Powering Up with J.K Rowling's Courage

Deplatforming and its worse cousin, doxxing, are particularly alien to the foundational principles of dialectics and Free Speech, which liberalism was built on, that current champions of that new style in public discourse may have to be sent back in eons civilization. And by the day, it is getting more evident the hard left are merely a cult which tolerates no alternate views.

The Left’s desire to cancel even their own adherents for minor disparities in opinion is also no more a secret.

Steven Pinker vs. the LSA, reactions to Harper Magazine’s letter, and the Princeton professor are recent examples of how to cancel culture has finally come home to roost and finally gouge the nestle of its own family.

But more individuals such as Nicholas Christakis, Heather Haying, Bret Weinstein, Jordan Peterson, and other Liberals who have warned of the scourge of anti-Free Speech indoctrination within intellectual circles were largely ignored until now.

Eventually, in March 2019, Jordan Peterson’s fellowship at Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity was rescinded at the last minute after a student group protested it.

Michael Korenberg, chair of the University of British Columbia Board of Governors, recently had to resign for liking some tweets considered by some quarters to be disparaging to Black Lives Matter and for views purportedly supporting Donald Trump.

These are just a few of the people who have been robbed of platforms they deserve just because they could not conform to political correctness and following media-drawn narratives. The list of people being hounded out of their jobs or living for simply expressing themselves keeps growing.

By the time Scott Alexander revealed that he had to delete his blog, SlateStarCodex, because he was threatened with being doxxed by a New York Times staff, the extent the free-speech police were willing to go to destroy others was no more shocking to the world. At this point, the privilege, and to a greater extent, the courage which JK Rowling had to express a controversial opinion and stand by it, became more obvious.

With the level of bullying and intimidation which the author, JK Rowling, has endured in the past few weeks, many other renowned individuals now think twice before lending their voice to sensitive/controversial topics as if that was the norm.

And now that the LGBTQIA community is on the verge of splitting into an ‘LGB’ versus ‘T’ dichotomy mainly due to the self-ID debate, the forceful assertiveness on the wings of which it grew is threatening to divide the whole identitarian community along more minority lines.