Christopher Rufo in City Journal plumbs the terminally Woke mind of the woman who pushed Uri Berliner out the door at National Public Radio:
What you notice first about [NPR boss Katherine] Maher’s public speech are the buzzwords and phrases: “structural privilege,” “epistemic emergency,” “transit justice,” “non-binary people,” “late-stage capitalism,” “cis white mobility privilege,” “the politics of representation,” “folx.” She supported Black Lives Matter from its earliest days. She compares driving cars with smoking cigarettes. She is very concerned about “toxic masculinity.” …
Next, you notice the partisanship. Maher was “excited” about Elizabeth Warren in 2012. She “just [couldn’t] wait to vote” for Hillary in 2016. She once had a dream about “sampling and comparing nuts and baklava on roadside stands” with Kamala Harris. She worked to “get out the vote” in Arizona for Joe Biden but slightly resented being called a “Biden supporter”; for her, it was simply a matter of being a “supporter of human rights, dignity, and justice.” …On every topic, Maher adopts the fashionable language of left-wing academic theory and uses it as social currency, even when her efforts veer into self-parody.
— Christopher Rufo, “Quotations from Chairman Maher,” City Journal
Blaska’s Bottom Line: NPR reminds us of that so-called artwork displayed in a Cincinnati museum 30 years ago, a Crucifix submerged in a jar of urine; publicly subsidized. We don’t mind being insulted, so much, as being made to pay (an estimated $90 million annually in federal subsidies) for being insulted.
4 responses to “Defund National Public Radio”
I am surprised that we have not questioned the bias at WPR. They obviously have a very left tilt also. For people’s tax money for this is not acceptable. However, this has been going on for years.
Every last American who values free speech and thought should read Berliner’s article in The Free Press. And listen to his conversation about it with Bari Weiss. And then take stock of how they feel about their tax dollars being used to subsidize the woke NPR propaganda Berliner exposes in both.
Robots such as Katherine Maher who use buzzwords and doublespeak lack brainpower and desperately require dictators to guide their lives. To her I would say, ”Lady, stay the hell out of MY life. And if you don’t like the common noun ‘lady’, that’s tough titties.”
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