Seriously, don’t apologize

Unauthorized author James Delingpole gets it:

If Black Lives Matter are the good guys, how come they are so censorious, aggressive, bullying, closed-minded and intolerant of free speech?

Toby Young’s Free Speech Union is highlighting the terrifying case studies of journalists and academics in the U.S. and the UK who have been recently been cancelled merely for showing scepticism or insufficient crusading zeal on the issue of Black Lives Matter…. None of these men said or did anything that could reasonably construed as ‘racist.’ Indeed, in several cases, they paid obeisance to the Black Lives Matter movement by offering up grovelling pieties on the awfulness of racism. But it made no difference for the simple reason that it never does. They don’t want your contrition: they want your destruction.

As Vox Day puts it in his SJW Attack Survival Guide, the third rule is ‘Do Not Apologise’.

Normal people seek apologies because they want to know that you feel bad about what you have done and that you will at least attempt to avoid doing it again in the future. When SJWs push you for an apology after pointing-and-shrieking at you, what they are seeking is a confession to bolster their indictment. They are like the police down at the station with a suspect in the interrogation room, badgering him to confess to the crime. And like all too many police these days, the SJWs don’t really care if you did it or not, they’re just looking for a confession that they can take to the prosecutor.

The other lesson for us all is that unless you work for an avowedly, aggressively and unapologetically conservative employer — ideally yourself — your freedom of speech is effectively at an end because your employer will cave at the merest hint of a complaint from the radical left.

The answer, of course, is that Black Lives Matter are not the good guys. They are, in fact, the tools of the very, very bad guys.