Satire Being Beaten by Mad Reality

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:

There is a blight on this country, and it is right-wingers slandering progressives by claiming that we’re intolerant and unreasonable with this made-up thing they call “cancel culture.” Why would people express such enmity toward the American left, people who are all about compassion and caring for others? Obviously the only explanation is that the people spreading this “cancel culture” lie are horrible bigots who need to be cast out of society.

There could be people right now — working at a store, sitting in an office, maybe living in your own household — who are a part of this slander against the forces of love and tolerance, claiming we have a culture of fear and canceling people. We can not put up with this. Anyone who lies about cancel culture existing obviously loves bigotry and must lose their job and be de-platformed off social media. We must treat them like we treat statues — something that must be destroyed and removed from society.

Now, some people may disagree with these measures. If you know any of them, get me a list of their names. They are allies of bigots, and we have to crush them, too. Anyone who claims we’re being too “harsh” just loves hate. We should chase them out of their homes and burn down their houses so they can’t come back to live anywhere near us.

Go here to read the rest.  Not good enough Bee!  You are supposed to be producing cutting edge satire and you are barely keeping up.  For example what about the letter which was posted by Harper’s Magazine, go here to read it, and which is now being subjected to sustained attack by defenders of cancel culture?

Left the Leftist organ The Daily Beast do the honors:

It was the letter that launched a thousand tweets. Maybe even ten thousand—many of them, as happens so often on social media, brimming with insults and recrimination.

And that doesn’t even account for several impassioned essays, some pro but mostly con, that the so-called “Letter on Justice and Open Debate” has provoked among the self-avowed intelligentsia—a tiny yet purportedly influential group of academics, artists, philosophers and journalists—since it was released on Tuesday by Harper’s magazine.

“The controversy surrounding the letter shows the venom that these anodyne statements produced—statements that wouldn’t have been inflammatory ten years ago,” Harper’s Vice President Giulia Melucci told The Daily Beast on Wednesday as the tweets and manifestoes continued to pile up. The critics were reacting to a 532-word document that celebrates untrammeled free expression above all and rebukes the so-called “cancel culture” that might take offense and try to muzzle it.

“It’s now considered incendiary, and people are running and hiding in fear,” Melucci added.

Indeed, over the past day the blowback in this rarefied bubble has apparently been so harsh in some cases that at least one of the open letter’s signatories—transgender author, activist, and Barnard College Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan—has abjectly apologized for adding her name to the document whose 150-odd endorsers included Harry Potter impresario J.K. Rowling, whose recent musings on gender have been widely decried as transphobic. 

Boylan’s retroactive regret of her inclusion among the letter signers echoed the concerns of trans activists like ACLU staff lawyer Chase Strangio, who wrote that some of its signatories were a “who’s who of authors who wrote variations on the piece ‘but should trans people really exist’?”

“I did not know who else had signed that letter,” Boylan tweeted, after what must have been a very difficult day fielding criticism. “I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company.  The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry.”

Which prompted Tipping Point and Blink author Malcolm Gladwell—who also signed the letter—to retort: “I signed the Harpers letter because there were lots of people who also signed the Harpers letter whose views I disagreed with. I thought that was the point of the Harpers letter.”

Go here to read the rest.  Students of Leftist movements will find none of this surprising. These movements tend to prize ideological purity above all, and engage in heresy hunting that would put Torquemada to shame.  The Left always eats its own is one of the few statements of politics that is almost always true.  Get with it Bee! You are our journal of record, and we expect you to outsatire reality, as hard as that task tends to be today.