Just about every escribe worth his salt, and many that aren’t, has written about the James Damore memo and his subsequent firing from Google. But one particular line from Google CEO Sundar Pichai deserves eternal opprobrium. Mr. Pichai wrote the following:
First, let me say that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it. However, portions of the memo violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace….
Apparently, the truth of the existence of ‘harmful gender stereotypes’ has been established beyond question. Only an obtuse sexist ogre would ‘perpetuate’ such evil stereotypes. This is the official belief of a major technology company.
Mr. Pichai’s actions follow a pattern that should worry conservatives. Because leftist activists keep taking over institutions, resulting in the exclusion of conservatives from much of social life. Fighting this trend ought to be a priority of the conservative movement. We should use make it very expensive to discriminate against our people.
The March Through the Institutions
For about five decades, the international left has promoted a strategy of subverting the social institutions of Western countries. Their objective, openly stated, has been to work from within existing social institutions to create the conditions necessary for revolution. Less radical proponents of the strategy forgo the revolutionary stage, contenting themselves with a stealth transformation of society.
The strategy has succeeded to at least a partial extent. The left activists have subverted several important institutions, starting with academia. Some portions of academia have been purged of conservative thought, to the extent that observant conservative students don’t bother pursuing those fields; what’s the point of studying anthropology, for example, if you’ll never obtain an academic position?
Besides obvious targets such as academia and popular culture, activists have achieved limited success in the professions. (The American Library Association shameful dissociation from Cuban independent librarians, for example.) But the success they have seemed to achieve in corporate America comes as a rude surprise. What leftist ideologues aim to do is to drive us out from every corner of social life.
A Call to Arms
We shouldn’t stand for any of this. For far too long we have remained passive while social science faculties drive out conservative professors, while conservative writers can’t write for Hollywood, and while conservative broadcasters can’t express their views—while the NCAA feels secure boycotting the state of North Carolina over the so-called bathroom bill.
We should fight with every weapon at our disposal, including every legislative option and every legal remedy. Our side controls both houses of Congress, the White House, most state legislatures and governorships. The faculties who discriminate against conservative professors should fear for their funding and their very existence. Firms that discriminate against conservatives should be investigated by the appropriate legal divisions. The public education monopoly should be undermined at every turn.
Liberal activists will never love us. Perhaps it is time they should start fearing us.
