumes about today's cancel culture.
It is a caricature of itself.
No matter. Just like Looney Tunes, cancel culture is a brand, owned in whole by the Democratic Party and the liberal-left. If you're a member of the club, you're entitled to be the worst human being you want to be; everyone else who runs afoul of the club can be made to go away.
So Pepe Le Pew was a monument to rape culture, and he had to go. More often these days, though, the things liberals dislike must go away on the grounds that they are racist.
Trader Joe's is racist for calling its Mexican line of foods Trader Jose. The movie "Dunkirk" is racist because it was full of white male actors, who portrayed actual white male officers in the real Dunkirk battle.
The word "clan" is racist, so don't go advertise your family reunion as a gathering of the Smith or Jones clan. That will have the ACLU at your doorstep; the days when they defended KKK marches in small midwestern towns are long gone.
Steve Martin's classic King Tut sketch is racist. The Senate filibuster is racist. All white people are racist. Yup, every one of them. And, if we didn't already know it, the British monarchy is racist, too. (Thanks and a hat tip to Meghan Markle for pointing this out in her Oprah interview.)
Oh, and if you don't support the Harris - ur, Biden - administration's $1.9-trillion cash redistribution scheme, aka COVID relief, you're racist, too. Ditto for all the government lockdown schemes of the past year because, you know, minorities are more affected by COVID-19. Never mind they are even more affected than other communities by the lockdowns, which destroyed some 40% of all black businesses.
Of course, this is all a tactic by globalism's ruling class to justify censorship, totalitarianism, and the protection of their own privilege. Labeling everybody but themselves as white supremacists or sexist or just in general a threat to public health and safety justifies their suppression of democracy and constitutional rights.
They are enslaving us to save us, really, and we should just trust them.
After all, free speech was never meant to be really free, the liberal-left tells us. In fact, to them, free speech itself is racist because minorities have not be given their proper voice in society. Away with it then.
Left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald perhaps put it best: "The overarching rule of liberal media and politics is you are free to accuse anyone of any kind of bigotry that casually crosses your mind - just smear them as a racist, misogynist, transphobe, etc. without the slightest need for evidence - and it is completely acceptable."
To be sure, the ruling elites invoke not just racism to justify their growing power and riches. As it turns out, according to an impeccable source (themselves), the elites are the truly oppressed in society.
Most recently, it was Ms. Markle and her junior partner, Prince Harry, who enlightened us. They were bullied by the Palace, they said, and there were all sorts of racist and sexist things done to them, and so they had to flee to the equivalent of a royal trailer court - a $14.6-million mansion in Montecito, Calif. - and then subsist on Harry's $13 million inheritance until their meager stipends from Netflix and Spotify deals kick in.
And, as Tucker Carlson recently pointed out, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama said they were oppressed, too: Ms. Clinton by Russians and deplorables; Michelle by, well, we guess all of us.
The bottom line is, the rich and powerful can never truly be free until they take away the tools of oppression average people wield against them, such things as freedom of speech and movement and assembly - our individual liberties.
We have reached a powerful intersectional moment around the world and in America. We have all-powerful Big Tech monopolies that, along with progressive media, control the nation's news and flow of information and that seek to censor it to its likings; we have its alignment of interests with that of Democrats who control the federal government and with that of a powerful public health-Big Pharma syndicate.
In short, we are facing a Goliath of global power unprecedented in our nation's history - far more powerful than the robber barons of old, when industry captains corrupted and controlled government - and it is threatening the foundations of the American republic.
They have put us in a boiling stew: Control of daily life and activity by public health edicts; control of thought and speech by Big Tech, at the behest of the Democratic Party; and a massive redistribution of wealth that finally, once and for all, destroys the middle class, or what's left of it.
Consider this. The redistribution of wealth to billionaires during the pandemic is estimated to be about $1.3 trillion, as profits for Amazon and Facebook and similar companies have soared and filled the pockets of a handful of billionaires. That's $1.3 trillion out of the pockets of small- and medium-sized businesses and hard-working Americans.
Little surprise, then, that Big Tech supports government lockdown policies and works to snuff out "misinformation" about those policies.
At the other end of the scale, another $2 trillion, at least, will now be spent to complete the economic transformation to government dependence and to make sure those small- and medium sized businesses don't ever flourish again.
Interestingly, the new-found wealth of those billionaires could pay for two-thirds of the Democrats' new social engineering legislation, but don't hold your breath waiting for them to offer to foot the bill.
And don't question why not, either, because that would be offensive and probably racist misinformation in the guise of inquiry. They are oppressed people, after all, and are too traumatized to answer many questions. Probably right now, they are sobbing over drinks beside Meghan's pool.
That smell you are noticing right about now? It comes from on high, from within the ruling elite. It's an odor not even Pepe Le Pew could take.
It is so offensive, it should make you mad.
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