{"id":147137,"date":"2019-05-06T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=147137"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:21:35","slug":"trump-bashes-political-correctness-gold-rush-mascot-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2019\/05\/trump-bashes-political-correctness-gold-rush-mascot-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Bashes Political Correctness, Gold Rush Mascot Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"
May 6, 2019<\/div>
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By Money Metals News Service<\/b><\/p>\n

The roller coaster presidency of Donald Trump is currently riding high as the stock market races back up to new highs, economic data come in better than expected, and Congressional Democrats\u2019 endless investigations come up empty handed.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s approval rating recently hit 50% at the same time as CNN\u2019s ratings are tanking.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, President Trump sent CNN and the rest of the \u201cMSM\u201d (mainstream media) into a tizzy by speaking out against the latest Big Tech purge of \u201cfar right\u201d voices.<\/p>\n

Trump re-tweeted verboten alternative media personalities including Paul Joseph Watson and Lauren Southern.<\/p>\n

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He even posted a video<\/a> from Alex Jones\u2019 Infowars, which has been banned from virtually every online platform at the urging of the MSM.<\/p>

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Regardless of whether you agree with the views or tactics of particular individuals in the dissident right, the point is that the same Orwellian thought police who are systematically silencing them might next come for you.<\/p>\n

In the tweet<\/a> amplified by Trump, Lauren Southern mocked \u201cestablishment conservatives who think they won\u2019t be labeled the new \u2018dangerous\u2019 \/ \u2018extremist\u2019 voices when those to the right of them are all banned.\u201d<\/p>\n

One side of the political spectrum has determined that it can\u2019t defeat the other side through reason in a free, open exchange of ideas. It has instead committed to silencing its opponents through organized de-platforming campaigns.<\/p>\n

The liberal left of old, which would point to books like George Orwell\u2019s 1984 and Ray Bradbury\u2019s Fahrenheit 451 to make the case for free speech and tolerance of unpopular opinions, is no more. Today\u2019s left is authoritarian. It is the Big Brother of Orwell\u2019s dystopian novel.<\/p>\n

In the name of \u201csocial justice,\u201d self-styled \u201cprogressives\u201d have become the book burners of our time \u2013 aiming to digitally erase unapproved thoughts wherever they find them, whether on Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Amazon.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re now trying to make sure people who have been digitally un-personed for wrongthink also have their access to bank accounts and credit cards revoked.<\/p>\n

De-platforming mobs recently pushed Mastercard to create \u201chuman rights committee\u201d to screen customers for ideological conformity.<\/p>\n

\u201cA small number of banks controlling most of the financial sector could effectively illegalize legal commerce by refusing to finance certain industries or process certain transactions,\u201d warned Republican Senator Kevin Cramer.<\/p>\n

Financial de-platforming is a very real concern not just for dissident activists but also for politically controversial industries such as firearms and even precious metals.<\/p>\n

Senator Cramer has introduced the Freedom Financing Act<\/a>. It would prevent big banks with over $10 billion in assets (which enjoy special government protections, privileges, subsidies, backstops, and bailouts) from discriminating against customers who engage in lawful commerce.<\/p>\n

President Trump has yet to lay out specific policies to stop Big Tech political censorship. Some of his supporters are urging him to start by instructing government agencies to terminate contracts with monopolistic internet companies that suppress legitimate political speech.<\/p>\n

Trump did recently issue an executive order requiring government-subsidized universities to respect free speech on campus. But it won\u2019t stop university professors and administrators from indoctrinating students with cultish levels of political correctness.<\/p>\n

This week, students at California State University Long Beach will vote on a replacement for their former mascot, \u201cProspector Pete.\u201d For decades, Prospector Pete had stood as a symbol of California\u2019s gold mining heritage.<\/p>\n

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He was deemed to no longer be \u201cinclusive\u201d enough, particularly for \u201cindigenous people,\u201d so administrators torn down his prominent statue on campus last year. Now the mascot itself will be sacrificed so that the hyper-sensitive and perpetually offended won\u2019t be upset by symbols of the exploitative and greed-fueled gold rush.<\/p>\n

The California gold rush of 1849 lured thousands of people from near and far hoping to strike it rich as gold prospectors. Through a combination of grit, determination, and sheer luck, some did. But many others who risked life and limb prospecting for gold came away with precious little to show for their efforts.<\/p>\n

All told, the gold rush produced about $2 billion worth of precious metal. It also helped put California on the map, literally, as the 31st state. California entered the Union as a free state whose constitution explicitly prohibited slavery.<\/p>\n

But to the authoritarian left, the history of gold is \u201cracist,\u201d somehow, and needs to be erased. It\u2019s a goal fiat currency pushers and rigged financial system profiteers can also get behind.<\/p>\n

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The Money Metals News Service provides market news and crisp commentary for investors following the precious metals markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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