Bullied and Badgered, Pressured and Purged
Handle's Haus, December 26, 2013
This is a placeholder website for the chronicling of . . . an inchoate abstraction that will, eventually, adequately describe the agglomeration. ‘Inquisition’ isn’t too far off.
It is a list of prominent (mostly) leftist/progressive intimidation incidents, or profiles in preemptive cowardice in anticipation thereof, or firings because of ludicrous and exaggerated PC claims of ‘offensiveness’ (usually concerning mere jokes) that I wish had been deterred or handled differently. Also taboo-witch-hunts (is there a good word for a person who is a ‘taboo-truth-witch’ that is better than ‘heretic’, ‘apostate’, or ‘blasphemer’?)
We are all Galileos now. {snip}
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- 20-APR-1968: Enoch Powell purged from British Conservative Party.
- 1969-1973: The ‘original’ race and intelligence ‘controversy’ hysteria over Jensen, Herrnstein, Draper, Wilson, and Shockley, et al. (see also Sociobiology)
- 19-JAN-1988: Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder purged from CBS.
- 1989-1991 (and continuing): Related to the above, Linda Gottfredson’s torturous path.
- NOV-1990: John Strugnell purged from the Dead Sea Scrolls project.
- 22-APR-1991: William F. Buckley devotes an entire issue of National Review to “In Search of Anti-Semitism: What Christians Provoke What Jews? Why? By Doing What? — And Vice Versa.” focused greatly on Pat Buchanan (and timed to coincide with his big for Presidential candidacy). Later, collected with responses, into a book.
- 1993 – Jospeh Sobran purged from National Review.
- 27-JUN-1995: Sam Francis purged from the Washington Times.
- 23-APR-1995: Frank Urban “Fuzzy” Zoeller loses his sponsors after Tiger Woods joke.
- 15-JAN-1999: David Howard purged for his vocabulary.
- 01-FEB-1999: Glenn Hoddle purged as England’s soccer coach
- 17-SEP-2001: Bill Maher purged from ABC (well, ok, just reassigned to HBO, he’s doing great)
- 02-OCT-2001: Ann Coulter purged from National Review (NR’s version here).
- 2001: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together goes unpublished in the U.S.
- MAY-2002: Geoffrey Sampson purged by the UK Conservatives.
- 17-JUN-2002: Rev. Stephen Boissoin persecuted by Canadian Human Rights Commission.
- 2003: J. Michael Bailey two-minutes-hated and investigated for ethics after publishing ‘The Man Who Would Be Queen‘.
- 17-OCT-2003: Greg Easterbrook purged from ESPN (and his content memory-holed)
- 15-MAR-2004: Ted Rall purged from New York Times. (it’s a thing with him, see below)
- 19-JAN-2005: Lawrence Summers purged from Harvard.
- 25-JULY-2005: Michael Graham purged from WMAL.
- 26-OCT-2005: Fisher DeBerry probably purged from U.S. Air Force Academy (left a year after controversy over his comments)
- JAN-2006: Fr. Alphonse de Valk persecuted by Canadian Human Rights Commission.
- 11-FEB-2006: Ezra Levant investigated after publishing Mohammad photos in Western Standard.
- 20-OCT-2006: Mark Steyn investigated after writing about islam in MacLean’s..
- 20-NOV-2006: Michael Richards (“Kramer”) purged from the biz.
- 04-APR-2007: Don Imus purged from CBS and NBC.
- 22-MAY-2007: Comedian Guy Earle fined for mocking a lesbian heckler.
- 07-JUN-2007: Isaiah Washington purged from Grey’s Anatomy and ABC.
- 16-OCT-2007: James Watson investigated and purged.
- 31-OCT-2008: Everybody goes berserk on the Mormons because of proposition-8 support. (google for more).
- 24-APR-2009: Ted Rall purged from United Media. (see below, again)
- 06-MAY-2009: Michael Savage banned from Britain.
- 13-OCT-2009: Thilo Sarrazin purged from Bundesbank.
- 30-APR-2010: Stephanie Grace and the case of her infamous Harvard email.
- 01-MAY-2010: Peter Duesberg investigated by UC Berkeley. (later dropped, though I think his clinging to his AIDS stuff over all the years of contrary evidence is pure derp, but still if shouldn’t have had the effect on Charlton below.)
- 11-MAY-2010: Bruce Charlton purged from Medical Hypothesis.
- 04-JUN-2010: Steve Blair purged by KYCA radio.
- 10-AUG-2010: Dr. Laura Schlessinger eased off the air for discussing whether the use of the word ‘nigger’ could ever be appropriate. Here’s some Chris Rock, “The correct answer is, ‘Not really’.”
- 01-OCT-2010: Rick Sanchez purged from CNN.
- 08-OCT-2010: Juan Williams purged from NPR.
- 07-MAR-2011: Cathy and Fred ‘Gopher’ Grandy purged from WMAL.
- 27-APR-2011: Simon Ledger arrested for singing ‘Kung-Fu Fighting’.
- 16-MAY-2011: Satoshi Kanazawa purged from Psychology Today.
- 01-AUG-2011: Principal Frank Borzellieri purged from Archdiocese of NY Schools.
- 18-NOV-2011: Sepp Blater pressured within FIFA.
- 29-NOV-2011: Emma West arrested for
snakes on a planeracism on a train. - 17-FEB-2012: Patrick Buchanan purged from MSNBC.
- 01-MAR-2012: Rush Limbaugh advertisers pressured to bail after Fluke slut comment.
- 05-APR-2012: John Derbyshire purged from National Review.
- 10-APR-2012: Robert Weissberg purged from National Review.
- 30-APR-2012: Naomi Riley purged from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- 16-MAY-2012: Manny Pacquiao ‘on defensive’ on same-sex marriage
- 22-MAY-2012: Andy Gipson threatened for quoting Bible on gays.
- 22-MAY-2012: Mark Traina purged from New Orleans Public Schools.
- 02-JUL-2010: Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-A pressured.
- 15-JUL-2012: Mark Steyn published column that got him sued by Michael Mann. (ongoing!)
- 25-JUL-2012: Paraskevi “Voula” Papachristou purged from 2012 Olympics for making light of matters involving sacred objects.
- 27-SEP-2012: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula arrested for violating parole by producing that ‘Innocence of Muslims’ movie, or something. A strange case all around, I’ll admit.
- 02-OCT-2012: Lewiston, Maine Mayor Robert MacDonald scolded for comments related to Somali immigrants.
- 17-MAR-2013: ‘Dongle-Gate’, dongle-joker-geeks purged.
- 20-MAR-2013: Steven Landsburg gets two-minutes-hated for a thought experiment.
- 03-APR-2013: Terri Proud purged from Arizona VA
- 10-MAY-2013: Jason Richwine purged from Heritage
- 17-MAY-2013: Paula Deen purged.
- 30-MAY-2013: Gordon Gee purged from Ohio State University (he’s going to West Virginia now)
- 04-JUN-2013: Geoffrey Miller two-minutes-hated for ‘fat shaming’.
- 05-JUN-2013: Nissim Yeshaya purged from Israel Court.
- 07-JUN-2013: April Sims purged from Dallas Police Dept.
- 20-JUN-2013: Mike Krahulik gets two-minutes-hated for ‘transphobia’.
- 03-JUL-2013: Aaryn Gries purged from Zephyr Talent.
- 12-JULY-2013: Orson Scott Card threatened with Ender’s Game boycott. (See also his mothballed Superman project)
- 20-JULY-2013: Ron Unz purged from The American Conservative for this.
- 08-AUG-2013: Richard Dawkins gets a taste of the Zeitgeist.
- 14-AUG-2013: Vox Day purged from Science Fiction Writers of America.
- 27-AUG-2013: Tuffy Gessling purged from Rodeo Clowning.
- 04-SEP-2013: Yelena Isinbayeva almost purged as Russian Olympic Ambassador.
- 10-SEP-2013: Pax Dickinson purged from Business Insider.
- 25-SEP-2013: Barilla CEO, Guido Barilla pressured on gay marriage.
- 25-SEP-2013: David Gilmour two-minutes-hated for literature judgment.
- 26-OCT-2013: Don Yelton purged from local GOP because of Daily Show.
- 14-NOV-2013: Helmuth Nyborg investigated for ‘scientific dishonesty’ (he was also purged in 2006)
- 26-NOV-2013: Alec Baldwin purged from MSNBC not for vulgarity, ha!, but for swearing in that impermissiable way.
- 28-NOV-2013: Ted Rall purged from Daily Kos.
- 03-DEC-2013: Bob Dylan threatened by French prosecutor.
- 10-DEC-2013: Chip Wilson purged from Lululemon.
- 12-DEC-2013: Bob Newhart intimidated.
- 19-DEC-2013: Phil Robertson purged from A&E.
- 20-DEC-2013: Justine Sacco purged from IAC.
- 20-DEC-2013: Dawn Barnett found guilty and sent to diversity training over a Golliwogg comment (HT: Derb)
- 02-JAN-2014: Heartiste threatened with blog memory-holing via WordPress malicious prosecution (Kevin Conboy)? It wouldn’t be the first time a blog was suddenly disappeared.
That list is already harrowing, and I know it’s just getting started.