The Right Shouldn’t Defund NPR, It Should Work There
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rich_cromwell
 April 18 2024
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    Let’s turn it up to 11

    For the first time in its 54-year history, NPR is enjoyable. The entertainment is not coming from the programming, though, but from the fallout from Uri Berliner’s whistleblower report at the Free Press about the ideological silo that is the broadcaster. Once Berliner got people’s attention, the extremely public record of insane proclamations from NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher came to light. That’s when the fun really began. 

    Maher, as Matt Taibbi noted at Racket News, has no background in journalism. What she does have a background in – beyond a hodgepodge of perches at liberal organizations like the World Economic Forum, Wikimedia, the Council of Foreign Relations, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Labs – is fundraising. At Wikimedia, she grew its annual haul from $77 million per year in 2016 to $140 million in 2021. That’s a lot of free tote bags.

    She’s also the living embodiment of every stereotype of a modern progressive. She cried for Hillary while also chiding the candidate for using the words “boy” and “girl,” because doing so cancels non-binary people. She hates Trump. She’s avoiding motherhood because of climate change. She decries her own white privilege. She thinks the hippies were a little too patriarchal, racist, and misogynist. 

    She is NPR. Hiring her as CEO was a no-brainer. Keeping her is a little trickier now that videos of her complaining about how the First Amendment is an obstacle to truth and that truth itself is also an obstacle to “getting things done” have surfaced. If she truly believes all she espouses or is instead merely a well-trained parrot is debatable. Either way, she’s a product of the system. Berliner, on the other hand, apparently missed a few crucial lessons about loving Big Brother and remains a little too committed to journalism. 

    The truths Berliner highlighted about NPR’s lack of ideological diversity aren’t new. It’s been referred to as National Pinko Radio since the 1980s. Timing is everything, though, and for that, we have to thank him for choosing such a perfect moment. Berliner caught the wind and invited us along for the ride.

    Which is why Maher isn’t the enemy, but  a gift. She can rally conservatives, who prefer to cede territory in a hopeless attempt at containment, into action. Alas, now is not the time for a really stupid and futile gesture, but something actually meaningful. Nonetheless, we’re just the guys to do it, especially since what I’m proposing will be even more entertaining than the current fracas.

    Apply for jobs in the most dreadful institutions in the land. Sue for discrimination when we don’t get them, because two can play at that game. Go to work for the government, which, I get it, but war is never easy. Land a gig in academia. Find your way inside an NGO. 

    Once we’re in, we can start to wake up the woke, which seems difficult, but not being a depressed statist in a constant panic about the end of humanity will help. Most people want to flourish, not spend their days worrying about the end times. They also don’t want to follow all the stupid, contradictory, and ever-changing rules that the system imposes on them. We’ve all got that liberal friend who relaxes in our presence and stops sticking with the script, even mocking it a little.

    So, have fun with it. Go into enemy territory and follow their edicts, but turn everything up to 11. Make everyone both an oppressor and a victim, inventing new privileged classes and reasons to be aggrieved. Turn them all against one another. Help the ouroboros finish swallowing its own tail. It’s quickly slithering in that direction already, but we can expedite the process. For now is the time to stop worrying about defunding NPR or stopping various NGOs, about toppling the Mahers and combating their biases against us. Instead, it’s the time to start dreaming about building new structures atop of the rubble on which they once stood. 

    #npr #woke #dei
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