As IF Times

Source: Boycott Culture Forces CEOs to Walk Tightrope in Trump Era – Bloomberg

The absurdity of the world in which we live continues to plumb new depths. The emboldening of groups that insist on creating identity issues for people to side with has created a society of consumers angry about…everything!  At least it seems this way if you observe the news.

Much of this constant angst and anger is supported by a compliant media, ravenous to report the latest outrage, injustice or imagined slight.  A cake that is refused baking is transmogrified into a national debate on human rights.  The mountain out of molehill business is at an all time high.

And of course the recent phenomenon of boycotting businesses because someone decided that their policies were not in line with righteous principles…as determined by whatever group gets the loudest audience.  Recently, the National Football League even warned the state of Texas that their state may be blackballed for future Super Bowl venues because of…their public restroom policies.

The most recent victims of public bullying and corporate spinelessness are the Trumps.  Not only have the always-angry-about-something left mounted a campaign to boycott anything with a Trump label, they actually impede other non activists from buying anything Trump as well.  Corporations are falling like bowling pins as they prostrate themselves at the altar of political righteousness by the leftist mob.  Budweiser, Coca Cola, Walmart and others surely to follow, are so scared of the negative impact of the mob that they scurry to prove themselves worthy of the mob dollars.

It’s not a stretch to believe that one day, businesses will have to show some kind of proof that no one in their organization has ever uttered a slur, worn fur, didn’t recycle, eaten an animal in anger or owns a gun.  It’s hard to know what’s in vogue as far as the righteous cause of the day, but corporations are anxious not be on the wrong side of it. The resemblance to ISIS enforcement squads may be just a coincidence.

The sanctimony and preposterousness of this recent phenomenon is as laughable as wooden contact lenses.  The irony of the inclusive, feminist, non bullying fringe left using militant fascist tactics to impose their views will be looked upon by future historians with great fascination and no doubt, chagrin.  It’s kind of like that whole ‘religion of peace’ thing.

The only positive thing about this mass insanity is that the movement will eventually consume themselves.  There will be divisions and factions from within that will profess to be the most pure and righteous as they stratify their pecking orders.  It will be Lord of The Flies for lefties.

Update: Texas rebuke of NFL

link Roger Goodell criticized harshly over handling of Ray Rice mess, but he isn’t the one who threw the punch  – NY Daily News.

It may only be apparent to those not involved in generating ratings, but the media inspired frenzy of outrage over Ray Rice’s intemperate actions looks more and more like the tabloid journalism that now dominates American media.  It’s not in debate that Rice’s actions were ungallant at best and perhaps criminal at worst.  But there are mechanisms to determine that.

I’m not sure how his employer, the NFL and it’s head, Roger Goodell could be held responsible, legally or morally for Rice’s actions.  In this particular instance, both the right and left factions of the media are tripping over each other to determine who gets the prize for being most sanctimonious.

When the Benghazi scandal happened a few years ago, people were actually killed due to incompetence; yet to this day, no one has been held to account, no head of any department has resigned, no one has been fired.  Heck, the person directly involved may become the next President.  But poor Roger Goodell; he is being pressured to resign over the perceived mishandling of Rice’s case.  One minute, he is running a lucrative business and next thing he knows, his head is on the block.

As was the case of former LA Clipper’s owner Donald Sterling, he is being tried in the court of public opinion and held to a standard that is totally fabricated by  the PC media.  At the very least, what this type of arbitrary morality does is to introduce a new layer of bureaucracy to the employment process by way of more boxes to tick off during the hiring of workers–in any job.  We can think of a number of items to tick off in the employment application:

Do you beat your spouse or significant other?

Do you smoke in bed?

Do you recycle?

Do you leave your children in hot cars with windows up? Your dogs?

Have you ever kicked a cat or dog?

Do you text while driving?

Do you make fun of minorities or fat people?

Do you leave the toilet seat up?

I could go on, but could never possibly anticipate the next moral outrage that will be elevated from tsk tsk level to crimes against humanity by the sensationalist media.  If the above standards were the filter for NFL players, you may be lucky to field 4 teams worth of people and the product would be as interesting as girls’ soccer.  In the Rice case, it’s not a stretch to have all other institutions that he may have contact with withdraw their support as well for fear of being seen as endorsing of his conduct.  The state driver’s license can be revoked, his Starbucks card and maybe even his American Express points could be cancelled.  The heads of those corporations should be squirming as we write.