Nolte: What’s Happening to Tucker Carlson (and Others) Is Called ‘Blacklisting’

Back in the 1950s, a number of private corporations (most famously, movie and television studios), that had every legal right to choose who they did and did not want to do business with, enforced an appalling blacklist as a means to intimidate, silence, and punish those who held beliefs and opinions unpopular with the establishment.

This never should have happened in America, and today we rightly look back on this era with shame.

Moreover — and this is important — no one looks back at the infamous 1950’s Hollywood blacklist and says, “Hey, the studios were corporations, not the government, so they had the right to hire and fire whoever they wanted.” 

And yet…

That very same excuse is being used to justifying today’s ongoing blacklisting campaigns.

There is no question political blacklisting has returned with a vengeance. Once again, just as we saw during the Hollywood blacklist of old, large corporations are de-platforming, refusing to serve, firing, and stripping sponsorship from those who hold beliefs and opinions unpopular with the establishment.