{"id":21992,"date":"2019-10-08T11:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21992"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:54:54","slug":"mob-rule-left-wing-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/08\/mob-rule-left-wing-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Discourse is Being Quashed by \u201cWoke\u201d Mobs and Corporate Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
FAIR recently held its 13th<\/sup> annual Hold Their\nFeet to the Fire (F2F) radio row. Every year, we hold this event at the Phoenix\nPark Hotel for a number of reasons. It is around the corner from FAIR\u2019s\nWashington, D.C., headquarters. It is just a few blocks from the Capitol,\nmaking it easily accessible to lawmakers who come by to discuss immigration\npolicy with their constituents back home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps most important of all, the management and staff of the Phoenix Park are consistently professional, wonderful, and gracious. Despite annual attempts by self-styled Social Justice Warriors, and professional political agitators to disrupt the F2F events, the hotel has ignored their threats and attacks<\/a> on its reputation and ours. In more ways than one, the Phoenix Park has earned FAIR\u2019s business and loyalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Put another way, the Phoenix Park and its team have resisted the \u201cwoke\u201d mob that is making it increasingly difficult for even mainstream political views, that the mob opposes, to be heard<\/a>. The same cannot be said about many other institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This week, the Mar-a-Lago Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, announced that it was canceling an annual gala<\/a> planned by the group ACT for America. ACT for America is an organization that monitors radical Islamist groups in the United States, a \u201csin\u201d for which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled them a \u201chate group,\u201d and has accused them of being anti-Muslim. This year\u2019s ACT for America keynote speaker is author Michelle Malkin. Needless to point out, Mara-a-Lago is owned by the Trump Organization. (Disclaimer: Both Malkin and ACT for America\u2019s director Brigitte Gabriel are regular guests at F2F events.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The increasingly oppressive demands for \u201cwoke\u201d conformity are also creeping into other areas of the public square. The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos (though separate from his Amazon empire), recently saw fit to publish what amounts to \u201cRules for Engagement in \u2018Woke\u2019 America.\u201d The piece by Rebecca Hains, a professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, titled, \u201cDear fellow white people: Here\u2019s what to do when you\u2019re called racist,\u201d asserts that you are guilty as charged, that denying the charge is not only pointless, but is a further affirmation of your guilt, that you are not owed an explanation by your accuser, and that you actually owe your accuser a thank you. (I\u2019m not kidding, you can read it yourself here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n This sort of claptrap emanating from academia is hardly\nunusual, although even by the \u201cnormal\u201d standards of university social science\ndepartments these days, the column is still chillingly wacky. The column drew\n5,949 reader comments. I scanned through the first hundred or so, and even the\npolite ones wondered why the Post would give credence, much less space to such\nintellectual bilge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n