«The secular/leftist/progressive types not only happily affix their names to every ridiculous and evil idea they generate, but are willing to go out in public and advocate vociferously for it.»
They know that they don’t risk anything. At worst, their craziness will be ignored. At best, they will be celebrated as «truth speaking to power» and they can even be considered for jobs. Normally, they will virtue-signal so they will increase their status in their social circle (other leftist people).
The Left is our official religion. In the Middle Ages, why were Christian people able to show their opinions in public while Jews and heretics had to hide? For the same reason we hide and leftist people are open. They don’t risk anything and we risk everything. Read Vox Day’s books «SJW always lie» and «SJW always double down».
I work for an international organization and there are a lot of politically incorrect comments of mine on the Internet. If I make myself known, I will lose my job and my family will struggle. Will this accomplish anything? Will the people see the injustice and rebel against our masters when they see my life ruined? Please, don’t make me laugh. Nobody knows me and, even if they knew me, they would think I am a monster (racist, sexist, etc) and that I deserve what I have got. So what is the point of revealing my identity?
In your text, you don’t give any good reason to do that. You say that we are cowards but we are middle-aged men and we are way past the point that other people can make us take meaningless self-destructive actions, only because they tell us «chicken», like Marty McFly in «Back to the Future».
I really don’t see any advantage in signing my comments as Mr. So WhoNobodyKnows instead of ***. And you don’t provide any advantage instead of some trite expressions like «coward», «slave, «spineless» or «nor standing by their words» (an expression that does not mean anything but sounds great).
I chose my nick very carefully many years ago. It comes from the Odyssey but I wanted to mean that my ideas had to be considered according to their merit and not according to my person. In the Internet, as in life, we attack the person when we dislike his ideas. Confucius said. «When a wise man points at the moon, an idiot looks at his finger.».
But even Hitler can say that the sky is blue. If my ideas are true, they have to be recognized not because they are mine but because they are true. If my ideas are false, they have to be trashed (and I will be happy about that). To determine that, the important thing is the intellectual discussion and not the ad hominem attacks. The truth is the important thing. I am only an insignificant human in a world with 7 billion like me. And even if I was the worst person in the world, if I said the truth, it would still be the truth.
If you don’t understand that and think that making a macho show will give more truth and authority to my words, you don’t understand the world we live in.