Just What Kind of a Cancel Culture Are You Running Here Anyway?

As you may or may not remember, 1000 years ago in 2018 a Conservative writer Kevin Williamson was hired away from The National Review (Motto:  "America's most respected journal of white supremacy") by The Atlantic (Motto: "Bush-Regime Dead Enders Need Love Too!") because the nation's strategic reserve of Conservative writers who are not out-and-proud apologists for fascism was pretty much tapped out.

Then, two weeks after The Atlantic hired him they fired him after discovering to their great surprise that Mr. Williamson actually believes the things he writes.  From HuffPo:

On Thursday, April 5, the magazine had announced that it was cutting ties with Kevin Williamson, the irascible conservative writer it had installed in the magazine’s “Ideas” section only two weeks earlier. The impetus for his departure was the revelation that Williamson actually believed the things he had said in the past — namely his 2014 comments that women who have abortions should be hanged. This had led Goldberg to conclude that The Atlantic, recently purchased by Laurene Powell Jobs’ liberally minded Emerson Collective, was “not the best fit for his talents.”

 Mr. Williams then...

A) proceeded to enter an extended period of quiet contemplation to reflect on his life-choices, or

B) made the rounds of one media outlet after another complaining bitterly and without irony that no media outlet would let his voice be heard.  This is also known as the Full Greenwald.

Time's up.  Pencils down.  Of course the correct answer is... (again, from the HuffPo):

In the weeks since, we’ve heard Williamson’s version of events. Preaching the story of his martyrdom in media outlet after media outlet after media outlet, the columnist has portrayed himself and even Goldberg, too, as the victims of a “Twitter mob,” forced to suffer the tyranny of our “P.C. culture.”

Worry not, children.  Kevin is just fine.  After he had milked martyrdom for all it was worth, The National Review hired him right back.  He is a regular guest on Conservative podcasts from Glenn Beck's freakshow to The Bulwark.  And now that he has a book to promote, you can find him in the good, gray pages of The Washington Post lecturing Murrica on the perils of something called "Trumpism".

Fun Fact: I am writing this from Twitter jail where I will remain incarcerated for the next seven days not for saying that women who have abortions should be executed, but for referring to Megyn Kelly interviewing Matt Taibbi on her podcast as the "White Trash Media Singularity".

So far my calls to  media outlet after media outlet after media outlet asking for a Very Big Platform from which I can complain about my martyrdom have gone unanswered.

No Half Measures