"Modern-day Robespierres send counterrevolutionaries to the virtual chopping block.
They should recall his fate.
Celebrities, politicians, and almost anyone of influence and wealth are always an incorrect or insensitive word away from the contemporary electronic guillotine.
Regardless of the circumstances of their dilemmas, the beheaded rarely win sympathy from the mob.
Coliseum-like roars of approval greet their abrupt change of fortune from their past exalted status.
So, for example, perhaps few feel sorry for anchor Megyn Kelly, recently all but fired by NBC and now walking away with most of her $69 million salary package as a severance payout.
Kelly was let go ostensibly for making a sloppy but not malicious morally equivalent comparison between whites at Halloween dressing up in costumes as blacks, and blacks likewise appearing as whites.
But she sealed her fate by uttering the historically disparaging word “black face” as some sort of neutral bookend to her use of “white face.”...
...Had Kelly been unapologetically progressive (especially one deemed vital to the cause), like
- Elizabeth Warren, who fabricated and profited from an entire minority identity, then she might well have survived the incident.
- Perhaps had she been a minority, such as Sarah Jeong, and written (rather than spoken off the cuff) far more racially offensive things about whites, she would have kept her job — as did Jeong on the New York Times editorial board after her racist tweets surfaced, such as this, from 2014: “Dumbass f****** white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.”
Instead, Kelly was hauled to the electronic guillotine in a now familiar routine..."
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