- [Dale] The censors have come
for the children's cartoon "Paw Patrol",
"Gone with the Wind", LEGOs,
the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain,
and even a ride at DisneyWorld called Splash Mountain.
All in the name of trying to erase
the culturally insensitive.
It seems nothing is safe fromthe cancel culture movement.
Hollywood stars havegone public to confess
their supposed sins ofignoring racial injustice.
- I take responsibility.
- I take responsibility.
- They could also be tryingto save their careers,
a number of celebritiesand corporate heads
have already lost theirjobs for alleged racism
or cultural insensitivity.
Even the editorial pageeditor of the liberal
"New York Times".
Another casualty is TheChurch of the Highlands
in Birmingham, Alabamawith 60,000 attendees.
They will no longer be ableto meet at local high schools
after the pastor likedsocial media posts supporting
President Trump and wasdeclared culturally insensitive.
Freedom of speech iscontinuing to lose ground
in America to a kind ofsocially enforced group think.
Saying the wrong thing, orsimply not saying anything
could have the thought policedeciding you're a bad person.
- The worst crimes are committedby people saving the world.
- David Horowitz who ledthe '60's anti-war movement
says the difference betweenthe Vietnam War protests
and the George Floyd protestsis that Black Lives Matter
has real power to changeAmerica thanks to the backing
of the democratic party,corporate America and the media.
- Yeah, I find thisshocking that so many people
cave into this.
All the stupid apologies by people,
and you know then Hollywoodfunding the looters.
Who do you think is mosthurt by these riots?
Poor black people.
Who's gonna be hurt themost by defunding the police
and tying their hands?
Poor black people.
- [Dale] Even some onthe left are now alarmed
by the censorship and firings.
University of PennsylvaniaProfessor Jonathan Zimmerman,
a staunch opponent of President Trump,
wrote in the "ChicagoTribune", that what he calls
rituals of public humiliation
are not accomplishing anything.
- The irony of our momentis you find a lot of people
saying you know, we needan honest conversation
about race, but thenessentially erecting barriers
about what can be said on it.
And that's not formula foran honest conversation.
- [Dale] When I askedProfessor Zimmerman if America
was headed into dangerousterritory he replied:
- Dale, we're not headedtowards it, we're in it!
Like, this is not ajourney, we've arrived, man!
- [Dale] Zimmerman saysAmerica urgently needs
a bipartisan movementto defend free speech.
Before coming to Christ,political activist Tiana Elisara
marched with the leftagainst President Trump.
- All my life I was taughtthat there was someone
holding me down, the system is against me.
- [Dale] Now she hoststhe "Left the Left" show
on social media.
She says she understandsthe hearts of the protestors
and those who are censoring.
- My heart is heavy because
I know they have good intentions,
but what I'm most sad aboutis that they are being
grossly manipulated to fitsomeone's political agenda.
- [Dale] America was foundedon the principal of pluralism.
The idea that different views are welcome.
That America doesn'tseem to exist anymore.
Dale Hurd, CBN news.
