Kirsten Powers Apologizes

Boy, she's really gone off the deep end.

At USA Today, "I'm not proud of role I’ve played in toxic public debate. I plan to change."

I'm not proud of role I’ve played in toxic public debate. I plan to change, says columnist @KirstenPowers. https://t.co/USJCKr9xql

— USA TODAY Opinion (@usatodayopinion) February 19, 2019

We need to have humility and realize that there but for the grace of God go I. It’s easy to delude yourself that you would never do whatever today’s designated bad person is accused of doing. But don’t be so sure. Given the wrong circumstances, people would be surprised at what they are capable of doing.

We also need to recognize what we are doing: It’s called scapegoating.

In the Bible, a scapegoat was an animal burdened with the sins of others through a ritual, then driven away. This is in effect what our society does when we designate certain people to bear our collective sins. Once it's discovered that a person behaved in a racist, homophobic or misogynist way — often in the distant past — she is banished from society, creating a sense that something has been accomplished. That somehow there has been atoning because someone was punished.

This creates two problems: First, the systemic problem still exists. Second, one person is not responsible for the sins of everyone. People should not be treated as disposable and banished in perpetuity with no path to restoration with society. Would you want that to happen to you?

It’s critical to remember that people simply are not the sum of their worst moments in life. Go back through your life and write down every terrible thing you have done or said, and now imagine a video of it is on the internet. Would you want that to be the record of your life? Don’t underestimate the power of denial. I frequently hear people who I knew to be homophobic 20 years ago express indignance over anyone who doesn’t support same-sex marriage today with no sense of self-awareness...

She attacked Nicholas Sandmann, and when the fact exonerated him, she hedged and doubled down. I predicted she'd regret it, and I was right.

Still more at the link.

Kirsten Powers Deleted Tweet Shaming Hugh Hefner Moments After Announcement of His Death

Sometimes you just need to chill on those hot takes.

Kirsten Powers wisely deleted this tweet about Hugh Hefner. pic.twitter.com/NFr7bDB1VB

— Brittain for Senate (@SenatorBrittain) September 28, 2017

Late Summer Reading with Kirsten Powers: The Silencing — How the Left is Killing Free Speech

Well, summer still has about a month to go, but my summer's winding down. School starts on Monday.

But before those dogs days fade into autumn, don't miss your hot Kirsten Powers late-summer reading.

Here: The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.

Democrats Are on the Wrong Side of History

Indeed they are.

From Kirsten Powers, at USA Today, "I've got news for Democrats. It's a baby!:

The Democratic Party shilling for barbarism — whether by politicians, liberal media outlets, union officials or unrestricted abortion advocates — is not likely to be viewed favorably by future generations. These Democrats will be remembered for demonizing the activists who lifted the veil on a previously sanitized process and for seeking restraining orders to silence truth tellers. They will be remembered for publishing dehumanizing decrees — as The New Republic did — that people stop criticizing Planned Parenthood because as a medical matter, “The term baby … doesn’t apply until birth” (that thing on your sonogram is nothing more than a “product[] of conception.”) And they will be remembered for demanding investigations into citizen journalists for meticulously exposing atrocities in our midst.

Oh my!

'If George Bush Had Done This, He Would Have Been Hitler...'

Kirsten Powers talks to the Daily Signal, "Kirsten Powers: ‘If George Bush Had Done This, He Would Have Been Hitler’."

Kirsten Powers doesn’t mince words when discussing what she calls the “illiberal silencing tactics” of the left, including those employed by the Obama administration.

“It goes without saying that if George Bush had done this, he would have been Hitler,” she said of the Obama administration’s attempt to “delegitimize” Fox News.

The concept of “delegitimizing” individuals or organizations like Fox News is a main theme in her new book, “The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech.”

More.

And get Ms. Powers' book, The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.

Kirsten Powers: The Silencing — How the Left is Killing Free Speech

Ms. Powers' new book is out, The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.

Plus, here she is at yesterday's Daily Beast, "How Liberals Ruined College."

And an interview at Christianity Today, "Kirsten Powers: The Rise of the Intolerant Left."