Coming out of the closet

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Coming out at Rolling Stone.

Coming out to Mindy.

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Coming Out of the Closet

It was the late 1990s, and I went up to Rolling Stone on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan to say hello to my old friend Bobby Love who was the longtime managing editor. I had worked at Rolling Stone for a…
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This reminds me of when I was in college and had to position myself in such a way that nobody could accidentally see the politically incorrect content I was reading or watching while having my meals. This school was no Berkeley and had a decently large Republican club, but I still felt very much afraid and alone as, when students talked politics in my classes, they all assumed everyone present was left-leaning.
 
How is this article whining?

He’s addressing the fact that he is ostracized for being a conservative amidst liberals. He’s talking about the loss of friends and jobs due to his work.

Those are, literally, the same fears that used to accompany coming out as a homosexual. The point of the article is to show that, having moved far beyond the realms of tolerance and acceptance, those ideologies which used to use the same fears to garner sympathy have begun enacting the evils they once claimed to fear and anyone who disagrees with them.
 
So, you’re saying that losing your job simply for holding viewpoints contrary to the social consensus, and writing an article about the fact that people are being ostracized for what essentially amounts to an Orwellian thought-crime, is whining?
 
So, he’s not a victim of losing both work and long-standing friendships simply for not adhering to popular con census?

It’s not red martyrdom to be sure, but it is still victimization.

Also, that’s not the point of the article. Only the most cursory reading of that article could conclude that the point of it is to play the victim. I’ve already explained the point of it in an earlier post, so I won’t bother repeating myself.
 
These weren’t just friends. There were people who he used to work with and former employers. In other words, valuable professional contacts. You’re making it sound like he merely lost his old gaming buddies.
 
Another of the instances he discuses did. I was conglomerating them under the same header because they are discussing the same phenomenon.
 
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This guy is a whiner.
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I agree. He’s mollycoddled. He seems to think that he has the God-given privilege to say whatever he wants, and that no one has the right to challenge him.

It’s not a right or left issue at all. If you state a belief, you have to expect that others will state theirs, too, and criticize yours, just as you have the right to criticize theirs.

If they cut you off, that’s the price you have to pay for free speech. Everyone has the right to associate with whomever they want.

And wrapping your statements in a thin veneer of “religion” gives you no privilege, either. Nor is anyone obligated to give you their ear, a forum or a soapbox.

You’re not a victim because someone disagrees with you and lets you know in no uncertain terms. Nor are you a victim because you lose your job because your statements antagonize your coworkers or your employer’s clients.

This trend among conservatives to consider themselves “victims” like gay people once were is just plain silly and undermines their credibility.
 
A Capuchin I knew used to refer to our ‘ordinary’ human burdens and griefs, carried by us as well as we can by God’s grace, as “gray martyrdom.”
 
I am sure he gained a slew of professional contacts on the other side of the spectrum. There are huge numbers of conservatives around since the 90s at least. These guys don’t live on an island.
 
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