11/29/2023 0 Comments Ace of spades hq new york timesthink-tank and magazine safe spaces.īut 99.9% of conservatives in America do not work in such safe spaces, and do have to fear that something they say in the breakroom or on Twitter - or in a Google employee suggestion thread where employee suggestions were expressly solicited - will get them fired. "The Protected" do not have to fear a firing, so long as they stay in their little Conservatism, Inc. (But every writer faces that you can't complain if your audience deserts you.) commentariat don't have to fear that their employers will be pressured to fire them due to their political opinions - except, of course, if they stop being relevant to readers. Note that "The Protected" of the Conservatism, Inc. No effect of illegal immigration was likely to hurt them personally. But the protected did fine-more workers at lower wages. Many Americans suffered from illegal immigration-its impact on labor markets, financial costs, crime, the sense that the rule of law was collapsing. You know the Democrats won't protect you and the Republicans won't help you. If you are an unprotected American-one with limited resources and negligible access to power-you have absorbed some lessons from the past 20 years' experience of illegal immigration. They're insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions. Some of them-in Washington it is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill in Brussels, significant figures in the European Union-literally have their own security details.īecause they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, they've got some money. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. They are figures in government, politics and media. I want to call them the elite to load the rhetorical dice, but let's stick with the protected. Again, they make public policy and have for some time. More to the point, they are protected from the world they have created. They are protected from much of the roughness of the world. The protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successful-those who have power or access to it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully. There are the protected and the unprotected. It is a theme that has been something of a preoccupation in this space over the years, but I think I am seeing it now grow into an overall political dynamic throughout the West. There are many answers and reasons, but my thoughts keep revolving around the idea of protection. Most of the professionals I know are stuck somewhere between four and five.īut I keep thinking of how Donald Trump got to be the very likely Republican nominee. Last October I wrote of the five stages of Trump, based on the Kübler-Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Note that she talks mostly about immigration and its effects here, but I'd suggest that people read "threats of firing due to speech/beliefs" in place of "concerns over displacement by uncontrolled immigration." In America now only normal people are capable of seeing the obvious.īut actually that's been true for a while, and is how we got in the position we're in. I'm not a fan of Williamson's but I don't want him blackballed.īut I do seem to notice the sorts of people French is willing to exert himself to White Knight for: The people Peggy Noonan called "The Protected." Now, I don't have any particular beef with those folks. quilting bee), and Charles Murray (political scientist and author who has a lot of nice postings in conservative institutions). He has previously White Knighted for Bari Weiss (New York Times columnist making, I assume, sweet bank), Kevin Williamson (permanent member of the Conservatism, Inc. Alex the Chick Rant: David French's Strange Notions of Who Needs/Deserves His White Knighting, and Who Doesn'tĪs you know, David French is currently White Knighting for NFL millionaires.
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