{"id":11489,"date":"2018-11-02T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2018-11-02T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:09:14","slug":"the-electronic-committee-of-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-electronic-committee-of-public-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electronic Committee of Public Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">C<\/span>elebrities, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cblack face\u201d as some sort of neutral bookend to her use of \u201cwhite face.\u201d Her fatal crime, then, was insensitive thought and speech and historical ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>For someone so familiar with the rules of our electronic French Revolution and the felonies of speech and thought, Kelly proved surprisingly na\u00efve in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/megyn-kelly-halloween-costumes-social-media-controversy\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1204,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Zj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6228,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/race-industry-leeches\/","url_meta":{"origin":11489,"position":0},"title":"Race-Industry Leeches","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bruce S. 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