The author of “Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism” observed: “What makes Paul Kengor so perceptive a cultural critic is that he knows the history of totalitarianism. He understands that what the leftists are doing today is what they have always done when allowed to get away with it: Punish dissent.
NFL quarterback Brett Favre was met with a wave of criticism after he failed to clap enthusiastically enough at the 2015 ESPY awards ceremony when transgender Bruce Jenner was given an award for “Courage” because of his efforts to become a woman named “Caitlyn.”
Mocking the media campaign against Favre, historian Paul Kengor has made a comparison to the Soviet Union under dictator Joseph Stalin, where dissidents where told, “Never be the first one to stop clapping.”
Kengor, also a university professor and author of “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage,” told WND, “A bigger act of courage would have been [for] any of those athletes at the ESPY awards, and you know there are many of them who disagreed, for any of them not to applaud.”
However, as the attacks on Favre by the New York Post and other publications reveal, Kengor said, progressives are behaving hypocritically when it comes to differences of opinion.
“In America, if certain people feel that way, they ought to be able to say that without being condemned for it,” he said. “Liberalism is supposed to be about tolerance and diversity, but as usual, it’s not about that at all. Liberals only tolerate what they want to tolerate. They only offer diversity to the ‘diverse’ things they want to celebrate.”
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