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As has become boringly predictable these days, conservatives are mad at other conservatives for being fake conservatives.
Questioning the Trump orthodoxy (which, incidentally, is rarely intelligible if ever at all conservative) is the thing that now makes a conservative a “cuckservative,” a pejorative term to describe a weak, emasculated “sell out” to the establishment wing of the party. This now includes conservatives like me, with previously pristine records of right-wing fanaticism, at least as classified by the mainstream press.
After allegations surfaced that former Facebook contractors suppressed conservative trending topics, the company launched an investigation, promised transparency, and then reached out to several conservative thought leaders and personalities, including myself, to sit down and address these and other concerns with founder Mark Zuckerberg and top members of his executive team.
Presumably, there would be two kinds of responses to this invitation:
"I accept. This is a disturbing issue and I want to be part of solving the problem."
Or, "I regretfully decline. That's the day of my grandmother's funeral."
I was surprised to learn there is apparently another option, which was to refuse to go, complain that no Trump representatives were invited (they were, one attended), slam Facebook's overture as a "pat conservatives on the head" session, blast the people who do attend as cucks and sit in the corner and sulk.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/20/opinions/se-cupp-our-meeting-with-facebook/index.html
Questioning the Trump orthodoxy (which, incidentally, is rarely intelligible if ever at all conservative) is the thing that now makes a conservative a “cuckservative,” a pejorative term to describe a weak, emasculated “sell out” to the establishment wing of the party. This now includes conservatives like me, with previously pristine records of right-wing fanaticism, at least as classified by the mainstream press.
After allegations surfaced that former Facebook contractors suppressed conservative trending topics, the company launched an investigation, promised transparency, and then reached out to several conservative thought leaders and personalities, including myself, to sit down and address these and other concerns with founder Mark Zuckerberg and top members of his executive team.
Presumably, there would be two kinds of responses to this invitation:
"I accept. This is a disturbing issue and I want to be part of solving the problem."
Or, "I regretfully decline. That's the day of my grandmother's funeral."
I was surprised to learn there is apparently another option, which was to refuse to go, complain that no Trump representatives were invited (they were, one attended), slam Facebook's overture as a "pat conservatives on the head" session, blast the people who do attend as cucks and sit in the corner and sulk.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/20/opinions/se-cupp-our-meeting-with-facebook/index.html
